Social Software

If you have deployed SharePoint for your portal services and collaboration environment, you’ll want to ensure that your teams get the most value from your investment. Using Enterprise Social communities, NewsGator Social Sites makes it easy to create cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improve expertise discovery and internal networking, and energize MOSS with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles, and more. Social computing for business adds flexibility, functionality and overall value to your portal.

Socialtext is a collaboration platform that allows everyone to work on the same page. It allows users to edit within a simple WYSIWYG interface and you can also preview while editing and comment on any page. Socialtext provides both a hosted service and a hardware / software appliance for installation. Deployment options are designed for range of organizational needs: Enterprise, Professional, Personal and Open Source. The basic account is free

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.

Google Buzz is a social collaboration tool inside GMail. It enables to share updates, photos, videos, and more. Features deep GMail integration. Provides open API. Integrates with external social networks.

Free open-source social intranet solution. Provides profiles, dashboards and groups. Each group has a blog, forum, chat, wiki, document storage with version control, polls, calendar, RSS (from external sites). Has modules for integration with LDAP-directory and CRM system.

IBM Lotus Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers.

IBM Lotus Quickr is team collaboration software that helps you share content, collaborate and work faster online with your teams - inside or outside your firewall.

Jive SBS is the only enterprise solution that delivers the leading features of popular social networking, community, collaboration, and content management software in a highly secure enterprise platform. It enables businesses to capture the value of the conversations happening both inside and outside their corporate firewalls, and leverage them to drive productivity and foster engagement.

Tap into the collective intelligence within your organization's social network. Employees, customers and partners have great ideas so why not harness their feedback and insight to drive value for your company? Spigit's innovation management software helps organizations: Identify and Implement Next Generation Products & Services, Improve Process Efficiencies, Decrease Time to Market, Discover Subject-Matter Experts in Your Organization, Connect People Across Departmental & Geographic Boundaries