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Pistachio Consulting published one of the first comprehensive surveys of the enterprise microsharing tools market in fall 2008. This report is available for free on our site. That report was based, in part, on a 15-question survey that we invited the tool providers to complete about their products. We verified the information and, in many cases, conducted follow-up interviews.

Much has happen since it first appeared and so we are developing an update now. For example, many of the enterprise collaboration application providers have integrated microsharing into their feature sets. In addition, many new features have been introduced to better adapt microsharing to the enterprise environment and to take advantage of the possibilities within the contained, secure, and trusted community that an enterprise offers. We have expanded our questions to take these changes into consideration.

Our new survey contains 30 questions to reflect the advances in current offerings. We now invite interested enterprise microsharing vendors to participate in this new research effort. There is a brief explanation of each question. Be sure to refer to these explanations as you complete the survey. We look forward to sharing the results. The survey is now open and will be open for participation until Monday May 3, 2010.

We will again be verifying the input and contacting many of the participating vendors for follow-up conversations. Bill Ives will be instrumental in doing the research. Gina Minks, our intern, will offer additional enterprise perspective and assist in the process. Laura Fitton will provide her unique perspective on the microsharing space, and I’ll work closely on the report writing.

We look forward to producing something valuable to the enterprise 2.0 community and to each of us doggedly determined to learn as much as we can with our colleagues, in the little moments between the rest of our work.

-Marcia Conner

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Twitter for Trainers

November 8, 2009

The article is reprinted from the August 2009 T+D Think Twitter is just for narcissists with too much time on their hands? Think again. Workplace learning professionals have begun to realize a learning return. If you’re not part of this social networking phenomenon, you risk getting left behind. Stephen Hart, a corporate trainer specializing in [...]

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Twitter as the Virtual Watercooler

September 27, 2009

In some companies there remains a socialmedia-phobic culture which spends millions to block access to sites such as Twitter and Facebook. There are many reasons for this mistrust of social media but it also reflects a distrust of employees and their ability to use their time constructively. One fear is there will be a waste [...]

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Twitter Brings the Rest of Us to Work

April 8, 2009

When I talk with business people about the benefits of Twitter and microsharing in general, I inevitably get asked how I tolerate “waste-of-time” posts. The person asking may be referring to tweets announcing one’s streetcorner locale or a jingle stuck in their mind’s ear. More often than not, though, I learn the person I’m talking [...]

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Musing on Management by Microsharing

January 30, 2009

This was just a series of tweets. I could embellish on this sketch, but I prefer not to. Consider it a “use case” metaphor for enterprise microsharing… You lead a large tribe that’s encamped over a wide area. Each morning from the hill you check that each dwelling has a stream of cooking fire smoke. [...]

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Co-op = Status + Time Tracking and Agenda

November 3, 2008

Off to Defrag, but here is a quick peek at enterprise microsharing late entrant Co-op, which launched October 20th and narrowly missed inclusion in the Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison report we released this morning. My first impression is that Co-op is a bit like Status with time-tracking and an agenda view, but until we can [...]

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Enterprise Microsharing Apps: Read All About Em

November 3, 2008

WE HAVE LIFTOFF This post officially launches our first research report on the 19* applications vying to bring Twitteresque networking and communications inside the enterprise. Download the .pdf here or use Scribd to view, embed, share or download. You are welcome to share it freely within your organization and networks. Enterprise Micro Sharing Tools Comparison [...]

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Enterprise Microblogging Mashable Style

October 9, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Joe Cascio, and I did a guest post on Mashable.com called “Is the Enterprise Ready for Microblogging Tools Like Twitter?” I would encourage you to take a few minutes to read the post but in the event that you just want the Cliff Notes version (remember those?) here’s [...]

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Best Buy’s “Mix”: Enterprise Microsharing Goes Big

October 7, 2008

IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle‘s testing OraTweets. SAP‘s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide. Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy‘s Senior Managers for Social Technology, and better known as the [...]

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Socialtext Signals Announced

October 1, 2008

Yesterday in rolling out Socialtext 3.0, there was a small (but much echoed) mention of their coming enterprise microsharing application Socialtext Signals. In our Mashable post last week, Signals was the 15th “unannounced” enterprise microsharing service. I got a sneak peek at Signals in July during Brainstorm Tech and have looked forward to more. This [...]

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