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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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oneforty what?

October 1, 2009

When Laura Fitton (@pistachio) told me she was starting another company, “An appstore for Twitter,” I knew my life was going to change. Perhaps that seems too dramatic. Hear me out. What she’d envisioned wasn’t just about to change my life. It was about to change the landscape of Twitter, a tool many of us [...]

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Enterprise Micro-Learning

June 17, 2009

An earlier version of this article was published on FastCompany.com and is reprinted here with permission. If you can’t fathom how Twitter can help your company, read on. When a student opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus, the school had no systematic way to alert those in harm’s way. In the days that followed, [...]

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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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Socialtext Signals for the Enterprise Microsharing Market

March 3, 2009

When Socialtext was founded in 2002 no one thought, “We really ought to have microsharing capabilities.” Back then, they aimed to better the enterprise software space with emerging consumer web technologies, and by all measures they’ve succeeded. In recent years, though, the micro-noise has grown and an enterprise 2.0 platform seems almost old fashion without [...]

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Results from NASA’s Microsharing Pilot

March 2, 2009

This is a guest post from Tim Young who is Founder and CEO of Socialcast. The case study represents one of the earliest views of how microsharing works within the enterprise, and we at Pistachio Consulting look forward to sharing more of them over the coming months. On February 25, we released the official case [...]

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Musicians’ Guide to Rocking Twitter

February 6, 2009

@DaveJMatthews and Tim Reynolds Image via Wikipedia Publicist extraordinaire Ariel Hyatt (CyberPR) and I sat down last fall to talk Twitter for Musicians. I distilled  what I said in that interview into this quick-start guide for musicians wanting to make a splash using Twitter. Also see Ariel’s excellent Musician’s Twitter Road Map, here. UPDATE: I [...]

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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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Guy Kawasaki Says Nice Things About Pistachio on Fast Company.TV

December 17, 2008

Robert Scoble recently sat down with Guy Kawasaki to talk about Reality Check for Fast Company.tv. About 2 minutes in he’s awfully kind, calling out my role in helping him “get” Twitter. Guy is a hell of a, well, guy, and not just because he listened (in August 2007!) to my “wild ideas” that Twitter [...]

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Behold the Power of Twitter

December 1, 2008

Thank you Federal News Radio hosts Jane Norris and Tom Temin for having me on this morning to talk about the business and government utility of Twitter. Thanks to the fast action of their web guru Chris Dorobek, you can already listen to the interview online. I referred to the folks in this TouchBase Blog [...]

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