Social Business News - Aug 21, 2015 #FutureOfWork

August 21, 2015

Here is a recap of some of the key news of the last two weeks in the Social Business / Employee Collaboration / Future of Work world.

 

Did I miss something big? Please post a link in the comments.

 

Reference Links:

They Shoot! They Score! (with Employee Engagement) Jive and Portland Trailblazers

Newly Public GoDaddy Goes for Jive-n

Welcome to the (Jive) Family, Jeff Lautenbach!

LiquidPlanner @Work Is Here! The Best of Work Management and Project Management

Introducing a New Design On Wunderlist for Web

Optimizing Yammer for teams

New Outlook partner add-ins and expanded rollout of Outlook.com preview

Wearable Productivity—new (Microsoft) apps for you to wear

Microsoft exec Teper exits strategy role, returns to Sharepoint

Salesforce Launches Buy Button for Community Cloud, Transforming Every Community into a Place of Business

Jeetu Patel joins Box as Chief Strategy Officer

Get ready New York City — Box is coming to the Big Apple!

Introducing New Box Metadata Features

Email, meet Slack. Slack, email.

Talko + Slack, Team calling in Slack channels

KiK chat raises $50 from Tencent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Lepofsky
Alan Lepofsky
Vice President & Principal Analyst Constellation Research
Alan Lepofsky - VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. With almost two decades of experience in the collaboration software industry, Lepofsky helps organizations improve the way their employees work together to get their jobs done. Lepofsky’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration and business processes (Purposeful Collaboration), structuring work via Social Task Management, leveraging analytics and digital assistants to work more productively, the strategic impact of mobile computing on business transformation, and measuring workforce culture based on Digital Proficiency instead of age. Twitter: @alanlepo<br>LinkedIn:&nbsp;https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alanlepo &nbsp; &nbsp; , Title:&nbsp;Big IdeasIntelligent Collaboration: The… Read more
Published
August 21, 2015
Author
Alan Lepofsky
Alan Lepofsky
Categories
Business Themes
Future of Work
Related Blog Posts

Results

Analyst Blog
January 21, 2026

Constellation Research's AI-First Service Firms

Future of Work
Legacy organizations caught between two S-curves must quickly decide whether to start from scratch and migrate, or to modernize their technical debt within their existing organizat...
R "Ray" Wang