This is a guest post by Sonsoles Lumbreras, a Journalist and Communications Consultant. Connect with her on twitter. Since I conducted a piece of research for my Masters’ dissertation about the role and value of social media in the process of communicating organisational changes, I’ve been fascinated by this subject. Though the use of social ...

This is a guest blog by Kenny Lowe, Head of Emerging Technology at brightsolid, who will be representing MangoApps at the Social Workplace Conference on 24 May 2012 in London. Over the past few years, the evolution of social collaboration tools has been very swift. Email’s failed to adapt to changing communication needs over its four ...

It’s our pleasure to announce Qontext have joined #SWCONF 2012 as Bronze Sponsor! George Reynolds MD CloudsMatter and Qontext UK Partner will be participating in the Panel debate on “Six Challenges to developing an Enterprise Social Business Strategy”. Organizations are embracing the need for secure internal social networks as a way to eliminate “email tennis” ...

This is a guest post by Chris Gibbons, a finalist undergraduate student at the University of Durham and has recently completed a research project exploring the value of social technologies in innovation with the Innovation Studio. Connect with him on twitter. Stumbling across the Social Workplace Conference on Twitter this week has been my find ...

LiquidPlanner, a Social Project Management system has joined #SWCONF 2012 as a Silver sponsor and Liz Pearce will be speaking at the conference. The thousands of teams that use LiquidPlanner’s groundbreaking online project management system know one thing for certain: projects are the tangible milestones by which business objectives are achieved. That’s why projects, tasks, ...

There’s one month to go before #SWCONF 2012 take place in London and already we’re seeing what an important subject the Social Workplace is for many of the companies we already have registered from the UK and Europe. Here is a sample list of those that will be attending. If you’d like to join us, ...

I listened in to the webinar that Yammer recently ran entitled “Finding Value in Serendipity”. As someone who works with technology vendors, I’m well aware that any new product or service a company adopts is really only as good as its users. Whenever someone somewhere changes their work habits or introduces a new process, there ...