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snappy document peer reviews with Crocodoc

Here’s a handy little service.  Crocodoc offers a way to undertake simple peer reviews of documents online.  The free service allows you upload Word, PDF and PowerPoint files which are converted and made available under a private URL (known only to the uploader and whoever they choose to share it with).  Edits can then be [...]

Yammer opens up. Adds B2B communities & external collaboration

Hot on the heels of Salesforce’s latest Chatter news comes the next phase in Yammer’s push to be the Enterprise collaboration medium of choice.  To date, the colleagues you were able to interact with on Yammer had to be on the same corporate email domain.  Aside from assigning your partners and third-parties their own email on [...]

business superbrands 2010. Microsoft on top. Google falls back.

The results for the eighth annual Business Superbrands survey have been released, with Microsoft knocking Google off of the top spot as the UK’s strongest business-to-business brand.

Revealing the fall-out from the financial crisis, the list of the 10 biggest fallers features four banks, with Royal Bank of Scotland crashing out of the Top 500 altogether [...]

does your strategy extend beyond the walls of PowerPoint?

Having sat through more than my fair-share of corporate presentations, it always strikes me how many times we see the same stock phrases repeated as if they were some sort of religious mantra or contractual inclusion.

See how many of the following you can recognize:

- Our people are our greatest asset

- Customer service is our #1 [...]

data visualisation and analysis tools for Twitter

Whilst these have been around for a year or so now, I thought I’d make mention of some incredibly useful (and cool) visualisation tools from the very clever Jeff Clark over at Neoformix.  If you’re looking to do some market, customer and campaign research, competitive analysis or simply draw some pretty diagrams, Jeff’s probably got [...]

new CEO for Jive

Some news from Jive, the ‘leader in Social Business Software’ (their words, not ours):

“Jive .. today announced that Jive board member Tony Zingale has become Jive’s CEO on an interim basis. Concurrently, Dave Hersh has been elected to the role of Chairman of Jive’s Board of Directors. Hersh will continue to work with Jive’s board [...]

does size matter? (of your LinkedIn profile that is)

Just a quickie .. I was browsing around LinkedIn the other day and happened across a few profiles of very senior people with very limited information on (couple of contacts, couple of jobs listed in their history).  These could, of course, be simply placeholder accounts.  Or they could just belong to people so incredibly busy [...]

ten tips for entrepreneurs from Digg's Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg spoke this week at Webstock in New Zealand.  The following are his top ten tips for web entrepreneurs.  Simple, sensible advice.

[hat tip to Read Write Web for the story].

1: Just Build It: You don’t need anyone’s approval and in fact, you probably won’t get it, so don’t [...]

Salesforce Chatter enters production .. sort of

I’m a day or so late, but better late than never right?  A lot of folks might have been thinking the same about Salesforce’s Chatter platform.  It’s been around for a while in a private Beta, but is now available in a production version .. for those same private Beta customers… oh well.  Salesforce did [...]

I've just checked in somewhere far from home .. please rob me

Tapping into the current trend of ‘checking in’ everywhere we go, pleaserobme.com aims to teach the Foursquare and Gowalla addicted amongst us a lesson in the dark side of location-based applications.

Pulling in check-in information sent to the public Twitter timeline, pleaserobme explains the thinking behind the site: “the danger [...]