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OpenText announced a new release of OpenText Social Communities (version 8.1), designed to help companies promote and drive the shift to a social business model. It combines a comprehensive social framework with a set of applications for building and engaging communities. This new release builds on the security and governance of the OpenText ECM Suite to apply appropriate controls to social objects. This is designed to create a safe environment of dialogue to foster informal collaboration and networking to help improve internal collaboration. Social Communities now integrates with OpenText Wave, OpenText's Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), which allows organizations to create, develop, and deliver mobile applications for employees, partners, and customers. Integration with OpenText Web and Social Analytics offers the ability to monitor and measure social activity. To help promote and manage sharing between public social networking sites into a community site, Social Communities now gives users the ability to post content from a community site to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and other social networks. Social Communities 8.1 provides a set of social applications for social intranet, social marketing and social workplace workloads. These are complemented by reusable and adaptable site templates with the flexibility to combine features as needed to meet specific goals, such as launching a brand, product or campaign. http://www.opentext.com

Attensity, the provider of text analytics solutions for Customer Experience Management (CEM), announced an extension to its offering that includes real-time Facebook analytics capability. The new Facebook Analytics Module is available with the latest release of Attensity Analyze 6.0, the next generation in voice of the customer analytics and engagement applications. This module enables business users to analyze Facebook comments, posts and surveys to extract business insights. The Facebook Analytics Module expands on Attensity's ability to monitor and analyze online and social media sources, including real-time access to Twitter's 'Firehose' or complete data stream. Users can enter a specific Facebook corporate profile and then automatically receive-in real-time-posts, comments and survey responses from that page, or comments otherwise publicly available. The "likes" in posts, comments and surveys on Facebook can also be leveraged and understood as 'votes' for richer understanding. http://www.attensity.com 

Cisco Systems (CSCO) has purchased San Francisco-based startup Versly to form a more complete corporate software package that melds the Microsoft Office suite and its own platform, the company announced. Cisco gains technology that allows Microsoft Office users to work collectively on content used in Office programs such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Eventually, Cisco wants to include Versly's software in its collaboration portfolio, which includes such services as social networking with Quad, instant messaging with Jabber and Web-conferencing with WebEx. Terms of the deal, which has already closed, were not disclosed. Versly, which is undergoing private beta testing with about 250 users, integrates email for easier communication within Office programs and merges changes made by different users while keeping workers up to date on who has access to the document and who is actively making changes. Versly was founded in 2009 and received funding from Bay Area-based venture capital firms Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures and 500 Startups. The company has 10 employees, including a member of Sun Microsystems' original Java team, who will join Cisco in its San Bruno office. http://www.cisco.com/ http://www.versly.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability and free trial of its new Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform and first set of solutions for Customer Experience Management (CRM). The Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, first unveiled in June, is an open, modular, standards-based offering for delivering engaging digital solutions across social, Web, mobile, and print channels. The platform includes integration with the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to optimize digital marketing campaigns and personalize digital experiences across all marketing, sales and service delivery channels. In addition, integration with Adobe Flash Builder(R) 4.5 and Flex 4.5 helps enterprise IT organizations build highly expressive mobile applications for Android devices, BlackBerry PlayBook, iPhone and iPad. Built on the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, an initial set of the company's Customer Experience Solutions are available now: Integrated Content Review; Web Experience Management; and Customer Communications. http://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/customer-experience/enterprise-platform.html

Google announced that they made a new feature for users to share the books they are reading on the new Google+ social network. Any book on Google books, whether it is a free or paid book, can be shared with your Circles. This feature allows one to share books, passages and details, such as cover art and the description, with friends. To share a book, visit the “About the Book” page on the Google Book listing and click “Share.” While sharing books, one can also "+1" them, and the titles will appear in on the Google+ profile under the +1 tab. http://books.google.com/

Ixxus announced the launch of its Social Content Platform for users of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. The Ixxus Social Content Platform features out-of-the-box integration with existing social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, meaning that users can create a central repository based on Alfresco for managing both their traditional and now social content. Through being able to disseminate and access information quickly and in a consistent manner via a single platform, organisations can improve both brand awareness and customer loyalty, as well as create revenue opportunities. The Ixxus Social Content Platform offers users a number of features including: Integrated social content publishing; Central management of feedback; Review and publish workflow; Integrated Reporting; as well as a full history of published content across networks. http://www.ixxus.com/

Enterprise Hive’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration platform HiveSocial has been upgraded to Microsoft’s .NET 4.0 Framework. This upgrade provides a technology infrastructure that allows customers more flexibility to connect to existing applications with their online communities. In addition, enhancements were developed to optimize user engagement. These enhancements include simplified content creation, ameliorated content search and navigation. Enterprise Hive also announced HiveSocial Now for Education. HiveSocial Now for Education has no software license fees, yet provides a social collaboration solution that can be fully implemented for customers within days. Running on the same platform as edu1world.org, HiveSocial and HiveSocial Now for Education are SaaS offerings that allow organizations to provide cross campus groups, multiple department teams and education user groups with branded public and private communities. These communities can be integrated with existing websites or internal applications. http://www.enterprisehive.com/

OpenText announced the availability of the next major release of OpenText Social Workplace, an integrated social collaboration environment. OpenText Social Workplace is available through either SaaS or on-premise deployment. It designed to help teams form quickly and collaborate effectively with minimal training or technical support. The latest release has a number of new features including optional integration with OpenText ECM Suite 2010 for comprehensive records management and governance, chat, and important additions to the wiki editor, among others. http://www.opentext.com

Mediafeedia announced an enterprise edition of its social content management software. The web-based Mediafeedia service connects to Facebook through its application programming interfaces and allows users to post directly to Facebook pages or schedule posts to be published later. Other social publishing products such as HootSuite support multiple social networks, but Mediafeedia wants to distinguish itself with its singular focus on Facebook. Many of the other social publishing tools were originally built around the features and limitations of Twitter and added Facebook support as an afterthought. In addition to publishing features, Mediafeedia offers Facebook monitoring services for large organizations. The Mediafeedia service will produce digest versions of those comment notifications for routine activity on a high-traffic pages and send special alerts based on keyword filters. So far, the main feature that distinguishes the enterprise edition is that posts are not labeled as posted via Mediafeedia (instead featuring the enterprise's own branding). Free in its beta release, Mediafeedia is preparing to introduce a pro edition with additional page tab management features priced at $9 to $39 per month. The enterprise edition is priced at $199 to $3,000 a month, based on company size and page traffic volume. http://mediafeedia.com/

PostRank has announced on it's blog that it has been aquired by Google. PostRank is a web analytics tool for social engagement data, and used to monitor where and when content generates interactions across the web. PostRank will move to Google's Mountain View headquarters from its current offices in Ontario.http://www.postrank.com/ http://www.google.com/