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How A Serial Entrepreneur Is Challenging The Way Startups Launch

A tech startup veteran, Alan Braverman is set to disrupt the way new software companies launch. Here’s a look inside The Giant Pixel’s studio for startups.

How Red Robin Transformed Its Business With Yammer

Giving a voice to entry-level employees is a powerful new way to improve your business. Here is how one company is doing it.

The Serendipity Economy: How Spontaneity Plus Social Networking Drives Innovation

For one national hamburger chain, internal Yammer talk and listening to Twitter altered a new product. The Serendipity Economy can demonstrate value well beyond improved cycle times or reduced costs. Here’s how.

Slack, The “Email Killer,” Already Has 8,000 Companies On Board

The new app from a Flickr cofounder signed up a vast number of companies on its very first day.

How Yammer Makes Itself Disruption-Proof

Why did Blockbuster get disrupted? Because of its organizational structure, Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni explains. He tells Fast Company how to avoid such a fate.

Meet The Former Yammer Exec Who’s Changing How We Text At Work

Phone calls are highly disruptive, email is too asynchronous, but texting is just right for work–especially with an app to make it simple. Jim Patterson is here 2 help u with that.

The Cure For Everbloat: How To Organize All Your Cloud-Connected Stuff

Are you keeping notes just to keep track of where all your notes are? Here’s some advice, and a service that can help.

What Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Told Yammer Cofounder David Sacks

When Microsoft was considering acquiring Yammer, Ballmer told Sacks a story that gives insight into how the Microsoft CEO sees the company’s future in the enterprise space.

Social Media Isn’t Just For Your Customers–It’s For Your Employees, Too

It’s all too easy to focus on who’s buying your product instead of who’s making it. But creating an internal social village isn’t just good fun–it’s good business.

Can A Corporate Culture Be Built With Digital Tools?

Companies from Yammer to Zappos and 37Signals are bringing office culture to the online workplace.

Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence

The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.

Microsoft May Buy Enterprise Social Network Yammer

Why Silent Meetings Can Be The Most Productive

Want more productive, transparent, participatory meetings? Shut up and Skype.

Yammer, NationalField, And The Future Of How We Collaborate At Work

With their unprecedented ability to collect and communicate data, enterprise social networks are fast becoming essential to business–and the smartest companies will maximize their potential.

Edmodo, A “Facebook For Schools,” Chalks Up API To Become Classroom Platform

LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Former Facebook VP Back New Social Network Designed To Transform Education

Yammer Won Last Year’s TechCrunch50. What Now?