http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/08/26/social-networking-a-major-trend-in-saas-crm/

http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/09/07/tumblr-growing-pains/

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/05/03/successfactors-acquires-social-enterprise-software-startup-cubetree-for-50-million/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/yammer-communities/ 

As Techcrunch reported last night, Yammer has just announced that it will begin allowing users to sign up for the microblogging service without requiring email addresses that are associated with their company domain names (e.g. jason@company.com). This new feature, called Communities, will open the service to less formal organizations, and even families. And it also opens the door to B2B collaboration, which is how Yammer seems to be primarily marketing the new feature Communities will launch on March 1.

This is a big move for the company. On a conference call this morning, Yammer CEO David Sacks said that one of the problems with Yammer so far has been that communication on the service has been restricted to internal use within a company. The issue many people ran into was that they’d want to collaborate with their clients or business partners as well, but didn’t have a way to do that without inviting them to their company’s internal network (which often wasn’t an option).

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