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By Juan Carlos Perez

October 15, 2013 06:39 PM ET

IDG News Service - Microsoft has enhanced its Yammer enterprise social networking suite's mobile applications, email integration and document collaboration.

Microsoft detailed the improvements on Tuesday at an event it held in San Francisco for Yammer customers that kicks off its Working Social Tour, scheduled to land in up to 200 cities worldwide, including New York City, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

"It's part of our push to connect with Yammer customers," said Jared Spataro, general manager, Microsoft Office, in an interview. Attendees are expected to be both Yammer customers as well as those who are using Office 365, Microsoft's cloud email and collaboration suite, which includes online versions of Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office.

Microsoft bought Yammer in mid-2012 for $1.2 billion in order to extend the enterprise social networking (ESN) capabilities of its SharePoint collaboration server and of other products in the Office family and beyond. Microsoft is in the process of integrating Yammer's cloud suite with those products now.

The mobile improvements include a revamped iPad application and tweaks to the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 applications. The overhaul of the iPad app is supposed to simplify the user experience, while the Windows apps got improvements to live tiles and a better inbox.

Microsoft also deepened the interoperability between Yammer and email systems, making it possible for people to participate in Yammer group discussions through email messaging and without necessarily having a Yammer account.

Establishing bridges between Yammer and email is important because many customers are still trying to figure out the best way to use the ESN suite with email, according to Spataro.

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Microsoft revamps Yammer's mobile apps

KUALA LUMPUR: AS the contest for the Umno vicepresidential spots heats up, the candidates vying for the three posts are racing against time to meet as many delegates as possible.

Candidates scramble to and from events, lucky to sleep five hours at night. But thats not the only game in town any more. Social media has become part and parcel of campaign communications and it is expected to play an influential role in the run-up to the polls this Saturday.

The three incumbents Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the three challengers Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir and Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam are active on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites.

Creating a social media strategy during political campaigns is an essential part of every candidate's plan. With social media sites often getting more traffic than official campaign websites, it is important for candidates to get connected.

"Social media is playing an increasingly important role in the way campaigns are run and how candidates approach voters," said Isa, who runs an active blog, besides maintaining a Facebook page that he created just a month ago.

"It allows us (candidates) to not only communicate more effectively to a larger audience, but also creates a two-way street for party grassroots to respond and interact with leaders.

"This dynamic exchange of information and ideas makes for a healthier and more participative democracy."

Isa admitted that to galvanise and canvass support from the younger section of party delegates, he needed to get in touch with them, both offline and online.

On his Facebook page, he has published a series of amusing webcomics called "Semangat Orang Lama", in which he suggests that despite being an old guard in Umno politics, he has the experience and vigour to contribute to the party's cause.

On average, each of the vice-president candidates has 20,000 to 30,000 followers on Facebook. However, as far as online popularity goes, Shafie is leading the pack after gaining 105,000 "Likes".

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Veep race heats up on social media

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2013) - FONU2 (OTCQB: FONU) (OTCBB: FONU), a social commerce company that provides a precision mobile sales and marketing platform that functions like an order reservations and booking system, is pleased to announce it is in the final development stages of its unique social commerce platform, and set to begin the beta-testing phase. At the beginning of November, FONU2 will be entering into its beta-launch phase and is looking for people to participate in the testing effort.Preference will be given to people with significant social networking and social commerce experience and followers.

FONU2 is offering incentives for selected participants in the Beta testing effort including the following:

Signing up as a FONU2 beta-tester is quick and easy. Those interested can visit FONU2.com Beta Tester Sign-up Page and follow the prompts, which will lead them through the registration process and share additional information.

FONU2's social commerce platform is the market's only "Now Solution" when it comes to safe social commerce.FONU2 offers users an immediate solution for buying and selling goods or services, posting job and classified ads, starting businesses, taking advantage of free targeted advertising and more.With FONU2's distinctive social commerce platform, users can start earning capital immediately, turning their regularly used social networks into lucrative social commerce networks.FONU2 services will be available on the web and through a mobile app on iPhone and Android platforms.

About FONU2 Inc.:FONU2 is a social commerce company that provides a precision mobile sales and marketing platform that functions like an order reservations and booking system. Members via their mobile phones and computers list, buy, sell, and trade services and items locally in any neighborhood, anywhere in the world. Transactions are paid with the FONU2 end-to-end mobile phone payment card system. Visit http://www.FONU2.com.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements." Although the forward-looking statements in this release reflect the good faith judgment of management, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to be materially different from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by us in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks that may affect our business, financial condition, results of operation and cash flows. If one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results may vary materially from those expected or projected. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this release.

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FONU2 Launches First Ever Beta-Launch for Unique Social Commerce Platform

Microsoft has enhanced its Yammer enterprise social networking suite's mobile applications, email integration, and document collaboration.

Microsoft detailed the improvements on Tuesday at an event it held in San Francisco for Yammer customers that kicks off its Working Social Tour, scheduled to land in up to 200 cities worldwide, including New York City, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

"It's part of our push to connect with Yammer customers," said Jared Spataro, general manager, Microsoft Office, in an interview. Attendees are expected to be both Yammer customers as well as those who are using Office 365, Microsoft's cloud email and collaboration suite, which includes online versions of Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office.

Microsoft bought Yammer in mid-2012 for $1.2 billion in order to extend the enterprise social networking (ESN) capabilities of its SharePoint collaboration server and of other products in the Office family and beyond. Microsoft is in the process of integrating Yammer's cloud suite with those products now.

The mobile improvements include a revamped iPad application and tweaks to the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 applications. The overhaul of the iPad app is supposed to simplify the user experience, while the Windows apps got improvements to live tiles and a better inbox.

Microsoft also deepened the interoperability between Yammer and email systems, making it possible for people to participate in Yammer group discussions through email messaging and without necessarily having a Yammer account.

Establishing bridges between Yammer and email is important because many customers are still trying to figure out the best way to use the ESN suite with email, according to Spataro.

"They're looking for a mental model for how to use email and Yammer and how to think about those two worlds coming together because not everyone jumps on Yammer or enterprise social networking at the same time," he said.

Unlike other vendors, Microsoft doesn't see ESN suites as a replacement for email communications. "We believe they're very complementary tools, that they can and should coexist, and that when used together they provide a very good, rounded experience," Spataro said.

Microsoft has also started to add features to Yammer so that it can be used as a more structured tool for getting things done and managing tasks, not just as a social conversation meeting place, he said.

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Microsoft revamps Yammer's iPad app

NewsGator wants its Social Sites add-on for SharePoint to handle companies innovation cycles with a beefed-up set of capabilities for brainstorming, idea evaluation, concept development, and execution.

Social Sites, an enterprise social networking (ESN) product, has an existing ideation module thats called Idea Stream and is mainly for brainstorming, but NewsGator released on Tuesday a broader innovation edition of the full suite.

With Social Sites for Innovation, NewsGator wants to tap further into the demand for enterprise software that lets companies solicit ideas from employees, collect and manage their contributions and distill the suggestions into concrete plans.

In fact, last month Mindjet, which makes project-based collaboration software, merged with Spigit, which specializes in innovation management, to offer enterprises tools that help from idea creation to completion of projects. Other NewsGator rivals provide various levels of innovation management functionality for their broader ESN suites.

Social Sites for Innovation can be used with on premises and private cloud implementations of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.

The product replaces the existing, more limited Idea Stream module, which costs $5 per user per year, according to Jen Keyerleber, senior solutions manager at NewsGator.

Current customers who own the Idea Stream module are able to expand their innovation process by purchasing the new [Social Sites for Innovation], which accesses of all of their existing ideation campaigns to take advantage of [its] end-to-end innovation capabilities, she said.

Ahead in the roadmap are plans to extend Social Sites for Innovation for use not only internally among employees but also by a companys customers and partners, Keyerleber said.

Social Sites for Innovation can be bought via a subscription or a perpetual license, which are both priced per user. Cost depends on the size of implementations.

For example, a subscription for 5,000 users to Social Sites for Innovation is $12.50 per user per year, on top of the $17.50 per user per year for the core Social Sites suite, which is required.

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NewsGator finetunes its business social-collaboration suite