Microsoft made a couple of somewhat under-the-radar cloud-storage announcements this past week -- one involving SQL Azure and the other regarding Exchange Online.

The video above is a discussion organized by the IIT Madras Alumni Association at Google's Silicon Valley epicenter around 'Social Media Revolution in the Workplace' on February 24th which I was privileged to speak at. My panelist colleagues were Anshu Sharma - Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce Greg D'Alesandre - Product Manager Google Wave Raju Vegesna -  Zoho's evangelist Matt Tucker - Jive Software CTO  and co-founder Ross Mayfield -  Socialtext Chairman, President & Co-founder ...and we were kept in order by moderator Paige Finkelman, also a familiar face at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. We discuss who is driving the adoption of collaborative tools, What are the biggest barriers to adoption, how does one prove the business...

I'll be at the PPUG Winter 2010 meeting tomorrow in Philadelphia. All are welcome to attend.

Bill Chamberlin, part of the Social Media Insights practice at IBM, has a simple caution for CIOs who are resisting social media: "If you aren’t participating in the public conversation, you can’t

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Episode 128 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. Stream it here on The Apple Core.