Swabr, a new Enterprise Microblogging Company from Germany has launched its beta service:

swabr is a free, easy & intuitive enterprise microblogging service for companies and organizations.

swabr, which stands for the German term of ”black board 2.0”, is an enterprise microblogging service for companies and organizations. swabr targets the growing need of companies and organizations for real-time communication. We offer every team or working group own microblogging networks to collaborate more faster than by email.

Most competitors wants to implement a bunch of functions which leads to an enterprise market with multi-complex systems. swabr is easy and intuitive to use. We are different! swabr concentrates on the single functionality for a simple and fast way to communicate by offering an enterprise microblogging service which is easy & intuitive to use.

Swabr.com

Engage is a smart set of employee communication and social collaboration tools to boost daily productivity. By smart, we mean Engage infuses intelligence in communication systems and day to day processes; creating a vibrant, open company. Effective communication is vital to every business. Over the last 15 years, businesses have relied on email, IM, intranets, blogs, newsletters and web-casts to talk to each other, share news and information and collaborate on projects. Enter Engage – The natural evolution of these communication solutions. The current tools used to accomplish daily tasks are simply outdated and inefficient for business in this decade of open and immediate communication. More than a tool, Engage is a way of working, a way of collaborating and a way of creating an informed, productive workforce.

Website:  EngageSmart.com
On Twitter:  @engagesmart

Enterprise microblogging and IM that includes integration with public microblogging and IM.   We provide businesses with reliable, secure and compliant messaging solutions via a product set that encompasses managed email security, email continuity, email, IM and micro-blogging hosting & archiving.

Website: Cleartext.com
On Twitter: @cleartext

SMOB is a Semantic MicroBlogging framework that enables an open, distributed and semantic microblogging experience based on state-of-the-art Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies.

It relies on distributed hubs that communicate each other to exchange microblog posts and subscriptions (i.e. following / followers). Anyone can install his own hub and start following other users, while SMOB also allows cross-posting on other platforms such as Twitter.

Website:  smob.me

Communote is a microblogging service specifically designed for enterprise use.  Short messages can be shared easily and quickly within teams and projects.  Also hyperlinks and files can be shared.  Microblogs can be open to all users or confidental – just as needed.

Communote is available as online-service or software license for inhouse installations.

Interview with Communardo CEO Dirk Röhrborn

Website: Communote.com
On Twitter: @communote

Socialtext Signals provides microblogging integrated with Socialtext’s enterprise collaboration platform. While it provides a lot of the same great benefits of other microblogging tools like Twitter, it provides many additional benefits as colleagues in a company use it to work towards common goals.

If you want to quickly gather collective insight from a broader group within your organization, without interrupting people, and without multiple threads of long responses, Socialtext Signals is the answer. It amplifies, clarifies and complements other collaboration and gives you fast and widespread information sharing. It is available as part of the Socialtext collaboration platform and is also available in a standalone microblogging appliance.

Website: Socialtext Signals
On Twitter: @Socialtext

Present.ly allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed” by others. Unlike Twitter, Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world.

Website:  PresentlyApp.com

CubeTree is an on-demand enterprise collaboration suite that enables customers to create their own entrprise social network.

With CubeTree, employees can:

• share ideas across their organization
• get feedback from people with whom they wouldn’t normally interact
• find thought leaders
• form ad hoc groups that cut across organizational boundaries

CubeTree’s tools include: microblogging, wikis, file sharing, photos, mobile device support, and more.

Video Tour:

Website: CubeTree.com
On Twitter:  @cubetree

IBM Lotus Connections is social software designed specifically for business. Release 2.5 adds a host of new features to help you deliver even more results, including:

Improvements to Communities
Communities can be enhanced with additional tools: communitiy activities, blogs, files, and wikis. Community discussion forums have a new look and now show the number of replies for each topic; community owners can customize the look of their community and move widgets around on the community’s home page.

Wikis
Wikis let you create sites to collaboratively author and share documents. Built-in revision history makes it a snap to roll back to previous versions.

Files
Files makes sharing files with other people a snap, and reduces inbox bloat.

Mobile Access
Support for mobile browser to Lotus Connections Profiles from Apple iPhones or Nokia s60 devices.

Federated Updates
The Connections home page has a new Updates tab that lets you see news items relevant to you from across your social network. Use the “discover” tab to easily browse content from across all of connections.

Microblogging
Profiles now features status updates and a profile “board” that lets you easily post messages to other users’ profiles. Go to the profiles home page to see a list of status updates for all the people in your social network. Discover profiles by expertise with the organization-wide tag cloud.

Improved Search
Easily search all connections applications, and filter by tags, person, or time range.

Activities & Blogs feature Community Integration
Tired of adding the same people to an activity or blog in order to share it with them? Use a community to start group-centric activities or blogs.

Websiste: Lotus Connections Home

Sprouter facilitates networking and collaboration between entrepreneurs globally. Providing a platform for users to connect with other innovators, entrepreneurs can expand their networks as well as discover and join events in their local areas, start discussions and follow topics of relevance to their business.

WebSite:  Sprouter.com
On Twitter:  @Sprouter