Instead of using a paging system, a nurse could use enterprise social software on a tablet to locate an available cardiologist on the third floor of a hospital and a defibrillator on the fourth floor.

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Chad Bockius, CEO at Socialware, a social media compliance software company, said a purely technical approach such as linking the the APIs at social media providers, can catch about 70 percent of the data.

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In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.

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