<p>Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of cool about it and renewed appreciation from enterprise IT.</p><p>The reason? It's now clear that enterprise social networking (ESN) software helps people collaborate on projects, but is not particularly good for assigning and tracking who is responsible for doing what by a specific date.</p><p>As a result, in the past two years demand has risen for a new type of collaboration software that combines enterprise social features with functions for leaders to plan and supervise projects and for team members to track their tasks -- it's known as social task management (STM). Related Articles on Techworld</p><p>"Yes, there's definitely a trend there. It's an emerging category," said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst.</p><p><a href="http://news.techworld.com/applications/3450852/to-do-software-goes-from-ugly-duckling-to-white-swan/">Keep reading...</a></p>