<p>SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, Jun 26, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --The W3C and OpenSocial Foundation will be conducting a Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business on August 7-8, 2013 in San Francisco, CA.</p><p>The event, sponsored by IBM and hosted by AppFusions, is designed to bring together social business and platform technology development experts to discuss new strategies for standardizing technologies in support of the burgeoning adoption of social business tools. The workshop will be at Casa de la Vista on Treasure Island.</p><p>The lack of adequate standards makes it difficult to create platform bridging or application integration software that comprehensively serves mainstream social business needs of both users and organizations. The workshop will address the growing demand for interoperable social standards to solve mixed-technology challenges caused by today's fragmented specification and technology landscape.</p><p>Workshop discussion topics include:</p><p><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/announcing-social-business-open-standards-workshop-organized-by-opensocial-foundation-and-w3c-and-hosted-by-appfusions-2013-06-26">Keep reading...</a></p>