AUTOMATED DOCUMENT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

A method and system for automated content status updating based on analyzing collaboration communications in an electronic social networking environment. Collaboration communications are identified and monitored for a shared content between a plurality of users on an electronic social networking system. Natural language processing (NLP) and analytic analysis are applied to the collaboration communications to determine a state of the shared content. The state can be updated automatically to indicate the state of the shared content in the electronic social networking system.