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In the business world, social media is a double-edged sword. On one hand it's distracting, too much fun, and a time suck. On the other, it's proactive, highly effective, and increasingly more necessary. Thankfully it seems we're slowly but surely learning how to follow the latter path, and here to provide actual implementation insights are four companies who've found a method to the madness:

Case studies are a great way to demonstrate the successful implementation of enterprise collaboration -- if they tell the entire story.

ClearPeople (news, site) and Microsoft (news, site) recently published a case study that highlights how the SharePoint platform can be leveraged for vertical document management solutions. In this case, we see how SharePoint has been extended to provide legal document management capabilities, clearly demonstrating that SharePoint can be much more than a simple file share.

DISCOVER Magazine, one of the most widely read science mags in the US, had out grown its dated web publishing infrastructure. Times were changing, multi-media was big and in general Web and CMS technology had moved forward significantly.

DISCOVER chose the Plone Web content management system as the platform for managing and delivering their primary website (http://www.discovermagazine.com). The decision was made on the basis of the system’s ease-of-use, feature set, strong open source community, outstanding customizability, standards compliance, reputation and delivery performance.

In part one of this two-part series we described both how DISCOVER uses the Plone Web CMS to manage its website, and how the DISCOVER team worked through the process of migrating existing content from its older site into the Plone system.

Here in part two, we will review some of the specific features of Plone and how DISCOVER has taken advantage of them, and then we’ll discuss a bit about the website’s post-launch performance.