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It's a season of change at Palo Alto-based wiki startup Socialtext.

The company has just announced its appointment of Eugene Lee as Chief Executive Officer and member of its board. It has also stated that it has closed a Series C funding round of US$ 9.5 million.

At the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit, Atlassian announced a liaison between its Confluence enterprise wiki offering and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Both SharePoint and Confluence users will be able to access one another's technologies. The connecting vein will include search, content sharing, linking, single sign-on and security.

This is one more effort to harness collaborative energies via social computing tactics on an ECM platform.

Try the solution at the Atlassian website.

Don't we all know that collaborative content is the name of the game? As of the advent of Web two-dot-oh, anyway.

"Despite the hype, we've learned that most large institutions are still not using wikis yet," mused Aniruddha Gadre, CEO of eTouch.

Socialtext has just released a plugin that supports Movable Type 4. It enables users to post on both MT4 and the Socialtext wiki simultaneously -- tags included.

The plugin only requires server name, workspace name and username and password to unite with your MT4 account. To start your blog-and-wiki dual post extravaganza, download the Socialtext plugin here.

Today marks the release of eTouch's SamePage 3.3, an enterprise wiki that promises to boost user productivity with, among other things, broader deployment options.

So for those suffering a dearth of variety, take heart.

While blogging is one of the simplest ways to get your enterprise all blinged-out for Enterprise 2.0, it's not the only option. Enter enterprise wiki.

A major benefit of Wikis is that your site can keep serving up-to-date, dynamic content that's immediately relevant to users -- and it's the users themselves who create (and often even moderate) it. Could there be a dreamier solution for time- and cash-strapped companies trying to increase information relevancy on their websites, or build a loyal community? Enterprise Wiki vendor Atlassian Confluence thinks not.

This Enterprise wiki business is continuing its impressive momentum, and to little surprise. wikiCalc is just one demonstration of how much the wiki world has begun to offer businesses in terms of turning Web 2.0 tools and processes into tangible and manageable value.

Socialtext, which recently launched offline wiki Socialtext Unplugged at Le Web 3 in Paris, upgraded its search engine over New Years. This upgrade improves upon its already rather luxe professional-quality search function.