Wikis News & Articles

In the first upgrade to its enterprise 2.0 social software product TeamPage since last March, Traction Software (news, site) has taken TeamPage on the road for the release of v4.2.

Not literally ‘on the road’ -- although the company is currently exhibiting at the Enterprise 2.0 conference currently underway in San Francisco -- but it has added new features that gives users the ability to post content and comments on company wikis or blogs ‘on the road’ with simple, secure two-way email based collaboration.

One of the newest web content management platforms to come our way is Crowd Fusion (news, site). Although only in private beta testing at this time, it is getting some notice. So we thought we would dig a little deeper into what this new platform is all about and you would consider implementing it.

Here's what we learned.

CMS/Groupware team TikiWiki (news, site) packs in the upgrades and improvements in the latest release of its wiki open-source super-tool.

Lotus (news, site) updates its Connections software, adding more community features and collaboration tools. This new version looks primed to take on Microsoft SharePoint in the enterprise.

Halogy (news, site) adds extra social modules to its hosted CMS for free, a change from its previous plans to charge for them.

We've been hearing bits and pieces about Crowd Fusion (news, site) for awhile now. But despite the venture funding they have received to date, we haven't seen something tangible -- at least not something we can play with.

But Crowd Fusion has come out of secrecy and revealed its plans to change the world of web publishing forever. The company attended TechCrunch50 and demonstrated their new framework and suite of publishing tools, almost ready for a public beta.

The new version of SamePage (news, site) adds a host of features designed for both the remote employee and those who live on their company intranet.

Ross Dawson has written a report on Enterprise 2.0 that should be a valuable tool for any organization implementing or thinking about implementing Web 2.0 tools in their enterprise.

Called Implementing Enterprise 2.0: A practical guide to creating business value inside organizations with web technologies, Dawson take a close look at the implications and considerations of incorporating web 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, social networks, bookmarks and microblogging and RSS in the enterprise.

At roughly 190 pages, it doesn't take long to read this report and earmark some sound advice for your E2.0 strategy. The book includes chapters on developing an Enterprise 2.0 strategy, governance and policies, how different tools can create business value and practical and organizational implications. A number of sidebars provide real-world case studies and advice from those who have made the leap to Enterprise 2.0.

It concludes with a list of potential vendor solutions for the various web 2.0 technologies mentioned above.

The report provides a number of frameworks and checklists that can help you determine how best to go about implementing Enterprise 2.0 solutions in your organization. Included are topics such as:

• Identifying the barriers to adoption in your organization
• Identifying risks and benefits, including understanding how relevant the risks truly are
• Methods to get buy-in, including pilots and developing business cases
• How policies for Enterprise 2.0 aren't that different from some other IT polices, and also how they are

If you are interested in learning more, you can download and review some book chapters and follow the report discussion on Dawson's blog.

There is no one size fits all approach to implementing Enterprise 2.0 in an organization. A lot depends on how that organization is structured and how open executives and users are to change.

Read this report to get solid advice on how to start thinking about how you would approach it for your organization.

Atlassian (news, site) says they don't implement features just for the sake of it. That all enhancements to their solutions are based on customer feedback and needs. With the latest release of their enterprise wiki, Confluence, we see that some of these needs are universal across the Enterprise 2.0 market today. All show just how far the wiki has come in only a few short years.

CMSWire spoke with Bill Arconati, Product Marketing Manager, and Laura Khalil of Altassian to get the scoop on the new features and an update on the Atlassian Stimulus Package.

A new platform that fuses online collaboration, community development, content management and business tools has just been unveiled over the weekend by Concursive Corporation. The new solution, which includes an open source version, ConcourseConnect will enable users to create online communities with embedded Web 2.0 tools like blogs, forums and wikis

You know MindTouch (news, site) for its enterprise class wiki and collaboration portal. They consistently bring out new solutions to help you collaborate faster and smarter in the MindTouch environment. Now the open source collaboration vendor brings you a new suite of productivity tools for your desktop.

With over 9,000 customers of their solutions and US$ 100 million in cumulative revenues since they started in 2002, you can see that Atlassian (news, site) is working hard to get your business.

Today, they are going a step further offering what they call the Atlassian Stimulus Package. If you are a small business or startup in need of some enterprise level products at a bargain price, then you need to pay attention.

The principal additions to the latest version of Traction Software’s TeamPage (news, site), which has recently been released, are new plugins that will allow companies analyze user activity on enterprise blogs, wiki pages and other interactive platforms.

TeamPage 4.1, Traction says, will allow a company to identify even complex patterns in user habits and, in doing so, adapt enterprise wikis, or blogs, to suit the needs or requirements of the people in the company that use it.

The delivery approach of a traditional on-premise product or solution is typically a single installation for each implementation you want. So if you wanted, say, completely separate wikis for departments or customers, you would install the software separately for each department. That no longer needs to be the case. eTouch now offers their SamePage enterprise wiki solution with a multi-tenancy on-premise deployment model. One installation, many wikis.

Forrester isn't the only analyst firm taking a close look at Social Media. CMS Watch has taken a hard look at some of the top social software and collaboration tools on the market today. Unlike Forrester, however, they are looking at more than just community tools for interactive marketing.

If you have been unsure about how to use all these neat (yes I said neat) social media tools in a way that benefits your organization and not just ties up your employees time, this report will help.