Wikis News & Articles

Today Traction Software released TeamPage 3.8, an enterprise blog and wiki solution.

To give you a sense of what you can expect from the offering, founder Greg Lloyd illuminated its muse.

“[Our customers] challenged us to further improve ease of use, scalability, management and the real need for Enterprise 2.0 collaboration ‘at the edge’ — with customers, supply chain partners, sales partners, legal and other professionals — as well within the core of the enterprise. We’re extremely proud to have met this challenge.”

PaperThin has announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0, the latest upgrade to the company’s flagship Web CMS.

The release introduces a new authoring interface that includes RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, XML publishing and rendering capabilities.

As if the Web 2.0 bandwagon wasn’t full enough with media outlets expressing interest in blogs, wikis and other sources of user-generated content, Time, Inc. has announced they will add social networking to some of its weekly magazine sites by the end of this year, or early 2008.

Don’t get me wrong - it’s not that the bandwagon is bad; it’s great that so many companies are finally understanding the impact of Web 2.0 and are engaging their users. But many of these decisions, however long overdue, seem to lack coherent strategies.

Despite a broad track record across the digital space, the notion of wikis in the workplace still makes enterprises twitch with fear. Whether because they don’t fully understand what a wiki is, or because the word itself conjures up visions of Lord of the Flies (employees running amok, unmanageable access to all kinds of information), many fail to realize the benefits of this helpful collaboration tool.

Wikis can help employees share information, track workflow and allow users to edit and author information with ease, often saving time and money.

The sports-oriented content providers at XOS Technologies are tapping into “white-label community platforms.” The product, XOS Community, is positioned to give businesses the ability to create and manage broadband communities of their own design.

Analysts estimate that over 80,000 podcasts and 60 million blogs proliferate the Internet. As these figures grow and collaborative media-supporting business applications expand, we figured it was only a matter of time before a publisher recognized the growing need for a unifying industry voice.

Enter Blogger and Podcaster Magazine, just that voice for what parent company Larstan labels the “new media titans.”

Xerox, better known for copying and collating than wiki’ing and blogging, expands its profile in the enterprise content management space by announcing a new version of their content management platform.

Conversation is making a comeback in a big way. While this doesn’t mean more people are getting cozy over coffee, it does mean the tech-savvy are demanding faster and faster ways to get their thoughts out to both relevant audiences and those less so.

With Blog Flux’s new Commentful, one-liners and whole discourses left on comments pages can be brought to an owner’s attention in real-time, increasing rates of response so it’s almost like having a real discussion — almost.

Join us this week for what red-blooded techies sadistically hope will be the catfight of the year. This Wednesday at the Gilbane Conference in SF, seniors at Microsoft and Google debate enterprise search and information access.