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02 Jul 09

Socialtext: Products & Services: Free 50 Offer

"A free, hosted Socialtext account for up to 50 people from your company. It is private between co-workers. You and your colleagues get private, “Twitter‑like” micro‑blogging, social networking, and a shared wiki workspace. And you each get your own personal home page. If a collaboration network already exists for your company, you will be added to it. If not, one will be created."

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01 Jul 09

HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects | Mashable on Jul 1, 2009

"One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. (...) Though Wikis have been around since the 90s, their potential for business collaboration has made them more popular in the business world over the past few years. While a wiki can let project documentation grow organically as a project unfolds, it is like any tool and needs to be used the right way to get the most out of it. If you’re thinking about using a wiki in your team’s toolkit for the first time, keeping a few points in mind will help everyone get up and running without tripping over the changes that the wiki way brings to project documentation."

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So in addition to learning the new wiki software and the cultural shift that comes with it, team members must also unlearn what they already know about how projects are documented and information is organized.
Email is most often the channel that the wiki-wary fall back on during this kind of transition, and the most dangerous for locking knowledge into a recipient list.
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- Nearly all wikis dispense with advanced page and text formatting, instead embracing a “just the facts” approach to documentation, that can actually be refreshing.
- Removing the ability to spend time formatting content removes the feeling that the content needs more than basic formatting. Where people aren’t spending time on formatting they’re likely to spend it on just writing and moving on.
- Mashable () has also published two large round ups of available wiki software in the past year: 30+ Solutions to Start Your Own Wiki and 100+ More Wiki Tools and Resources.

19 Jun 09

ROI of Social Networking for TransUnion | SocialText Blog on March 23, 2009

Internet Evolution interviewed TransUnion CTO John Parkinson about the ROI of Social Networking. It is relatively early in their use of Socialtext, but they are already achieving significant success.

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20 Jan 09

My Web 2.0 Suite - CIO - Blogs and Discussion

Jun 28, 2007

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Cases 2.0 - enterprise 2.0 case studies repository at Socialtext

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18 Jan 09

WikiMatrix - Compare TWiki - Confluence - Socialtext

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14 Jan 09

SocialText Blog

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SocialText Blog: Social Productivity Tips: Status Reports

Dec 10, 2008

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SocialText Blog: Socialtext Wins Business Journal Award

Dec 8, 2008

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WebWorkerDaily » Archive Socialtext and A Theory of Collaboration and Networks «

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13 Jan 09

SocialText Blog: DMS and Collaboration Suite: Friends not Foes

Sept. 8, 2008, by Michael Idinopulos of Socialtext

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What's the relationship between a document management system (DMS) and an enterprise collaboration suite like Socialtext?
Would Socialtext replace the DMS? Would
the two work together?
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- The first thing that companies should understand is that
  document management and collaboration are distinct activities.
- Document
  management is all about workflow, control, and risk mitigation. Its
  objective is summarized perfectly by the two words in its name:
  "documents" and "management". It got its start in the legal departments
  of pharmaceutical companies, who were concerned to make sure that their
  companies were producing documentation in full compliance with
  regulatory requirements. A DMS thrives where there are a) documents
  already being created as part of a business process; and b) those
  documents need to be closely checked in, checked out, supervised,
  edited, approved, and stored following a consistent and audit-proof
  process.
- Collaboration, by contrast, is all about people working
  together to share ideas, notes, questions, comments, etc. Collaboration
  does not typically follow a standard process; it is much more free-form
  and free-flowing. Documents are not typically the format of choice.
  Asking a question or creating a meeting agenda or to-do list doesn't
  require a document; it just requires typing some words and putting them
  where other people can see and edit them. That's why so many people
  simply fire off an email when they collaborate; it spares them the
  unnecessary step of creating a document.
- When asked about the relationship
  between DMS and collaboration tools, what I said was that some of the content in a typical DMS really belongs there. These are the documents associated with highly regulated processes. But most
  of the content in a typical DMS--to-do lists, meeting notes, press
  clippings, conversations, working papers, personal
  observations--doesn't really belong there. It's in the DMS because
  there was no good place to put it. That's where a collaboration suite
  can do a much better job. A good collaboration suite can liberate that
  content from the tyranny of documents and nested folders, and will
  encourage people to use it for actual working materials.
- In many
  cases, you will want to integrate the two. Law firms, for example, are
  absolutely dependent on their document management systems to manage
  their filings and other legal documents. But we're increasingly seeing
  them set up collaboration suites to capture all the discussion around
  the documents, how to use them, what they mean, and so on. The two
  systems are integrated with links from the collaboration suite into the
  corresponding DMS records.
- What I'm saying amounts to this: Use
  your document management system to manage documents, and use your
  collaboration suite to collaborate.
- unfortunately SocialText is not very good at linking to the documents in the obvious place (attachments).