Scott Grothaus's List: Infonet 4.0

• turns users into editors

• You can see who made each edit, when, and what changed. If an edit shouldn’t  have been made, you can reverse it with one click.

• hierarchical tag bundles, group-editable taxonomies, free tagging and tag  clouds.

• Search pages, people, documents, and groups.

• see who’s behind a page, and see what else they’ve created

• Use filters such as Last Name, Location, Team, Project, Areas of Expertise to  narrow down your search.

• shows you the relationships between people, groups, departments and locations.

• Work with e-mail, not against it
• Discussion Capture monitors all email discussions, automatically  creating pages from emails and indexing the contents for search
• Conversations are threaded together and user profiles are linked up, providing  additional social context.
• Send an e-mail to ThoughtFarmer, and it will automatically create a wiki page  with the e-mail contents for you.
  

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  • Easily create an open (anyone can join) or managed group  
  • Drag and drop group members, or synchronize with an Exchange group  
  • Create an email distribution list for all group members, or sync with an  existing one  
  • Capture email discussions with Discussion Capture  
  • Browse groups in the Group Directory  
  • Browse group relationships with the relationship browser  
  • Apply security settings so only certain people can view or edit  group resources  
  • Administrators can predefine group types, such as Business Units,  Departments, Teams, Projects and Interest Groups
   

  Use groups to:

   
   
  • Collaborate on projects  
  • Store team or department resources  
  • Show organizational structure  
  • Provide a listing of offices or locations

• Create multiple event calendars. Share launch dates, project schedules or  important deadlines.

  • This would be great for our IT project teams.

• It integrates with your Active Directory (including for user profiles and  security groups) and supports single sign-on with Windows Integrated  Authentication.