Company Widens World of Wiki: St. Paul-Built Box Allows Firms to Get All Employees on the Same Page.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 15--E-mail makes communication easy. Sometimes, too easy. In the course of putting together a project, hundreds of e-mails can shoot back and forth, and it's tough to keep track of the latest version.
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This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
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The Web is a window on personal lives, and employers can peer in.
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The Belkin Network U.S.B. Hub is designed to accept five inputs from hard drives, scanners and printers.
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WikyBlog is a scalable CMS/Groupware application with an AJAX enhanced tabbed interface enabling users to view/edit multiple files within the same page.   Version 1.4 adds the Wanted Pages, What Links Here, Orphaned Files and Dead-End Files special pages. Automated tasks have also been introduced to maintain database integrity and maintain Trash. A number of other improvements and bug fixes have also been made.  WikyBlog Home:   http://www.wikyblog.com     Get WikyBlog:   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148518&package_id=163821     WikyBlog Features:   http://www.wikyblog.com/Help/en/WikyBlog/Features
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Dutch cyclists union ENFB has  launched the first door-to-door route finder for bicycles,  which is the result of a large volunteer project inspired by  the collaborative Internet project Wikipedia.
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A union group on Thursday unveiled a  Web site that lets users identify more than 200,000 U.S.-based  companies it says have exported American jobs or lost them  because they were hurt by foreign trade.
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Facebook, the social-network site  that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the past  three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of the  world how to find them on the site.
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TechWeb - The server system is aimed at organizations with 50 to 300 employees.
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New service lets consumers access an all-in-one mailbox from anywhere with a phone or the Internet.
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KnowNow has unveiled a tool for creating a personalized portal containing information from multiple internal and external sources.
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As previously announced, the popular social-networking site joined other sites in opening its platform to outside developers -- and potentially opening it to applications that could reach into enterprises.
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Yahoo linking to different sites on the Web on its home page as part of strategy to open up and re-portalize.
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New chapters in the portal's quest for user-generated content.
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By Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 24--Bob Pritchett discovered the power of the corporate blog when he read one from Microsoft that completely changed his perception of the company.
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Networking provider upgrades a slew of products so large companies can better connect their workers.
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(InfoWorld) - Blogging pioneer Six Apart has made an aggressive move to defend and expand its presence in the workplace now that major vendorsÂ such asÂ IBMÂ and MicrosoftÂ have begun to build blog components into their enterprise collaboration platforms. On Tuesday, Six Apart released the most significant upgrade in years of its enterprise blogging software Movable Type, boosting what many industry experts already consider to be the most sophisticated product of its kind. Movable Type 4 has been rearchitected to simplify companies' management and deployment of corporate blogs and the creation of online communities, Six Apart officials said. The company also announced its intention to release an open source version of Movable Type in this year's third quarter for companies and developers interested in extending the functionality of the platform. The new version's enhancements keep Movable Type ahead of the rudimentary blogging capabilities vendorsÂ such asÂ IBM and Microsoft have begun putting in their collaboration platforms. "No one has anything as robust as Movable Type. Six Apart has a big head start," said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst. However, Six Apart must keep enhancing the product and making sure it's easy to integrate with enterprise systems, because what Microsoft and IBM lack in sophistication, they make up for in the convenience of providing broad, one-stop collaboration platforms. "This is where the Movable Type story needs to be stronger," said Mike Gotta, a Burton Group analyst. Increasingly, enterprise customers expect to have an integrated suite of Web 2.0 collaboration software that includes such thingsÂ as blog, wiki, and content syndication applications, Gotta said. A step in the right direction is Movable Type's inclusion in Intel's SuiteTwo bundle of Web 2.0 enterprise collaboration software, although it remains to be seen if SuiteTwo will succeed in the market, Gotta said. SuiteTwo, which also includes wiki software from Socialtext, integration services from SpikeSource, and content syndication tools from NewsGator Technologies and SimpleFeed, became available in April. Integration and bundling efforts aside, Six Apart should also consider building a wiki component for Movable Type, because there is so much synergy between wikis and blogs, Gotta said. Of course, Six Apart must continue with its aggressive innovation and upgrade release cycle so that it can keep Movable Type's functionality safely ahead of offerings from the likes of IBM and Microsoft, Koplowitz said. "It's always dangerous to be in the crosshairs of big organizations like IBM and Microsoft," Koplowitz said. Movable Type customers include Intel, Oracle, Boeing, The Washington Post, and New York University. Highlights in Movable Type 4 include:-- Blog publishing improvementsÂ such asÂ an installation and upgrade wizard, enhanced template management tools, and a redesigned user interface;-- Community-creation capabilities such as the ability for blog owners to let readers become members of their Web sites and able to post text, photos, video, and audio;-- IT administration tools to manage multiple blogs and users from a central interface;-- Scalability featuresÂ such asÂ the ability to run Movable Type in multiple servers;-- Integration capabilities to tie in to enterprise systems and directories. The beta version of Movable Type 4 can be downloaded from the product's main site. Regarding pricing, the product is free for personal use. Customers with commercial, education, and nonprofit licenses for the product's current version can upgrade to version 4 at a discount. More information about pricing is at this page.