Comments on: corporate typepadding

By: Enter Grudge

Enter Grudge — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:43:25 +0000

This is truly great! Take it from the master of flawed argument

By: Natalie Buxton

Natalie Buxton — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:52:43 +0000

Signal vs Noise's Basecamp does exactly what you want - starting at Free. IT has RSS, File upload/management, calendars, milestones, blogs and comments. Manage all your "projects" in a blog format. Only those with passwords to those projects can get in. It has RSS, and I've been using it for ages for my clients. Rocks. http://www.basecamphq.com

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:55:46 +0000

Agree with you, and Andreas, and all the other comments … tho personally Valdis I prefer blogs to wikis … a bit more ‘organic” somehow …perhaps because it displays more of the path to getting wherever it is the work is going.
Using blogs for small scale corporate communication rock
Exactly … another neat feature is the File Manager in blogging applications … you can just drag n’ drop all files you need for your business or work into the File Manager, and then you essentially have the business infrastructure … all the documents and works in progress … in one place. My colleague just learned the benefit of this one week ago when he had his laptop stolen out of the back of his car. All the files he needed / needs are still there in the (Blogware) File Manager.
Seems obvious that such tools in various configurations are so useful and easy … the future of (much) work ?

By: Nathan Dornbrook

Nathan Dornbrook — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:42:50 +0000

Rather than fix this at the server side, I use Trillian to pull all the feeds together.
It lets you check email, gmail, blogs (via RSS) and the following IMs: AIM, Yahoo IM, ICQ & MSN.

By: Luke Razzell

Luke Razzell — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:13:45 +0000

Let’s get beyond this crazy hard-wired separation between blog, wiki, email, IM etc. content types and create a network and tools that give us real flexibility in how we create and interact with stuff.

By: heiko hebig

heiko hebig — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:41:28 +0000

just one comment: thanks!

By: alan herrell - the head lemur

alan herrell - the head lemur — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:18:34 +0000

Great minds think alike. I use typepad for the exact same thing. It works great especially when you are working clients to help them to understand what the web can really do.

By: mike dunn

mike dunn — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:45:12 +0000

concur on typepad usage hugh — i’ve used in for private weblogs supporting distributed teams and it works fine…
what it needs is some form of integrated identity management based on the blog(s) your interacting w/…
should be as simple to use as say bloglines, but w/ authn/authz/ldap complaince build-in and then integrated w/ the typepad rudimentary access control admin feature…
would definately help them make the leap from consumer to corporate blogging, if that’s what they desired of course

By: Travis Swicegood

Travis Swicegood — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:12:17 +0000

"Yeah. People matter." I couldn't agree more. Multiple blogs with multiple users and permissions for those users shouldn't be that big of a thing - although you wouldn't know it by the number of blog packages, opensource and commercial that don't have it. I'm sure they'll be able to put something together for you, Hugh. If you ever want to give something else a shot though, just shoot me an email. The wiki idea everyone's been touting is a good idea, but I don't know that it would be as easy as a blog for people to learn. There's generally more to learn with a wiki than a blog. A blog is straight forward, goto admin, post a new entry, goto site, see entry. I know for the technical minded of us out there, wiki's aren't much different, but I don't know that it would translate into being easier for the general population. Now, a blend of the two into a bliki type system might work (Google for 'crossroads bliki' for my thoughts on those).

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:55:54 +0000

Or, have a look at Canadian company silverorange's intranet. http://www.silverorange.com/a/intranet bit like basecamp, but more conversational, project based with posted replies, more powerful than a run of the mill intranet.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:18:58 +0000

Oh, I’m sure there’s lots of neat stuff already out there.
The thing is, I’ve already got a relationship with the folks at Typepad/Six Apart and I’m already accustomed to their way of building things.
I would much rather Typepad build me something I want than go find somebody else who’s already building it.
Yeah. People matter.

By: Bill Seitz

Bill Seitz — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:15:28 +0000

I'll second that wiki recommendation. But then I'm biased. http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiBeatsWeblog http://www.teamflux.com/

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:01:35 +0000

We’re working from Canada and the UK with clients and suppliers worldwide and have been using an MT installation with great success for about a year now.
Using blogs for small scale corporate communication rocks.

By: Bg Porter

Bg Porter — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:55:20 +0000

Hugh –
My company is completely distributed (40 engineers & artists across the US and Canada, clients around the world), and we use heavier tools than would be useful for you, but have you looked at Basecamp?
http://www.basecamphq.com/
If I were in your boat, it’s something that I would consider heavily. RSS and iCal syndication. I agree with you that email is the wrong answer (or it’s the right answer to a different question).
YMMV.

By: Steve Makofsky's WebLog

Steve Makofsky's WebLog — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:54:42 +0000

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