April 2009 | Knowledge Management Forum Japan
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Japan launched Traction's Japanese website (tractionsoftware.jp) and brought Traction® TeamPage to a large audience this month at Knowledge Management Forum 2009 in Japan.
30 March 2009 | CMS Wire - Track and Rate Your Documents with Updated TeamPage 4.1
David Roe of CMSWire reviewed the latest Traction® TeamPage 4.1 release and the plug-ins for Metrics and Ratings. About the new Metrics plug-in, he says "Traction is pin-pointing interactive learning by community members, administrators and managers about the document as one of the key advantages... With the new tools, it will be possible for Wiki administrators to build the Wiki around identified needs rather than building on information that is often out of date and inaccurate." » Read the Full Story
23 March 2009 | DestinationCRM - Who's on Your Team
DestinationCRM published Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's Who's on Your Team which highlights the importance of using wiki-style collaboration and social networking to make team boundaries fuzzier. These fuzzy boundaries, Professor Andrew McAfee says, makes it "easier to convert potential ties to strong or weak ties, and stay on top of what's happening in an extended network of connections you otherwise would not have made." Possibilities emerge to leverage weak ties and potential ties for productive work. Lloyd talks in detail about the nature of strong, weak, and potential ties, as well as the hub and spoke collaboration model that is essential to business communication » Read Full Story
March/April 2009 | Intranets - TeamPage at KUKA Systems as Solution for Managing (and Maximizing) Change
Carolina Reid's Solution for Managing (and Maximizing) Change is a case study covering KUKA Systems deployment of Traction® TeamPage as a means to track and collaborate on process improvement. She wrote:
Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People
Last week a friend who just signed up on Twitter said: "... just like Jon Stewart, I can't figure out how it works or why anyone would want to tweet or get anyone else's twitter. I had no idea what grunt and stalker is but I am assuming that is reality too. I put this all in the pocket with second life (stupid bulky awkward and totally useless)." So I reluctantly joined the crowd attempting to explain why people who have a job and have a life might be interested in Twitter. I decided to describe Twitter as one of three distinct places on the Web where I socialize every day: the public commons. The others two are my neighborhood and my workplace.
KUKA Systems
KUKA is one of the world's leading suppliers of robotics as well as plant and systems engineering. Their Enterprise Applications group deployed Traction® TeamPage in 2006 to support a process for collaborative Issue Tracking for their deployed enterprise information system.
9 March 2009 | Traction Software Announces Japanese Website, Free TeamPage5 Licensing and Customer Forum
We're happy to announce the launch of a Japanese version of Traction® Software's website and the extension of Traction's Free TeamPage5 Promotion and Forum to customers in Japan. The launch of the new site and customer Forum was done in partnership with Applied Knowledge Company Japan (AKJ).
9 March 2009 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the fifth consecutive year, KM World recognized Traction® Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by KMWorld's panel of KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "Each company embodies as part of its culture agile and limber execution of its mission, embracing a spirit of both adaptability and innovation." said Hugh McKellar, Editor-in-Chief of KMWorld Magazine. Read Full Release
3 March 2009 | TeamPage 4.1 Review at The AppGap
In his review of Traction® Software's recently announced Traction® TeamPage 4.1, Bill Ives focuses on how TeamPage puts social software to work: "I think these are all good additions enabling more of the social side of work to be transparent, measured, enhanced, and contribute to increased enterprise performance." » Read Full Review at the AppGap
Orient EuroPharma | 友華生技醫藥股份有限公司
Orient EuroPharma deployed Traction® TeamPage in the year 2005 to address critical communication issues within the company. The deployment is supported by our partner, Applied Knowledge Company, in Japan. As of the date of this case study, March 2009, the focus on internal communications, market intelligence and document sharing has thrived and spread from the IT department throughout the organization. This interview with Orient Europharma discusses their background, the problems which led them to deploy Traction TeamPage, and the benefits they’ve experienced as a result.
25 February 2009 | Traction TeamPage 4.1 Release, New Activity Metrics & Content Ratings Plug-In
Traction® TeamPage 4.1 Extends “Live Blog” Technology to Document Sharing, Enhances Content Through Ratings and Offers Collaborative Insight with Deep Metrics — Traction® Software, the leading developer of Enterprise 2.0 social software, today announced the release of Traction TeamPage 4.1 and new plug-ins for content ratings and user activity metrics. TeamPage 4.1 breaks new ground by making it easy to analyze user activity and rate TeamPage blog posts, comments or wiki pages to highlight and act on important information. These capabilities support “wiki gardeners” and help identify best practices or patterns that can build a stronger community and improve the content it creates. » Read More
Michael Sampson's Currents: "TeamPage - the One System to Rule It All"
Michael Sampson is a well-known and respected collaboration market analyst, consultant and author (of Microsoft Press's Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways), Michael speaks with authority when it comes to assessing collaboration platforms. Sampson's post this week, Traction® TeamPage: The One System to Rule It All, explains the threaded discussion and social tagging model in TeamPage. This post was one outcome of his investigation into E2.0 security and - in this case - how a strong security model can enable productive cross-workspace interactions. He concludes "The Traction team have done a fantastic job building security in from the ground up, and the level of configuration is fantastic. If you are in the market for a collaboration platform, check out what they are offering...[an example with screenshots followed by]... I think that rocks! " » Read More
18 February 2009 | Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum to speak at Providence Geek Dinner
As T.F. Green’s now-under-construction Intermodal Facility attests, a lot of cool stuff is being built in the Ocean State. Some of it isn’t as easy to spot though. One very cool project is the work of Providence-based Traction® Software. Consistently recognized as a leader in social software for the enterprise, Traction’s award-winning Traction® TeamPage platform includes blogs, wikis, social tagging & bookmarking, and now, “live blog micro-messaging” (think real-time Twitter for business). At February’s Geek Dinner, Jordan Frank, VP Marketing & Business Development, and Chris Nuzum, Co-Founder and CTO, will present their insights into the nature and importance of social software, demo TeamPage, and answer questions from the audience. » Join at least 40 others from RI and the surrounding areas and RSVP Here. » Also, read Jordan's companion blog post on RI Nexus for this event.
29 January 2009 | Top Enterprise 2.0 Tips for Improving Workforce Collaboration in 2009
David Booth's four part CEO series quotes Traction Software's Greg Lloyd offering top Enterprise 2.0 tips for improving collaboration in 2009 and thoughts on where Enterprise 2.0 technology is heading. » Read More
Reinventing the Web
John Markoff wrote a really good Jan 11 2009 New York Times profile, In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates on Ted Nelson and his new book, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way (available on Lulu.com). Markoff notes that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but: "Lost in the process was Mr. Nelson’s two-way link concept that simultaneously pointed to the content in any two connected documents, protecting, he has argued in vain, the original intellectual lineage of any object... His two-way links might have avoided the Web’s tornado-like destruction of the economic value of the printed word, he has contended, by incorporating a system of micropayments."
December 2008 | the{app}gap reviews TeamPage Live Blog
Bill Ives recaps a conversation about revenue growth records and offers a quick review of the new Traction® TeamPage Live Blog interface. Ives writes "Because the interaction is supported in Traction, conversations you might otherwise have in IM or Twitter can take place securely within a TeamPage context with a robust content, tagging and discussion model." » Read the Full Story
Forrester Research | Social Computing Changes the Enterprise Collaboration Landscape
Rob Kopolowitz states that "wikis are providing a valuable piece of the overall (Social Computing) strategy" in his April 2008 report titled "Social Computing Changes the Enterprise Landscape." The report profiles Traction® TeamPage customer Enel North America and their use of Traction for collaboration and corporate communication on their Intranet. Get on the bandwagon, Koplowitz explained that 64% of enterprises surveyed have already started to invest in Wikis. » Read the full report (fee required)
21 November 2008 | Traction Software Introduces Live Blog Micro-Messaging and End-of-Year Discount
With new Live Blog technology for Traction® TeamPage™ 4.0, users can write brief notes from wherever they are and
share them instantly over Traction's award-winning TeamPage enterprise wiki platform. TeamPage 4.0
is the first enterprise 2.0 suite to incorporate micro-messaging
technology that's been made popular by web services such as Twitter and
Pownce. Traction Software also announced an end-of-year promotion featuring a 20% discount through the end of December. » Read Full Release
13 November 2008 | Computerworld - Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right
Beth Stackpole's article examines Enterprise wiki technology moving into IT Departments. Two of her four case studies are Traction® TeamPage deployments at Enel North America and Shorebank. Comparing Enterprise Wikis versus other technologies for discussion and collaboration, Stackpole says:
Reviewers and Customers Praise TeamPage 4.0 - Cite breakthroughs in Enterprise 2.0 collaboration
Since Traction® TeamPage 4.0 was released in June 2008 we're happy to report that reviewers and customers have consistently applauded the innovation TeamPage 4.0 brings to the market. When you want to be able to use wiki-style collaboration on products, plans and projects - as well as free-form encyclopedia pages - it quickly becomes obvious that you need to be able to distinguish between the 'latest stable version' of a constellation of pages and the 'work in progress cloud' created through collaborative editing.
Fuld & Company Intelligence Software Report - 2008/2009 Edition
When it comes to Collaborative Intelligence, Traction® TeamPage makes the grade. Traction TeamPage stood apart in Fuld & Company's Intelligence Software Report which rated TeamPage's support as Very Good or Excellent in four out of five stages of the intelligence cycle. Fuld's Intelligence Software report offers insight into the CI process and technology preferences of "CI Super Tech Users" and then rates 13 software platforms that are used most often by Competitive Intelligence teams.
3 November 2008 | Web Worker Daily: Traction TeamPage Goes Beyond Blogs & Wikis
Scott Blitstein's review of Traction® TeamPage 4.0 says: "TeamPage incorporates all of the standard features you would expect from a wiki / blog like linking, journaling, edit history, tagging and categorization, threaded comments and moderation. (But) It’s the advanced features that make it stand out though...The challenge for Traction is to balance a very powerful feature set with ease of use, and for the most part I think they pull this off."
November 2008 | EContent - Web 2.0 Security: Getting Collaborative Peace of Mind
Marji McClure writes: "Most companies don't want to inhibit the collaborative flow that Web 2.0 has brought to the marketplace; don't want it to hinder their overall operations and they want to continue to build on their Web 2.0 platforms. Yet as the use of these collaborative applications becomes integrated into business processes, the need for them to be secure becomes imperative. [The problem as, Traction® Software's Jordan] Frank points out is that some people trust such systems just because their friends do, and because sites such as Facebook haven’t let people down—yet. He cautions that a breach could cause a backlash against such networks. 'Ensuring success in Web 2.0 means that trust doesn’t get broken,' says Frank." » Read Full Story at EContent. Subscription is required for on-line access. Another version of the story is published at CIO Today.
24 October 2008 | Intranet Journal -- Putting Hypertext to Work for You
Paula Gregorowicz wrote a thorough review of Traction® TeamPage 4.0. Gregorowicz leads off the review by presenting the challenge E2.0 systems face in an effort to provide emergent freedom while also offering control and structure:
24 September 2008 | Frank speaks on "Whither Documents - Putting Hypertext to Work" at KMWorld
Jordan Frank speaks on "Whither Documents: Putting Hypertext to Work on the KM 2.0 Path" at KMWorld 2008. Frank will provide context in terms of the history of communication and collaboration - then discuss how simple tools like wikis and blogs have put us on the precipice of a new era that will force us to rethink our fundamental document and content organization models. Frank will speak at 3:00 PM on Wednesday September 24 in the Enterprise 2.0 in Action track. » Read the Full Press Release » Read the Session Description at the KMWorld 2008 Conference Web Site
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