21 February 2008 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the fourth consecutive year, KM World recognized Traction® Software's market leadership by naming the company to their list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. "Traction Software continues to demonstrate leadership in delivering Enterprise 2.0 wiki and blog software that matches enterprise IT realities," said Hugh McKellar, Editor-in-Chief of KMWorld Magazine. "Their unique social tagging model, discussion threading technology, deep audit trail and permission filtering capabilities demonstrate a clear focus on meeting customer requirements in the real world." » Read Full Release
28 November 2007 | Gilbane Conference - Jordan Frank on Text Mining
In the Text Mining / Text Analytics and BI - The End Game panel, Jordan Frank's presentation explains how enterprise blogs are critical infrastructure for text mining and enterprise search. The panel was moderated by Joyce Ward of LexisNexis. Frank was joined by Matt Kodama of Endecaand Steven Cohen of Basis Technology.
12 November 2007 | Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 Supports "Collaboration at the Edge"
Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 introduces page name history, cross-wiki page name aliasing, a best in class GUI for easy linking, and 'latest stable version' moderation for edits as well as new pages and comments. This collection of features takes Traction TeamPage another step forward in supporiing collaboration 'at the Edge' as groups recognize need to edit, publish and tag with selectable levels of read and author permission crossing many wiki and blog spaces. The new Page Name History feature aids 'fearless refactoring' while extending TeamPage's lead in providing best in class Audit Trail and Edit History » Read the Full Release
7 November 2007 | Frank on "E2.0 in Action" at KMWorld 2007
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for Enterprise
2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 in Action” presentation was
featured in the Enterprise of the Future: Strategies Track
at the KMWorld 2007 Annual Conference. Frank discussed blog and wiki
use cases within the enterprise, enterprise social tagging strategies,
and 6 enterprise and government customer stories including ShoreBank,
NHS, the US Department of Defense, and others. Click here for a copy of the slides presented by Frank.
24 October 2007 | Frank Speaks on Tagging Strategies at ASIS&T 2007 Annual Conference
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for
17 October 2007 | Greg Lloyd Presents "What's Next in Wikis and Weblogs" at NAC Fall 2007
Greg Lloyd speaks today at the Network Application Consortium's fall conference on Collaboration Technologies: What Works, Whose is Easier, What's Secure and Where's the Intersection.
19 September 2007 | Chris Nuzum Presents Traction at Providence Geeks Dinner
From Providence Geeks, Digital Innovators in the City-State: This Geek Dinner was a heavily-attended double header (RI Nexus and Traction Software). Chris Nuzum, CTO of Traction Software, spoke about their award-winning enterprise wiki… it’s actually much more than a wiki.
11-12 September 2007 | Traction User Group Meeting
Our second annual Traction User Group (TUG) meeting was held last week in Newport, RI. The two day event featured twenty-six speakers including:
22 August 2007 | KMWorld: Traction TeamPage a Trend Setting Product of the Year
Recognizing Traction Software's consistent technology leadership in the enterprise wiki and blog software market, for the 4th consecutive year KMWorld recognized Traction TeamPage as one of their selected 2007 Trend Setting Products of the Year. Hugh McKellar, Editor-In-Chief, and his team of analysts, integrators, editors and users selected the trend setting products from a list of more than 650. » Read More
19 June 2007 | E2.0 Conference - E2.0 in Action ShoreBank Case Study
The E2.0 in Action track's Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 1 panel will feature Traction® Software's Jordan Frank who will show how Traction® TeamPage is used as a blog and wiki platform for Milestone Management at ShoreBank. The panel, moderated by Brian Gillooly (editor in Chief of CMP's Optimize) will also include presentations from iUpload, Denodo, Newsgator, and Smartsheet. See also Enterprise 2.0 Podcast interview with Mike Gotta.
4-5 June 2007 | Interdoc Symposium - Frank to Speak on Enterprise Wikis
Jordan Frank will bust 2.0 myths before bringing the relevance of Web 2.0 to the enterprise to light with enterprise case studies from finance, pharmaceutical, government and non-profit markets. He will finish off with best practices that all but guarantee real results. » Full Conference Schedule
31 May 2007 | Traction TeamPage a hit at LinuxWorld Japan
Congratulations to our Japanese partners SEL and AKJ on a great showing for Traction TeamPage at LinuxWorld Japan 2007. SEL was a gold sponsor and launched a Japanese TeamPage customer forum in advance of the event.
22 May 2007 | Greg Lloyd on Interop 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Panel
Greg Lloyd (Traction Software Inc) joins Dion Hinchcliffe (Hinchliffe & Company), David Barnes (IBM), and Rod Boothby (Teqlo) for a discussion and demonstration of the latest Enterprise 2.0 products and trends. This is part of the Enterprise 2.0 track organized by Dion Hinchcliffe. To download Greg's PowerPoint slides - including a screenshot walkthrough of the demo = a big file! click here (15MB .ppt)
26 March 2007 | Traction Announces Free 5 User Version, New Plug-In Architecture for Developers, and Release 3.7.3
Individuals and organizations may now download and use a free, perpetual Traction® TeamPage™ license. The Plug-In announcement introduces a simple mechanism for Traction developers and administrators to install, configure and manage plug-ins to create their own skins and widgets, as well as override or extended TeamPage features. The TeamPage 3.7.3 release announces the new Auto-Save feature, RSS subscription for Traction TeamPage FAST Search Module queries, new server ACLs, an improved Jabber notifier, and new section types to track active discussions and edit activity. Edit and Discussion sections, like other Traction Sections can be scoped to the server, any project, or even a given category label (like Requirements) in a project.
» Read the Release 3.7.3 and New Plug-In Architecture Enables Traction Users to Easily Develop, Manage and Share TeamPage Extensions release
» Read the Best Enterprise Wiki Software Now Free for Five Users release.
March 2007 | Traction Software named to KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the third year in a row, Traction® Software was included in KM World's list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Hugh McKellar notes that the companies listed "distinguished themselves to our panel of judgets because of their role in creating, enhancing, or defining a market." » Read More
Information Foraging at FASTForward '07
I enjoyed FASTForward '07 last week in San Diego - an excellent conference and 60 degrees warmer than Providence Rhode Island! It featured great keynotes (particularly Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 the Next Disruptor), sessions, networking and entertainment.
7 February 2007 | FASTforward '07
Greg Lloyd will speak on the topic "Search Meet Blogs and Wikis" at FASTforward '07, the FAST Search & Transfer user group meeting.
23 January 2007 | SCIP Boston Chapter Meeting
The SCIP Boston Chapter hosted a meeting this week titled "Harnessing Web 2.0 For Competitive Intelligence." Greg Lloyd joined the panel to talk about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, RSS and social tagging on the competitive intelligence process. An agenda is posted at the Knowledge is Power CI Forum.
23 January 2007 | CBI Predictive Intelligence Conference
At this pharmaceutical industry conference hosted by CBI, Jordan Frank, joined by Matt Cole of QL2 Software, gave a presentation titled "Synthesizing Data from Blogs for Future Projections and Pattern Assessment." The presentation discussed methods for data mining and visualization of content from internet blogs as well as capturing the breadth of data types to consolidate information in enterprise blogs, in support of further mining and content collaboration.
Presenting at the December KM Forum Boston
I had the honor of speaking at the Boston Knowledge Management Forum on Monday. I was joined by Kathleen Gilroy of the Otter Group (who wrote a piece on the event
beforehand) , Susan Dobscha of Bentley College, and Kelly Drahzal of
IBM. I was also on an enterprise blog/wiki vendor panel led by Kathleen
(thanks Kathleen!).
FAST-Enabled Search and Navigation for Traction TeamPage
On Dec 18, 2006 Traction Software Announces Release of Integrated FAST InStream™ Search Technology to Enable Secure Search, Entity Extraction and Drill Down Navigation. The module is an integrated and easily installed option that extends Traction's permissioned search model to over 370 document formats for files attached to TeamPage posts or stored in TeamPage web folders. FAST's advanced linguistic analysis adds relevance ranking and automatic entity extraction to support interactive permission-filtered drill-down by person, company, location and other attributes. "In the era of Enterprise 2.0, smart companies are leveraging tools like Traction TeamPage to empower individuals to create their own content," said John M. Lervik, CEO, FAST. "Now, by leveraging Traction TeamPage together with FAST InStream businesses can offer their employees a new and more powerful package of tools to help them produce, share and then intelligently search this collective intelligence, creating a smarter, faster-moving and more profitable workforce." » Read the Press Release, Read the Traction TeamPage Fast Search Module feature page
October 2006 | Traction Software named a KMWorld KM Promise Award Finalist
Traction Software goes beyond blogs and wikis to deliver technology and best practices supportive of work process, and ensure customer success. KMWorld describes the award criteria: This award is given to the organization that is delivering its promise to customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are embedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results. » Read More
November 2006 | EContent 100 Companies that Matter 2006
For the third year in a row, Traction Software is named to the blogging category in the EContent Magazine list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. In the 2006 EContent Announcement, Michelle Manafy says "We carefully reconsidered last year's list members and kept only those companies who we agreed continue to lead the industry. For some this means market share, but for most it means thought- and technology-leadership, innovation, and even experimentation."
Greg Lloyd on "The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson" at Burton Group's Catalyst Europe Conference
Greg speaks at Burton Group's Catalyst 2006 Europe Conference, Barcelona 12 Oct 2006. His topic, The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson is part of the Collaboration and Content track in a session: Leveraging the Services Infrastructure
to Improve the User Experience.
12 September 2006 | Beyond Blogs and Wikis: Traction Release 3.7 Announcement
New features added in this release include extensible widgets, edit history differences and version rollback, inline sections, flexible outputs to any WordML and PDF, and upgraded mobile device support. Traction® Software products combine the group editing of a wiki and simplicity of a blog while satisfying enterprise needs for secure, scalable, web-based working communication. more » Read Full Release » Read about Traction Features » Read Beyond Blogs and Wikis
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