"All of this has led me to believe that something is terribly wrong with e-mail. What’s more, I don’t believe it can be fixed."
"All of this has led me to believe that something is terribly wrong with e-mail. What’s more, I don’t believe it can be fixed," writes New York Times columnist Nick Bilton - not pictured on right - in his July 8, 2012 Bits column, Disruptions: Life's Too Short for So Much Email. He's cranky just because he received 6,000 emails this month, not including spam and daily deals. Nick says: "With all those messages, I have no desire to respond to even a fraction of them. I can just picture my tombstone: Here lies Nick Bilton, who responded to thousands of e-mails a month. May he rest in peace."
"Best Enterprise Wiki” Software Now Free for Five Users
Traction Software Announces Traction® TeamPage™: Free Download Includes Five Login Accounts and Five Projects, so Large and Small Enterprises Can Try TeamPage for Zero Commitment and Cost
"Control Doesn't Scale"
David Weinberger has an incredible knack for putting information management issues into perspective, and always does so with just the right amount of humor and sarcasm (something I generally aim to achieve - but I imagine I fall short of a perfect Weinberger).
"Control Doesn't Scale" Part II - Let Go to Grow
In yesterday's note Control Doesn't Scale, I talked about how Enterprise 2.0 relies on an Enterprise 2.0 architecture and approach in order to work more like the web. Reflecting on a speech by Andrew McAfee at FASTForward 08, Bill Ives puts the matter very nicely:
"Probably the coolest vendor pricing page I've seen for any collaboration vendor" ~ Jacob Morgan
Thanks to Jacob Morgan, Chess Media Group for his Tweet this afternoon while we were chatting on the phone. Last October Jacob reviewed Traction TeamPage in his Emergent Collaboration Vendor series, and liked what he saw, including TeamPage pricing. He said: "I had the pricing explained to me so I understand it but I think it would be helpful if they made it easier to understand for all site visitors because it really does make sense." We agree on both points! In updating the Buy page, Chris Nuzum used Apple Store product configuration pages as benchmarks for clarity and ease of use.
"Same old, same old" & Enterprise 2.0 Durability
When asked "How are things?" a college friend used to reply "Same old, same old" as a way of saying "Nothing has changed, nothing's gone wrong, things are fine." This was always good to hear.
#E2L09 Innovation Starts with Ideas. Wiki will Cross the Work 2.0 Frontier When TeamPage 5.0 Carries Ideas into Action.
These case studies are a taste of how ideas and issues turn into action, how tasks evolve from conversations and how boundaries have to appear to disappear for W2.0 ideas to meet E2.0 execution. See you at E2.0.
1 April 2003 | Homeland Investment
The CIA's venture fund seeks technology for government use but with private-sector market potential. » Read More
1 August 2005 | Order from Chaos Via RSS
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, whose members are IT companies that support law-enforcement and Justice Department operations, uses RSS and Atom feeds that came built into its blogging software from Traction® Software Inc. to keep committee members up to date on recent developments. 'Some of our more technical committees that had some familiarity with RSS saw immediately how they could use that inside their workspace to provide a publish-and-subscribe capability so they don't have to rely on going hunting to see if there's something new in their committee work,' executive director Paul Wormelli says. » Read More
1 Dec 2010 | KMWorld - Collaborate Completely
Traction® Software has announced new Traction® TeamPage capabilities to help teams work together more effectively. Traction TeamPage Release 5.1 makes it easy for individuals to see their own action plans, the status of shared projects, team workload, individual progress and team progress toward common goals--all within the context of the TeamPage collaboration and communication platform where the planned work can also be managed or done. » Read the full story
1 December 2002 | Blogged Down at the Workplace
Michael Cohn discusses the need and use cases for the "corporate blog." The article is available on Page 10 of the December print edition. » Read More
1 February 2003 | Traction digs in with Traction TeamPage
[Traction® TeamPage] is sub-positioned as an enterprise Weblog... Traction includes templates for categories and views within the portal that correspond to specific projects or information that users are interested in tracking... The latest edition is targeted at competitive intelligence professionals who track information on an ongoing basis and need to create a durable archive of this intelligence. » Read More
1 January 2002 | Twisted Systems Changes Name to Traction Software
Reflecting a change in focus from research and development to commercialization of the Traction product line, Twisted Systems, Inc. has officially changed its name to Traction Software.
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Announces Traction TeamPage and Communicator Release 3.1
Further Establishes the Traction Platform as the Backbone for Enterprise Working Communications. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Enters German Market and Provides German Localization for Industry's First Enterprise Weblog
Powerful Web-based Information Sharing System Streamlines Team Communications. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Geht Auf Den Deutschen Markt Mit Einer Lokalisierung Für Das Erste Betriebliche Weblog
Leistungsfähiges web-basiertes Informationsssystem rationalisiert die Kommunikation im Team. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Names Jason Siegal Vice President of Sales
Public Relations Software Pioneer Joins Traction Team to Expand Sales Operations. » Read More
1 March 2010 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the sixth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 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. "We're honored by KMWorld's recognition of Traction Software. I'm extremely happy to accept this award on behalf of Traction's outstanding employees, partners and customers. " said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "I believe that customer success using Traction® TeamPage is proving the business value of knowledge management by making KM part of the context of work, benefiting everyone in the organization, every day." » See the 2010 KMWorld 100 list
1 March 2011 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the seventh consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's market leadership by naming the company to their KMWorld 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. "We're honored that KMWorld continues to rank Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management," said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "In 2010 we brought Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0 and 5.1 to market, introducing a new generation of social software with integrated collaboration, communication, action tracking and exception handling along with a user interface that's fast, great looking and simple to use. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition as well as KMWorld for awarding it." » See the 2011 KMWorld 100 list
1 March 2012 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the eighth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by a team of judges including KMWorld editors, analysts, system integrators, theorists, practitioners and a few select users. "We're honored that KMWorld continues to rank Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management," said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "In 2011 Traction Software released Traction® TeamPage 5.2 introducing capabilities make live content in external documents, public or intranet Web pages, and even database records social objects seamlessly integrated with Traction TeamPage's action tracking, search, collaboration and communication. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition, as well as KMWorld for awarding it." » See the 2012 KMWorld 100 list
1 March 2013 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the ninth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software by naming the company to their annual KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. KMWorld’s list is compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, their customers and colleagues. This is the 13th year of the list. "Criteria for inclusion varies, but all companies have things in common. Each has either helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and they all share two things—the velocity of innovation and the agility to serve their customers" says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld Editor-in-Chief.
Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder said: "We're honored that KMWorld consistently ranks Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management. Traction Software employees work closely with customers to build a stronger and more useful Traction® TeamPage platform." Lloyd continued, "Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter 2012 TeamPage releases introduced many user interface, performance, and Developer SDK additions and improvements to make it easier for customers to get work done. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition." See the 2013 KMWorld 100 list.
1 November 1997 | The Godfather: The Manhattan Project, Silicon Valley, The World Wide Web
Wired Magazine, 1 November 1997 G. Pascal Zachary writes: "Wherever you look in the information age, Vannevar Bush was there first... Some ambitious efforts to tame the Web's chaos are avowedly inspired by Bush. At Twisted Systems Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island, engineer Gregory Lloyd is designing better ways to record a user's associations between different Web sites. "There are Web tools that manage bookmarks, that help you find your place," Lloyd says. "Bookmarks are a start. But then the problem is managing your bookmarks. They can degenerate into a slush pile, which is not what Bush wanted." Lloyd is tight-lipped about his work toward a solution, but says flatly, "I'm building a memex, the holy grail." » Read More
1 Oct 2012 | Applied Knowledge Company Ltd Brings Cloud-hosted TeamPage to Japan
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd of Yokohama Japan today announced availability of cloud hosted Traction® TeamPage for the Japanese market. AKJ President Masayuki Kojima said: "TeamPage provides a new communication infrastructure for projects and multi-team organizations within your company - now available as a cloud service." TeamPage cloud pricing starts at 7,908 yen per month for ten spaces and twenty-five named accounts, see www.TractionSoftware.jp for price, ordering, and product details. TeamPage cloud options include Attivio Advanced Search and Social Enterprise Web. Traction Software offers cloud hosted TeamPage to customers outside the Japanese market, see TeamPage Pricing and Licenses.
1 Sept 2010 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2010
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market, naming Traction® TeamPage a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2010. KMWorld Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar says: "This year, more than 600 products were assessed by our judging panel which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves (sometimes even competitive ones), line-of-business managers and users. The products selected all demonstrate clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers." » Read the September 1, 2010 KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2010 announcement.
1 Sept 2011 | KMWorld names TeamPage A Trend-Setting Product of 2011
KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for 2011. Traction® TeamPage: "enables searching both external sources and TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content." KMWorld's judging panel of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators and users evaluated over 800 products in reaching their decision for KMWorld's ninth annual list. Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has selected TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for the fourth time. » Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2011
1 Sept 2012 | KMWorld names TeamPage A Trend-Setting Product of 2012
KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a 2012 Trend-Setting Product of 2012, citing Traction® TeamPage for "action tracking, Twitter-style status, threaded discussion, collaboration, social networking and deep search." KMWorld editor Hugh McKellar writes: "This year more than 700 products/product families were whittled down to the 89 listed in these pages. Each company whose products are listed below helped to define and enhance a market critically important to our readership by listening to and working with customers. They all represent a commitment to innovation and their customers." Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has selected TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for the fifth consecutive year. » Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2012
10 January 2003 | Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
Building on the success of Weblogs for personal Web publishing, enterprises are starting to tap into blogs to streamline specific business processes such as intelligence gathering or to augment traditional content-and knowledge-management technologies. » Read More
10 June 2003 | Weblogs in enterprise IT
Adam Gaffin abstracts Rock Regan (State of Connecticut) and Paul Perry's (Verizon Communications) comments about weblogs in IT organizations. Perry comments that it took three to four months to get his organization fully into blogging. And he made sure to get his CIO onto the system. » Read More
10 June 2008 | Bill Ives Reviews Traction TeamPage 4.0 | AppGap
In his review of Traction® Software's recently announced Traction® TeamPage 4.0, Bill Ives says: "TeamPage has been a highly rated Enterprise 2.0 platform for some time... The upgrades with Team Page 4.0 will only make it better." » Read Full Review at the AppGap
10 May 2011 | Traction® TeamPage 5.2 Introduces Dashboards for Action Tracking, Project and Case Management
Providence RI — May 10, 2011— Traction® Software Inc, the leader in enterprise social software for work today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.2 with new capabilities to make it simple to track actions, show activity, watch status, and follow discussions embedded in the flow of collaborative work. TeamPage 5.2's new activity dashboards show actions, status and work in context using a format that's easy to read and reduces information overload. Activity dashboards allow people dive into and watch activity associated with projects or milestones they want to focus on, while also seeing, searching, exploring and connecting with others across a broad view of actions organized by business context as well as person. Read » Full Release and videos
10 May 2011 | Traction® TeamPage 5.2 Introduces Dashboards for Action Tracking, Project and Case Management
Providence RI — May 10, 2011— Traction® Software Inc, the leader in enterprise social software for work today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.2 with new capabilities to make it simple to track actions, show activity, watch status, and follow discussions embedded in the flow of collaborative work. TeamPage 5.2's new activity dashboards show actions, status and work in context using a format that's easy to read and reduces information overload. These dashboards allow people dive into and watch activity associated with projects or milestones they want to focus on, while also seeing, searching, exploring and connecting with others across a broad view of activity organized by business context as well as person.
10-11 June 2008 | Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Frank speaks on E2.0 in Action
Traction® Software is proud to be a sponsor again this year at the E2.0 2008 Conference in Boston. Jordan Frank speaks on "Putting Wikis, Blogs and Tagging to Work - Enterprise 2.0 in Action": How E2.0 applications can deliver on the content leverage and re-use goals that "1.0" CMS systems promised but never fulfilled. » Read More at the Conference Website. » Read Jordan Frank's Presentation (PDF)
11 Jan 2012 | Forbes - In Social Business, How to Prioritise a Successful Outcome
Forbes.com contributor Hayden Shaughnessy writes: "By moving social media practices into the enterprise we will change the way senior managers communicate, the way employees communicate with customers, and possibly people’s experience of work." He asked three platform vendors, including Traction® Software President and co-founder Greg Lloyd, to respond to three questions on how a company can make social a success, starting from Day 1 requirements, benefits to the employee and enterprise outcomes . Greg's advice includes: "“Social” use can informally open up a timeline of activity to make it easier for people working on the same activity – including people who may be from different parts of the organization or even customers, partners, suppliers. Jon Udell and Jim McGee call this “Observable Work” (on a personal basis “narrating your work” hits many of the same points). It’s very easy to do, and generally well accepted – people learn by example." » Read the article
11 May 2009 | Collaborative problem solving at KUKA
KMWorld quotes Tom Woodman, enterprise applications manager at KUKA Systems on use of Traction® TeamPage to track, manage and report on issues across project groups. Woodman says: “TeamPage helped us document what wasn’t working, collaborate around potential solutions and turn on a dime to fix them. Then, it helped us spread the word about those improvements to the rest of the company very quickly. As a byproduct, we are also able to meet compliance requirements, because auditors can easily review the issues and determine if there are any that would need further scrutiny from a financial reporting point of view.” » Read More
11 October 2002 | Capital Not Venturing Out
Local startups are having a tough time attracting financing: One local software start-up, Providence-based Traction Software, was able to line up several hundred thousand dollars in financing last quarter - Andrea Stape, Providence Journal. » Read More
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:
12 July 2002 | Traction's enterprise Weblog gets a grip on corporate KM
Jon Udell's InfoWorld product review and "Deploy" recommendation with 10 ratings for Innovation and Interoperability. He writes: "THERE IS STILL NO sure-fire recipe for KM (knowledge management) success, but the ingredients must include the staples of the knowledge worker: e-mail, the Web, and Microsoft Office. With Traction® Software's KM solution, content flowing through all these channels is easily captured by the Java-based Traction Server, which can be best described as an enterprise Weblog system...Traction can be regarded as an ultrasophisticated PIM (personal information manager). That's just the quality you need in a KM product to get people to actually use it." » Read More
12 July 2004 | Traction offers advanced Web logging
FCW gives Traction® TeamPage top ratings for Usability, Performance, and Security - Agency officials who specifically want to explore advanced Web-logging solutions that can securely serve the entire enterprise and business partners will want to add Traction Software Inc.'s Traction 3.1 enterprise Web logging solution to their short list... We had no trouble installing Traction 3.1 on several Linux-based servers, and within minutes, we were accessing the browser-based administrative interface... Once logged in, the software's power becomes evident immediately. It was easy to add content using a Web form, and we published content to both private and public projects. Published content can be read, edited, classified and erased by authorized users, all from the convenience of a Web browser... Agencies with dense information sets will find Traction 3.1's labeling and search capabilities first rate. by Maggie Biggs. » Read More
12 March 2007 | BusinessWeek - No Rest for Wiki - Highlights Traction Customer Enel North America
The CEO Guide to Technology's "No Rest for the Wiki" story by Rachael King says that that these online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration. Within the article, she points to the Wiki success at Enel North America, a Traction® TeamPage Customer. Enel North America is a subsidiary of their parent company Enel (EN), is utilities company with a focus on renewable energy. Enel is a Global 100 company with about 56,000 employees worldwide.
12 May 2003 | Blogs play a role in homeland security
Criminal-intelligence analysts are using Traction® TeamPage to create access-controlled weblogs, or blogs, as repositories for research data collected for further analysis. The WSIN watch center in Sacramento, Calif., uses them to share user tips, training schedules and articles that are of interest to law-enforcement task forces. » Read More
12 May 2003 | Traction Software Delivers Enterprise Weblog Solution to the Western States Information Network
Weblog Technology Enables Law Enforcement Network to Efficiently Capture, Share and Use Critical Information. » Read More
12 November 2007 | CMS Wire - TeamPage 3.8 Weds Blogs to Wikis and Other Dubious Enterprise Stuff
Angela Natividad offers a synopsis of the 3.8 features and benefits. She points out that Release 3.8 "makes it easy to blog in the same context at which you conduct
wiki-style page editing. Your blog and wiki can live under the same
name space, or you can create unique spaces for each." She also discusses the easy linking GUI, draft moderation, compliance and page name history features. » Read Full Story
12 November 2007 | EWeek - Wiki Maker Looks for 'Traction' in Software Market
Clint Boulton reviews Traction TeamPage Release 3.8: Traction is jazzing up TeamPage Release 3.8, a piece of software that
is used to help businesses collaborate on projects in an online
workspace, with new draft moderation and linking utilities. » Read Full Story
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
12 October 2004 | Burton Group - Communication and Collaboration: Compelling Convergence or Continued Chaos?
(Document Requires Burton Group Login for Access) - Peter O'Kelly lays out a vision of well integrated workspaces for collaboration and channels for communication. O'Kelly comments: Traction is as simple as a wiki (defined and described in “The Details”) in terms of getting started with a new workspace, but the depth of its metamodel makes Traction more robust for a wider range of collaboration needs as workspaces evolve. » Read More
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
12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
Traction Software's Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting (TUG 2010) will be in Newport Rhode Island, 12-15 October 2010. Mark your calendars! Wed 13 Oct will feature an opening keynote by Jim McGee followed by a TeamPage update by Chris Nuzum CTO and co-founder of Traction Software, a talk by Attivio VP of Engineering Rik Tamm-Daniels, customer stories, and a closing keynote by Jon Udell. If you can't attend TUG 2010 Newport in person Follow TUG 2010 Newport on Twitter
13 June 2002 | In-Q-Tel signs expanded license agreement with Traction Software
Providence, Rhode Island, June 13, 2002 - In-Q-Tel, a venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently signed an expanded enterprise software license agreement with Traction® Software, Inc., providing use rights for the latest version and multi-year upgrades of Traction's workgroup information-sharing software. » Read More
13 June 2005 | Dark Blogs Case Study #1 - A European Pharmaceutical Group
From Suw Charman, writer of the Strange Attractor blog on Corante: I'm pleased to announce the arrival of the first Dark Blogs Case Study (pdf), examining the use of Traction® Software's TeamPage enterprise weblog software for a competitive intelligence project within a large European pharmaceutical group. The case study examines the reasons why blogs where chosen, project planning, implementation, integration with other business systems, editorial process, launch and promotion, training and adoption.
13 November 2007 | eWeek - Google Wiki, Where Art Thou?
Clint Boulton's column asks "What happened to Jotspot?" since they were bought by Google in October 2006. Traction Software's Jordan Frank is quoted: "The large volume of Google account holders, and the ease
with which consumers and professionals can use Google Apps for informal
file sharing and calendaring, would put wiki technology into the hands
of many user groups who wouldn't have considered trying to use one for
day-to-day information management... The result would greatly expand the prosumer market (Company employees using Wikis and other internet tools outside the firewall) and, as a result, put more pressure on enterprises to deploy best of breed Enterprise Wiki and Blog offerings such as Traction TeamPage." » Read Full Story
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:
13 October 2003 | Better Blogging
The Western States Information Network uses Weblog technology to foster information sharing. » Read More
13-16 Oct 2009 | Fourth Annual Traction User Group Meeting
Traction Software's fourth annual Traction User Group Meeting will be in Providence Rhode Island 13-16 October 2009. Mark your calendars! This year we'll feature more customer stories and roundtable / birds of a feather discussions as well as an exciting keynote and TeamPage roadmap session. In addition to the customer and keynote sessions we'll offer an afternoon of basic to power user Training preceding the Conference, and two days optional days of advanced training with SDL/SDK and Advanced Platform Topic tracks. For agenda, training, travel and registration information see tug2009.TractionS….
14 Dec 2010 | TECH.ASCII.jp - プロジェクトの円滑な遂行をサポートする「TeamPage 5.1」 アプライドナレッジ、コラボレーションツールの新版を発表
12月13日、アプライドナレッジは、コラボレーションツール「TeamPage 5.1」を発表。同日より販売開始した。
14 December 2005 | Traction Customer IJIS Named one of Business Week's WebSmart 50
The deployment of Traction® TeamPage by IJIS, a membership organization representing information technology companies with the mission of improving information sharing in the Justice community, was recgonized as one of the 50 innovative uses of internet technology in business. Traction was deployed for the IJIS website, partner extranet and staff intranet. Paul Wormelli, Executive Director, said ". "Traction’s solution enabled us to meet all of our collaboration requirements by providing an easy, faster way to notify members, access information and save time working together." » Full Release
14 June 2011 | Fierce Content Management - One on One with Greg Lloyd of Traction Software
Fierce Content Management editor Ron Miller interviews Traction® Software President and co-founder Greg Lloyd. Topics include: Enterprise 2.0 evolution, business benefits and barriers to wide-spread adoption; relationship between content management, enterprise collaboration tools, search and knowledge management; why Traction Software decided to introduce a project-driven metaphor for Traction® TeamPage collaboration: "GL: I believe the ability to link plans, actions, discussion and work product (in any system of record) in context is the key to unlocking the value of social software for businesses of any size." » Read the full story
14 March 2003 | Technical trends bode well for KM
The challenge was and is to make more of the routine communication flowing through the enterprise available — for data mining, social network analysis, and general awareness. There's no silver-bullet solution, but current technological and cultural trends provide clues that point toward a brighter future for KM (knowledge management)....The Traction toolset makes it easy for project managers to collect e-mail and documents, to inject them into the system, categorize them, and to publish summarized views to intranet Web pages, e-mail subscribers, and the RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds preferred by a small but growing number of k-loggers. » Read More
14 Oct 2009 | Traction Software Selects Attivio to Power Information Access for Enterprise 2.0 Social Software
Traction® Software and Attivio today announced that Attvio's Active Intelligence Engine™ will power the Advanced Search and content navigation functions of its Traction® TeamPage Enterprise 2.0 platform. Traction evaluated several market-leading solutions before choosing Attvio's unified information access engine for its single, flexible API, full Java support as well as its sophisticated and secure permissioning model. “Traction Software’s award-winning social software enables enterprises and government agencies to share information and collaborate in a secure environment. We needed to partner with an information access company that would enable our users to securely capture and share data across entities from one central repository,” said Greg Lloyd, President & Co-Founder of Traction Software. “Attivio was the clear choice for a variety of reasons, including its ability to update information in real-time to ensure the most relevant and current results. AIE improves our users’ ability to find content quickly and offers a dramatically smaller footprint than our previous search engine solution.” » Read full release
14-16 June 2010 | Traction Software at Enterprise 2.0 Boston
If you plan to attend Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2010, be sure to visit Traction Software at Booth #515 between 11:30 am through 6:00 pm Tuesday and Wednesday for a major Traction TeamPage product announcement and demonstration! Jordan Frank will be at E2.0 Boston as a panelist for Monday morning's Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration Technologies Workshop run by Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel (8:30-11:45am). He'll also represent Traction Software for the Social Vendor Idol competition versus Blue Kiwi, Cubetree, Newsgator and Socialtext (3:30-4:30pm Tuesday) - be sure to watch and vote! Greg Lloyd will be a panelist on Mike Gotta's Expert Panel on Standards for Social Computing in the Enterprise (2:15-3:15pm Wednesday). To schedule a meeting, please email e20boston@tractionsoftware.com See you in Boston!
14-17 April 2008 | SCIP 2008 Annual Conference
Please look for us in booth #412 at the SCIP 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego!
15 December 2003 | Traction Software Gains Ground on Weblog Front
Outside tech circles, blogs have a reputation of being just for self-indulgent geeks or young technophiles. But Traction Software knows better. With financial backing from CIA-funded In-Q-Tel and a recent deal with the Department of Defense, the Providence company’s blogs are receiving military honors. By Elizabeth Dinan. » Read More
15 Feb 2011 | GigaOM Pro - The Future of Work Platforms
GigaOm Pro analyst Haydn Shaughnessy writes "The enterprise collaboration space has entered an exciting new phase of collaboration. New software and applications are coming to market, as are new concepts for how to work and communicate in the knowledge age." Shaughnessy analyzes the new diversity of work, the human element, and provides key takeaways as well as reviews of hosted and E2.0 collaborative platforms. The free summary includes complete table of contents [ including Traction® Software in the E2.0 Platform space ]. A GigaOm Pro subscription is required to view the full report, with a seven day Free Trial available. » Read the summary see also The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz
15 Feb 2011 | Web Worker Daily - Looking Beyond the Features to Find Good Collaboration Tools
Simon Mackie of Web Worker Daily writes about the new GigaOm Pro report on The Future of Work Platforms (subscription required). Mackie highlights experience, driving new concepts in collaborative, work, ease of implementation, deep system integration, work process innovation, and stronger management oversight as potentially sustainable differentiators for companies [ including Traction® Software ] in a feature comparison table from the report. » Read the full story.
15 June 2010 | Traction TeamPage 5.0 Delivers Integrated Social Networking and Collaboration with New Generation Interface Technology
Enterprise 2.0 Boston MA — June 15, 2010 — A fresh look at how social networking and collaboration work for business Traction® Software, the leading developer of enterprise 2.0 social software for secure, scalable collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0. This release uses Traction’s new generation Proteus interface technology to deliver a look and feel that’s fast, easy to use, and looks great. TeamPage 5.0 leverages this technology to integrate extensible personal profile pages, Twitter style personal status, group live blog technology, a slick and simple Feed summary and more as natural parts of Traction's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. Read » full release
15 June 2011 | The App Gap - Software Announcements at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Bill Ives writes in The App Gap: The Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this coming week is often a place for related new product announcements. That is certainly the case this year. Here is the list of companies making announcements leading up to or at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference that I received this week. I have also spoken to three of the firms this week, Adobe, NewsGator, and Traction, and more in-depth coverage of their new moves will follow on this blog. I am also scheduled to speak to a few others in the coming weeks. » Read the full story
15-16 Nov 2011 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara
Traction Software's Greg Lloyd and Jordan Frank will be at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara Booth #208 15-16 Nov 2011. We hope to see you there! Traction Software will announce pricing and general availability of new Social Enterprise Web and Attivio Plus options, see Jacob Morgan's Chess Media Group review and Traction Software on Connected Work.
15-17 Jul 2012 | SLA 2012 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO
Traction Software's Jordan Frank will be speaking on Pharma Competitive Intelligence at this year's SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago, Noon 16 July (see session summary below - and slides in Monitoring and Leveraging Social Media Chatter, on the Internet and in the Enterprise). You can also meet Jordan at the SLA 2012 McCormick Place INFO-EXPO Booth #4, Sunday through Tuesday. Follow @TractionTeam and @JordanFrank on Twitter, conference code #SLAChicago!
16 December 2002 | Blogging for eBusiness: Traction Software releases enterprise weblogging for competitive intelligence, market research
Beyond the multi-user and permission capabilities of Traction, the software provides granular editing through metadata, which allows flags and labels for annotation at the paragraph level. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction Introduces Enterprise Weblog
[Traction's] hypertext journaling system can label, cross-link and deliver relevant portions of editable content gathered from disparate sources and plug into an existing web infrastructure. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction Software Introduces Enterprise Weblog solution for Competitive Intelligence and Market Research
Providence, R.I. - December 16, 2002 - Traction Software, Inc., leader in enterprise weblog software, today introduced the Competitive Intelligence (C.I.) and Market Research solution to its TeamPage™ Enterprise Weblog. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction tailors Weblogs for business process
Using time and topic as organizational themes, Weblogs allow users to collect and link information from e-mail, the Web, Microsoft Office documents, and other sources in an organized format designed to bolster collaboration and information sharing. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction taps Weblogs for information gathering
Traction Software is taking the trendy publishing concept of Weblogs and providing companies with a way to glean useful information from them by collecting, presenting and analyzing content for competitive and business gains. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Weblogs and Patches
On the surface, Enterprise Weblog looks a lot like any blog tool, but Traction has added some features to help them make the case to corporations. » Read More
16 December 2003 | Traction TeamPage Launch in Japan
Applied Knowledge Company and Traction Software present and demonstrate Traction TeamPage with Japanese localization. Use cases presented by Asai-san of i-mam and Hashimoto-san of System Intec.
16 January 2004 | Panorama des outils pour bâtir un weblog en entreprise
[Traction est un] Véritable solution professionnelle - la catégorie au-dessus de celles des autres solutions du panorama ; en Java ; l'outil sans doute le plus riche. » Read More
16 March 2005 | Blogs, Wikis, and Beyond: New Alternatives for Collaboration and Communication
(Full Report Requires Burton Group Login for Access) By Peter O'Kelly - "Blogs and wikis represent important opportunities for communication channels and collaborative workspaces... Because they are simpler to create and use than traditional enterprise-oriented alternatives, blogs and wikis are very effective for relatively basic communication/collaboration scenarios, and they’re also very well suited to address inter-enterprise needs..."
16 May 2011 | Fierce Content Management - TeamPage 5.2 adds dashboard and project tracking
Fierce Content Management editor Ron Miller describes Traction® TeamPage 5.2 as providing new tools to track different levels of project activity. The project dashboard tracks detailed actions, while also allowing you to step back to see the bigger picture. Miller says: "When you see something you like you can tag it or comment on it and help raise the visibility of the post for others who might be interested in it. Using the project metaphor as the basis for understanding information in the corporate social stream, the idea is to give you a hook on which to hang the information. » Read the Full Story
16-18 Nov 2010 | Showcasing Traction TeamPage 5.1 at KMWorld 2010 Washington DC
Meet Jordan Frank and see Traction® TeamPage 5.1 at Booth # 406, KMWorld 2010 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. TeamPage Release 5.1 makes it easy for individuals to see their own action plans, the status of shared projects, team workload, individual progress, and team progress toward common goals, all within the context of the TeamPage collaboration and communication platform. This clear and simple model is focused on the lightweight coordination of individual and team actions that drive collection, analysis and planning for knowledge management, intelligence analysis, and all business activities.
17 April 2008 | Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo
Traction Software is co-hosting the Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo with over 325 people are registered to attend this event. Greg Lloyd, President of Traction Software, will present a video interview with Professor Andrew McAfee on The Rise of Enterprise 2.0. The interview questions came from attendees themselves, prior to the event. Other US keynote speakers include Joseph Nusum of McKinsey, speaking on Emergent Innovation and Enterprise 2.0, and Professor Andy van Dam of Brown University, speaking on a personal history of hypertext and a perspective on Enterprise 2.0 titled As We May Work. Andy van Dam is a pioneering computer scientist, credited with building HES, one of the first three hypertext systems built in the late 1960s. The Tokyo conference includes panels, papers and exhibits. See The Rise of Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee | Video | Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo for Professor McAfee's keynote.
17 December 2002 | Traction Extends Enterprise Blogging
Traction Software Inc. is trying to bring the wildly popular Internet technology known as Weblogs, or "blogs" as they're better known, to the enterprise as a content management and collaboration tool. » Read More
17 December 2002 | Traction Software Introduces TeamPage, Enterprise Weblog Solution
The automated ExecutiveSummary enables busy executives to remain peripherally aware of market activities without the burden of trying to make sense of random email messages. » Read More
17 May 2005 | Traction Software Announces TeamPage as ECM Alternative, Announces Traction Release 3.6 and new TeamPage Feed Reader product
Traction Introduces TeamPage as Disruptive Alternative to Electronic Content Management Software and Announces Release 3.6 and new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader. Traction Software attends AIIM to bring Enterprise Weblogs to the ECM marketplace, demonstrates new content publishing from RSS/ATOM, camera phones, and zero footprint rich text editor as well as enhanced security, authentication, and permission controls.
17 May 2005 | Traction Introduces TeamPage as Disruptive Alternative to Electronic Content Management Software
Traction Attends AIIM 2005 to Bring Enterprise Weblogs to the ECM Marketplace
17 May 2005 | Traction Software Announces Release 3.6 and new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader
Traction TeamPage 3.6 Adds Leading-Edge Security and Content Publishing Capabilities to Award-winning Enterprise Weblog Software Philadelphia, PA May 17, 2005 AIIM Conference and Exhibition -- Traction Software Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island today announced and demonstrated Release 3.6 of Traction® TeamPage™, Traction® Communicator™ and its new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader™ at the Annual AIIM Conference and Exhibition. With help from its new partner, B-Spirit (www.b-spirit.com) of Switzerland, Traction Software is also pleased to announce French language localization, in addition to English, German and Japanese. AIIM 2005 is the largest enterprise content & document management conference and exposition showcasing the technologies and solutions that provide intelligence behind information.
17 November 2003 | Traction Software Announces International Partner Initiative
Applied Knowledge and Netcore Solutions Leverage New Traction® TeamPage™ Release 3.0 Solution to Deliver Enterprise Weblog Technology into Asian Markets. » Read More
17 November 2003 | Traction Software Internationalizes Enterprise Weblog Platform With Release 3.0
Traction Release 3.0 Delivers Internationalization, Authentication, Compatibility, Extensibility for Business and Government Customers around the Globe. » Read More
17 November 2005 | KMWorld & Intranets 2005
Mike Alsup led a panel on the Future of Content Management. He was joined by Jordan Frank, Todd Price, William Rogers and Mark Seamans as the panel looked out to the future and provide a vision for how their Enterprise Blog, Content Management, and Search technologies are and will be used.
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.
17-19 May 2005 | AIIM On Demand Conference and Exposition
Come see Traction Software and Newsgator Technologies at booths 3612 to 3614. » More About the AIIM Conference
17-19 Nov 2009 | What's Social About Software? | KMWorld 2009 San Jose
Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development will moderate a KMWorld 2009 panel What's Social About Software Wednesday Nov 18th 4:14 to 5:00PM: As "social software" is finding its way into the enterprise, people are wondering what's social about software and why it matters. These practitioners from leading organizations share their views on the realities of how interactions in social software platforms lead to productive work in the enterprise. Panel members include:
Carol Stickley, Manager, IT Knowledge Management - Avery Dennison
Joe Crumpler, IT Manager, ERP and Integration Projects - Alcoa Fastening Systems
Brian Tullis, Director, Information Services - Alcoa Fastening Systems
17-21 November 2003 | Traction Release 3.0 Coverage
EContent: Traction Software Releases TeamPage 3.0. PC World: Blogs Get a Security Boost. Innovation Tools: Traction Software announces release of Traction TeamPage 3.0 team blogging and collaboration application. The Gilbane Report: Traction Releases TeamPage 3.0; Announces Partners in India & Japan. Coverage from Japan includes Japan Industrial Journal and Nikkei Online.
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.
18 January 2002 | Mission possible: The CIA is increasingly dependent on its fledgling venture capital arm
In-Q-Tel's pre-investment screening process (also known as due diligence) is more rigorous than that of most corporate customers, which some companies appreciate. "In-Q-Tel's core value is due diligence on the technology," says Mahendra Vora, chairman and CEO of Intelliseek, an advanced search-engine developer that took a $1.4 million investment from In-Q-Tel in May. "They're not just doing it for government purposes. They want to make sure it works for corporate customers, too." » Read More
18 July 2005 | IJIS Institute Gets Traction - Collaboration and Information Sharing-the Next Frontier
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (www.ijis.org) deployed Traction® TeamPage for their website, working committee extranet, and staff intranet. IJIS Executive Director, Paul Wormelli wrote: There are powerful features of enterprise class blogging software tools that go beyond Machrone's observations and begin to build the basic collaboration and information sharing capability that members of any particular community of interest seek. At the IJIS Institute, we adopted a secure enterprise blogging software package made by Traction® Software which we use for multiple important purposes. » Read More
18 May 2009 | Open Enterprise 2009: Interview with Jordan Frank, Traction Software
Enterprise 2.0 Blog - Stowe Boyd writes May 18, 2009 I interviewed Jordan Frank, of Traction® Software, recently, an old friend that I haven’t spoken to in several years. Jordan and Traction have been working with companies applying social tools for quite a long time — almost ten years — and his insights are quite interesting, and detailed. >> Read More [ video below ]
18 November 2004 | The Possibilities, Promises and Pitfalls of Enterprise Weblogs
Jordan Frank speaks about the future of email and enterprise weblogs. The weblog becomes a backbone for threading comments, structuring knowledge, and even tracking actions while email returns to its roots as a communication channel.
18-19 Jun 2013 | Traction Software E2 Boston 2013 Social and Collaboration Track Sponsor
Traction Software is happy to be a Social and Collaboration Track sponsor at this year's E2 Boston Conference. Please visit Traction Software at Demo Pavilion 38 to see how customers build better products and work better together using Traction TeamPage. Traction Software is a leader in social task management and a consistent innovator in delivering business value to demanding customers around the world. Learn how John Hagel of Deloitte documented and analyzed a TeamPage customer's 61% reduction in time required for compliance activity using TeamPage.
18-19 May 2004 | Frost & Sullivan: Competitive Intelligence 11th Annual Executive Summit, East
Jordan Frank, Traction's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, spoke on the Software Applications to Manage Intelligence Products & Process panel.
19 December 2002 | In Short: Information on Track
Traction Software is trying to move Weblogs into the corporate collaboration corner with its announcement of a new version of its TeamPage Enterprise Weblog server. » Read More
19 Feb 2008 | Greg Lloyd on "Enterprise 2.0 for Intelligence Analysts", FASTForward 08
Greg Lloyd spoke at FASTForward '08 Orlando in the Implementing Content-Based Collaborative Applications session on 19 Feb 2008. Abstract: It’s easy to store and find documents in folders if you know the structure by heart. FAST even makes it easy to search the content of your files, Web pages, and messages and navigate by content. What’s difficult to capture, search, and navigate is the context that makes content relevant for collaboration in a link-poor environment that exists in the typical enterprise. Enterprise 2.0 technology – specifically blogs, wikis, and social tagging – provide immediate value for collaborative work by creating an evolving record that connects external intelligence, internal dialog, and work product. This record can make enterprise search work and scale like the Web. Part 1 (Greg Lloyd, Traction Software) of this session examines how intelligence analysts in business and government are using Enterprise 2.0 tools to help manage this deep, broad, and challenging form of collaboration. Click here for a copy of the slides 7MB .ppt
19 Jan 2010 | Jack Vinson - Responsibility to collaborate - Jordan Frank
Business and KM consultant Jack Vinson follows Jim McGee's suggestion and posts his own thoughts on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank Vinson says: "The idea behind "responsibility to collaborate" is that the world of work has shifted from my value being solely about I know, though that is still important. Now it is just as important to spread the word and bring together my ideas with those of others in a more open way. This also plays at a group level, where collective responsibility to work together and learn from one another can elevate the level of conversation for people the next time they have an official business meeting. Imagine having issues established and discussed in an easily-accessible way (instead of behind closed doors or even at the water cooler)." » Read his full Knowledge Jolt with Jack post and watch the video.
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.
19 May 2010 | Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction Software
Attivio's customer portfolio features some of the most innovative and forward-looking companies in the technology and business sectors. See Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction® Software for a video featuring Traction Software's Greg Lloyd, Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum.
19 Nov 2009 | Ontologies & Tagsonomies at Taxonomy Boot Camp
While at KMWorld 2009, Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development led a customer panel titled What's Social About Software and co-led a talk with Christine Connors of TriviumRLG at KMWorld 2009's counterpart, Taxonomy Boot Camp. In the session, Ontologies & Tagsonomies: Linked Data, Web 3.0 Tag Mush! Christine addressed questions including: What do ontologies provide that taxonomies and thesauri lack? What is the big deal about the semantic web? What’s the difference between the semantic web, linked data, and Web 3.0 and what are the technologies that will power this next evolution of the web? Jordan explored how driven social tagging can work for or against you and then suggests tagging and search driven entity extraction strategies that can put tagging to productive work. » Click here for the PDF of Jordan's presentation.
19 Nov 2010 | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Wins 2010 Forrester Groundswell Social Impact Award
London, November 19, 2010 Forrester Research, Inc. honored the six final 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. Winners of the fourth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards in the International Business-to-Consumer (B2C) division were honored at Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA in London. "We're thrilled by the diversity and quality of the entries in this year's International Forrester Groundswell Awards," said Nate Elliott, principal analyst at Forrester. "With consumers worldwide embracing social technologies, the Groundswell is now global. The finalists and winners we've recognized — including local efforts on four continents and a number of truly global programs — are among the leaders in using social tools to reach and serve their customers." » Read the Forrester Press Release
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.
19-20 Jun 2012 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Boston
Traction TeamPage makes it easy for people to communicate, work together, and stay on top of what's happening anywhere in their business, including line of business systems and the public Web. Learn more about TeamPage, now with new Cloud pricing options. The first 30 days are free and you can start with a monthly plan at less than $2.50 per user per month for 25 user accounts. Traction Software will be at Enterprise 2.0 Boston Booth #418 on 19-20 June. Line up early for a free, signed pre-release copy of Jacob Morgan's new book, The Collaborative Organization.
2 Dec 2010 | AppGap Review - Traction TeamPage 5.1 Moves Forward with Project Management Capabilities
Bill Ives AppGap Review of Traction® TeamPage Release 5.1 focuses on Traction's new integrated action tracking and project management: "The action tracking concept is not old school project management with Gantt charts and resource allocation. It is allowing employees to manage their work tasks and make this management transparent to those who need to know...This is the action tracking part of project management for the regular employee, not the program management office. It brings this activity into the enterprise 2.0 world as every task is treated as an object for comments, RSS, and made searchable to those with the proper permissions. Traction has always had great granular security and this permission level technology is applied here, as well." » Read the Full Story
2 July 2009 | 出展レポート｜製薬IT ソリューション Expo 2009 (INTERPHEX 2009)
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Company Japan President Masayuki Kojima spoke and exhibited at the 2009 Tokyo IT Pharma Solutions Expo. Kojima-san's theme was use of Traction® TeamPage to support strategic management of internal and external information. See highlights (in Japanese) below, with more information at TractionSoftware.jp
2 June 2005 | e-Gov Web Enabled Government: Weblog, Portal and Wiki Panel
Greg Lloyd to speak on a panel led by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The subject of the panel is The Evolution of Portals, Wikis, and the Blogosphere. The panel will discuss the impact of weblogs and wiki's on the way organizations share information, how weblogs and wiki's improve online collaboration, and the implications for portals.
2 June 2008 | GCN Lab Review: Traction TeamPage 4.0
Traction® TeamPage 4.0 earns top grades for Performance (A), Ease of Use (A-), Features (A), and Value (A-) in John Breeden's GCN review: A tool for smart sharing: TeamPage Helps You Manage and Make Good Use of Wikis and Blogs. After rating the new 4.0 release with A's in all categories, Breeden concludes that TeamPage is just the kind of wiki platform which can make an impact in Government: "Beyond the important matter of permissions, TeamPage's ability to handle data is impressive. If more wikis were designed this way, they probably would be more widely used in government, either as internal tools or for public comment." » Read the Full Story
2 June 2008 | TEAMPAGE 4.0: PUTTING HYPERTEXT TO WORK
Traction Software’s TeamPage 4.0 Includes New Social Networking, Innovative Moderation and Page Name Management for High Performance Group Collaboration
2 June 2008 | Traction TeamPage Release 4.0
TeamPage 4.0 builds on Traction Software's award-winning secure, scalable and highly adaptable hypertext platform while adding new page and comment moderation, page name management, social networking, and e-mail notification capabilities that are simple to use and powerful. If you want to make your business work like the web, Traction TeamPage 4.0 is the best Enterprise 2.0 product to get the job done. » Read What's New In 4.0 » Read the Full Press Release » Read the Japanese Press Release
2 Nov 2009 | Traction Software Showcases New Collaboration Capabilities at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Traction® Software today showcased three major capabilities that build on the new Traction® TeamPage™ 4.2 release also announced today. “Traction TeamPage has always gotten high marks for its capabilities from analysts, independent reviewers and some of the most demanding and innovative customers in the world,” said Greg Lloyd, president and CEO of Traction Software. “We’re happy to be in this position to listen to our customers as well as the market. Today I’m happy to show Traction’s new Proteus Google Web Toolkit (GWT)-based Web interface and Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) running on Traction TeamPage Release 4.2. These new capabilities combine Traction’s proven strengths with true innovation - delivering a simple, fast and beautiful user experience that leverages Google’s great Web user interface technology and Attivio’s track record for advanced search, and industry leading innovation in content analysis and navigation. The Oracle RDB backend for Traction TeamPage is a new option for customers with mission critical applications where the ability deploy and maintain all TeamPage data in an Oracle 10g or 11g server provides outstanding ease of use for a high-availability configuration on an RDB platform that’s the gold standard for enterprise IT.” All three new capabilities are available for evaluation and developer release of TeamPage R4.2 starting today, with customer qualified releases starting this quarter. Read » full release
2 Nov 2009 | Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 Adds Mobile Subscription, Notification, and Email Collaboration to Award Winning Enterprise 2.0 Platform
Traction® Software today announced Release 4.2 of its award winning Traction® TeamPage™ enterprise 2.0 social software platform. The software now includes flexible mobile subscription and notification allowing road warriors to easily post content and comments with simple, secure two-way e-mail based collaboration. “With Traction customers in consulting and professional services as well as the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, high tech and government industries, we often see people using BlackBerry and other mobile email devices as much or more than their desktop or laptop Web browsers,” said Traction’s CEO Greg Lloyd. “We defined and developed these capabilities by collaborating with TeamPage customers in professional service firms who love their BlackBerry email as much as they love TeamPage in their browser. These new subscription features bring Enterprise 2.0 collaboration to the road warrior, making it easy to get a clean and simple summary including automatically generated context.” Read » full release
2 October 2007 | Building a Culture of Collaboration
Bill Roberts' article in CIO Today investigates the culture challenge to collaboration, even when Enterprise 2.0 software is used as a platform. He interviewed a Senior Product Manager from Saba, where Traction® TeamPage was deployed at Centra Software (later acquired by Saba) to harness collective intelligence about customers and competitors. Saba reached 70% adoption across the relevant group of 200 employees. Furthermore, they've proven that the platform and process around it is durable, as it was sustained for over 2 years and through the acquisition process when Saba bought Centra Software. It's a great start, though they are looking to do better. » Full Story
2.0 Adoption Council | Neat Tweet!
Susan Scrupski (aka @ITSinsider) tweets Sep 22, 2009: reading a great preso by a Council member. great testimony for e20 vendor Traction Software @TractionTeam
20 April 2004 | Social Computing: Getting Ahead of the Blog
Bottom Line: Innovative decision makers and early adopters will avoid the mistakes of the past (underestimating the impact of the Web) by allocating discretionary funding in 2004 for blog pilots as part of an iterative effort to construct a broader business case for social computing. By Mike Gotta, META Group. » Read More
20 April 2010｜ナレッジマネジメント フォーラム2010 に出展
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd will participate in the Knowledge Management Society of Japan's 2010 Knowledge Management Forum held in Tokyo, 20 April 2010. AKJ will demonstrate Traction® TeamPage at the Exhibition Showcase, and AKJ CEO Masayuki Kojima will lead a free Traction TeamPage workshop (registration required). See Knowledge Management Forum 2010 [ in Japanese ] for more participation and registration information.
20 August 2005 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage Enterprise Blog software a Trend Setting Product of 2005
For
the second year in a row, TeamPage was named one
of KMWorld's Trend Setting Products of the year.
KMWorld wrote: We have long contended that KM
is an attitude, not an application, and the flexibility
of the software on the list further proves it...
The common thread running through all the products
listed below is the unique value-and potential
value-they offer the organization, its workers
and their various constituencies... As we have
in years past, we considered usability, flexibility,
adoption rate and total cost of ownership. » Read More
20 August 2005 | Traction TeamPage named KMWorld "Trend Setting Product of the Year"
Traction Software receives KMWorld's award for second year in a row. KMWorld says TeamPage is "a robust blogging software that encompasses collaboration, document management and KM."
20 December 2002 | Blogging Goes Mainstream
We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort. This week a Providence, R.I. company called Traction Software unveiled new versions of Web log software for businesses, designed for marketers to conduct market research online. » Read More
20 June 2005 | Dark Blogs and Voices in the Wilderness
Business
would love to harness the buzz potential of blogging.
But the biggest benefits may be found behind the
firewall, according to experts at Supernova, an
emerging technology conference co-sponsored by
the Wharton School of Business. » Read More
20 June 2005 | Supernova | Why Can't a Business Work More Like the Web?
Greg Lloyd from Traction Software joins the Connected Work session at SuperNova 2005. Hear and read notes from the workshop at ITConversations and Suw Charman's Strange Attractor blog.
20 June 2008 | 『 Traction TeamPage 』の最新バージョン 4.0 をリリース - Traction TeamPage 4.0 Announced in Japan
Our Japanese Partner, Applied Knowledge, today announced availability of Traction TeamPage 4.0. This is the Japanese version of the 4.0 release announced by Traction Software on 2 June 2008. » Read the Japanese Press Release » Read What's New In 4.0 » Read the English Press Release.
20 May 2005 | Enterprise Weblogging: Using Weblogs for Communication and Information Management
Slides from Michael Angeles of Lucent / Bell Labs talk at the American Society for Information Science and Technology New Jersey Chapter Meeting. The case study example starting at slide 17 features use of Traction® TeamPage to support world-wide rollout of a major IT initiative. Angeles says (in PowerPoint slide notes): "[Traction] is one of the most full-featured blog systems you’ll find. My client is hoping to convince employees of the effectiveness of this tool compared to the current set of systems with the goal of expanding its use so that communities will start recording and sharing information using blogs." Read More
20 May 2011 | CMS Wire - Traction Updates TeamPage to v5.2, Adds HTML 5
CMS Wire reporter Geoff Spick on Traction® TeamPage 5.2: "Having made a big play of tracking and collaboration in last year's 5.1 TeamPage release of its social enterprise tool, Traction makes reading what's going on easier with the introduction of slick-looking, context-based dashboards and activity feeds in the new 5.2 release." He says: "Able to view projects by tasks, people working on them, conversation threads, Traction TeamPage can be used by all parties, including teams, clients and other users with permission-based access to appropriate parts of a project and encourage collaboration and rapid solution of speed bumps or problems" » Read the Full Story
20 October 2003 | Blogging for Business
Until recently, weblogs (a.k.a. blogs) were primarily the domain of a tightly knit community of personal bloggers offering their insight and opinions on a variety of topics... Many companies will want to use the blog not only to communicate with customers, but also to communicate with one another internally within a group. Traction Software's Lloyd sees blogs as a meaningful alternative to email. » Read More
20 September 2004 | eWeek Review - TeamPage System Blogs On
Traction® Software's TeamPage 3.5 is a solid tool for creating useful intranet sites for team collaboration. TeamPage is extremely easy to set up and can be implemented with a minimal amount of training. New WebDAV and Atom support improve the reach and functionality of TeamPage 3.5. Excellent for Usability. » Read More
21 Dec 2011 | エンタープライズソーシャル＋サーチで「知識管理」の課題解決
ITPro Active has published a white paper by Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd on Social Enterprise Knowledge Management and Search. A Google English translation of the article begins: "Knowledge management is an eternal challenge for companies. Traditional knowledge management approaches are not quite accumulated knowledge and fresh content to help you develop your business even if the substrate is stressed not utilize excessive accumulation have also been organized, and there is a problem."
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
21 July 2003 | Multistate network adds blogging app
Web logging technology has gained a foothold of respectability in the government sector... The Western States Information Network in Sacramento, an agency of the Justice Department-funded Regional Information Sharing System, has adopted an upgraded Web logging system from Traction® Software Inc. of Providence, R.I., as a knowledge management tool to promote information sharing. » Read More
21 July 2003 | Tech Success: Weblogs help Justice take a bite out of crime
Weblogs are now used in multiple places around the network, Karen Aumond [Of the US Department of Justice's Western States Information Network] said. Analysts post reports, research and other materials for law enforcement officials to read. Justice Department personnel respond to inquiries posted by outside law enforcement agencies. In-house system personnel use a Weblog to create polices and procedures for their programs. » article taken off line as of January 2009, see PDF version attached.
21 June 2011 | Asahi.com「TeamPage 5.2」を販売開始 ～タスクリスト機能を強化、プロジェクト全体の俯瞰的な状況把握を可能に～
Yokohama Japan, 21 Jun 2011 Applied Knowledge Company, Inc President Masayuki Kojima announces availability of Traction® TeamPage 5.2 in Japan. The newest release of TeamPage includes an enhanced task list, providing enhanced situational awareness and a birds-eye view of entire projects. TeamPage includes a fully localized Japanese user interface selectable as a default or personal preference as well as Japanese language search. » Read the Japanese language release or Google English translation.
21 June 2011 | Traction Software Introduces Social Enterprise Web
Discover, Discuss, Tag, Task, and Share Content stored in SharePoint, Documentum, File servers, Exchange, SQL Databases, and the Web Boston, Mass / Enterprise 2.0 Conference Booth #418 — June 21, 2011 — Traction® Software Inc, the leader in social software for work, today announced Traction® TeamPage Attivio Search Plus to index and search external sources, and Traction® TeamPage Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content. These TeamPage options connect TeamPage with structured data or unstructured content in sources including Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, SQL databases, intranets, and the public Web. Read » Full Release Download Traction TeamPage Social Web Handout (.pdf)
21 June 2011 | Traction Software Introduces Social Enterprise Web
Discover, Discuss, Tag, Task, and Share Content stored in SharePoint, Documentum, File servers, Exchange, SQL Databases, and the Web Boston, Mass / Enterprise 2.0 Conference Booth #418 — June 21, 2011 — Traction® Software Inc, the leader in social software for work, today announced Traction® TeamPage Attivio Search Plus to index and search external sources, and Traction® TeamPage Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content. These TeamPage options connect TeamPage with structured data or unstructured content in sources including Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, SQL databases, intranets, and the public Web. [ Download Traction TeamPage Social Web handout (.pdf) ]
21 March 2003 | Business Weblogs help companies collaborate, share ideas
Within the last year, a growing number of savvy businesses have started using Weblogs to streamline project communications, maintain stronger relationships with key customers, capture knowledge on the fly, and a host of other bottom-line business benefits...Traction® Software's TeamPage solution makes it easy for project managers to collect information from e-mail messages, Web sites, Microsoft Office documents and other sources into a central repository. It also enables content authors to embed links between postings, to emphasize the connections between ideas. » Read More
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
21 November 2008 | Traction Software Introduces Live Blog Micro-Messaging and End-of-Year Discount
Traction Software Introduces Live Blog Micro-Messaging and End-of-Year Discount First Enterprise 2.0 Product to Integrate Micro-Messaging; Employees Easily Stay in Touch With Customers and Colleagues
21-22 Jun 2011 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Boston
Traction Software will be exhibiting at Enterprise 2.0 Boston Booth #418 on 21-22 June, and we hope to see you there! Learn about Traction's new TeamPage 5.2 release that combines the freedom of social software with action tracking for follow through. Traction Software customers in Deloitte's independent Social Software for Business Performance study show dramatic, measurable results. Learn more and position your organization for growth in 2011. We'll also be making a product and partnership announcements that you won't want to miss - stay tuned here, see us a E2.0 Boston, or follow @TractionTeam on Twitter. To pre-schedule a meeting with Jordan Frank or Greg Lloyd at E2.0 Boston, please email e20boston@tractionsoftware.com, use Traction's contact form or use Twitter. Update: see 21 June 2011 | Traction Software Introduces Social Enterprise Web
22 April 2009 | Intelligence 2.0 Clinic
If you're attending the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's annual SCIP 2009 conference next week - or happen to be in Chicago - join us from 2:00 to 5:00 PM on Wednesday April 22 for a free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic moderated by Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC and featuring CI Software and Systems from Traction® Software, Digimind and Comintell. SCIP registration is not requried to attend the Intelligence 2009 Clinic. The event will be held in the Lincoln Executive Boardroom at the Sheraton Chicago. Click Here to find our more and RSVP.
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
22 Dec 2009 | the{app}gap - Traction Introduces New Capabilities and Partners with Team Page 4.2
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction® TeamPage Release 4.2 new capabilities, focusing on the Developer Release preview of Traction's Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus interface. Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd demonstrated Proteus using Traction's production TeamPage server and content. Bill includes screen shots of Proteus Feed views that make it easy to scan and navigate status, new content, edits, tag and moderation actions by space or person - including aggregate roll-up views. Proteus' use of GWT technology makes updates and navigation speedy using automatically compiled web-browser optimized updates that are delivered incrementally. This makes navigation, inline editing and animation effects fast, simple and attractive as well as extensible and developer friendly. Bill concludes: "I think these are all very smart moves and makes Traction more attractive to large enterprise. There is the greater flexibility of interface through Google Web Toolkit, more robust search through Attivio, and heavy duty data management through Oracle. I am looking forward to seeing what they do next." » Read the Full Story
See also Introducing Proteus (demo) for brief tour and Proteus GWT Tech talk slides and interviews.
22 Feb 2008 | Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check - Traction TeamPage goes "Beyond-the-Basics" with Hypertext Collaboration
In a post congratulating Traction® Software for its fourth consecutive selection as one of KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management," Burton Group Analyst Peter O'Kelly writes: "I consider TeamPage the market-leading beyond-the-basics collaborative hypertext solution; it's a compelling example of the power of moving beyond files, to a world of hypertext information items/content components." » Read Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check Blog Entry. » Read Full KM 100 Press Release
22 February 2005 | Traction Software Named One of 100 Companies that Matter In Knowledge Management by KMWorld
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's Editor in Chief, said "Traction Software's innovation in Weblog technology uniquely fits the needs of knowledge workers and will form an essential part of the enterprise intranet." » Read More
22 June 2011 | KMWorld - Marrying deep search and collaboration
Traction and Attivio team up for the enterprise Traction® Software has released TeamPage Attivio Search Plus to index and search external sources and Traction® TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content. These TeamPage options connect TeamPage with structured data or unstructured content in sources including Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, SQL databases, intranets, and the public Web. » Read the full story
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)
22 Nov 2010 | Traction Software named to EContent 100 Companies that Matter 2010-2011
Traction Software is honored to be named one of EContent Magazine's one hundred companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Traction was one of only ten companies named to the list in the collaboration category. Traction Software partner Attivio was named to the 2010 EContent 100 list in the search category. EContent Editor-in-chief Michelle Manafy said: "... this year our judging team was tougher than ever before. Few (if any) incumbents were kept on through mindshare and momentum alone; every company was held up to scrutiny in terms of innovation and meeting customer needs. It was a challenging year for voting—as it has been for the companies that made this list through their hard work, customer focus, and continued responsiveness to the changing digital content landscape. The need to leverage tools to effectively maximize the value of digital content has never been greater. Like the creation of this list, the process is a tough one, but it’s well worth it." » See the EContent 100 Introduction and Category Descriptions and the EContent Judging Team.
22 September 2008 | KMWorld names TeamPage 4.0 A Trend Setting Product of 2008
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market. Their 2008 Trend-Setting product award cites the new moderation-in-place, wiki page name management, and user profile features found in Traction Software's June 2008 release of Traction® TeamPage 4.0. » Read Full Press Release
22 September 2008 | Traction's TeamPage 4.0 Named to KMWorld's 2008 Trendsetting Product List
Innovative Moderation and Wiki Page Name Management in TeamPage 4.0 Puts Hypertext to Work PROVIDENCE, RI -- (Marketwire - September 22, 2008) - Traction® Software, the leading developer of products for secure, scalable, hypertext collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage™ 4.0 has been named to KMWorld's trendsetting products list for the fifth year in a row.
22-24 April 2009 | SCIP Conference booth and Presentation on Tagging Strategies for CI
The Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals SCIP 2009 annual conference will be held next week in Chicago - 22-24 April 2009. Come see Traction® Software at our booth and at Jordan Frank's Clinical Skills Track presentation, Tagging Strategies and the Information T, on Thursday 23 April at 11:35 AM. You can also register for the free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic on April 22nd hosted by AuroraWDC (SCIP 2009 registration is not required for the Clinic)
23 Apr 2012 | Traction Software Named Finalist for MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2012 Innovation Showcase
Cambridge, MA – April 23, 2012 – The 9th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has announced Traction® Software as one of ten finalists for the 2012 Innovation Showcase as its Traction® TeamPage product represents a cutting edge B2B solution that combines the strong value and innovation to enterprise IT. Traction Software will receive key exposure to many of the world’s most creative and influential IT executives at the Symposium on May 22, 2012.
23 Aug 2011 | Financial Times - Tapping the Full Power of Social Software as a Strategic Tool
Writing in the 23 Aug 2011 Financial Times, John Hagel and John Seely Brown of the Deloitte Center for the Edge advise CIO's how to improve performance, usually without increasing spending. They recommend that CIO's identify their biggest pain points, and adopt a Performance Improvement Funnel approach to leverage the unique, full value of social software. Hagel and Brown cite two examples from their Feb 2011 Social Software for Business study including: "Alcoa Fastening Systems reduced time spent on compliance activities by 61 percent using an internal collaborative platform provided by Traction® Software. Both companies targeted specific pain points and were able to deliver tangible improvement in performance that mattered to the senior executives of the firm." » Read the full story
23 August 2002 | Blogging for Dollars
Businesses are starting to use weblogs as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications - Dylan Tweney, Business 2.0. » Read More
23 Feb 2011 | Traction TeamPage customers Alcoa and Ensign Bickford featured in Deloitte "Social Software for Business Performance" report
Traction® TeamPage customers Alcoa Fastening Systems and Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense are featured in this independent Deloitte research report: Social Software for Business Performance (.pdf) - The missing link in social software: Measurable Business improvements by John Hagel III of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. See video interview with John Hagel and a Web version of the report, Metrics that Matter, published by Deloitte University Press.
23 February 2003 | Project Weblogs
One characteristic of virtual teams is the physical distance between the participants. The challenge for the project manager is to make sure that the physical distance doesn't transform into psychological distance... [Traction®] TeamPage combines the ease-of-use of a weblog with functionality to organise and analyse the stored information... Use TeamPage if you are working in an enterprise context or want to have a product that combines weblogs with portal/KM functionality. » Read More
23 January 2006 | Early Warning Workshop
Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
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.
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 July 2008 | Virtual E2.0 Conference - Traction Sponsors Forrester Keynote
Register Now (free admission) to join in on the Enterprise 2.0 Virtual Conference on the 23rd of July. The Agenda kicks off at 12:00 with Gartner Analyst David Mitchell Smith's Keynote Innovating the Enterprise with Web 2.0 and ends with a Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz's Keynote Control vs. Chaos: The Enterprise Web 2.0 Effect.
23 June 2009 | Enterprise 2.0 2009 Boston: Red Couch Interview with Greg Lloyd
Traction® Software President and Co-founder Greg Lloyd was invited to a video interview on the Level 3 Red Couch at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2009 Boston - see below.
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
23 May 2005 | Blogs Now Mean Business
Blogs are not just for blowhards anymore. We review five blogging packages that can suit a range of business sizes and budgets... Traction is designed as a communication environment, and as such has various security levels to separate groups and their projects. This makes Traction a good fit for companies with multiple projects and multiple groups because Traction allows each to be defined with its own privileges.
24 April 2003 | Enterprise Weblogs - The Next Instant Messaging
Web logs are another instance of P2P technology that looks set to follow the path of Instant Messaging - from private use to an essential enterprise tool...[Traction] TeamPage allows users to update and enrich content, inserting comments, cross-links, topic labels and action flags so a team can share, organise and discuss the latest information. In this way, TeamPage takes the Weblog approach and makes it more powerful by adding a team working capability. » Read More
24 January 2005|Early Warning Workshop
Led by Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank, this workshop led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
24 January 2008 | Projects@Work - Micro to Macro PM: the Wiki Way
Jordan Frank's article published in Projects@Work this month describes how Wikis fit in the center of project management collaboration, or alongside a traditional group scheduling and resource management system. Within the article, he points to two sites ( ShoreBank
and National Health Service Orkney who have reached exceptional success in using the Traction® TeamPage to do project management the wiki way! » Read Full Story
24 June 2009 | Enterprise Wiki Software Guide | Future Changes
Stuart Mader's Future Changes publishes a new Enterprise Wiki Software Guide. Mader identifies key Enterprise Wiki features and capabilities including: Workspaces, Permissions, User Management/LDAP, Notifications, Discussions and more. His summary for Traction® TeamPage begins " Traction TeamPage is an enterprise wiki with the ability to host multiple workspaces, page level permissions, a rich text editor, threaded discussions, tagging, search, page and comment moderation, blogging, and templates... » Read the Full Enterprise Wiki Software Guide
24 June 2011 | Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check - Marrying deep search and collaboration
Analyst Peter O'Kelly comments on KMWorld's Marrying deep search and navigation saying "...While it may not (yet…) be trendy to be the market-leading collaborative hypertext journaling platform, I believe that’s what the Traction team has created, and that TeamPages’s underlying architecture and flexibility, especially when used in conjunction with Attivio for faceted search and navigation, make it especially powerful for the various types of tools and services (workspaces, blogs, wikis, activity streams, tagging, tasks, etc.) now commonly associated with “social” software/services." » Read the full post
24 March 2004 | SCIP 2004 International Conference - Intelligence Technology: A Consumers' Showcase
Jordan Frank to speak about Traction Software in this panel moderated by Leondard Fuld of Fuld & Company Ltd. Click here to sign up for the conference and receive a 10% discount.
24 October 2007 | Frank Speaks on Tagging Strategies at ASIS&T 2007 Annual Conference
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for
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
25 February 2009 | New Metrics & Ratings Plug-Ins For Traction TeamPage Expose Social Interactions, Demonstrate Platform Extensibility
Traction® TeamPage 4.1 Extends “Live Blog” Technology to Document Sharing, Enhances Content Through Ratings and Offers Collaborative Insight with Deep Metrics
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
25 June 2008 | Frank Speaks on Non-Subject Tagging at Boston KM Forum
Jordan Frank's presentation "Non-Subject Tagging in an Enterprise 2.0 World" was featured on the agenda of the Boston KM Forum's latest meeting titled "Categorization and Tagging - Where's the Beef?" » Read the presentation » Read the Meeting Agenda.
25 March 2004 | Nikkei Advantage covers Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd's release of Traction TeamPage in Japan
(the link here connects to the March online edition where only an abstract is provided, refer to printed edition for full edition) - According to IMAM, TeamPage offers "Quality Up by Openness." TeamPage brings teamwork into one place on the net and drives mutual communication and learning. The result is higher team performance. IMAM's Tokyo Director Obayashi-san adds that TeamPage is a tool for capturing and sharing knowledge in the working process. By Tomoko Akiyama of Nikkei BP and Key Asai of IMAM. » Read More
25 May 2005 | Courier turns to blog tools to speed package-tracking
eCourier used the tools to coordinate work among developers in different countries. 'At a cost of roughly $1,000 for a five-person license, the blogging tools from Traction® Software more than paid for themselves in travel savings alone,' said Bregman. 'And instead of playing a massive game of telephone [tag] between these [developers], this gave us a source of record between what was being done,' he said. » Read More
25 May 2011 | Attivio and Traction Software Help Power Borlaug Global Rust Initiative to a 2011 Computerworld Honors Program Nomination
Newton MA — May 25, 2011 — Attivio, Inc. announced that IDG's Computerworld Honors Program has acknowledged its work with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) and Traction® Software to create a community portal developed to help fight the spread of wheat rust. As part of the award program, the BGRI has been named as a 2011 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. The BGRI project organizers, led by Cornell University, selected Traction® TeamPage, a social software solution that combines wiki, blog, tagging, activity streams, discussion and social networking capabilities in a secure, scalable Enterprise 2.0 social software platform, as a basis for the portal. Additionally, Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), was chosen to power search and information access, which are considered to be vital functions for the website. The Computerworld Honors awards will be presented at the Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards on June 20, 2011 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Read » Full Release See also BGRI UG-99 Video
25 Nov 2009 | Fierce Content Management - Traction Teams with Attivio for secure social search
Ron Miller of Fierce Content Management writes about a conversation he had with Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd and Attivio CTO Sid Probstein. Miller says: "This is an interesting partnership because, as I've written here before, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technology has the potential to be an organic knowledge management engine." Combining search, collaboration, and a security model is important. » Read the Full Story
25 Oct 2012 | ZDNET Japan on the TeamPage Cloud
A column in ZDNet Japan covered the release by Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd, Yokohama of the TeamPage Cloud in Japan. They wrote "The greatest advantage of TeamPage is that it provides the virtual space to aggregate any information concerning the business and progress in the work space." The column discusses how companies in Japan can take advantage of collaboration tools like Traction® TeamPage to produce business value. Japanese companies can get started with Cloud and Download options as of the first of October 2012.
25 October 2004 | Traction adds Distributed File Authoring And Versioning to Industry's Leading Enterprise Weblog Software
Traction TeamPage and Communicator Release 3.5 Adds WebDAV for best of class file attachment and document management, ATOM newsfeeds, and Personalized User Interface Enhancements. » Read More
26 Feb 2010 | Great Wired Magazine story on Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Read this Wired Magazine story Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's leadership in a global collaborative effort to combat a critical threat to the world's food supply. Fighting Ug99 wheat rust requires a global response bringing together a diverse community in the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, including plant biologists, plant breeders, field agents, molecular biologists, NGO's, and BGRI sponsors. We're happy and proud that that BGRI is a Traction® Software customer, and that BGRI's globalrust.org site is powered by Traction® TeamPage, used as a hub for both public information on Ug99 wheat rust and for global collaborative scientific research.
26 January 2006 | Untying the Distribution Challenge
Building a Blog Driven Market Monitoring and Strategic Early Warning System. Jordan Frank delivered a session covering challenges faced by CI units, the importance and method for defining Key Information Topics, how to use internet blogs to trend-watch, and best practices for deploying enterprise blogs to support the intelligence cycle.
26 March 2004 | The Social Enterprise
From expanding social networks to building group memory, social software creates new possibilities for workflow... Whatever the mode of communication, the primary goal, Hertz says, is to create group memory. Chris Nuzum, CTO and co-founder of Traction Software (infoworld.com/1054), echoes that theme. Traction describes its offering as “enterprise Weblog software,” but Nuzum says that a typical Traction project is more of a group effort than an individual journal. As such, a lot of the social interaction that would otherwise occur in e-mail moves into the comments and discussions attached to the project. By Jon Udell. » Read More
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.
26 May 2010 | John Tropea - Software for agile ad-hoc processes
John Tropea writes May 26, 2010: A while ago I posted about using wikis to handle process failures, conversations around objects, and activity-centric collaboration; well these posts highly relate to informal processes and ad-hoc collaboration, which is something Jordan Frank know’s a lot about, and which the software firm he works for (Traction Software) can deliver in a way that really differentiates them from other players in the market like Jive SBS, Socialtext, Open Text Social Workplace, etc. See John's Software for agile ad-hoc processes blog post for Jordan's video clip, along with John's summary of key points, and analysis including:
26 October 2005 | Project Summit
Jordan Frank lead the Managing Programs, Projects and Products using Enterprise Blogs workshop at the New England Project Summit
27 June 2005 | Dark blogs a bright spot for Providence's Traction Software
Traction Software on Waterman
Street in Providence, earlier this year named
one of the 100 companies that matter in knowledge
management by KMWorld Magazine, has built a solid
business selling tool to corporations incorporating
blogging into their operations. Traction's President
and co-founder Greg Lloyd recently chatted with
Providence Business News about enterprise blogging.
» Full interview available in Technology Monthly
section for subscribers of www.pbn.com
27 June 2011 | Forbes - Reevaluating Performance Management
Forbes Connected Business blogger Rawn Shaw writes on the value of keeping a record of your work. This observable work practice documents your accomplishments, helps you understand your own performance, preserves knowledge, and provides context when you and others work on the same project, talk to the same customer, or you transfer to a new job. Shaw says: "The subtler psychological point is that it is easier to document and track a project or activity if you can do it in the flow of what you are doing, rather than returning after the activity is complete... In talking to Larry Hawes, analyst and consultant at Dow Brook Advisory Services, vendors like Traction® Software and IBM provide the tools to support managing a practice of observable work." » Read the full story
27 May 2002 | Venture Capitalists Prowl R.I. Looking for bright ideas, stable plans (from Providence Business News)
The link to this article is retired.
27 October 2004 | Traction Bolsters enterprise Weblogs
New in Release 3.5 is built-in support for WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) document-handling capabilities. This feature adds support for creating, editing, and versioning files attached to Traction articles or shared in project and server level Web folders. » Read More
27 September 2005 | InfoX Connect & Collaborate Conference
Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Dr. Peter Gloor of iQuest Analytics lead the Collaboration Tools Clinic at Information Today's InfoX conference.
28 Aug 2009 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2009
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market, naming Traction® TeamPage a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2009. KMWorld Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar says: "[These products]... represent what we believe are the solutions that best exemplify the spirit of innovation demanded by the current economy, while providing their customers with the unique tools and capabilities to move and grow beyond the recession." » Read the August 28, 2009 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product announcement.
28 Feb 2011 | Attivio and Traction Software Bridge Worldwide Scientific Community With Enterprise 2.0 Technology
NEWTON, Mass, Feb. 28, 2011 -- Attivio, Inc. and Traction® Software today announced their work with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) and Cornell University to create a community portal, bringing together scientists, biologists, universities and agricultural organizations from more than 45 countries to collaborate, educate and disseminate details on wheat rust research and best practices to prevent its spread. To date, the portal has been very successful and was recently honored with a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award in the category of "Social Impact".
28 Feb 2011 | テプコシステムズが社内システムのサポート業務にアプライドナレッジの企業向けコラボレーションツール「TeamPage」を採用
[TEPCO Systems Corporation adopts Traction® TeamPage for enterprise support services] 株式会社アプライドナレッジ(本社：神奈川県横浜市、代表取締役：小島 政行)は、東京電力グループの情報子会社である株式会社テプコシステムズ(本社：東京都江東区、代表取締役社長：平井 憲)が、社内システムサポート業務のプラットフォームとしてアプライドナレッジの企業向けコラボレーションツール「TeamPage」を採用したことを発 表します。テプコシステムズの総務部情報管理グループでは現在、約2,000名の社員からの社内IT基盤の利用に関する問い合わせに7名の専任者で回答業務を行って います。これまで主にメールシステムで業務を行っていましたが、グループ内での回答過程の共有や回答履歴の蓄積を徹底して業務品質を向上させる目的で 「TeamPage」を導入し、本年1月より本格運用を開始しました。 Read » full release (Japanese)
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.
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
29 July 2010 | Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work: Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler, Burton Group Catalyst 2010 Santa Diego
Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler did a lively talk on Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work at the Burton Group Catalyst 2010 North America conference in San Diego. For those of us who couldn't be there in person, see their Abstract quoted below and the enthusiastic Twitter stream from 29 Jul 2010! I'll add a link to their speaker notes and slides when they become available. Update: Brian posted Enterprise 2.0 and Observable work slides and speaker notes, see inline Slideshare below. Sounded like a super session!
29 June 2011 | AppGap Review - Traction Introduces TeamPage Attivio Plus and Social Enterprise Web
Bill Ives AppGap Review analyzes Traction® Software's E2.0 Boston 2011 Traction® TeamPage Attivio Plus and Social Enterprise Web announcement. Ives says: "Using search as a lever to span silos and system of record makes their native content addressable and actionable in place without import or conversion. This is similar to the way search loosely couples content across many sources on the public Web, but focused on a business intranet." Ives also reviews project dashboard and activity stream capabilities introduced with Traction TeamPage Release 5.2, saying: "I also like what they are doing with Activity Streams as I think this is one of the most important features of an Enterprise 2.0 platform." » Read the Full Story
29 November 2005 | Gilbane Content Management Conference
Traction customer Ernest Kayinamura of Enel North America (Enel, based out of Italy, is a Global 100 firm and one of the worlds largest integrated energy companies) presented his case study in the Blogs & Wiki's @ Work session. Traction Software's Enterprise Blog software was featured in the Sun Microsystem's Partner Pavillion. » Full Release
29 Oct 2011 | KMWorld - Rich options expand the collaborative horizon
Writing in KMWorld Magazine Judith Lamont quotes Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz: "Many companies are placing a big bet on collaboration to support their business activities. In particular, the workplace is moving toward one in which many business applications are integrated through collaboration and exposed through the social layer." Lamont chooses Traction® Teampage customer the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) as her first example. BGRI is an international research project funded by the Gates Foundation and others to organize and conduct research aimed at stopping the spread of crop disease that threatens a third of the world's wheat supply. "The organization selected TeamPage from Traction Software as the collaboration solution and the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) to aggregate the many types of content on the website. TeamPage includes wiki, blog and social networking capabilities. "We chose TeamPage because it could be deployed very quickly and was simple to use," says John Bakum, webmaster for the site, which is hosted by Cornell. The site was up and running in just a few weeks, and has grown rapidly over the past several years."
3 Aug 2011 | Alcoa Fastening Systems: What were you doing at 7:15AM Saturday July 2, 2011? Joe Crumpler was working.
What were you doing at 7:15AM Saturday July 2, 2011? Sleeping? Getting ready for a Fourth of July weekend picnic or a trip to the beach? Joe Crumpler of Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) was reaching for his iPad to review status for the world wide roll-out of an Oracle upgrade scheduled for the holiday weekend. The story starts the night before. Joe writes in the Next Think Next blog that he co-authors with Brian Tullis:
3 Dec 2009 | Forbes.com - Andrew McAfee: What Enterprise 2.0 Really Means
MIT Center for Digital Business principle research scientist Andrew McAfee references Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's Enterprise 2.0 Schism blog post in thinking about and responding to points raised in recent Enterprise 2.0 debates. McAfee does not believe that "... E2.0's tools, approaches and philosophies making managers, hierarchies, org charts and formal cross functional business processes obsolete," but does believe that "... ESSPs [ Emergent Social Software Platforms ] will have about as big an impact on the informal processes of the organization as large-scale commercial enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, etc.) have had on the formal processes." A that's huge deal for organizations. » Read the Full Story
See also follow-on discussion: How big a deal is Enterprise 2.0? What do you mean by "Big"?
3 December 2003 | Keeping Up!
Someone admitted to me in e-mail today that they "have finally begun to feel like I might not be able to keep up!"... I've been working with Traction® TeamPage for just a few weeks, but the more I use it, the more I discover it to be an extremely powerful knowledge tool. » Read More
3 March 2004 | Business Logs on to Blogging
TeamPage is a true enterprise ready package, "designed to be deployed by business and government teams to create an information sharing system that works like the web." ... With financial backing from the CIA-funded In-Q-Tel venture fund and a recent contract with the Pentagon, the Providence-based company is already making waves. Financial Times technology feature by Paul Taylor. » Read More
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
3 November 2003 | Department of Defense Selects Traction Software as part of Net-Centric Innovation Initiative
Traction TeamPage Enterprise Weblogs to Transform DoD communications, deliver simple, secure solution designed to accelerate test and evaluation programs. » Read More
3 November 2003 | Navy team evaluates weblogs
Long popular with Internet surfers, weblogs are getting a review by Defense Department users for project management... the Rapid Acquisition Incentive-Net Centricity initiative has chosen the pilot as a basis for a business case for a project to evaluate the usefulness of blogs throughout DoD. The initiative evaluates IT that can significantly help in procurement and program management. » Read More
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."
3 September 2001 | A New Twist on E-mail Overload (Network World)
Michael Osterman's article on how Traction can help reduce email overload. » Read More
30 April 2010 | Traction TeamPage is AIIM E2.0 Community Buyer's Guide Featured Product
April 30, 2010 Traction® TeamPage is the top featured product of the AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Community Buyer's Guide. Read Traction TeamPage rating and reviews.
30 Aug 2010 | Alcoa Fastening Systems: Forrester Groundswell Award Nomination
Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler of Alcoa Fastening Systems have done a great job speaking and writing about their experience using Traction® TeamPage to support their innovative approach to project work. A lot of people ask for Enterprise 2.0 examples which show measurable return and provide practical advice based on experience: Brian and Joe do exactly that. We're happy their Alcoa Fastening Systems case has been nominated for Forrester's 2010 GroundSwell award. Please read the Groundswell page on Observable Work Principles - and add your own rating, comment and review on their case and others. Here's their Groundswell page summary:
30 Aug 2010 | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Forrester Groundswell Award Nomination
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative is a great example of Enterprise 2.0 technology used to support global collaboration aimed at finding and implementing a solution to a complex and urgent problem - as originally envisioned by hypertext pioneer Douglas Engelbart. How urgent? "90 percent of the world's wheat has little or no protection against Ug99 wheat rust. This plant disease could quickly spread and annihilate a crop that provides a third of the world's calories." The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative was formed to reduce the world's vulnerability to wheat rust diseases through a first-ever international collaboration in wheat research. We're happy the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative case has been nominated for Forrester's 2010 GroundSwell award. Please read the Groundswell page on The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's Knowledge Bank - and add your own rating, comment and review for the BGRI case and others.
30 December 2003 | Blogging for Business
Crime fighters are turning to weblogs to keep a closer eye on illegal activity - from narcotics to national security....Within a few months, the system [Traction® TeamPage] was installed and proving its value. "Instead of e-mailing separate individuals," says Aumond, "we simply publish the information, whether it's drug arrest news or new Drug Enforcement Administration bulletins, in a single, searchable location." » Read More
30 January 2003 | Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
(Original InfoWorld article, reprinted in Ecommerce Times and CRMDaily.Com.) [Traction] includes a permissioning structure that moderates access to content, rich search capabilities, archives, and bi-directional linking to show relationships between ideas... Notiva uses Traction Weblog software for a variety of efforts, such as project management, competitive intelligence, intranet search and knowledge management.
30 July 2007 | IntranetJournal - Traction, Newsgator Weave a Web that Works | NHS Orkney
This case study, authored by David Rendall (Computer Programmer - NHS Orkney) and Jordan Frank (Traction® Software), explains how Traction® TeamPage and NewsGator Enterprise Server form "a Web That Works," seamlessly integrating Enterprise Wiki, Blog and RSS technologies at NHS Orkney. NHS Orkney is a branch of the UK's National Health Service, the 4th largest employer in the world.
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
30 Nov 2009 | アプライドナレッジ、協 働作業を支援するエンタープライズBlog＆Wiki「TeamPage」の新バージョン 4.1をリリース
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd announces availability of new Traction® TeamPage release with full Japanese language localization and support » Read the Full Story [ in Japanese ] See also www.TractionSoftware.jp for news on TUG 2009 Japan
30 Nov 2010 | R&D Magazine | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative wins industry award
Cornell information specialists received a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides wheat warriors the advantages they need to combat the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security... From the beginning, the project presented various communication challenges related to intranets and extranets that the DRRW Web team knew they would have to solve to engage all the project partners... "We wanted to engage wheat scientists and promote multidimensional engagement," said Nelson, former communications director for the DRRW and an extension associate at Cornell. "We were looking for the ability to mix social, mobile, multichannel and media to make it easier for these high-value scientists to work together."... A combination of Traction® TeamPage software and Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine enables the globalrust.org website to be user-friendly and deliver key content to more than 300 researchers daily » Read the full story
30 November 2004 | eContent 100: Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industy
eContent Magazine names Traction Software to the new Blogging category in its annual top 100 list. » Read More
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.
4 August 2003 | A Better Way for Businesses to Blog
Traction® Software bends the blog to the needs of business. By Rafe Needleman. » Read More
4 August 2003 | Notiva uses Traction Enterprise Weblog as Portal for Internal Company Communication
Traction® TeamPage was a clear success within two months as team members began to browse it for support information before bothering with externally published information. Eight months after initial deployment, Traction has spread throughout the organization. Use cases range from product management to human resources. » Read More
4 Feb 2010 | SFGate - New Research Benchmarks Best Practices in Mobile Marketing, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration
Gleanster today announced the publication of three new "Gleansight" benchmark reports, on Mobile Marketing, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration. Drawing from the experiences of more than five hundred companies, the reports offer a comprehensive look at how Top Performers are implementing each of these initiatives to achieve their desired business objectives.
4 June 2008 | eWeek - Traction Digs in for Enterprise Wiki Control
Clint Boulton's review of Traction® TeamPage 4.0 highlights the benefits of moderation and page name history: "Another area where the more discerning enterprise users will take pleasure in TeamPages 4.0 is in the software's enhanced moderation tools... These moderation tools create what is essentially an audit trail that shows a great deal more than the edit history in most wikis. Now that's what we call control." The article also quotes the UK National Health Service's use of TeamPage 4.0 to allow them to "work collaboratively and to fine-tune your posts before letting everyone else see them." » Read the Full Story
4 November 2003 | Traction to Provide Defense Logs
The Defense Department selected the Traction® TeamPage software as part of an initiative to accelerate communication within the DOD Test and Evaluation programs...This particular project will be led by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, with additional participation from the Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps, Army Night Vision Lab, Defense Acquisition University, Ford Motor Company, Epsilon Systems and the New York City police. » Read More
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
451Group Reviews TeamPage 4.0 | Traction Software tackles wiki complexity in 4.0
Kathleen Reidy of the451group wrote an update on Traction Software highlighting key new capabilities in new TeamPage 4.0 release. She wrote: Its TeamPage product is well respected on technical merits, and the latest release will continue to appeal to more-technical buyers that understand the complexity of maintaining and growing large wiki sites. » Read the full report » Read about What's New In 4.0
5 July 2004 | Revelation Research and Traction Software Team to Bring Enterprise Weblog Solutions to the UK
Revelation Research LLP announced that it has concluded an agreement with Traction Software, Inc. to market and deploy Traction® TeamPage™ solutions in the UK. » Read More
5 May 2004 | CUTech Technology Research Consortium
Jordan Frank, Traction's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, presented applications of Enterprise Weblog Software technlogy for Credit Unions at the TRC Annual Conference.
5 May 2005 | New Corporate Mediums
Today, most corporations still do little, if anything, with blogs, wikis and social networks, but that will change quickly over the next few years as more companies integrate these technologies into their daily routines. And if early signs are any indication, the evolution will lead to blogs replacing blast e-mails, wikis strengthening collaboration software and social networks taking conversations around the water cooler to a metalevel never envisioned by the most enthusiastic evangelist of the Internet boom...
6 April 2005 | Early Warning Workshop
Led by Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank, this workshop led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
6 June 2002 | 25 area start-ups hope their pitches will be hits
Twenty-one Rhode Island and four Massachusetts start-ups have been picked to present their business plans at the fourth annual Rhode Island venture-capital conference next week in Warwick. » Read More
6 September 2008 | LinuxInsider - Wikis Within the Enterprise: Serious Collaboration
In Wikis Within the Enterprise: Serious Collaboration, Vivian Wagner of LinuxInsider explains how "New features are giving wikis the business chops to thrive as an indispensable enterprise solution." About Traction® TeamPage, she says "Traction TeamPage uses a wiki model, complete with tags, revision history, and other features that wiki users have come to know and love. But it also gives businesses the ability to organize, sort and categorize the information in creative and unique ways." Jordan Frank, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Traction® Software says: "It's a new cognitive model. It's not just the features across the board, though all of those in Traction are best in class. What makes this product do exceptionally well is the way these features work together to solve business problems."» Read Full Story
6-8 October 2008 | Third Annual Traction Software User Group Meeting
Traction Software is happy to announce the Third Annual Traction User Group (TUG) Meeting to be held this year at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay October 6-8 2008. With customer presentations from the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions and manufacturers, this year's TUG meeting provides one of the best forums of the year for in depth Enterprise 2.0 case studies, best practice sharing, and lessons learned. A TeamPage Developer Track also offers a terrific opportunity to learn how use Traction's Skin Definition Language and other extensions to make widgets, forms, interface tweaks, and completely customized user experiences. Click here to register now or learn more about TUG 2008 [ TUG 2008 registration closed ].
7 Dec 2010 | CTOLabs - The 75 Most Disruptive Enterprise IT Capabilities
Bob Gourley, CTOLabs writes: "This list reviews the companies regarded as having very high potential to change the way IT is done in large enterprises. For a company to be on the list they must have a currently shipping capability that appears to be a real game changer in enterprise IT." Traction® Software is listed as one of the Disruptive small to medium companies versus IT Powerhouses like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. » Read the Full Story
7 Dec 2011 | Tech Expert Offers Advice to British Company That Plans to Ban E-mail for 80,000 Workers
PRNewswire Dec 7, 2011: Leading unified information access company, Attivio, suggests alternate approach to all-out ban. "Visionary companies must find ways to change the way e-mail is used; not banish it," commented Sid Probstein, Chief Technical Officer at Attivio in response to widely reported news that a 'zero email' policy is underway at one of the world's largest IT companies. Thierry Breton, CEO of British-based Atos, wants to phase out e-mails over the next 18 months.
7 December 2004 | Red Herring 100 Innovators
After a long and rigorous process of evaluating more than 1,200 entries from more than 900 companies, the Red Herring editorial team named Traction Software among the 100 Top Innovators. Traction Profile: The system is designed to communicate more information in greater context, while allowing dynamic control of permission-protected spaces. This makes it possible for clients to consume and share more information in a secure environment with effective controls. » Read More
7 December 2004 | Traction Software Named a Top 100 Innovator by Red Herring and one of 100 Companies that Matter by EContent
Enterprise Weblog Leader Recognized as One of the Most Innovative Companies Poised for Technology Leadership. » Read More
7 February 2003 | Post Modern Knowledge Management and Social Enterprise Blogging
...or "the promotion of information publishing / exchange within an organization, with an eye towards the problem of censorship" - The issue is: how can large organizations which manage vast amounts of information, handle the growing load of formal and informal organizational "wisdom" while sharing it and making it available in an effective way? » Read More
7 February 2006 | Traction Software Expands European Distribution and Support
Adhena, VAR in Switzerland, is serving Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France. e-mediate, a VAR in the Netherlands, is serving the Benelux region. Both resellers are prepared to sell and support Traction TeamPage in their respective markets. Adhena and e-medate are focused on bringing the latest and best enterprise content management solutions to their customers in a variety of industries. » Read More
7 February 2006 | Traction Software Expands European Distribution and Support
Signs Two European Resellers, Covering Benelux, Austria, Germand, France & Switzerland. February 7, Providence, RI -- Traction Software Inc., the leading developer of enterprise blog software for effective team collaboration, today announced that it has signed two new European resellers to distribute, integrate and support Traction’s enterprise blog solution, TeamPage. The two resellers, Adhena Consulting AG, focused on Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, and e-mediate, covering Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg are both focused on bringing the latest in enterprise content management solutions to its customers in a variety of industries.
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.
7 Jan 2010 | Jim McGee - Jordan Frank on ‘responsibility to collaborate’ – lessons in enterprise 2.0 implementations
New Shoreham Consulting Managing Director Jim McGee encourages readers to watch and reflect on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank McGee says: "You need to develop a well-tuned design sense to take full advantage of the technologies intended to support collaborative and creative knowledge work. You need to be especially careful to avoid the temptations to over-engineer the technology or the process. The examples that Jordan shares are rooted in the augmentation philosophies of Doug Engelbart rather than the automation philosophies of Frederick Taylor." » Read the full 7 Jan 2010 McGee's Musings post and watch the video.
For more video interviews and Traction User Group talks see the Traction User Group channel on Blip.tv and 12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
7 June 2005 | TeamPage Enables Easy Enterprise Blogs
Version 3.6 was recently released, bringing with it new features that let users communicate more effectively...Traction® TeamPage's new rich text options make it easy to format comments... new to version 3.6 is an RSS feed reader, letting you easily add RSS feeds to your TeamPage pages. You'll also get hybrid authentication with 3.6, via multiple directory servers including LDAP, Active Directory, and Traction's own directory. » Read More
7 March 2012 | Forbes - Social Business Is A More Moral Form of Business: Discuss
Forbes.com contributor Haydn Shaughnessey says: "Traction, for my money, is the best conceived collaboration suite for company’s that have a technical development requirement." He cites Traction® Software as an example of a business that successfully competes with large companies like IBM by retaining: "... close attention to client needs, a personal desire to explore changes in the work environment, and a desire to see those reflected in the platform." Thank you! Shaughnessy is co-author of a new ebook, The Elastic Enterprise an account of how some stellar companies are reinventing business. » Read the article.
7 May 2013 | Real Story Group's Updated Traction TeamPage Evaluation in Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report
The Real Story Group's Kashyap Kompella @kashyapkompella posted an update describing RSG's new version of their Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Evaluations research covering twenty-five key software vendors. The new version includes a major update for the Traction® TeamPage section, including TeamPage project management, action tracking, TeamPage's ability to span and connect systems of record, and the ability to embed TeamPage discussions in other Web applications.
7 November 2005 | CBI Decision Support & Analysis Summit
The 2nd Annual Decision Support and Analysis Summit focused on Product Positioning Strategies, Competitive Intelligence Techniques and the Latest Pharmaceutical Industry Insights for Strategic Decision-Making. Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC delivered their popular workshop: Building a Strategic Early Warning System — A Collaborative Model for Sustainable Visibility and Intelligence Alerting
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.
7 Oct 2011 | Jacob Morgan - Emergent Collaboration Vendor Review: Traction Software
"I’ve seen the Traction product a few times now I have to say that I really like it and not just for small and medium size businesses. Traction offers an amazing search integration feature which many large vendors can’t even come close to replicating." Chess Media Group Principal and author Jacob Morgan just started a weekly series of concise, consistent, and even-handed public reviews of vendors in the emergent collaboration / Enterprise 2.0 space. Traction® Software is honored to chosen for the second review in Jacob's series. Jacob asks wide-ranging questions on overall direction, along with practical questions on integration, support, pricing, maintenance, time to go live, technology, focus, capabilities, customers, key differentiating factors from competition, along with Jacob's candid take.
7 September 2004 | Traction TeamPage Recognized as a "Trend-Setting Product of the Year" by KMWorld
Review praises Traction TeamPage and Communicator as robust enterprise blogging software that encompasses collaboration, document management, and KM. » Read More
8 Feb 2012 | CTOLabs - Traction Software: Connected Work
CTOLabs adds Traction® Software to its companies of note list, "firms we believe enterprise technologists should track": The future of work:
collaboration, conversation, identity, work product, action tracking and activity streams in context, coupled by permission-aware deep search, spanning systems of record and transactional business systems. Traction® TeamPage connects people, actions, what you create or find in TeamPage, the public Web, your company’s intranet and your line of business systems, simply and securely. » Read the full quote
8 July 2004 | Revelation Brings Enterprise Weblog Solutions to UK
UK agency Revelation Research has this week announced that it has concluded an agreement with Traction Software to market and deploy Traction TeamPage solutions in the UK. Traction promotes Enterprise Weblog software as a dramatically more efficient and consistent framework for business relevant communication, collaboration and knowledge management. » Read More
8 Nov 2010 | EContent - A Case of Life-Saving Collaboration
EContent reporter Kurt Schiller describes how the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is marshaling a global response to a threat to world's food supply. Wheat rust is a virulent crop disease spread by the wind that can rapidly decimate crops leading to drastically reduced harvest and the threat of famine - currently endangering Africa, Asia and the Middle East. BGRI chose Traction® TeamPage and its Attivio powered advanced search capability to quickly stand up a hub for collaborative scientific research, planning and public communication of the latest research results to a global audience. See the Traction TeamPage powered BGRI site globalrust.org » Read the Full Story
8-9 April 2003 | Frost & Sullivan: Structuring Competitive Intelligence for Greater Bottom Line Impact
Jordan Frank, Traction's Director of Marketing and Business Development, will speak on the Software Applications to Manage Intelligence Products & Process panel.
9 January 2003 | Software firm turns blogs into business tools - Company tailoring format to provide easy internal communication
Today, Web Logs, or blogs, have become a key method of keeping communities of people -- from artists to scientists -- in touch and up to speed on their interests. That's a far cry from where they began… Traction is selling its blogging software to companies, tailoring the format to provide easy internal communication among colleagues or external communication with clients.
9 July 2008 | SC Magazine - Web 2.0: Sign up for Enterprise 2.0
Barry Mansfield's article Web 2.0: Sign up for Enterprise 2.0 argues "Simply blocking applications means disgruntled staff and missed opportunities. Businesses need to change tack." His article reviews the motivation for organizations to adopt rather than eschew E2.0 applications. It also profiles the UK's National Health Service (NHS Orkney) Traction® Software Customer. » Read Full SC Magazine Story » Read NHS Customer Story
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
9 Nov 2010 | EContent - Collaboration and Knowledge Management Working Well Together
EContent's Marji McClure reports on how collaborative tools integrated with knowledge capture can streamline complex business processes while also providing valuable insights organizations for future use. She interviewed D. Craig McHenry, senior director of competitor insights of Pfizer Nutrition. “The big issue we found ourselves needing to address,” says McHenry, “was how do we really build over time a complete record of the different pieces of information gathered and analyzed and assessed and document it? How do we create a living history or a living document of that conversation?” McHenry and his team turned to Traction® TeamPage. McHenry cites benefits of the Traction solution including reduction in the amount of information being pushed through the company's email system, making it less burdensome to stay engaged and on top of what happens in discussion. » Read the full story
9 Nov 2010 | Portals and KM - Traction Team Page 5.1 Integrates Project Management Capabilities
Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction® TeamPage Release 5.1 new Action Tracking capabilities. Bill includes screen shots of task, milestone and personal profile views along with his analysis. He says: "The action tracking concept is not old school project management with Gantt charts and resource allocation. It is allowing employees to manage their work tasks and make this management transparent to those who need to know. This is where the observable work comes it. I have seen considerable improvement in employee and team performance when their work becomes transparent to the right others. The spot light does wonders when applied correctly. ... I think that this complete collection of new capabilities builds on the strong platform already established to take it further into the ideal of enterprise 2.0. Here the activities of an organization are accessible to those who need to know and this transparency operates at the task or action level." » Read the Full Story
9 Nov 2010 | Traction® TeamPage 5.1 Introduces Integrated Action Tracking For Improved Team Performance
Santa Clara CA / Enterprise 2.0 — November 9, 2010 — Bridging project management and the flow of work Traction® Software, the leader in enterprise social software innovation, today announced new Traction® TeamPage capabilities to help teams work together more effectively. Traction TeamPage Release 5.1 makes it easy for individuals to see their own action plans, the status of shared projects, team workload, individual progress, and team progress toward common goals – all within the context of the TeamPage collaboration and communication platform where the planned work can also be managed or done.
9 Nov 2010 | Traction® TeamPage 5.1 Introduces Integrated Action Tracking For Improved Team Performance
Santa Clara CA / Enterprise 2.0 — November 9, 2010 — Bridging project management and the flow of work Traction Software, the leader in enterprise social software innovation, today announced new Traction® TeamPage capabilities to help teams work together more effectively. Traction TeamPage Release 5.1 makes it easy for individuals to see their own action plans, the status of shared projects, team workload, individual progress, and team progress toward common goals – all within the context of the TeamPage collaboration and communication platform where the planned work can also be managed or done. Read » full release
9-10 June 2003 | ClickZWeblog Business Strategies Conference
Greg Lloyd, Traction CEO, spoke on the Strategies and Tips for Business Blogging Success panel. Traction customer Paul Perry, Verizon Communications, spoke on the Using Weblogs in Large IT Organizations panel. The links to the panel transcripts are from Heath Row's Media Diet weblog.
A Circle is not a Space
Like many people in the tech industry, I've been happily exploring and enjoying Google+ for the past week or so (thank you Susan Scrupski for the early invitation). I like the Google+ bar, polished integration with Google Profiles, Photos, and Video, as well as the new Huddle and Hangout capabilities. And I'm looking forward to Google+ integrated Search. Nov 20, 2015 update: Google's updated Community and Collection model finally gives Google+ something like a shared Spaces as well as email-like Circles. Keep reading for thoughts on why Circles never caught on. - grl
A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower Strategy | Video
I'm just back from the 2008 Current Strategy Forum at the US Naval War College in Newport. This year the topic of panels and presentations (including addresses and extensive Q&A by the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and, the Commandant of the Marine Corp) was the Cooperative Strategy for 21s Century Seapower - a joint strategy for the US Marine Corp, Navy and Coast Guard. The strategy raises prevention of war - deterrence, cooperative relationships with more international partners, trust built through humanitarian assistance and disaster response - to an equal level as the conduct of war. In the very best sense this is a positioning statement: what a nation should expect from its maritime forces.
A Fabric, not a Platform
Apple and Google are competing to build a fabric that connects everything you own and use, working outward from the globally meshed supercomputer you carry in your pocket. Both apply deep learning technology to AI assistants, and are opening up their AIs and bots to other apps, bots, and cloud services. This richly connected fabric makes bots useful and AI assistants valuable by teaching them how to identify objects you're talking about as well as understand what you want done. The same applies at work. Making this happen requires a shift from the traditional definition of a platform to a fabric which makes it possible to connect people and the actionable objects they use, in context.
A Focus on Individual Users
With Dartmouth President Jim Kim's recent nomination to the World Bank, I pulled out my copy of Mountains beyond Mountains to find the Kim quote that I found most inspiring for my day to day work.
A new TeamPage logo, and a new look at Traction Software.com
You'll be seeing the new TeamPage logo here, on Twitter, Facebook, across the Web, and next to TeamPage sites shown in your browser's tabs; I hope you like the it! I also hope you like the the new look at TractionSoftware.com. Our customers believe TeamPage is ideal for work that combines collaboration and action tracking, including quality management, human resources, project work, intelligence analysis, knowledge management, and compliance. We want TractionSoftware.com to tell this story simply and clearly, and we'll continue to improve this site just as we continually improve TeamPage. Please contact us for insights into how customers use TeamPage to get work done, along with a free trial.
A Web That Works | NHS Orkney
David Rendall, National Health Service Orkney created his A Web That Works blog to complement his poster presentation at the UK's National Health Service conference: Delivering Healthcare in the 21st Century, 11-12 Jun 2007, Glasgow UK. David co-authored a 30 July 2007 Intranet Journal article about his experience with Traction Software's Jordan Frank. Visit David's blog ! To download a full-size copy of David's poster (3.2MB .jpg) click here, posted with David's permission.
Aberdeen Survey | Getting Social About Selling
Smart enterprises are deploying blogs and wikis to power the Enterprise front line: Sales. Use cases may involve using Enterprise 2.0 technology to distribute timely market information, maintain a continuous loop of customer feedback, or maintain a wiki to manage selling points, FAQs, and collateral.
About TeamPage Licenses
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About Traction TeamPage Free Licenses
Traction Software's award winning Traction TeamPage software is free for up to five users. You can download and install TeamPage on your own hardware or your own hosted service for personal or business use.
Access Control and Security
Access Control Lists (ACLs) allow server and project administrators to easily manage access to the server and manage permissions in each space.
Accessories Pricing
TeamPage Feedreader: Adds the capability to read and publish RSS or Atom Feeds from external source for $2,500 per year, or $5,000 for a permanent license.
Account Team Communication
Problem:
Action Tracking and Project Management
Traction® TeamPage dashboards show actions, status, and activities in the context of work, using a format that's easy to read and reduces information overload. You can quickly jot down Tasks, or right click a paragraph in TeamPage to add a Task tag to that paragraph. Integrated action tracking is a standard feature of every TeamPage product.
Action Tracking with Tasks, Milestones, and Projects
Traction TeamPage action tracking is simple to use and seamlessly integrated with Traction TeamPage's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration, communication, microblogging and social networking capabilities. One click adds a task tag to any page, comment, status post or paragraph with automatic rollup by person, date, milestone or project, putting project management in the natural flow of work.
Ada Lovelace Day | Betts Wald, US Naval Research Lab
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of women in science and technology. I've chosen to write about Betts Wald who was a branch chief in the Communications Science division of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) when I first met her. I joined NRL in 1974 as my first real job - after serving in the US Army when I was drafted as a graduate student at Brown. It was a great experience. NRL was full of wildly talented, energetic and brilliant managers who knew how to get impossible things done in engineering and government, and taught that skill to their teams. Betts was one of the best: leading and inspiring her team, running interference, providing just enough technical guidance (i.e. to avoid permanent damage) while constantly encouraging and developing her team's talents. Women in science and technology should be encouraged to consider career paths as leaders as well as individual contributors: Betts is a great role model. Although I never heard Betts shout: "To the difference engine!", except for the pipe it would be in character. And I'm not certain about the pipe.
Ada Lovelace Day | Emmy Noether, Mathematician
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates 
the contributions of women in science and technology, follow @FindingAda for news and events. This year I've chosen to write about mathematician Amalie "Emmy" Noether. At the time of her death in April 1935, she was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Herman Weyl, Norbert Weiner and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Noether’s First Theorem is a fundamental tool of modern physics and the calculus of variations: every symmetry corresponds to a conservation law. "It was her work in the theory of invariants which led to formulations for several concepts of Einstein's general theory of relativity." [J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, 1997]. Of her later work, Nathan Jacobson said: "The development of abstract algebra, which is one of the most distinctive innovations of twentieth century mathematics, is largely due to her – in published papers, in lectures, and in personal influence on her contemporaries." Einstein wrote Noether's obituary in the New York Times, May 5, 1935:
Ada Lovelace Day | Fran Allen, IBM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award Winner
For the second annual Ada Lovelace Day, March 24, 2010 - celebrating women in science and technology - I've chosen to write about Frances E. Allen, IBM Fellow, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the theory and practice of optimizing compilers. I've never had the pleasure of meeting her in person, but I'll take the liberty of calling her Fran, as Dick Merwin and everyone I know called her in their Fran stories.
Ada Lovelace Day | Marissa Ann Mayer, Software Engineer, Product Manager, and Executive
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of women in science and technology, follow @FindingAda for news and events. This year I've chosen to write about Marissa Ann Mayer Software Engineer, Product Manager, and Executive, currently President and CEO of Yahoo! Over her career Ms Mayer earned exceptional recognition for Computer Science teaching (while working for her Stanford degrees), software engineering, design, product management, and her executive skills. Ms Mayer joined Google as employee number twenty in 2009 and played an instrumental role leading Google Search for over 10 years.
Ada Lovelace Day | Professor Lee S. Sproull, Stern School, NYU
For this first Ada Lovelace Day I've chosen to write about Professor Lee Sproull an internationally-recognized sociologist whose research centers on the implications of computer-based communication technologies for managers, organizations, communities, and society. Professor Sproull is a pioneer and visionary in the rigorous study of what we now call social software.
Ada Lovelace Day | Sunita Williams, Astronaut and Captain U.S. Navy
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of women in science and technology. This year I've chosen to write about Suni Williams, NASA Astronaut and US Navy Captain currently commanding Expedition 33 on the International Space Station. I hope young women reading about Ada Lovelace Day now are encouraged by her example to pursue their dreams where ever they may lead - here on Earth or as the first Earthling to set foot on Mars.
Advisors
Andries van Dam
Hypertext and computer graphics
pioneer Andy van Dam is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor
of Technology and Education at Brown University.
He is a member of the three-person Technical Advisory Board of
Microsoft Research.
Alcoa Tackles IT Projects and Compliance
The IT division of Alcoa Fastening Systems used Traction® TeamPage to reduce time spent on compliance activities by 61% and reduce time to deploy IT systems from sixteen months to seven.
All in a Day's Work - The Magnitude of Collaboration
Spending just a little time looking at specifics on your own collaboration patterns sheds light on the central role of communication and collaboration in the every day business process of a "knowledge worker."
An Infinite Number of Cats on Keyboards: Ted Nelson & Computer Lib at Homebrew Computer Club Reunion
Order a perfect reprint of the original version of Computer Lib / Dream Machines directly from Ted Nelson, autographed if you wish. Highly recommended.
And here's what Enterprise 2.0 looked like in 1968 | Dealing lightning with both hands...
The video This is what the web looked like in 1994 - a DEC promotional video of that era - got a bit of attention recently. Just for the record - here's what Enterprise 2.0 looked like in 1968 - courtesy Doug Engelbart and his team at SRI:
Andy Keller Principal Engineer
Andy Keller talks about Traction's use of GWT | Video
May 12, 2009 5:38pm rotkapchen Great explanation: Traction Director of Engineering Andy Keller tells why Traction's chose GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for TeamPage's new interaction layer. View video inline below or youtube.com/watch…
Anti-Social Software
It's common to read about corporate culture as a big barrier to successful adoption and use of social software in business. It's easy to understand people's reluctance to change and adopt a new way of working. There are many good reasons to be wary of the promised benefits of change if you don't have relevant direct experience ("I've used this and it works"), clear examples, trust in your organization, and trust in your leadership. Books like Jacob Morgan's new The Collaborative Organization offer great practical guidance, examples, and answers to important questions. However, most social business advice makes a common and good-natured assumption that your organization is healthy - or at least has good intentions - but is just hard to convince. That's not always true.
Apocalypse?
Regarding Yahoo's new The 9, Tim Bray writes: "This is the End, maybe, of Civilization As We Know It. I’m thinking now would be a good time for the Borg to come along and assimilate us all..." Come on Tim! Hardly the Apocalypse! Somewhere between the burning of the library of Alexandria and the first Entertainment Tonight.
Applied Knowledge Co Ltd - Bringing Traction TeamPage 5.1 to Japan
Our long-time Japanese reseller partner Applied Knowledge Co Ltd has done a great job bringing Traction TeamPage to the Japanese market. They are an excellent sales and consulting partner for Japanese market customers. AKJ also has deep experience applying Enterprise 2.0 principles, the Traction TeamPage SDK, Japanese Language localization of the TeamPage interface, and Japanese advanced linguistics and faceted navigation capabilities of Traction's Attivio powered Advanced Search.
April 2004 | Looking Beyond Windows
Given corporate Canada’s growing reliance on Windows-based server technology, many people are concerned with the rising cost of their office communications infrastructure, particularly as licence fees continue to increase... Linux can also be used to build a heavy duty team-based knowledge management tool. For that purpose, I’ve settled on Traction® TeamPage... It has become one of my most important tools, helping me master the vast volumes of information that are the core of my professional skills base. By Jim Carroll. » Read More
April 2006 | Red Herring Short Lists Traction Again
Red Herring short listed Traction® Software as one of 200 of the most innovative technology firms in North America. Criteria include financial performance, technology innovation, execution on strategy, management quality, and integration into their ecosystem. This assessment allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the
list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the
greatest business opportunities in the industry. Red Herring's Spring 2006 event is themed The Pursuit of Disruption. Traction was selected to the Red Herring 100 for 2004 and we're pleased to be recognized as a leader this year by Red Herring and others including eContent and KM World. » Read Red Herring's Full Release. » link 'Read Traction Software's Full Release' public641
April 2006 | Wikis and blogs transforming workflow
by Shamus McGillicuddy ... Where e-mail and enterprise
content management systems fall short, enterprise blogs and wikis shine
as indispensable communication tools. Experts say CIOs should be
looking at these Web-based tools not as renegade applications but as
lightweight liberators that boost productivity throughout an
organization. ...
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.
Are Enterprise 2.0 & Web 2.0 Different? | KMWorld 2011 Panel, Thur Nov 3, 2011 Washington DC
KMWorld 2011 Panel C303 2pm-2:45pm Thur Nov 3, 2011. Join Traction® Software's Jordan Frank and a stellar panel from the FDA, Attivio, and Deloitte to discuss and debate the future of social software in the enterprise, how it relates to what you see and use on the public Web, and how it differs. Expect a lively discussion based on practical experience, research, and analysis. “We want Facebook for the enterprise!” That’s a call to action, but what does it mean, and why will it fail? There is a gulf of difference in the use case for 2.0 in the Enterprise vs. the Web. Deloitte research indicates the best starting point for E2.0 is exception management, not making friends. Permissions issues, incentives, and infrastructure differ enormously when you consider the enterprise vs. the web. Enterprise architects and decision makers need to look at the web to gather ideas but not to look in the mirror.
Are Weblogs Really ECM Lite?
AIIM E-DOC Magazine, May/Jun 2005 - Greg Lloyd, Traction Software writes: Unless
you've been hiding in a cave, you've probably run across the term
"weblog" (or "blog") in the news. Perhaps you have a teenager who loves
LiveJournal (over 6 million free or very low cost blogs and growing) or
followed political controversies inflamed by bloggers during the 2004
campaign.
Ariadne | Information Overload Paper - 10 ways to cope
Sarah Houghton-Jan wrote and excellent paper, Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload, in Ariadne (a Web Magazine for Information Professionals). It's actually ten general areas for coping, each with about 5 suggestions. Ever since Kid 1 and Kid 2 popped into my life, dealing with every kind of overload (e-mail overload, magazine overload, chores overload, poop overload...) has become a factor in my life!
Article Templates
Getting people to collaborate can be a tall order. So why make it harder by starting them off with a blank page? Traction Page Sections and Article Templates work together to solve the problem.
As We May Work - Andy van Dam
On April 17, 2008 Professor Andy van Dam of Brown University delivered the keynote address of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2009 Tokyo. Andy's title is a play on Vannevar Bush's July 1945 essay As We May Think. As We May Think inspired creation of pioneering hypertext systems by Andy, Ted Nelson, Doug Engelbart and others, leading to Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web. The creators of these hypertext systems originally envisioned an environment where individuals could write, link, comment on and share what they wrote as well as search and read what others had written - core capabilities of what we now call social software for the public Web or an Enterprise. Andy's keynote is a personal history, and a vision of how the Web provides a new context for work as well as public communication, socialization, commerce, scholarship and entertainment. For the full slide set see As We May Work (.ppt 8.8MB), posted here with Andy's permission.
Ask an Engineer: What do you think of the Facebook Terms of Service Flap?
If you haven't been paying attention to this week's flap on Facebook's revised terms of service - posted three days ago and retracted today - Andrew Lavelle of the Wall Street Journal published a good recap today. The controversy relates to what rights does Facebook get to content that an individual Facebook user posts? There are a lot of good arguments about what rights people think Facebook should be able to retain, but there's a second level of discussion that relates to how people expect Facebook privacy settings to work, and how these expectations make it difficult to craft an agreement that seems fair, makes sense, and corresponds to what Facebook actually implements and enforces.
At What Scale Can Web Services Survive?
One more data point in line of my Whither Web 2.0 Social Networking Discussion which questions the revenue models of web services (with web social networking as a focal point): An on-line service the scale and scope of Microsoft's Online Services is running into red ink of proportional scale. It lost $471 Million per last quarter. The clear and present issue is not whether a profit may be turned at some even-large scale, but what will change about the business model and how will that affect users?
Athens Group - Traction® TeamPage for Quality Management, Training and Knowledge Base
Athens Group is an independent consulting firm based in Houston, Texas. In 2009, the company migrated their Athens Group Quality Management System (AGQMS), industry knowledge base, and training curriculum to Traction® TeamPage where the information is easily accessed, collectively edited, and the content can be moderated where necessary. TeamPage became their integrated Intranet. In 2011, the TeamPage Attivio Search Module was added to further improve information access with automatic page ranking and faceted drill down navigation.
Attached Documents & WebDAV
The WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) specification is supported in Traction for article attachments and WebDAV Share Folders.
Audit Trail
Traction is a true journaling technology, with best of class audit trail capability that goes well beyond basic wiki style edit history.
Aug 2014 | Providence Business News - Social tools being adapted for Web-based QC tool
Writing in the 8 Aug 2014 Providence Business News, Staff Writer Patrick Anderson interviewed Traction® Software VP of Sales Jordan Frank and Thomas Cogdell, DTA quality manager for Houston-based firm The Athens Group. The oil-rig consulting firm purchased Traction® TeamPage to support its push for ISO 9001 certified rig inspection, verification and technology assurance services. Anderson quotes Cogdell: “The reason we chose it is because it is Web based with a good security audit and trail feature,” said Thomas Cogdell, DTA quality manager for Athens Group. “Every change to every document is tracked and reported on, and nothing gets lost. It gives us the flexibility to encourage employees to add to the knowledge base freely and the quality control we need.” » Read the full story
Aug 2018 | TeamPage ISO 9001:2015 Solution adds integrated Risk and Improvement Project Management
Traction® TeamPage 2018 Summer Release. Traction® TeamPage's 9001:2015 Quality Management solution - developed in partnership with impi! Solutions - adds integrated Risk and Improvement Project management, tracking, and reporting capabilities. This release also adds: Advanced Japanese language search; improved type-ahead search; improved built-in search; many product and developer SDK bug fixes and improvements.
Aug 2020 | Core Project Management, email digest generation, and incoming email processing improvements
Traction® TeamPage Summer 2020 Release improves performance of queries that power TeamPage's core Project Management views and feeds. This also speeds up Data Tables used to embed project, task, milestone, and other interactive tables in TeamPage articles. The release improves rules for automatic cleanup of incoming email posted to TeamPage directly or as a reply to an outgoing TeamPage email notification. The release also makes outgoing TeamPage email digest generation more efficient, and improves external search engine synchronization used to automatically reindex modified articles or attachments. SDK improvements focus on changes related to sending and receiving email.
Aug 2023 | Kerberos Authentication; Drag-and-Drop Permalinks; Configurable Content Security Policies; Security fixes
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.66 includes support for Kerberos authentication with Microsoft Active Directory, new drag-and-drop support for creating TeamPage Permalink and User name references, and TeamPage administrator configurable policies relating to content security and shared resources. The release also includes FullCalendar improvements, a security fix for TeamPage, and integration of an updated Solr search engine which fully resolves its reported security vulnerabilities. The release includes over 135 bug fixes and improvements. See TeamPage Change Log for a description of this release and the point releases it consolidates since Mar 2023 | Improved Kanban, Social Media Sharing, Mobile Device Layout; New Supervised Signatures. Please read on for a consolidated summary.
August 2004 | Enterprise Weblog Software - Technology Audit, Traction Software
(Document Requires Butler Group Permission for Access) The Technology Audit finds Traction® TeamPage as an innovative solution for collaborative working and recommends Organisations and groups that are involved in market intelligence, program and product development, projects, business, and government communication will benefit from Traction TeamPage. » Read More
August 2005 | IT Execs Face Need to Link Dispersed Developers
Microsoft Delays Team Tool as Users Look to Collaborate - Some users, meanwhile, are ramping up other tools to better manage development teams. TextWise LLC, a builder of text-processing tools in Rochester, N.Y., began using an enterprise blogging tool in April from Traction® Software Inc. to replace e-mail threads for collaboration.The Traction® TeamPage blog software allows the company's development teams in Rochester, Baltimore, Boston and Syracuse, N.Y., to post design notes and status reports, said Rob Rubin, TextWise's chief technology officer. To date, the company has had 1,200 blog postings, and this month it was able to avoid a 30-day setback to the development cycle because one group noticed a planned testing duplication on the blog, Rubin added. » Read More
August 2006 | Blogging Your Project
Elizabeth Harrin, a senior project manager and writer describes how blogs enable project communication and includes two Traction® TeamPage case studies, August 3, 2006 The ability to share views in real time can also help combat the silo mentality that grows up around projects. A blog is a level playing field, owned by the project, and easy enough to use for everyone to feel they can get involved... early signs are that blogs are a low-cost solution for project managers to improve communication and collaboration on projects. That alone should make them worth investigating further.
August 2006 | Harness the Power of Collaboration
By Miya Knights, 15 August 2006 - The market for enterprise social networking software tools is growing, with suppliers such as Traction® Software joining the likes of Socialtext in providing purpose-built tools for organizations that want to replace unstructured communication tools, such as e-mail, with something more sophisticated. They offer the granularity of control and the permissioning and workflow structure of other enterprise-scale software products...
August 2006 | Traction TeamPage named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2006
KMWorld magazine recognized Traction TeamPage as a "robust enterprise blog
platform" in their Trend-Setting Products of 2006 review. Having
received this award for the third consecutive year confirms Traction
Software's continued innovation and leadership in the blog and wiki
market. » Read More
August 2007 | Gilbane Group Interview: New solutions for a multilingual world
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Kaija Poysti of the Gilbane Group's Globalization Blog interviews Traction Software's Greg Lloyd. Kaija says that in companies the "multilingual environment is not only about translation, but about working with customers and colleagues whose native language is different from one's own. That can lead to a lot of miscommunication, and I think that nobody has even started to measure the real costs or missed sales arising from it."
Authority versus Page Rank
On 15 Sep 2006 Tim Bray wrote in Wikipedia: Resistance is Absent:
Auto-Save for Article and Comment Forms
Computer crashes, network interruptions and accidently closed browser windows are inevitable. They're all are costly when you lose valuable work in your browser!
Automatic vs. Manual Tagging - Born to tag? and to What End?
Dennis McDonald recently posted an entry on his experience with Reuters' automatic tagging tool called Calais. He concludes:
Avast Ye Enterprise 2.0 Seekers!
If ye be seeking Enterprise 2.0 Skills, click Traction Software or prepare to be Boarded, Pillaged and Sunk by thy Competition! If thou knowes't not how Enterprise 2.0 Skills canst Protect thy Treasure - Unto thy very Corporate Life - Profesaarh Andrew McAfee can set thee aright. Arrhh!
Bersin & Associates Enterprise Social Software 2009 Report Features Traction TeamPage
Bersin & Associates' analyst David Mallon included a profile of Traction® TeamPage in his report Enterprise Social Software 2009: Facts, Practical Analysis, Trends and Provider Profiles. The product profile shows "Complete or near complete functionality" in their Key Features Support, Collaboration, and Conversations score card. In the review of Traction TeamPage, the report says: "Traction also beats the odds when it comes to ability to innovate (the company is technologically at the top of the wiki field) and in providing customer support... Out of the box, Traction® Software’s TeamPage application is the most fully featured social software platform covered in this study. It has the security and permissions models required to meet IT’s standards. The interface is clean and user-friendly." » Read The Full Report (Bersin Subscription or Payment Required)
Best Practice and the Wiki Big Brain - An MBA Class Case Study
Some of my past entries (Best Practice and the Wikipedia Big Brain, Yin and Yang of E2.0, and Pros and Cons of Emergence) have discussed the importance of some structure in the collaboration process, even when using software like wikis and blogs which can permit N degrees of emergent structure. A recent sustained effort by an MBA class in Israel illustrates the importance and benefit of applying structure to the task.
Best Practice and the Wikipedia Big Brain
At the recent Interop New York (see TechWeb story), Andrew McAfee compares Wikipedia to an ant colony, suggesting that the opposite of imposed structure is not chaos. He said:
Beta Bloggers Need Not Lurk in the Enterprise
KnowledgeJolt with Jack writes about a study reported on Jakob Nielson's AlertBox about Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities. Jack agrees and expands on Jakob's recommendations for increasing participation. Both are on point for public internet communities like wikipedia, group blogs and product review sites. However, the problem can be simplified in enterprise settings when catering to beta bloggers.
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Beyond blogs and wikis
I really like David Berlind's post IBM's Suitor asks how you share documents. Wrong question, right time (May 2, 2006). David makes a great points including: "Think about freeing your knowledge. Then worry about the format (after your thinking leads you to regular document land)." But I think David edges close to a similar problem in characterizing blogs vs. wiki's - particularly with respect to Traction and other products which purposefully blur the boundaries.
Beyond Blogs and Wikis
Traction® TeamPage™ is "Enterprise 2.0 in a box" - delivering blogs, wikis, social tagging, threaded discussion, search, content navigation and document management over a simple, secure and scaleable hypertext platform. Customers from Global 1000 and government agencies to small companies and non-profits deploy TeamPage for business critical activities including project management, product development, management issue tracking, marketing, competitive intelligence, and sales force communication.
Beyond Blogs and Wikis: Traction TeamPage Release 3.7 Delivers Secure and Scalable Web Collaboration
New Features Include Extensible Widgets, Secure Group Editing, Inline Sections, Flexible Output Formats, and Mobility
Big Data, Meet Long Data, Meet Blog Data
Big Data Meet Long Data by Jeff Bertolucci - @jbertolucci - column appears this week in InformationWeek to reminds us that "Long Data" or historical data is vital for analysis and comprehension of trends that span years.
Blogging Policy = Blabbing Policy
I have been asked by many current and prospective customers these days about best practices for internal and external blogging policy.
Blogs and Wikis: Building Customer Connections
AIIM E-DOC Magazine Jul/Aug 2007 Issue - Greg Lloyd, Traction Software writes: Blogs get a lot of press when individual bloggers express their opinions on politics, news of the day, or anything that strikes their fancy and thousands of others quickly jump in to join the conversation. The Wikipedia project (www.Wikipedia.org) is a well publicized example of the use of wiki software to bring people from around the world together to collaboratively write, edit and correct an online encyclopedia of over four million articles - and growing - without centralized control. One common question from business people is: "Can I use blogs and wiki's to keep in touch with my customers?" The short answer is yes. Here are some practical examples.
Board of Directors
Greg Lloyd
President and Co-Founder, Traction Software
Steve Weinstein
A
co-founder and Board Member of Traction Software, Steven Weinstein was
the Chief Technical Officer, Liberate Technologies (NASDAQ: LBRT).
Steve was senior vice president of strategic initiatives, with overall
responsibility for product and technology development. Mr. Weinstein
was vice president of applications at Navio Communications prior to its
merger with Network Computer, Inc.
Borders, Spaces, and Places
One big problem for collaboration has been too many borders - technical or cultural - creating silos of information for no good reason - and many bad ones. There's also a big problem if you don't have a good way to mark borders that enable collaboration where there's a natural expectation of privacy.
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Combating the Wheat Rust Pandemic: Bridging the Worldwide Scientific Community with Enterprise 2.0 Social Software -- Wheat rust is a serious fungal disease affecting wheat caused by the rust fungus Puccinia triticina. It is the most prevalent of all the wheat rust diseases, occurring in nearly all areas where wheat is grown. Thought to be all but extinct for more than 50 years, the world is now facing a new pandemic of wheat rust -- Ug99, a highly virulent stem rust variant. This strain could potentially be responsible for the destruction of more than a third of worldwide wheat production. Such a failure could be devastating as wheat is the world's most widely planted crop and accounts for a fifth of humanity's calorie intake (1).
Building pleasant and stable islands in a storm-tossed sea
Traction Roots: A Whirlwind Tour (.ppt 6.2MB) tells the Traction story in pictures: 1) Tim Berners-Lee's web trades stable links for utmost simplicity and bottom-up scalability without central control; 2) Traction creates spaces which are pleasant and stable islands with a rich hypertext model internally: bi-direction links; comments based on ternary relations rather than hacking the representation of the referent object; faceted permission models uniformly enforced for search results, cross-references, as well as content browsing; fully journaled actions, etc. 3) Traction generates HTTP addressable views of its content to enable any item in the Traction corpus to be read and linked like the rest of the web (optionally restricted by access controls). This creates a pleasant and stable island that's easily connected to other islands of stability on the Web - as well as anything in the storm tossed sea - not a stovepiped box.
Burned by a Bad Choice
Sometimes "free" is hardly that, and TCO calculations don't begin to account for the "cost" of a failed initiative. Below is an anonymized e-mail sent from a manager in one division of a very large global enterprise to another manager in a separate division which is now evaluating Enterprise Wiki software.
Calendar Navigation
Traction helps you makes sense of your workspace with date range displays.
Can't stuff the Web back in a box ...
On April 16 2009 Oliver Marks wrote The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem connecting three topics: 1) the transformation of the CIA's collaborative practices; 2) how this relates to the concept of the collaboration curve introduced by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown (JSB), and Lang Davison, and 3) his reaction to IBM's Lotusphere Comes to You roadshow event in San Francisco that day. It's a great post which motivated me to add a comment which I expanded a bit below.
Careers at Traction Software
Traction Software is a fast-growing enterprise software company leading the charge in the "Enterprise 2.0" collaboration market. With an impressive and quickly growing customer list and a technical lead in the Enterprise Wiki software market, the opportunity for career growth is exceptional. For goal-oriented team players with an entrepeneurial spirit, a career at Traction Software offers the right candidate a chance to have a real impact by making their mark in a company that is already well recognized in the US and around the world.
Carving a Path to Productive Knowledge Management: How?
I gave the following presentation at the first ever meeting of the Boston Chapter of the Knowledge Management Association today. As this was a first meeting, I thought I'd raise the issue that "managing knowledge" is about as daunting a task as "herding cats."
Choosing a TeamPage License
Traction Software gives you a choices match the size of your organization, what you want to do, and how you want to run TeamPage: on your hardware, or as Cloud Hosted service managed and maintained by Traction Software. For a live demonstration, product, or pricing questions, please contact us.
Chris Nuzum CTO & Co-Founder
Chris Nuzum Hyperkult XXV Video | Tripping Up Memory Lane
Watch this video of Chris Nuzum's Tripping Up Memory Lane talk at Hyperkult 2015, University of Lüneburg, 10 July 2015. Traction Software CTO and co-founder Chris Nuzum reviews hypertext history, his experience as a hypertext practitioner, and the core principles of Traction TeamPage.
CI Ethics Survey
If you want to benchmark your opinion on Competitive Intelligence practices vs. other respondents, this survey being run by Fuld & Company provides an opportunity. The questions in the survey are also thought provoking and great grist for internal discussion groups.
Clarity Amid the Hype
Mike Gotta posted Enterprise Twitter: Clarity Amid The Hype analyzing - and generally agreeing with - points raised by Adina Levin (Socialtext) in her excellent post What's Different about Enterprise Twitter? I agree with Mike's analysis and Adina's thoughtful points (read them both) but want to focus on Mike's conclusion:
Clash of the Titans - Peter O'Kelly at TUG 2010
I'm happy to present a transcript and quotes from Peter O'Kelly's TUG 2010 talk Communication / Collaboration / Content Competition, "Co-opetition," and Culture: Opportunities for Traction Software and its Customer Community. Or, as I'll call it here Clash of the Titans. Peter draws on his career as Lotus Notes product manager at Lotus Development Corporation and IBM, IBM Director of Business Development, Groove Networks product manager, MacroMedia vice president of strategy, Microsoft Solutions Architect, and senior analyst or director with the Patricia Seybold Group, the Burton Group, and O'Kelly Associates - see Peter's LinkedIn page and personal blog. I asked Peter to write a 'Where are they now' follow up post, and he cheerfully agreed! Look for it here next week.
Clash of the Titans 2020 - Peter O'Kelly
Revisiting Communication/Collaboration/Content Competition, ‘Co-opetition,’ and Culture: Opportunities for Traction Software and its Customer Community, my 2010 Traction User Group (TUG) presentation, it’s fascinating to realize how deeply the product strategies of the leading enterprise communication, collaboration, and content (3C) vendors were disrupted over the last decade. It’s also frankly a bit discouraging to realize how much 3C potential has yet to be realized by most mainstream enterprise end users, although that’s somewhat offset by the knowledge that Traction customers have been benefitting from the ongoing refinement of TeamPage’s pioneering collaborative hypertext journaling system the entire time. In this post, I’ll share perspectives on what has changed in the 3C product families of the vendors identified as enterprise 3C titans in the 2010 presentation along with some highlights of vendors that weren’t part of the 2010 discussion but are important 3C competitors today. I’ll close with some thoughts about where Traction fits into the current enterprise 3C landscape.
Cloud Hosted Pricing
Traction Software offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hosted TeamPage servers, including Amazon backup of Journal data, Traction Software management and installation of TeamPage updates, and hosting for the Attivio Advanced Search option.
Collaborating Across "Boundaries" - Searching People for Answers
Mike Gotta points to new research published in HBS Working Knowledge analyzing which groups in an organization are most likely to communicate, crossing social and physical boundaries. The study, Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization, reports that "women, mid- to high-level executives and members of executive management, sales and marketing functions are most likely to participate in cross-group communications." It is these people who bridge groups in social structure.
Collaborating around the Collaborative Technologies Conference
Greg and I joined panels at CTC which brought together a really great set of speakers from John Seely Brown to Rod Boothby of Ernst & Young and Larry Cannell of Ford Motor. My take away from the conference? Collaboration isn't about documents anymore (and never was).
Collaboration
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Collaboration - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Boston KM Forum
At the Boston KM Forum meeting today, Lynda Moulton and Larry Chait put together a speaker lineup that reminds us of past experience where collaboration worked, and highlights key trends that speak to trends making collaboration a credible activity in the future. I did my best here to capture a few best practices and key learnings.
Collaboration Tools - Are Information Silos a Problem?
James Robertson's article Collaboration Tools are Anti Knowledge Sharing? discusses the pros and cons of collaboration tools, with particular emphasis on the problems associated with proliferation of 100's or even 1,000's of information silos. Michael Sampson's response nicely vouches for the pros, while cautioning against having a hodgepodge of disparate collaboration tools.
Collaborative Intelligence in Large or Growing Organizations
Arik Johnson (of AuroraWDC) and I developed a workshop on Collaborative Early Warning. We cover a range of topics from "the Wisdom of Crowds" to how to apply Jan Herring's Key Information Topic protocols to the early warning process. We then break into a teams to review a business case and conduct a war gaming exercise.
Comments and Threaded Discussions
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Community of Practice
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Company History and Roots
Founded in 1996, Traction® Software, Inc. set out to eliminate the frustrating and costly inefficiencies in team communications and information management by creating a revolutionary web-based hypertext Journal. Traction TeamPage was first released in 1999 and, after commercial launch in July 2002, became the first blog and wiki product for enterprise use. TeamPage is used worldwide by major pharma, finance, manufacturing, healthcare and other enterprises, universities, and branches of the U.S. Government.
Compliance and Enterprise 2.0 - For the right reasons
Burton Group analyst Mike Gotta writes Compliance Doesn't Sell E2.0 … But It Should in his personal Collaborative Thinking blog. Mike summarizes a June 2009 E2.0 conference interview with Alexander Howard, quoted in Compliance concerns dog Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platforms. Howard asks:
Configurable and Extensible
Traction® TeamPage provides built-in forms to install, configure and manage the initial setup including permissioned access rules and connection to external email, Active Directory, LDAP, and Jabber services.
Connections
To the best of my knowledge, Clay Shirky is responsible for popularizing the term Social Software. By his definition, it's primarily about patterns of connections:
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Content Rating Plug-in
Project workspace owners can enable and configure rating methods on a per project basis. To meet a range of needs and preferences, you can choose between two types of ratings behaviors:
Contextual Computing At Work
In Co.Design May 24, 2013 Peter Morrison of Jump Associates writes The Future of Technology isn't Mobile, it's Contextual. He says that the way we respond to the world around is based on situational awareness. "The way we respond to the world around us is so seamless that it’s almost unconscious. Our senses pull in a multitude of information, contrast it to past experience and personality traits, and present us with a set of options for how to act or react. Then, it selects and acts upon the preferred path. This process--our fundamental ability to interpret and act on the situations in which we find ourselves--has barely evolved since we were sublingual primates living on the Veldt.
Continuity and Intertwingled Work
At Apple's WWDC 2014 on 2 Jun 2014, Apple demonstrated how to build a great user experience spanning a your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple calls this OS level capability Continuity. It enables you to continue what you're doing across devices and applications by securely encapsulating your identity and the context of your action as an object. From picking up a draft email message started on an iPhone and continuing work with that draft on your Mac, to answering an incoming iPhone call on your Mac, I believe this opens the door for a level of seamless experience that everyone will want for personal use, their family, and at work.
Corporate Communication
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Could I interest you in a Memex?
Today Weblogged News (Will Richardson) has a thoughtful post "Proficiency in Tossing Stuff Out", reflecting on Thomas Washington's essay in the Christian Science Monitor. Washington says: "The pursuit of knowledge in the age of information overload is less about a process of acquisition than about proficiency in tossing stuff out."
Creating GWT Date / Time Pickers That Work in Any Time Zone
We're working on new features for the next release of TeamPage that allow people to create events on a calendar. For the edit event dialog, we needed date and time pickers that allow people across different time zones to edit the dates and times of events. We ended up creating new GWT controls and adding them to our open source gwt-traction library .
Custom Interfaces, Views and Forms
You can use Traction's Skin Definition Language (SDL) to create custom views, forms or entire interfaces for specific applications or needs. This can be done as a set of views for a whole site or for a single page.
Customer Support
Good customer support is, by all means, a feature. At Traction Software we strive to provide top notch customer support and professional services.
Daily Report 日報 = Observable Work: Takashi Okutsu
Takashi Okutsu of Traction Software's Japanese Business Office recently posted an update to his Daily Report TeamPage plugin. Takashi writes: "In some Japanese companies, it is common to look back what an employee did in the day, write a summary, and submit it to his/her boss. This is called "日報" (daily report or daily journal) and it's a way of sharing information between employees and bosses in the hierarchy. If you are interested in the ways of business in Japanese companies, you may find this blog post interesting." This example of Observable Work is very simple to understand and use. Quality Management and other TeamPage solutions follow the same pattern.
Datasheets
Datasheets are attached.
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Dec 2013 | The Wiki Way - Jordan Frank at Gilbane 2013 Boston
What makes the public Social Web work so well? How is social software in the enterprise similar? How is it different? What does a path to success for enterprise social tools look like? Traction Software's Jordan Frank answers these questions in The Wiki Way - Towards Quality, Change and Risk Management as a Path to Enterprise Social Software Adoption (slides below). Jordan's model uses critical core content, critical record / exception management, and critical conversation to establish a base for enterprise social media success. His model shows how social tools can be put into the grain of work, take culture issues off the table, and drive creativity using specific examples. Jordan spoke on the Gilbane Boston 2013 panel, Driving Self Service and Support Through Social Collaboration moderated by Lynda Moulton, Principal, LWM Technology Services.
Dec 2014 | TeamPage @ Mentions
Traction® TeamPage Fall 2014 Release Introduces inline @ mentions. An @ mention makes it it easy to bring any TeamPage item to someone’s attention just by typing their name. Automatic inline completion makes @ name lookup easy. When a person is mentioned, TeamPage will automatically notify them of follow on comments. Reply to the inline or email notification to add a quick response from your smart phone, tablet, or a Web browser. This is a great way to bring someone into a conversation without sending a hand authored email, text message or other message. @ mentions extend TeamPage's Work Graph model using notation that's familiar from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other Web services.
Dec 2015 | Quality Management, Signature Requirements
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2015 Release introduces a new TeamPage Quality Management option. The Quality Management module adds Feedback, Non-Conformance, and Corrective Action forms and dashboards to TeamPage's standard support for authoring, delivery, and tracking of quality and compliance documentation. The new Quality forms and dashboards make it simple to manage the full life cycle for manufacturing, operations, and other procedures based on ISO 9001 or other compliance standards. Signature Requirements is a new capability which lets you require people to sign TeamPage articles either once or on a recurring basis. Signature Requirements can be used to collect approvals for publication, confirm that a document has been reviewed or a process followed, or for any other situation where a set of users and groups must explicitly acknowledge that they have reviewed an article. Signature Requirements is included with the Quality Management option, and is also available as separately priced independent option, please contact us for details.
Dec 2016 | Business Process Improvement with impi!, Plug-in extensions, TeamPage improvements
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2016 Release consolidates TeamPage point releases shipped since May 2016, adding numerous improvements to support business process, quality management, daily report, and other plug-in extensions. This release also includes new user experience and performance improvements, bug fixes, extensions of the TeamPage SDK, and architectural enhancements to extend the capabilities of the TeamPage platform.
Dec 2017 | FullCalendar adds list and schedule views, ability to show calendar events for selected groups
Traction® TeamPage 2017 Winter Release includes Traction® TeamPage integration with FullCalendar to add new calendar views and capabilities including: list and agenda views; the ability to display events from Google Calendars; the ability to show individual calendars for people who belong to a selected group. FullCalendar is a customizable and open-source JavaScript event calendar with many extensible capabilities and a popular API.
Dec 2021 | Improved External User Directory Integration; Developer improvements for Ordered Lists, Forms, and Widgets
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.52 is focused on improvements to external user directory integration, bug fixes, and Developer SDK improvements including support for implementation of upcoming Kanban plug-in capabilities. The release also includes over 60 bug fixes and improvements for TeamPage customers and developers. Please read on for the full list of changes.
Decagon Devices: Plans, Products, Projects, Procedures and ISO 9001 Quality Management
Decagon Devices (Decagon.com) designs, manufactures and markets scientific instruments used to measure water, light and heat in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Decagon devices are used by 80% of the top one hundred food companies to measure water activity in food; by farms to measure soil for water and nutrient use; and by NASA where Decagon devices were sent to Mars to measure humidity and wind. Decagon deployed Traction® TeamPage for project management, ISO certification of their procedure management, internal corporate communications and knowledge management.
December 2005 | Analysis: A "Green" Utility Chooses Blogging for Business
by Doug Henschen. The company [Enel North America] initially took advantage of the [Traction® TeamPage] software to deliver basic intranet-type information, including HR policies and benefits, company news and even a monthly company update from the CEO... Work is now underway on a collaborative application for some 30 employees in the business development group who handle due diligence on potential acquisitions. » Read More
December 2005 | EContent 100 Companies that Matter
For the second year in a row, Traction Software is named to the EContent Magazine list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. "Our goal was to be sure that those who make the list again and again don’t do so out of habit or mindshare, but rather because they continue to innovate and deliver products and services that further the evolution of digital content."
December 2005 | Managing the Knowledge Workforce
Jonathan Spira's inspiring new book provides a fresh view of the challenges facing today's knowledge worker and practical strategies to outfit them with tools they need. One case study covers the story of a competitive intelligence group in a Fortune 500 company. They deployed Traction® TeamPage enterprise blog software to effectively put "CI in context for decision making" and "provide easy access to information across the business." The system supports collaboration between 25 people involved in the intelligence process and over 100 decision makers. (Page 141-144)
December 2006 | Berlind (and Frank) on Wikis and Blogs at the Gilbane Content Management Conference
David Berlind writes about the impact Wikis and Blogs will have on the enterprise, and conducted a video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank along with others from various corners of the Content Management industry. Berlind wrote:
December 2006 | Test Lab: Traction Juices Up Collaboration
December 18, 2006: P.G. Daly of Intranet Journal's Test Lab wrote a terrific and comprehensive review of Traction® TeamPage. The full review is worth reading, but here are a few quotes:
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
December 2010 | Gilbane Conference - Portal vs. Enterprise Social Software Panel
Jordan Frank writes: At the Gilbane Conference last month I stood in for Greg Lloyd in the Portal or Enterprise Social Software: Which Collaboration Environment to Choose? panel with David Seuss (CEO, Northern Light) and Jay Batson (Co-Founder and VP, Acquia).
Deep Search
"Using TeamPage Attivio Search Plus and TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web, external documents, pages and transactions are now able to become social objects seamlessly integrated with Traction® TeamPage's action tracking, search, collaboration and communication." Marrying deep search and collaboration, KMWorld Jun 22, 2011.
Deloitte and Sampson: Focus on process, the "why" not the "what", for social software
I found a common thread on process centric adoption in the Deloitte Center for the Edge's Social Software for Business Performance report and Michael Sampson's User Adoption Strategies book. This advice is reflected in my post on Emergineering from last fall.
Department of Defense Selects Traction Software as part of Net-Centric Innovation Initiative
Traction Enterprise Weblogs to Transform DoD Communications, Deliver Simple, Secure Solution Designed to Accelerate Test and Evaluation Programs
Detailed Data Aside, Executives Back E2.0
A new market report, this time by McKinsey& Company, says a majority of executives say they plan to increase investments in technologies which fall under the collective hood of Enterprise and Web 2.0.
Do Something Differently - Spend less for better results
JP Rangaswami offers typically sound advice for businesses looking at how to cope with hard times in his October 19th post Invented Here. He says when times are hard, a firm has four choices:
Don't take my word for it - Byrne and Koplowitz on SharePoint
At the Enterprise 2.0conference two weeks ago, Tony Byrne (President, the Real Story Group) and Rob Koplowitz (VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research) were joined for the SharePoint Analyst Panel. David Carr's Information Week column Does SharePoint Have Future As A Social Platform frames the debate as lopsided with a simple conclusion: No.
Doug Engelbart - Hyperscope Project
See the Hyperscope Project for Doug's newest project (supported by a November 2005 NSF Grant) to apply bootstrapping principles to the evolution of a new generation of tools.
Doug Engelbart | 85th Birthday Jan 30, 2010
"DOUG Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, "dealing lightning with both hands." At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world." from What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff.
Doug Engelbart's copy of As We May Think - with Doug's 1962 notes scribbled in the margins
The Doug Engelbart Foundation's 1995 Vannevar Bush Symposium video archive page includes a section on Bush's influence on Doug's work, including his copy of Bush's As We May Think with Doug's 1962 notes in the margins (pdf). Talk about deeply intertwingled living history. Per a note in the .pdf, the original hardcopy has apparently been donated to the Computer History Museum. Look for this paper when the Computer History Museum's Revolution - The First 2000 Years of Computing exhibit opens in Mountain View CA - and online on 13 Jan 2011.
Dynamic RSS and Atom Feeds
Traction produces dynamic, secure, and authenticated feeds. It can deliver an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed of any Traction view, even an arbitrary search query.
Dynamic, Permission Filtered Views
All views in Traction are delivered dynamically based on a given user's permissions assigned in Access Control and Security.
E-Mail and IM Notification
Most users are happy with the daily summary provided by the E-Mail Digest, a permission filtered newsletter format that concisely shows all new content, and packs discussions into threads. However, other users prefer more immediate notification via RSS Feeds. E-Mail Notification, however, fits well with E-Mail habits, provides nearly immediate notification and is highly configurable so you can use it to monitor anything from all content, or a very specific search type query.
E-mail Digest
The Email Digest is the most commonly type of notification.
E-mail Out
It's easy for permitted users to send an arbitrary collection of articles via email.
E-Mail: an On-Ramp for Enterprise Social Media
Bill Ives, @billives, points to Nathan Eddy's eWeek column titled Businesses Still Reliant on Email as Social Media Use Grows. The column reminds us that Email is still the dominant go-to application of choice and that's not changing any time soon. Rather than run away from email habits, social software in the enterprise has to embrace it. Back in 2004, I gave a presentation at the INBOX conference advocating for the use of Email as an on-ramp for collaboration and an off-ramp for notification.
Eat your spinach: Email is good for you, but it could taste a lot better
Takashi Okutsu of Traction Software's Japanese Business Office says that email is like spinach. It may be necessary for a healthy business, but not everyone likes spinach. He says that it's not reasonable to think that Social Network Software replaces email. It's better to look at how SNS extends and complements email. Takashi's July 3, 2015 TractionSoftware.jp blog post explains how, see this rough Google English translation.
eCourier - The UK's Express Courier Company
eCourier, the UK's pre-eminent express courier service deployed Traction® TeamPage to accelerate technology development activities across three countries, report progress to investors, and conduct internal conversations. Full case study is provided here. Also see coverage in ComputerWorld, 25 May 2005 | Courier turns to blog tools to speed package-tracking, and ComputerWeekly, August 2006 | Harness the Power of Collaboration.
Editing
Traction supports Wiki style collaborative editing and edit histories for articles and comments. Once an article is posted to Traction, Edit and Edit Own permissions control who can edit the article using Traction's editing interface (see Publishing). Edit Own permission allows you to grant people permission to edit the content that they posted - but not content posted by others.
Email isn't dead - It's only sleeping
Caroline McCarthy has a wonderful post The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail. She quotes Kevin Marks:
Email Reply
When email is sent or posted to Traction, you can reply directly from Traction. The response message is sent as an ordinary email, but also published to a selected project.
Emergineering!
Since introducing the idea of Social Process Reengineering? earlier this week I've socialized it virtually and personally (at E2.0 Boston) with at least a dozen customers, bloggers, analysts and other leading thinkers.
Consensus on the concept was generally positive with a variety of feedback ranging from the matter that the "facebook" approach doesn't just work in the enterprise to the matter that the social, structural and business pain have to be taken into account for successful E2.0 efforts.
Enel North America
Enel is a Global 100 company and was listed at #65 (as of 2005) on Forbes World's 2000 leading companies. Enel has one of the the largest global renewable energy portfolios in the world with over 19,000 MW of hydropower, wind, geothermal and biomass capacity worldwide. Enel North America, Inc. is a leading owner and operator of renewable energy plants in North America, with with over 70 plants in 16 U.S. States and 2 Canadian Provinces. With offices in the United States and Canada, Enel North America is active in a number of clean power sources, including hydro, wind, and biomass, as well as pursuing potential geothermal opportunities.
Enterprise 2.0 - Are we there yet?
Andrew McAfee writes Nov 20, 2014: "Facebook’s recent announcement that it’s readying a version of its social software for workplaces got me thinking about Enterprise 2.0, a topic I used to think a great deal about. Five years ago I published a book with that title, arguing that enterprise social software platforms would be valuable tools for businesses...
Why did it take so long? I can think of a few reasons. It’s hard to get the tools right — useful and simple software is viciously hard to make. Old habits die hard, and old managers die (or at least leave the workforce) slowly. The influx of ever-more Millennials has almost certainly helped, since they consider email antediluvian and traditional collaboration software a bad joke.
Whatever the causes, I’m happy to see evidence that appropriate digital technologies are finally appearing to help with the less structured, less formal work of the enterprise. It’s about time.
What do you think? Is Enterprise 2.0 finally here? If so, why now? Leave a comment, please, and let us know."
Enterprise 2.0 - Letting hypertext out of its box
In his Mar 26, 2006 post, Putting Enterprise 2.0 in Perspective, Mike Gotta agrees with Tom Davenport and Andrew McAfee that a balanced discussion of E2.0 should include "... how well an enterprise addresses the complex organizational dynamics that often inhibit change," not just "irrational exuberance regarding the technology."
Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference & Presentation on What is Social About Software
This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference was June 22-25. Traction® Software had a booth and Jordan Frank presented in the Market Leaders track on "What is Social About Software? And Why it Matters." Here's the presentation (PDF) and its abstract:
Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work
I really like Jim McGee's Jun 23, 2010 blog post Managing the visibility of knowledge work. Jim makes the excellent point that "Invisibility is an accidental and little-recognized characteristic of digital knowledge work." and points back to his 2002 post Knowledge Work as Craft Work to reflect on what Jim calls a "dangerous tension between industrial frameworks and knowledge work as craft work". Early in his 2002 post McGee says:
Enterprise 2.0 and the importance of Silo Smashing!
Recent posts by Michael Sampson, John Tropea and Thomas Vander Wal converge on the need for Enterprise 2.0 tools to smash the silos segregating content types and isolating workspaces.
Enterprise 2.0 Schism
I have to confess that I've enjoyed watching recent rounds of Enterprise 2.0 discussion and mud wrestling. The fact that so many people enjoy debating definitions, values, doctrinal principals - even the existence of Enterprise 2.0 - makes me think that E2.0 might best be framed as a religious debate. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce a new and exciting element: schism.
Enterprise 2.0: Radical Change by Revolution or Mandate?
Ross Dawson's Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations quotes Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum research director from an article by Merri Mack writing in Voice and Data magazine:
European Pharmaceutical Group
A pharmaceutical group based in Europe with world wide facilities and over 1 billion Euros in 2005 revenue deployed Traction® TeamPage enterprise blog software as a Competitive Intelligence platform. Traction enables a collective intelligence process spanning business functions and time zones. The system enables market and competitive information, analysis and commentary to flow more freely in order to support timely, informed decision making processes and increased market awareness.
Exception Handling
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Explaining Knowledge Management
Green Chameleon posts two wonderfully funny fake interviews: Explaining KM #1 (which roasts KM academicians) and Explaining KM #2 (which roasts KM consultants). I hope they go on to produce Explaining KM #3 to roast KM software vendors! Produced by (and starring?) folk from StraitsKnowledge.com, which appears to be a very good Singapore-based consulting and research firm focused on knowledge, learning and innovation.
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.
Export to Word or PDF
In addition to Printing and Email Out, another way to get content out of Traction is to export to WordML or PDF format.
Extending the fabric of work, or How to Be Emergent
I enjoyed reading Dion Hincliffe's Putting Social Business to Work and G+ discussion led by Luis Suarez on Laurie Buczek's The Big Failure of Enterprise 2.0 Social Business. I agree that top down - and isolated - Social Business parallels the faults of top down - and isolated - Knowledge Management. I like Laurie's analysis and recommendations, including her top level: "Make social tools part of the collaborative workflow." This is good for both social business and knowledge management. The question is: how to extend the fabric of work?
Facebook: A Carnival Midway not a Neighborhood?
Oliver Marks wrote a very good post: Facebook: The Legal Rumblings Start Dec 17, 2009, on the Facebook's potential legal exposure due to its controversial changes to member privacy capabilities and settings. My comment: Oliver -- Very good followup on Facebook's awkward (to put it mildly) changes to selective privacy capabilities which were a large part of their differentiation vs Friendster and MySpace.
With over 70 million folk apparently hooked on "social" games like Farmville, targeted ads that seem to belong on late night TV, and incredibly lame attempts to nag folk get their friends to use Facebook more (giving "viral" a new and flu like meaning), I see Facebook becoming a downscale carnival midway more than a neighborhood. They certainly have a right to do that.
Originally I thought the equally lame and manipulative privacy changes would just contribute to the downmarket feel of the place.
But as you point out - EU privacy laws may land them in legal entanglements too.
Facebook is becoming a bad example rather than a good example for use of social software in the enterprise - or anywhere for that matter. Look out below!
FAST and Traction partner to deliver answers in context
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) is a leader in high performance, scaleable content search and navigation (see FAST's position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report for Information Access Technology). Traction Software Inc and FAST are pleased to announce an agreement to offer a new FAST powered module to Traction TeamPage customers. The optional module extends Traction's standard search capability by adding permission-filtered search across over 370 formats of documents attached to TeamPage blog posts (or stored in TeamPage's built-in web folders). Just as significantly, the new module will offer navigation by topic and entity (company name, person, location, date) automatically extracted from blog post and document content based on FAST's deep analysis. This partnership will enable permission filtered content search and navigation across federated Traction TeamPage and other FAST indexed content stores, delivering analysis and answers in context to enterprises or networks of any size. » Read the Press Release
Fast and Traction Software Partner to Combine the Power of Search and Enterprise Blogging
Fast and Traction® Software Partner to Combine the Power of Search and Enterprise Blogging OSLO, Norway & NEEDHAM, Mass. & PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE) --June 12, 2006-- FAST InStream(TM) OEM enterprise search solution and Traction's TeamPage(TM) hypertext blog / wiki platform provide businesses with secure search, collaboration and information-sharing capabilities.
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
Features
Traction® TeamPage integrates collaboration, communication, action tracking, exception handling, social tagging, activity streams, discussion and social networking using Traction's award-winning hypertext technology. TeamPage makes Enterprise 2.0 technology secure, attractive, effective and reliable for business.
February 2005 | KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter In Knowledge Management by KMWorld
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's Editor in Chief, said "Traction Software's innovation in Weblog technology uniquely fits the needs of knowledge workers and will form an essential part of the enterprise intranet." » Read More
Feldman Explains Open Source, I Ponder his Approach
In a multi part series published in KM World magazine, David Feldman is explaining Open Source software and the dynamics of the groups who support it. The developer group organizations are as interesting to understand (see Bob Wolf reference in Collaboration - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Boston KM Forum) as where open source will make its biggest mark (open source tools vs. operating systems vs. applications, for example).
Fixing Enterprise Search
A few days ago the Enterprise 2.0 Blog published Venkatesh Rao's excellent post The Real Reasons Enterprise Search is Broken. When he hears ironic jokes comparing search on the public Web versus internal enterprise search, Venkatesh notes: "People move on because they seem to think that this is incompetence at work. Search is soo 1.0 right? It's been solved and we're just fumbling the execution, right?" He says: "I have reached a radical conclusion: broken search is the problem, but fixing search is not the solution. Search breaks behind the firewall for social, not technical reasons... Let's start with the blindingly obvious, and then draw some weird conclusions." I think they are perceptive conclusions based on sound analysis, and agree with most, but come at the problem from a different angle.
Flip Test 1971 | Email versus Journal
Andrew McAfee asks a great question in A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms: "... imagine that current corporate collaboration and communication technologies were exclusively E2.0 platforms -- blogs, wikis, etc. -- and all of a sudden a crop of new channel technologies -- email, instant messaging, text messaging -- became available. In other words, imagine the inverse of the present situation. What would happen? How, in the flip-test universe, would the new channel technologies be received?"
Follow TUG 2010 Newport on Twitter
If you can't make it to the fifth annual Traction User Group meeting on 12-15 October 2010 in Newport RI, you can still join the fun on Twitter! Use hash tag #TUG2010 to follow updates from Newport or ask questions. You can also follow folk attending TUG 2010 Newport with the TUG2010-Newport list
For Second Year in a Row, Traction’s Teampage Software Named “Trend Setting Product of the Year” by KMWorld
Traction Software Also Recently Named a Top 100 Company by KM World, Red Herring and eContent
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)
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.
Garry Kasparov on Computer Chess and Enterprise 2.0
Professor Andrew McAfee posted a very good business analysis of points made by Garry Kasparov in his Feb 11, 2010 New York Review of Books article on Diego Rasskin-Gutman's book Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind. Kasparov's summarized of his own thoughts as a Chess Grandmaster and world chess champion playing against - and losing to - IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. But the interesting part comes when Kasparov talks about a recent match open to grandmasters who were allowed to use computer chess programs of their choice to augment their own chess skills: "The surprise came at the conclusion of the event. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but a pair of amateur American chess players using three computers at the same time." McAfee quotes Kasparov and continues:
Get a Bike Mr Kagermann!
WSJ.com's Ben Worthen quotes SAP chief executive Henning Kagermann "giving an interview in the back seat of a hybrid Mercury SUV instead of his usual Town Car, in accordance with SAP's new environmental policy". Kagermann is skeptical about the proposition that "large corporate-software projects will disappear, replaced by easy-to-use Internet-programs targeted at individual workers". Kagermann says:
Get Intuition with Traction
One of my favorite aspects of the Traction platform is its ability to help human's "scale" to handle working with a large amount of information content. As I noted in Wikis Reduce Email, we have over 130,000 pages, comments and attachments in our own enterprise system, but it's very manageable. Traction turns information overload into underload and facilitates the transformation of text into human knowledge and intuition. Blosint agrees.
Get Traction! Now Free for 5 Users
Try it now — Download TeamPage — the free 5 user version. Contact us for a product demonstration, or read about Traction® TeamPage™ Features.
Good Titles/Headlines are Good Practice
In my role as an emergineer, I talk a lot about best practices and how they can be leveraged in a given customer deployment. One practice that works in any sphere from email to social software and journalism is to write a good headline.
Greg Lloyd President & Co-Founder
Greg Lloyd and Jordan Frank Join Collaboration Panels at CTC 2006
Greg and Jordan joined an incredible roster of speakers at the CTC 2006 conference this month. Greg Lloyd was on the Alternative Enterprise Collaboration Options panel on Tuesday. Click here for Greg's panel presentation. Jordan Frank was on the Collaborative Workspaces: Key Trends panel on Wednesday. Click here for all the presentations from Jordan's panel. Watch our blog page for reflections on the conference and dialogue that followed.
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.
gwt-traction project on Google Code
While building our new GWT-based Proteus skin for Traction TeamPage 5.0, we created some widgets and utilities that we thought other developers would find useful. Most of these are pretty simple, but we hope they save other GWT developers some time. As we factor out code that can be shared with others, we'll add more to this gwt-traction Google community project.
Happy Birthday Doug Engelbart!
Happy Birthday Doug! A perfect gentle knight of technology as well as a pioneer and great inventor. Doug Engelbart's 87th birthday - today - is a fine day to watch the video of Doug's talk "The Strategic Pursuit of Collective IQ" embedded below. And a great day to (re) read Doug's "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" 1962, see DougEngelbart.org. My favorite Doug quotes and links, see Doug Engelbart | 85th Birthday Jan 30, 2010 from two years ago.
Having versus Using Enterprise 2.0 Software
Gil Yehuda wrote a very good post today Enterprise 2.0 Thoughts to end the week. He talks about Enterprise 2.0 maturity, second wave adoption, focus on work, and levels of the conversation. It's a great post you should read in full and reflect on. One particular point caught my attention; Gil says: "... having a wiki, forum, blogs, etc. on the intranet and using a wiki, forum, blog effectively to improve the transparency and productivity of collaboration are very different indicators of progress."
Hello! Greetings from Takashi Okutsu
Hi everyone. I am delighted to introduce myself to you as a member of the Traction Software Team. As some of you know, my name is Takashi Okutsu, and I am the director of Traction Software's Japan Business Office, located in Yokohama.
Home Page and Dashboards
Organizing by Space
How (Not) To Fail
Euan Semple breaks with tradition with a Top 8 list rather than a Top 10, and by explaining Most Companies Who Try to do Enterprise 2.0 will Fail (worst practices) vs. why they will succeed (best practices). From both sides of the IT fence (as a consultant and sales person at a VAR, an operations manager and product manager at a global content delivery service, and in marketing and consulting roles here at Traction Software) I've seen my share of internal failures and customer or prospect failures too. I've commented here on 3 of Euan's Top 8.
How 1.5 is Greater than 2.0
I found Tom Davenport's discussion of Why 1.5 is Greater than 2.0 by way of Bill Ives in Mixing Old and New School Communication. Davenport talks about the social reasons in favor of a blend between social and traditional approaches. I think an answer to How 1.5, in this context, is Greater than 2.0 is both social and structural.
How big a deal is Enterprise 2.0? What do you mean by "Big"?
I'm flattered that Professor Andrew McAfee cites Enterprise 2.0 Schism in his Nov 20, 2009 blog post Enterprise 2.0 is Not THAT Big a Deal, kicking off a neat discussion on serious points behind my tongue in cheek analysis. McAfee agrees that Enterprise 2.0 is a big deal - but "... I don't see E2.0's tools, approaches, and philosophies making obsolete managers, hierarchies, org charts and formal cross functional business processes". There's no need to use a 2.0 version for the Enterprise, but:
How Can I Organize Information? Let Me Count the Ways
As I read through a few posts from Lynda Moulton, Jack Vinson and Jessica Baumgart, all involved in my ASIS&T 2007 and Gilbane panels late last year, I am pausing to absorb the surprising rate at which we've collectively moved away from the double drawer file cabinets and dewey decimal systems that I learned to use only a decade or two ago.
How to create a simplified custom front page for TeamPage
The other day, I helped a Japanese IT Support company build a client support site with TeamPage.
Their main request was to make the top page ("front page") of TeamPage simple as possible to be more welcoming and prevent clients from being confused. So, I (1) put the large icons and buttons on the top page and (2) removed tabs and sidebar etc.
In this blog post, I will briefly introduce how I did the customizations using a TeamPage plug-in developed and delivered to the company.
How to make your ISO Auditor Smile; And Make Your Professional Life Much Easier
Jordan had a conversation with a TeamPage customer in Sweden who agreed to document and publish a TeamPage case study, but the ISO auditor story is too good to wait. The customer is small precision machined products manufacturer. They initially supplied prototypes to the Swedish defense industry, but now focus on precision products for heavy vehicle manufacturers.
HTML 5 Drag-and-Drop Support
Traction TeamPage 5.2 introduces HTML 5 Drag-and-Drop to insert images, attach files to articles, or drag files to TeamPage share folders.
Human Resources
Human resources groups have the heavy burden of managing policies, training material, and standard forms. They also have to take in and respond to questions and communicate frequently to the whole enterprise. This is a big job to do, but it's easy with TeamPage.
Dashboards simplify the communication job
A TeamPage Dashboard is easily configured to display the latest policies, training material, Q&A and other material. You can easily change the sections here to show company events, announcements and anything else employees may need know now about.
Sections can display the latest questions and a list of all that timeless policy content.
Moderation allows HR to control key documentation
Permission controls manage who can author, edit and who can read drafts. So, the links that appear in grey in the dashboard above may only appear to a select few people.
In the example below, a user with permission can read the draft or published version and is able to Publish the draft version to open it up for everyone else. You can use the content of the page to carry the message, or attach any number of documents. You may also write wiki links to related content or links to forms that may exist in TeamPage or on other enterprise systems.
Edit history and audit trail tracks all changes
You can sleep at night knowing that all changes are tracked in TeamPage. Moderation history even tells you when certain versions were published or unpublished. The ability to Read Edit History is a permission, so you can also restrict this information to the core HR team.
Ask and Answer Questions
HR Teams are bombarded with questions on policies, benefits, training opportunities and a wide range of other issues. You can establish a Q&A section in an open space, or set it up to receive questions in a private space only visible to the HR Team.
Using a task to receive questions offers the chance to assign questions to a subject matter expert to be sure of follow-up.
That's just the beginning
Contact us to learn more about how TeamPage can make your HR function more productive, how TeamPage Premium Search can make finding anything a snap, and why banks, hospitals and many other organizations have adopted TeamPage to establish an HR communication hub.
I Can't Tweet & Trusting Online Services
Last fall, I pointed out an issue of trust as part and parcel of Web 2.0 security (See What Web 2.0 and E2.0 Security Means to Me). When we accept social services like Facebook and Twitter as Two of Three Places for People, we entrust them to manage our data securely, to keep consistent terms (i.e. they don't suck us in and then suck us dry by starting to charge for basic services), and to be there when we need them. Today, I felt muzzled as I was touched by the uptime issue. I got this "over capacity" memo when I went to Tweet an answer to Dave Lamp's Question. I've received the "over capacity" messages several times and will continue, for now, to trust they'll iron things out over at Twitter HQ.
I Love My iPhone
I don't often get enthusiastic about software (except for Traction TeamPage!) or a device, but my iPhone caught me off guard.
I won a ticket to Google I/O!
We've been using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for about 2 years and have also gone to the past 2 years of Google I/O. It's been a fun and useful conference and there was no question we were going to go again this year.
impi! and TeamPage Reduce Administration of Document Control
In this article we build a case for using TeamPage and impi! wiki templates to save administrative time for document control and support the intent of ISO9001:2015 to distribute the responsibility of the Quality Management System to the leadership of the organisation.
impi! What's in the name? What's in the logo?
Impi is a Zulu word for any armed body of men. It also bears in English a connotation to the art of warfare. In the early part of the 19th century the Zulu nation, then a relatively small tribe rose to a prominent nation. Under the leadership of King Shaka its influence span across Southern Africa. Shaka deeply transformed the art of warfare in the sub continent drawing from traditions and innovating. Aspects of warfare covered army structure and deployment, leadership, training, agility, logistic, weaponry, etc. Shaka's organisational development and leading of his impis were characterised by discipline (standardisation) and creative improvement.
In-Q-Tel signs expanded license agreement with Traction Software
Providence, Rhode Island, June 13, 2002 - In-Q-Tel, a venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently signed an expanded enterprise software license agreement with Traction® Software, Inc., providing use rights for the latest version and multi-year upgrades of Traction’s workgroup information-sharing software.
Ineffective meetings - Here's an answer
Are you are a business owner, executive or senior manager? Then you’ve experienced the good, the bad and the ugly of management meetings.
Management meetings are the heartbeat of any business and are in place to keep teams productive, accountable and focused. Meetings are the primary channel for communication and goal alignment throughout the business.
If you and your teams are dissatisfied with the quality of your meetings, then you are fortunate enough to have a giant improvement opportunity in your business, with low implementation cost and high reward.
When you think about it, the actions that come out of your meetings are the smallest unit of improvement of your business. The rate at which you and your teams close tasks is the real rate of improvement of your business. It is a measure of engagement and agility. Tasks matter.
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.
InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award
Everyone at Traction Software is honored to learn that TeamPage has been named a InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award Winner. In addition to InfoWorld, we'd like to thank customers and friends of Traction for helping us build a product that works well and serves a useful purpose. I'd personally like to thank Traction Software's employees and partners, as well as the inspiration from Andy van Dam, Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart. What a way to start the New Year!
Inside Sales Representative (Lead Generation)
Job Description: Have the opportunity of a lifetime at Traction Software, a quickly growing company leading the "Enterprise 2.0" software charge. As part of a marketing campaign that generates interested leads, you will reach out to Fortune 100-1,000 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations with the primary objective of qualifying leads and setting up appointments for the sales team. The right individual will aggressively call leads, engage interest, and create the excitement that Traction TeamPage Enteprise Wiki and Blog software applications can offer. The ideal individual will be trained at the highest level on lead generation. Secondary objectives are organized around assisting field and web marketing efforts to sustain and increase lead flow.
Installation and Administration
Installating Traction is easy. You need to install one piece of software and configuration is a breeze.
Installation Instructions
For the smoothest installation experience, we highly recommend that you follow the step-by-step installation instructions in the PDF Installation and Configuration Guide. This guide also includes detailed instructions for configuring Traction to work with Active Directory and LDAP servers, as well has how to set up Traction for the first time.
Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (IJIS)
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (www.ijis.org)
deployed Traction TeamPage for their public website, working committee
extranet which includes over 400 members, and staff intranet.
Internal News and Information
Problem:
Intertwingled Work
Last week's post by Jim McGee Managing the visibility of knowledge work kicked off a nice conversation on Observable Work (using a term introduced by Jon Udell) including: my blog post expanding on a comment I wrote on Jim's post; Brian Tullis's Observable Work: The Taming of the Flow based on a comment Brian made on Jim's post, which he found from a Twitter update by @jmcgee retweeted by @roundtrip; a Twitter conversation using the hash tag #OWork (for "Observable Work"); John Tropea's comment back to Jim from a link in a comment I left on John's Ambient Awareness is the new normal post; Jim's Observable work - more on knowledge work visibility (#owork), linking back to Mary Abraham's TMI post and Jack Vinson's Invisible Work - spray paint needed post, both written in response to Jim's original post; followed by Jack Vinson's Explicit work (#owork) and Paula Thornton's Enterprise 2.0 Infrastructure for Synchronicity.
Intertwingled Work and Adaptive Case Management
Tuesday July 6, 2010: As promised, John Tropea posted a comprehensive analysis and synthesis on observable work and Adaptive Case Management (and much more) titled: Have we been doing Enterprise 2.0 in reverse : Socialising processes and Adaptive Case Management It's a great post that's long for a very good reason: John pulls together many themes with well-sourced references and quotes [ another apology to the easily distracted ]. I won't use this comment to summarize all of the points I find interesting and valuable - there's a lot to come back to! I'll will try to summarize one theme John develops that seems directly relevant to Intertwingled Work.
Introducing impi! - Pierre Bienvenüe
I'm happy to introduce Pierre Bienvenüe, founder of impi Business Improvement Solutions Pty, a South African business improvement firm and TeamPage solution partner since 2012. Pierre has great experience in helping mid-size companies organize and run effective quality improvement programmes. impi! works with clients as partners from concept definition, initial rollout, through improvement of the quality program itself. Pierre has worked with Traction Software and clients to develop templates, plug-in extensions, and a methodology for using TeamPage to support the impi! business improvement model, with solid results to report. This post is an introduction. You'll hear more from Pierre as an expert guest blogger on this page, in Traction Software's TeamPage customer forums (free registration), and across the web.
Introducing Online Workplaces - Greg's notes on Larry Cannell's July 2011 Webinar
Larry Cannell, Research Director, Gartner Group presented great slides and hosted an excellent webinar on July 7, 2011 based on his research and experience. Free registration gives public access to a recording of the Webinar and a copy of Larry's slides - at least for a few days (after than please check Gartner Webinar Archives). Please register and learn! Larry will also be leading sessions at Gartner Catalyst Conference 2011 San Diego, July 26-29. Larry's framework is very crisply stated, general and useful. The 65 slides include very helpful diagrams, examples, scorecard decision aids, and more. These are just top level points from my notes.
Introducing Proteus (demo)
Traction Software Director of User Experience Michael Angeles introduces Traction's new Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus user interface with a brief tour (video below).
Introducing the TeamPage iOS App
I was delighted to find that our TeamPage iOS companion app was published on the App Store this morning. We've been enjoying the app for the past few months, and are excited finally to be able to share it with you.
Investors
Traction Software investors include In-Q-Tel (U.S. Government funded venture catalyst charged with identifying and delivering next-generation information technologies to support the CIA's critical intelligence missions), Slater Technology Fund and private investors.
IQPC Conference - Is a Wiki or a Blog Right for You?
Three corporate communications execs paneled off on whether "a Wiki or Blog is right for you."
I presented yesterday and am enjoying being a fly
on the wall in the audience today. A refreshing aspect of the panelists
and audience members in this group is that none are pundits, blog
consultants or vendors (apart from me) so it was an excellent
opportunity to see the blog and wiki market from a pure user
perspective. Below are the notes I was able to scribble as the
dialogue went on. I tried to capture everything relevant as clearly and
truthfully as possible.
Is Enterprise 2.0 for Babies or Boomers?
Joe McKendrick asks "Is Web 2.0 Really Dominated by the Young?" and offers some data suggesting its for people of all ages, though under 25ers are the majority in communities like MySpace. In the enterprise, however, there is a question as to whether 2.0 adoption is better started with younger or more experienced management-level employees.
Is Twitter Like Going Out for a Smoke? - And Other stories
Bill Ives posted an interesting post Is Twitter Like Going Out for a Smoke?, responding to a Twitter / Water Cooler analogy by Arie Goldshlager and a smoker's network analogy pointed out by Stewart Mader and Gil Yehuda in Lessons from New York Smokers. I commented: Bill -- An interesting post and topic! I think there's likely an interesting history (and sociological studies) of how informal groups form and cross-link in businesses and other organizations.
Jan 2023 | Improved Microsoft AD and Azure directory lookup; Support for Azure AD profile pictures; Security update
Traction® TeamPage Releases 6.2.59 - 6.2.61 deliver improved Microsoft AD and Microsoft Azure AD external directory performance. TeamPage now supports retrieving, storing and using profile pictures associated with external users and/or groups and roles. Improved Document view security. The releases include over 44 bug fixes and improvements, see TeamPage Change Log for a description of each update. Please read on for a summary.
Jan 2024 | Kanban, mobile, and Web improvements
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.70 contains Kanban and web styling improvements along with calendaring, Kanban, and Setup bug fixes, including one significant bug fix that addressed Admin problems that can occur when Server level groups are deleted. All Kanban columns and swimlanes can now be shown or hidden. New Kanban 'start fullscreen' and 'cancel fullscreen' icons make it easier to enter and exit Kanban fullscreen mode. This release also includes mobile and web styling improvements and developer support for asynchronous Proteus skin listeners. See TeamPage Change Log for a description of this release and the point releases it consolidates since Aug 2023 | Kerberos Authentication; Drag-and-Drop Permalinks; Configurable Content Security Policies; Security fixes. Please read on for a consolidated summary.
January / February 2005 | En Guarde! The Art and Practice of CI
By Jordan Frank, printed in the January/February edition of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, a publication of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). The swordsman must be trained to find the right balance of source information and interpret that information into actionable intelligence. » Read More
January / February 2006 | Collaborative Early Warning
By Jordan Frank and Derek Johnson (COO - AuroraWDC), printed in the January/February edition of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, a publication of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
January 2007 | Blogs and wikis: ready for prime time?
January 1, 2007: Judith Lamont of KMWorld writes about corporate use of blogs and wikis for knowledge management, content management and collaboration. The article profiles ShoreBank's use of Traction® TeamPage to communicate and organize information about 75 IT projects at any given time.
January 2007 | InfoWorld Wiki Roundup | Wikis Evolve as Collaboration Tools
Mike Heck's January 5, 2007 review ranked Traction® TeamPage #1 in an InfoWorld Test Center roundup including TeamPage, Confluence, SocialText and Near-Time. The ranking earned TeamPage the "Best Enterprise Wiki" and the "InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year" award. The review concludes: Traction TeamPage clearly placed above the others with its superior ease of use and query ability that presented each user with just the knowledge they need. Traction TeamPage received an overall rating of Excellent with a 9.0 score. » Read the full InfoWorld Review
January 2007 | Traction TeamPage: Best Enterprise Wiki | InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award
Best Enterprise Wiki InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award, Jan 1, 2007: "Traction® TeamPage, built on 100 percent Java technology, combines the group editing of a wiki with project blogs. Labels organize posts within users' projects, and robust permissioning ensures that pages are delivered dynamically based on a user's rights. Maybe best of all, widgets can present links or content driven by any Traction query." » See InfoWorld Award page and Enterprise Wiki Roundup | InfoWorld Test Center Review.
Jim McGee to Keynote TUG 2010 Newport
Jim McGee, Managing Director at New Shoreham Consulting, expert on organizational design and change management for Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media Technologies will deliver the Traction User Group 2010 opening keynote in Newport Rhode Island on Oct 13. Jim is also well known as the author of the popular McGee's Musings weblog on Knowledge Management, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media technology. On Twitter follow Jim as @JMcGee.
Join us at E2 Boston 2013 - Traction Software is Social and Collaboration Track Sponsor
How well you work with your colleagues, online and off, will make the difference when trying to win the next deal, design the next product or craft the next winning strategy. Consider how important people are to process and how social collaboration (versus some pre-ordained workflow) is the barrier to or the enabler of successful outcomes. We see immense value when people document their knowledge, streamline their communication and track actions to completion in TeamPage. We hope you can join us to see TeamPage and learn from the leading analysts and practitioners at E2 Boston June 17 through 19.
Jon Udell to give closing keynote and join TUG 2010 Newport Observable Workshop
Jon Udell - author, information architect, software developer and new media innovator - will give a closing keynote for the 2010 Traction User Group conference in Newport RI on 13 Oct 2010, bookending Jim McGee's opening keynote on Observable Work. Jon's 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine’s executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant. He is now a writer and producer for Microsoft as well as a hands on organizer of the elmcity project, see Jon's blog and bio page.
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