At my last company, where I was the CISO, we used Yammer which had exactly the functionality you're looking for and easy to maintain. Several of our large customers use it now as well but it scales well to businesses of all sizes.
It's commercially licenced. James -- James Blake PhD CISSP CISM CCSK C|EH GCIH ITIL-F Practice Manager Europe/Middle East/Africa Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting Hewlett Packard On 30 September 2014 14:05, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > Our company has a presence in several European countries and our collective > bosses would like to set up a Corporate Social Network based on Linux > servers > and Clients running on Windows hardware. The system would have to be > private to > the company using the Intranet or our other shared networking capabilities. > > Does anyone have any recommendations? I believe that the management are > not > really sure what they want in terms of functionality so are looking for > suggestions. We have discussed this locally and have some varied opinions: > > 1. I like the blog environment, having been a big fan of Groklaw, but that > implementation of Geeklog didn't allow attachments. > 2. Some think that a Facebook style of presentation would be ideal, but > I've > never used it so cannot comment. Is there an opensource package that can > implement Facebook functionality? > 3. We think that twitter is too brief. > 4. We think that IRC is too immediate; if your not there you've missed it. > > What else could be used? > > Terry Coles > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

