In my subjective experience Confluence's suitability would depend on what you're trying to use it for. Our practice's knowledgebase is accessed on a Confluence instance and nobody can find anything, we've had to employ a full-time curator who has had to adapt our way of working to fit the tool rather than the other way around.
@Andrew, Yammer has a stand-alone licencing model as well as hosted. It integrates well with Active Directory and Sharepoint if you have to live in a M$ world. James On 30 September 2014 15:30, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell < [email protected]> wrote: > If they already use Microsoft Office (and especially if they already > subscribe to Office 365) then Yammer is a service that is specifically > designed to be a corporate social network at the Office 365 Mid-Size > Business tier. I've never used it though and naturally it's a service, not > something you can run yourself on your own hardware. > > I've had some brief exposure to Atlassians Confluence software, which you > can buy to self-host or pay for monthly per user as a service and it seems > pretty good, though like all things it has a bit of a learning curve. I've > only barely used it though, so can't say much about it other than people I > work with have given it very high praise. It's probably better if you buy > into the rest of Atlassian's suite of tools like Jira and Hipchat, etc but > by itself I don't imagine it's too bad. > > Speaking of Hipchat, that might actually fit the bill. It's basically an > IRC style private chatroom client, but depending on the plans you get (and > you can even use it for free with unlimited users if I recall) when you > attach images or files to messages, they stay in the system so they can be > referred back to, at least for a time. If what they need is something more > real-time rather than a long-term document storage/sharing system, then > that might work out well for them. I use hipchat extensively at work for > communicating with my team, sharing files, talking to clients, holding > meetings, etc and find I rarely use anything else for sharing things, > getting feedback or collaborating on projects. I can highly recommend it, > and since you can trial it for free, if it sounds like it might fit the > bill, I'd encourage you to investigate it. We also use their dev API to > feed in info from our various monitoring tools for servers, software > builds, support tickets, etc so it acts a company-wide notification system > as well as shared communications platform. > > > > On 30 September 2014 15:12, [email protected] < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 30 September 2014 at 14:33 Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Terry, > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > What's the nature of the information you want to share? Considered blog > > > posts? One-line Q&A? A curated resource of information? > > > > That's part of the problem; they're not really sure. I think it might > > function > > as a newsletter in some scenarios, but with the ability to accept > comments, > > where appropriate. In other scenarios, it might be used to seed ideas, > > with > > inline drawings / photographs, etc to really get over the message. The > > key I > > think is engagement. When Groklaw was at it height it was generating > > hundreds > > of responses to each article, with ideas flying thick and fast. I don't > > believe > > a mailing list (as suggested elsewhere) will work like that for people > who > > aren't necessarily technical, whereas an active blog or Facebook type > > solution > > might, because of the multimedia element. > > > > As a bonus, it might also be useful to have the ability to collaborate on > > documents etc. > > > > I think we are looking for suggestions to see what might be the most > > attractive. > > Does anyone have any experience of Corporate Social Networks (linux > based > > or > > otherwise)? > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell > Professional Geek > Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk > Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid > Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid > -- > 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
