Socialtext Continues To Focus On Workplace Integration

October 25, 2011

Socialtext Continues To Focus On Workplace Integration By Bill Ives I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. They began with a wiki base and have added capability over time to build a comprehensive platform. A couple of years ago they added Socialtext Signals, one of the first enterprise micro-blogging tools. A wrote about them a year ago on this blog (see Socialtext Adds Micro-messaging and Goes Mobile). Recently, I spoke with their CEO, Eugene Lee, on their latest offerings. Eugene said that when Socialtext Signals and its microblogging capability, was introduced in 2008 the focus was on integration from the start. They were likely the first to provide a microblogging capability within a collaboration suite and now many of the others have made this move. Socialtext wanted to enable more than water cooler chat. They wanted make it easy to create activity feeds with a specific focus like a project. Continue Reading

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