22 August 2007 | KMWorld: Traction TeamPage a Trend Setting Product of the Year
Recognizing Traction Software's consistent technology leadership in the enterprise wiki and blog software market, for the 4th consecutive year KMWorld recognized Traction TeamPage as one of their selected 2007 Trend Setting Products of the Year. Hugh McKellar, Editor-In-Chief, and his team of analysts, integrators, editors and users selected the trend setting products from a list of more than 650. » Read More
19 June 2007 | E2.0 Conference - E2.0 in Action ShoreBank Case Study
The E2.0 in Action track's Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 1 panel will feature Traction® Software's Jordan Frank who will show how Traction® TeamPage is used as a blog and wiki platform for Milestone Management at ShoreBank. The panel, moderated by Brian Gillooly (editor in Chief of CMP's Optimize) will also include presentations from iUpload, Denodo, Newsgator, and Smartsheet. See also Enterprise 2.0 Podcast interview with Mike Gotta.
4-5 June 2007 | Interdoc Symposium - Frank to Speak on Enterprise Wikis
Jordan Frank will bust 2.0 myths before bringing the relevance of Web 2.0 to the enterprise to light with enterprise case studies from finance, pharmaceutical, government and non-profit markets. He will finish off with best practices that all but guarantee real results. » Full Conference Schedule
31 May 2007 | Traction TeamPage a hit at LinuxWorld Japan
Congratulations to our Japanese partners SEL and AKJ on a great showing for Traction TeamPage at LinuxWorld Japan 2007. SEL was a gold sponsor and launched a Japanese TeamPage customer forum in advance of the event.
22 May 2007 | Greg Lloyd on Interop 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Panel
Greg Lloyd (Traction Software Inc) joins Dion Hinchcliffe (Hinchliffe & Company), David Barnes (IBM), and Rod Boothby (Teqlo) for a discussion and demonstration of the latest Enterprise 2.0 products and trends. This is part of the Enterprise 2.0 track organized by Dion Hinchcliffe. To download Greg's PowerPoint slides - including a screenshot walkthrough of the demo = a big file! click here (15MB .ppt)
26 March 2007 | Traction Announces Free 5 User Version, New Plug-In Architecture for Developers, and Release 3.7.3
Individuals and organizations may now download and use a free, perpetual Traction® TeamPage™ license. The Plug-In announcement introduces a simple mechanism for Traction developers and administrators to install, configure and manage plug-ins to create their own skins and widgets, as well as override or extended TeamPage features. The TeamPage 3.7.3 release announces the new Auto-Save feature, RSS subscription for Traction TeamPage FAST Search Module queries, new server ACLs, an improved Jabber notifier, and new section types to track active discussions and edit activity. Edit and Discussion sections, like other Traction Sections can be scoped to the server, any project, or even a given category label (like Requirements) in a project.
» Read the Release 3.7.3 and New Plug-In Architecture Enables Traction Users to Easily Develop, Manage and Share TeamPage Extensions release
» Read the Best Enterprise Wiki Software Now Free for Five Users release.
March 2007 | Traction Software named to KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the third year in a row, Traction® Software was included in KM World's list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Hugh McKellar notes that the companies listed "distinguished themselves to our panel of judgets because of their role in creating, enhancing, or defining a market." » Read More
Information Foraging at FASTForward '07
I enjoyed FASTForward '07 last week in San Diego - an excellent conference and 60 degrees warmer than Providence Rhode Island! It featured great keynotes (particularly Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 the Next Disruptor), sessions, networking and entertainment.
7 February 2007 | FASTforward '07
Greg Lloyd will speak on the topic "Search Meet Blogs and Wikis" at FASTforward '07, the FAST Search & Transfer user group meeting.
23 January 2007 | SCIP Boston Chapter Meeting
The SCIP Boston Chapter hosted a meeting this week titled "Harnessing Web 2.0 For Competitive Intelligence." Greg Lloyd joined the panel to talk about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, RSS and social tagging on the competitive intelligence process. An agenda is posted at the Knowledge is Power CI Forum.
23 January 2007 | CBI Predictive Intelligence Conference
At this pharmaceutical industry conference hosted by CBI, Jordan Frank, joined by Matt Cole of QL2 Software, gave a presentation titled "Synthesizing Data from Blogs for Future Projections and Pattern Assessment." The presentation discussed methods for data mining and visualization of content from internet blogs as well as capturing the breadth of data types to consolidate information in enterprise blogs, in support of further mining and content collaboration.
Presenting at the December KM Forum Boston
I had the honor of speaking at the Boston Knowledge Management Forum on Monday. I was joined by Kathleen Gilroy of the Otter Group (who wrote a piece on the event
beforehand) , Susan Dobscha of Bentley College, and Kelly Drahzal of
IBM. I was also on an enterprise blog/wiki vendor panel led by Kathleen
(thanks Kathleen!).
FAST-Enabled Search and Navigation for Traction TeamPage
On Dec 18, 2006 Traction Software Announces Release of Integrated FAST InStream™ Search Technology to Enable Secure Search, Entity Extraction and Drill Down Navigation. The module is an integrated and easily installed option that extends Traction's permissioned search model to over 370 document formats for files attached to TeamPage posts or stored in TeamPage web folders. FAST's advanced linguistic analysis adds relevance ranking and automatic entity extraction to support interactive permission-filtered drill-down by person, company, location and other attributes. "In the era of Enterprise 2.0, smart companies are leveraging tools like Traction TeamPage to empower individuals to create their own content," said John M. Lervik, CEO, FAST. "Now, by leveraging Traction TeamPage together with FAST InStream businesses can offer their employees a new and more powerful package of tools to help them produce, share and then intelligently search this collective intelligence, creating a smarter, faster-moving and more profitable workforce." » Read the Press Release, Read the Traction TeamPage Fast Search Module feature page
October 2006 | Traction Software named a KMWorld KM Promise Award Finalist
Traction Software goes beyond blogs and wikis to deliver technology and best practices supportive of work process, and ensure customer success. KMWorld describes the award criteria: This award is given to the organization that is delivering its promise to customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are embedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results. » Read More
November 2006 | EContent 100 Companies that Matter 2006
For the third year in a row, Traction Software is named to the blogging category in the EContent Magazine list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. In the 2006 EContent Announcement, Michelle Manafy says "We carefully reconsidered last year's list members and kept only those companies who we agreed continue to lead the industry. For some this means market share, but for most it means thought- and technology-leadership, innovation, and even experimentation."
Greg Lloyd on "The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson" at Burton Group's Catalyst Europe Conference
Greg speaks at Burton Group's Catalyst 2006 Europe Conference, Barcelona 12 Oct 2006. His topic, The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson is part of the Collaboration and Content track in a session: Leveraging the Services Infrastructure
to Improve the User Experience.
12 September 2006 | Beyond Blogs and Wikis: Traction Release 3.7 Announcement
New features added in this release include extensible widgets, edit history differences and version rollback, inline sections, flexible outputs to any WordML and PDF, and upgraded mobile device support. Traction® Software products combine the group editing of a wiki and simplicity of a blog while satisfying enterprise needs for secure, scalable, web-based working communication. more » Read Full Release » Read about Traction Features » Read Beyond Blogs and Wikis
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
Jordan Frank leads IQPC Intranet Week Workshop
Jordan
ran a workshop at the International Quality & Productivity Center's
Intranet Week conference on July 24, 2006. The workshop, titled "Incorporating a Wiki and/or Weblog into Your Intranet,"
covered key value points for blogs and wikis on the internet, how the
use of blogs and wikis in the enterprise differs from typical internet
examples, 4 enterprise and government case studies, key factors for
deployment and best practices. We also ran an interactive workshop
where we broke up into teams and built up a Traction based intranet.
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.
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
Jordan Frank Talks on Blogs and Wikis at Burton Group Catalyst Conference
I spoke yesterday, June 14, at Burton Group's Catalyst customer confence. The topic, Blogs and Wikis: Enterprise Examples, Real Results, was included in the Collaboration and Content track which is part of their newly announced practice in this domain. I started by defining the blog and wiki terms and then reviewed 5 Traction customer case study examples and a discussion of the qualitative and quantitative outcomes. The examples included non-profit, defense, pharmaceutical and finance organizations.
Traction announces x64 Sun Fire Support, Joins Sun at AIIM
Traction Software joins Sun in their AIIM Partner Pavilion today to preview Traction Release 3.7 and announce support for the Sun Fire x64 server platform in addition to already supported SPARC platforms. Stephen Borcich, vice president of Partner Marketing at Sun Microsystems said “There is an increasing demand for flexible, out-of-the-box and open-standard hardware and software solutions. Together with Traction Software, a leader in the quickly emerging enterprise blog and wiki market, we are enabling solutions that support this vision for customers." » Read the full release: Traction TeamPage Enterprise Blog Software to support the Solaris 10 Operating System Across Entire Sun Fire Servers Family
QL2 and Traction - Drawing actionable intelligence from the deep web
Traction Software is happy to announce a partnership with QL2 Software. This comes after 9 months of working together and our first production deployment at a big pharma company last fall. QL2 and Traction bring intelligence from the deep web into Traction's Enterprise Blog where it can be analyzed, annotated and quickly brought to the attention of blog readers. Pharma users can track clinical trials, adverse events and DNA sequencing submissions. Every business can become better at competitive intelligence and quickly respond to events reported anywhere on the web. Combining QL2's WebQL and Traction's TeamPage supports better, faster, more market aware decision making. » Read the Full Release
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
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