McGee’s Musings

A reminder from Bill Ives about the folks at Traction Software. They aren’t quite as visible in the general blogging market given their origins and focus on the enterprise market. Their tools, however, are robust and nicely bridge the fluid capabilities that make blogs and wikis such powerful tools for supporting knowledge work and the relevant management and security features that enterprises will generally require before deploying new tools and platforms.

If you are looking at enterprise blogging, Traction has to be on your short list. Regardless, if you are tracking issues of knowledge work in more general terms, you should definitely be monitoring their corporate blog.

Traction Software – Enterprise Blogs and Wikis Traction Software offers a number of Web 2.0 tools for the enterprise. I have known Jordan Frank, their VP of Marketing and Business development, for a while but have no relationship with the company. I recently saw a brief demo and the possibilities are intriguing. They have a number of tools that combine communication,
knowledge sharing, and collaboration. They have a similar structure to blogs. To this they add project based context and security/permission systems. This is good as using blogs for project management within the enterprise is one of many killer apps for blogs. There is a link to an interesting early article on personal knowledge management, As We May Think by Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. Vannevar wrote over 50 years ago that publication has
been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. It has only gotten worst but I am trying to stay on top of things with my blog. They have a blog and a recent post by Jordan, KM is the Forest, Enterprise Blogs are the Path, has some interesting thoughts on both, KM and blogs. If you are looking for enterprise blogging tools, you should take a look at what they are doing.