A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Here Come The Big Communities | Main | We Are Now Corporate Legit » January 10, 2008 Clearspace Alternatives I dont know if all of you know how blogs work on TypePad, but we all get a stats panel, and we can see where people are coming in. Ive gotten more than a few hits on "Clearspace alternatives" or similar, so I thought Id offer my thoughts on this.

If I had to sum up why we chose Clearspace from Jive Software, it has to be the user experience. And, albeit Clearspace isnt that "new" if youve blogged, wiki-ed or forum-ed before, were in a situation where the vast majority of our population isnt familiar with any of that stuff. Well, theres no such thing as a "quick overview of Documentum". Now, Clearspace (nor any other SM platform we know about) provides any of this sort of robust enterprise functionality. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Of Chargeback Models And Business Outcomes | Main | The "Social" in "Social Media" » October 27, 2007 What The Market Needs ... So, as Ive been looking at various technologies in this arena, Ive come away with the distinct impression that theres a huge gap in the market.

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We were heading down a road where our community organizational model would end up looking pretty much like an organizational chart. Even the test sandbox provided by Jive Software around Clearspace showed different functional organizations (marketing, HR, sales), each with their own community space. Or someone you know sends you a link. Going a bit farther, Clearspace supported a sophisticated tagging model. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « OK, He Gets It | Main | We Have Been Live One Week ... »

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Its really inspiring to see some of these ideas taking flight in the wild. :) Posted by: Gordon Taylor | February 21, 2008 at 10:22 AM How have you communicated to your users when to use Clearspace and when to use Documentum to share files? Posted by: Dan | February 22, 2008 at 12:54 PM Hi Dan Both are available, we havent been too overly presciptive on when to use one vs. For most everything else, the Clearspace implementation is now being used. Posted by: Chuck Hollis | February 22, 2008 at 02:22

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If youve looked at Clearspaces "home page", you can imagine the list of spaces scrolling down into infinity .... Clearspace 2.0 in Clearspace 2.0 View an alternate. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « A Breakthrough In Taxonomy? | Main | Taxonomies Again -- What Behavior Do We Want? »

We put up a behind-the-firewall platform (dubbed EMC ONE), built on Jives Clearspace, and went live back in late Sept. View an alternate. Post a comment If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In You are currently signed in as (nobody) . Sign Out

and then we approve Total cycle time for new communities is usually same-day. Lots of new communities at the outset; arrival rate has declined notably, people are joining existing ones rather than starting anew. Pros: No endless, pointless taxonomy debates People are encouraged to explore a bit – experienced users have no problem finding what they want Bad community names and/or poor topics chosen have the expected results – no biggie Response time for new community formation is fast, since there’s no argument where something goes Communities are free to evolve in any