Enterprise Microblogging Goes Full Screen

By Alan Lepofsky | May 28, 2009, 8:22 am | 0 Comments

With the recently released Socialtext 3.5.4, people can now access Socialtext Signals via a full screen view in their browser. This new interface makes it easy to read and respond to Signals, post new Signals, and see the people in your social network.

The hottest thing in collaboration these days is using micro-blogging to ask questions, share links, or update your status. Enterprise micro-blogging (or micro-sharing) tools enable people to send short messages to everyone in their organization. However, unlike similar public facing tools, the information is available only to people securely inside your company firewall.

Organizations are quickly beginning to see the value in these transparent forms of communication. Benefits include more people being able to contribute to conversations, and most importantly, more people can benefit from the knowledge being openly shared. That means faster, better informed decisions can be made, and everyone in the company can feel more closely connected.

But busy employees don’t want to learn “yet another tool”. So Socialtext developed Signals as an integrated component of our collaboration and social networking platform. This way people can send messages and link to content, right in the context of what they are currently working on inside Socialtext.

The first of version of Signals was available as a widget on Socialtext Dashboard. Next, we released a dedicated client for Socialtext called Socialtext Desktop which included a tab for Socialtext Signals. Now, with Socialtext 3.5.4 people have a third option, the full screen browser interface.

You can read about other new features, such as hiding table borders, sending private Signals replies, email type-ahead and more in the Release Blog on the Socialtext Customer Exchange.