With our first release of 2011, Socialtext now allows people to define a preferred name, navigate from cell to cell in tables, more easily insert web content on wiki pages and much more!

Set Your Preferred Name

If you would like to use a nickname like Bob for Robert or Jim for James, or to use a hyphenated last name such as Zeta-Jones, you can now set this preferred name in your Socialtext profile. Your new name will be displayed in all places names appear, such as the People Directory, in signals and on workspace pages. This feature is enabled by default and can be turned off in any account by your Socialtext administrator.

Easy Add Web Content To Pages

You can embed many types of web-based objects such as maps, slides, videos and photos albums on Socialtext workspace pages. Previously this required a little bit of advanced formatting, but now we make it simple via the new Insert HTML feature. First copy the object’s embed code from its web page. Next edit the Socialtext workspace page, click on Insert from the editor toolbar and select HTML. Finally paste the code you copied into the dialog box. When you save the page the object will be displayed. Similarly, you can also insert pre-formatted text and unformatted text using the Insert menu.

Reduce Duplicate Groups

Groups are a great way to interact with people around similar projects or interests, so the last thing you want is to have multiple groups of people collaborating on the same topic. To help eliminate this problem, you can now search group names and descriptions right from the group creation dialog box, reducing the chance of someone creating a new group if a similar one already exists.

Additional Improvements

Based on customer feedback, the following features have been enhanced:

• You can now filter the Socialtext Signals stream to show just the messages that you have sent, those that mentioned your name or those sent privately to you. Using the “Showing Signals From” dropdown menu at the top of the stream, choose “My Conversations”.



• When you are editing a table within a workspace page, you can now use the tab key (or shift + tab) to move forward (or backwards) between cells. You can also use the arrow keys to move left, right, up or down between cells.
• The Socialtext Search bar allows you to choose what type of content to search for: Pages, People, Groups, or Signals. Now the search selection is sticky, meaning the content type you choose will remain until you change it.
• When you click on a link from the Socialtext Dashboard (ex: a person’s profile or a page link) it will now open in the same window instead of opening an additional browser window or tab. If you prefer the old behavior, most web-browsers provide a right-click menu option to open links in a new window, or allow you to press the shift key while you are clicking on the link.

I hope you enjoy these new features and enhancements. As always, we look forward to your feedback.

Seasons greetings everyone.  With our final release of 2010, Socialtext 4.5.2 delivers great new features that offer something exciting for everyone in your organization:

• Knowledge workers will love the newly enhanced mobile experience and auto-save for workspaces pages
• Administrators with be delighted by the new Google Analytics integration, improved on-premises appliance health monitoring and client side SSL certificates including CAC authentication
• Application Developers will be thrilled with the introduction of a brand new tool named Widget Editor which allows them to build, preview and publish OpenSocial widgets; and with new WebHooks for access to many of the common Socialtext events

I’m super excited to tell you about each of these new features, but instead of making this a monstrously long blog post, I’ll cover them in separate posts over the next few days.

For now, I’ll start by showing off the awesome new Socialtext Mobile experience. Socialtext Mobile does not just provide access to microblogging, it enables you to access all the people and content in Socialtext as well.   Socialtext Mobile works on iPhones and iPads, Android powered devices and Blackberry’s*. Socialtext Mobile let’s you keep up with what is going on back at the office almost as if you were there.

Click on the image to view a screenshow highlighting several of the new mobile features.

From all of us at Socialtext, thank you for a wonderful 2010 and we look forward to working with you in 2011. Have a safe, healthy and fun holiday.

This latest Socialtext release contains several exciting updates. You’ll notice performance is improved across the board, especially in faster Dashboard load times. The search engine has been completely overhauled for workspaces, yielding faster and more accurate results. Finally, we’ve made it even easier to share workspace pages and files.

Improved Workspace Search

Searching workspaces has been improved in several ways:

• Results will now be returned much quicker, especially across multiple workspaces.
• Result accuracy has been improved, especially for multi-word searches.
• The previous limit of 500 page results has been removed.
• Both the content within file attachments as well as the file attachment names are now indexed.

Easily Share Workspace Pages

When reading a workspace page, you can now click “Signal This!” to post a link back to the page and choose which group will see the message. Similarly, the “Signal This Edit Summary” feature, which allows you to post a link when saving a page, has been enhanced to also allow you to choose which group to post to.

Improved Attachment Management

When uploading attachments to a workspace page, if a file with the same name already exists you will be asked to either add the new file or replace the existing file. Also, the attachment widget on each page now shows who attached each file and when.

We hope you enjoy these enhancements.