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July 2007 Archives

The Flexibility of Wikis

July 24, 2007

We continue to be encouraged by the number and types of organizations that find wikis to be an effective tool for managing knowledge and communication.  BrainKeeper earned the subscription of a major telecommunications and media conglomerate this week, which adds to our list of marquee customers in the industries of technology, education, and consulting.  All of these may seem like they would be a natural fit for an Enterprise Wiki tool, but we have seen a number of our subscribers come from markets outside of those that might find wiki's to be attractive.

We also have a number of significant clients in the fields of Law, Healthcare, Tax, Pharmaceuticals, Veterinary Medicine, Finance, Architecture, Manufacturing, and Retail.  It shows that everyone is looking for collaboration solutions- and a wiki is the next stage of enterprise collaboration that answers a number of problems with email, chat, and other more traditional communication methods.

With our next enhancement release, we will continue to focus on more and better ways to capture, collaborate, and deliver information to you and the people you work with.  We welcome any thoughts you might have toward this, and invite you to take a free trial of BrainKeeper to see it for yourself.

BrainKeeper Adds Blogs

July 10, 2007

We are very excited to announce the addition of integrated Blogs to the BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki!  You can now capture key thoughts and ideas from everyone in your company, and start dialogues about a wide range of topics.  We went through a number of designs before settling on the one that we released, and we have received very positive feedback from everyone who has used the blogging features so far.

One of the key initiatives for us when developing our Blog was to make sure it was integrated with our existing features.  We believe very strongly that major feature sets should work together tightly to get the most benefit out of an integrated system, so we made sure that tags, search, alerts, permissions, and workflow are all available in Blogs, the same way they are available for the Wiki.

There were a number of little modifications that were made to the wiki as well- we aimed to have those changes be subtle enough that they will not distract from how you use BrainKeeper, but they will be nice to have when you need them.  Among these new features is a content export capability, remote and embedded flash content integration, and some general design improvements.

We hope you find these enhancements valuable, and if you don't already have an account, we invite you to signup for a free trial to see our new Blogs for yourself.