Weblogs in the Enterprise? 24
Lushmore asks: "Some of our firmware teams have asked for a discussion forum tool similar to the many web bulletin boards or weblogs on the Internet. One missing feature common to most of the boards I've seen is, understandably, lack of finely grained security--the user/group structure is not sufficient for the enterprise. Is there a bulletin board/weblog tool out where users can be part of multiple groups and each group can have their own administrators?" I think the issue of Weblogs in the Enterprise extends far beyond the type of software used, so as an aside for this question, I'd like folks to think about one other issue: can the usual culture found in most firms support the type of open discourse common to successful weblogs? What extra advantages would weblogs provide over the already tried and true technologies like email, instant messaging and cellphones?
Enterprise blogging whitepaper (Score:5, Informative)
PHPbb Allows for that kind of Admin.... (Score:3, Informative)
Not a good Idea. (Score:3, Informative)
-Code
Very ture, but all you need to do is... (Score:3, Informative)
Enterprise-wide Freedom of Speech (Score:2, Interesting)
Some organisations in some companies could have a reasonable policy about what can or cannot be said in an internal web log environment. I would be interesting to see what boundaries can be stretched and by how much. It's one thing to disagree lucidly with your manager, another altogether to flamebait the LOB director who was thinking of promoting you. (The Beware-The-Voices ad campaign from Monster springs to mind.)
On security, can a slashcode administrator restrict the sections a user can (read) access?
Éibhear
Possible Option (Score:3, Informative)
y It's called NNTP (Score:4, Insightful)
get an NNTP server that can be configured to control posting via authentication and you are away
of course no-one thinks IRC and NNTP are cool enough these days. They need to have shmancy names.
Re:y It's called NNTP (Score:3, Interesting)
In 1996 my company ran a news server the entire firm (with over 50 offices nationwide).
Sheesh, has it been over six years already!
Anyhow, it worked like a champ.
Re:Tiki (Score:1)
Even though it's posted previously in this discussion, here it is again [sourceforge.net].
-tcp
Re:Tiki (Score:1)
"Lot of new features: Surveys, Trackers, Newsletters, Webmail. Many security improvements and settings including challenge response authentication. Improvements to the wiki batch uploads for file galleries and others."
Tiki has a flexible user groups system that allows for finely tuned permissions. Every function of Tiki has its own set of permissions that can be granted on a system wide basis or a per object basis, eg you can deny access to blogs by default and give individual user groups their own blog that only they can write to but that their subordinates could read.
And going forward Tiki just seems set to keep growing and improving in time!
Damien
(OT) Enterprise... make that e lower case (Score:3, Informative)
Then again, the only one who I know of who does one on a semi-regular basis is wilwheaton.net (Wesley). (Yes, CleverNickName, I know you're reading this).
If anyone else would be doing one, I'd think maybe Levar Burton (LaForge) would, but I don't know their off-screen personalities very well. Levar just seems like the kind of person who would do a weblog, if he had the time. Maybe Robert Picardo (Voyager HoloDoc), as well.
Easy (Score:2)
Groupware plus forums (Score:2, Informative)
Another alternative is to implement PHProjekt [phprojekt.com]. This is a web based groupware system running in a LAMP type scenario.
It allows you to set up different groups separately and includes a forum system
It also includes timecard, contact, project management, chat and so on. I set it up at work for our company and it works very well.
True Story, re: not getting it (Score:4, Funny)
Captains log, Stardate -320053.09950 (Score:1)
CLO (Score:2, Informative)
Weblogs in the Enterprise (Score:3, Funny)
Scotty took my name off the warp drive's list of cool captains. That's it. I'm taking him off my list of favorite Scottish engineers.
6:28 pm
What type of tribble are you? [http] I'm a fluffy one. (link snarfed from the Klingons)
7:12 pm
Had dream where I was in bed with Spock. What do you think that means?
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