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TWIKI.NET Announces Hosted TWiki Solutions TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the release of its hosted Web 2.0 collaboration service named TWiki OnDemand. Many IT managers are now looking to minimize the resource overhead associated with providing Web 2.0 services to their organization...

TWIKI.NET Announces New Certified TWiki Release TWIKI.NET, a leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the latest release of its Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance (CTVA). It includes a new administrative UI for managing a TWiki installation which makes administering a TWiki server very simple. An auto-update feature keeps the TWiki server in sync with the latest version of the Certified TWiki server software, plugins and applications...

WebChanges - News from TWIKI.NET When we launched TWIKI.NET at LinuxWorld last August in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, we wondered what excitement, changes, and success the future would bring, and how we could best communicate these events to customers, partners, and TWiki champions around the world. We've decided to publish this newsletter, WebChanges, to keep everyone up to date with the many things happening at TWIKI.NET...

TWIKI.NET Announces New Leadership TWIKI.NET, a leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions, announced that Thomas Barton has joined the company as Chairman of the Board and Interim CEO. Barton replaces co-Founder Rod Beckstrom, who has left the company to become the first Director of the U.S. Government's newly created National Cyber Security Center, which will operate within the Department of Homeland Security...

TWIKI.NET Opens for Business TWIKI.NET, a company founded by Rod Beckström and Peter Thoeny, launched today at Linux World. TWIKI.NET is offering a professional, certified version of TWiki, the leading open source, enterprise wiki with more than two million users and 60,000 installations worldwide...

No Rest for the Wiki - The online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration Because there are several freely available open-source software packages like MediaWiki and TWiki, it's easy for employees to start one without even alerting the IT department. TWiki is used by companies such as Motorola (MOT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and Nokia (NOK), according to a report by Ann Majchrzak and Christian Wagner...

USA: Primer: Enterprise Wiki Only one in ten businesses reportedly has a strategy for managing content-sharing Web sites. Wikis are explained at a high level. Open-source options include MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia) and TWiki. The article points out that wikis have a different design philosophy compared to previous generations of collaboration software. Traditionally, the database administrator only unlocks the doors for the person who is assigned to do the work, notes Peter Thoeny, the original author of TWiki. With a wiki, you delegate the security to the end users...

Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0 Tools In Business Most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired in endless e-mail strings and scheduled conference calls. And, Enterprise 2.0 is a passel of separate products today, which helps explain why more than half of companies cite the lack of staff expertise as a major obstacle. TWiki is mentioned as part of an Enterprise 2.0 push at American Tire. In one small step, the IT team uses TWiki open source wikis to build editable documents about Sarbanes-Oxley compliance policy and IT processes instead of sending e-mails...

Wicked Productive Wikis Forget daily status reports. Set up a wiki to collaborate more effectively with your project teams. The article covers DanWoods' Evolved Media Network company. Challenge: Organize a team of writers, clients, transcribers, graphic designers and producers to improve project communication. Solution: TWiki (free). Saving: 90 percent of administration time; 20 man-hours per week...

Winner of The 2007 Web 2.0 Idol is... BeeTooBee tabulated 287 Web 2.0 start-ups in the Company Review forum at TechCrunch posted in the past 40 days to reveal the 2007 Web 2.0 Idol. Web 2.0 number 5 winner is TWiki- Wiki collaboration technology for the enterprise...

Thomson Teaches Tech Through TWikis We wanted to develop a platform conducive to open environment collaboration in order to get managers at the tail end participating. So, [we] downloaded free open source wiki software from www.twiki.org, and got people to log on. and the technology took hold much faster than anyone anticipated - only about a month and a half. When Ken started using it, it grew exponentially, Birla said. We outgrew the one server that we originally used, and are now using one in Mason Ohio that supports 600-700 users...

CASE STUDY: Wikis give ARM Holdings a leg-up The article describes how ARM initially chose TWiki, an open source wiki programme that is particularly popular for corporate use behind the firewall for its engineering group. And, as part of formalising TWiki's role, ARM last year hired Euan Semple, who was credited with bringing wikis, blogs and electronic forums to the BBC and is now a consultant on social computing for businesses. He organized workshops for non-engineering staff. Once people see the potential of it, they become enthusiastic. TWiki is now a supported business application of IT: TWiki was initially hosted and maintained by some of the engineers who used it, and it took about two years from its initial appearance inside ARM for the software to become formally supported by the IT support staff...

TWiki.org Accelerates Pace Of Wiki Innovation In The Enterprise Situational Applications are enterprise software programs, created in short timeframes and with limited budgets, for small groups with specific needs. Created by users themselves, Situational Applications are often implemented without formal support from the IT organization. Accordingly, the Situational Application development process relaxes or omits many of the design, planning, scalability, and integration requirements associated with traditional enterprise software projects...

AJAX-Based TWiki.4.1 Accelerates Pace Of Wiki Innovation in the Enterprise TWiki is an open source enterprise wiki platform, and a pioneer in the field of situational applications. TWiki extends the free-form world of wikis by adding structure. With TWiki, wiki content can be browsed, searched, grouped, categorized, filtered and restricted for limited access. TWiki looks and feels like a Web 2.0 web site, and can be easily modified through standard web browsers...

Open source group updates free wiki Organizations looking to get their feet wet with Web 2.0 technologies might want to check out an updated version of open source enterprise wiki software that developers say can help companies embrace collaboration and speed application development and Version 4.1 includes application extensions that enable users to create what TWiki.org representatives call Situational Applications. The group defines Situational Applications as enterprise software programs, created in short time frames and with limited budgets, for small groups with specific needs...