ArticleNews - Socialtext adds tools to manage its Twitter-like stream - San Francisco Chronicle
The new search engine is intended to let employees tap into the growing repository of data shared through Signals, especially valuable links to internal and external Web pages, Lee said. Because Signals is designed exclusively for workplace communications, Socialtext users don’t experience the same flood of irrelevant, frivolous posts as people who use Twitter for work, he said. Unlike conventional discussion forums, a Socialtext group can have its own home page, populated with its activity notifications from members, its own Signals stream channel and its own workspaces. The familiarity that enterprise users have in their consumer lives with things like Twitter are really [boosting] Enterprise 2. One year after it added Signals, a Twitter-like microblogging component, to its eponymous enterprise social networking and collaboration suite, Socialtext is giving users features to manage that stream of posts. read more
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