11
Sep

List of Internal Microsharing Tools

Posted by Laura Fitton

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UPDATE: 9.25.2008 List updated to correspond with our research: Enterprise Microsharing Tools Compared.

My list (based on Jeremiah’s) of publicly known “Twitter-like” microsharing tools for internal deployment within companies. I’m keeping it spare to make it easier to update. See Jeremiah’s list of tools for more explanation and descriptions. *I also include four open source applications reported by John Eckman.

  1. BlueTwit (IBM)
  2. ESME (SAP/Siemens SDN)
  3. *Jisko (AGPL)
  4. Laconica (better known as Identi.ca)
  5. OraTweet (Oracle)
  6. Presently
  7. Prologue (WordPress theme by Automattic)
  8. SocialCast
  9. Status
  10. *Sweetter 2.0 (SUGUS)
  11. Trillr
  12. Twitter
  13. *Twoorl
  14. Yammer
  15. *Yonkly
  16. Iron Feed (no link yet)
  17. unannounced (no link yet. see our report, TBD)

I’m aware of roughly 5 other similar, but unannounced, projects. Guessing these 20 are the tip of the iceberg.

Joint Contact looks pretty awesome, has microsharing features and integrates with Twitter. Cool enough that we may try it, but, not really what we consider an internal microsharing tool. What we love most is that it’s using Twitter to send notifications and accept remote updates. This in/out “command line” function is an important function that we predict for enterprise microsharing tools.

IDidWork offers microshared track completion along with evaluation and performance, and it’s short and sexy like microsharing, but a social network it is not, even in the “you and your team task feed” group version.

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Comments

Janet September 11, 2008

It’s really amazing how quickly these all sprang up, now to sell them to IT.

I think microblogging is becoming recognized as both a team-builder and a productivity tool,
I like the reporting features of some, which will make it easier for management to understand the value.

J.J. Toothman September 11, 2008

Laura — how many of these Twitter like tools integrate with mobile/sms? Prologue is the only I’m familiar with and I know it doesn’t. Seems the SMS “goes with you anywhere your cell phone does” component of Twiter is pretty critical. I know that for me - it’s what set it apart from other communication mediums.

Chinarut September 11, 2008

hey thanks for the list - do you have a wiki up so we can all update this list together?

exciting times!

Laura Fitton September 11, 2008

@Chinarut I wish i knew how to integrate a wiki into the blog, but I don’t. But as Jeremiah is doing, we will add to and update our lists per comments, new news, etc.

@jjtoothman my gut would guess at least half? but we are working on a matrix to determine how the offerings line up

@jfouts good insights, yes!

F. Michael September 25, 2008

Check out ReVou.com, it has also been used on several large microblogging sites like gozub.com

Cem Basman November 7, 2008

Microblogging goes financial markets: Brokerz - Grapevine for professional brokers and traders. More:
http://www.mbc09.de/?p=313

Harshil Karia November 13, 2008

I’ve been using DeskAway - http://www.deskaway.com for close to 6 months now and i believe that they too are integrating Micro Blogging into their complete Project Management suite. I think that will drive more engagement within Project Management tools just like comment threads on status messages and more emphasis on status messages drove more status updates on Facebook. I personally think that will make PM tools such as DeskAway more useful - and cumulatively much more useful than microsharing tools.

What do you think?

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