Twitter Alternatives That Are All Business. From: www.cio.com – Kristin Burnham, CIO December 01, 2009 When Twitter launched in 2006, few people could have predicted how microblogging would change online communication. Today, microblogging, or short-form text updates posted to the Web, has exploded in popularity. The latest example is Salesforce.com's recently announced Chatter, its new software aimed at connecting enterprise employees through personal profiles and status posts that can detail, for example, current projects or customer visits. During a speech at the recent Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff referenced the need for collaborative, business-focused tools: "I know more about these strangers on Facebook than I do about my own employees and what they're working on," he said. And that's why more companies are adopting microblogging tools in the workplace, analysts say. Use Case #1: St.
Why they did it: Tim Eby, general manager of St. Use Case #2: Motorola Use Case #3: Avaya 1. 2. 3. 4. Internal micro-blogging for knowledge sharing within a departmen. Godfried Knipscheer works as digital communications advisor to the Flemish government in Belgium and is project leader of a social media project. I interviewed him about the use of Yammer as an internal microblogging tool. At our department with 50 people there was a need for more knowledge and news to share. There are many meetings, meetings and seminars, but knowledge was not structurally shared. What have people learned in a conference or meeting? What valuable experiences do we have at work? We have created a site with a blog and wiki functions (using Drupal). How have we implemented it? What are the results?
Taking on Twitter with open-source software | Geek Gestalt - CNE. Earlier this summer, just as Twitter started to really pick up steam, the microblogging service began to have major stability problems. The more users who signed up, the more the site seemed to be down, and it became nearly as commonplace to see the so-called "fail whale"--signifying that a desired operation wouldn't go through--as it was to have the service work properly. For countless users, this was extremely frustrating, as Twitter had become the live conversation medium of choice for many early-adopters. And into this vacuum jumped a series of other microblogging services, each trying to pick up where Twitter seemed to be leaving off and hoping that large numbers of users would migrate to these new choices. For Prodromou, Identica began as a side project that leveraged his experience with open-source software and free software projects and quickly became a popular place for people looking for a stable microblogging service to go.
Q: What is Identica? Explain what Laconica is? Net 0.9.2. Pathauto. The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123 . The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens which the administrator can change.
Requirements Versions The 7.x-1.x and 6.x-2.x branches are currently accepting new feature requests and are kept in sync as much as possible. The 6.x-1.x branch is feature-locked and will only add bug fixes and security updates if needed. Known issues Multilingual URL alias support is still a little unstable and should be tested before used in production. Recommended modules Redirect (D7) / Path Redirect (D6) when installed Pathauto will provide a new "Update Action" in case your URLs change. Co-Maintainers Pathauto was originally written by mikeryan and maintained by Greg Knaddison (greggles) . Pledges Downloads. Chat Room. Using distributed authentication. Note: Drupal 6 installations should use the site network module : Distributed authentication One of most dreaded obstacles users are confronted with these days is the need to continually create new accounts for themselves at every website they come across.
Logging into a website to check out it's features should be a fun process, not a chore. Forcing each visiting user to create a new account by filling out your carefully crafted registration form is tedious, boring, and repulsive. Luckily for Drupal users, there's a built in system that removes a lot of this drudgery. For example, on groups.drupal.org, you do not have to fill out a registration form if you are already a member of drupal.org.
Enabling the feature To enable this feature, turn on the 'drupal' module at Administer > Site Building > Modules (D5), and configure it at Administer > Site Configuration > Distributed authentication. The Settings How it works Solutions: An Alternative. Features. Open Source Micro-Blogging CMS Software & Twitter Integration. With all of the news about a possible Twitter sale to Google, I am wondering if we will see an increased trend in clients looking for micro-blogging sites and “Twitter Clones” for local and niche communication. Already, I am offering Twitter and Social Network integration (Facebook, mySpace) to clients on blog and ecommerce sites, to easily connect with friends, community, marketing, communication, etc. that takes place on those sites from the main domain. More and more people are including their Facebook status messages and Twitter stream on their homepages, using the API & RSS feeds those sites offer to pull social content across network channels.
WordPress Plugins: Xavisys, the web development company behind WebDevNews.net, has created a Twitter feed module for WordPress called WordPress Twitter Widget Pro. Drupal Modules: For Drupal, I find the best module to be Activity Stream. The Twitter module allows users to: 12 Microblogging Tools to Consider - CIO.com - Business Technolo. Microblogging. Social network with short posts As with traditional blogging, users post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic, such as "sports cars. " Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services, and products and to promote collaboration within an organization. Some microblogging services offer privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs or alternative ways of publishing entries besides the web-based interface. These may include text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, digital audio, or digital video. Origin[edit] The first micro-blogs were known as tumblelogs.
Blogging has mutated into simpler forms (specifically, link- and the mob- and AUD- and vid- variant), but I don’t think I’ve seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen’s [sic] Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickerings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog. Usage[edit] Issues[edit] 10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared. Micro-blogging is a term described by Wikipedia as "a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user".
Several startups have witnessed phenomenal growth with micro-blogging services, most notably Twitter. In addition, numerous social networks - including Facebook and Bebo - have integrated similar status update services. The space is hot and it's still heating up. So let's take a look at 10 of the key players. Twitter Twitter is the key player in space and the company name is used synonymously with micro-blogging.
Pownce Pownce recently launched a micro-blogging platform with added functionality. Tumblr Tumblr is a very clean, slick micro-blogging platform. Jaiku Jaiku is considered by many to be Twitter's closest competitor. MySay MySay is what it says. Hictu Hictu is a service for video microbloggers. Moodmill Frazr IRateMyDay Emotionr. Blog » Blog Archive 5 Ways Your Business Can Embrace Micro-blogg. Over the last few years, micro-blogging has spread to the masses and everyone from Barack Obama to the New York Times to Amazon has joined in the fun. Essentially (and according to my dear friend, Wikipedia), Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web. Some of the most popular independent micro-blogging services are Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, and Pownce. But even existing platforms like Facebook and MySpace have begun building in various types of micro-blogging functionality. So, What’s So Special About Micro-blogging? To put it simply, there are two things that separate micro-blogging from traditional blogging. These short posts ensure that there is no room for fluff. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. InstallationWindows. This is a wiki version of my original document at [1] which is a bit prettier. - @mikenz Installing XAMPP Xampp is a nicely packaged version of Apache 2, PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5. It takes the time out of setting up these applications on Windows. Download XAMPP from I'm using the XAMPP package, but the XAMPP Lite one should work fine as well.
Extract it to somewhere, I extracted mine to c:\xampplite and will refer to files in that folder from now on. Run C:\xampp\xampp-control and start Apache and MySQL. Run the Services utility in Windows (Windows + R, then type "services.msc" in the "Run" box). If you already have a webserver (say IIS for example) running on port 80, You may have to change the "Listen" directive in C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf to point to a different port: i.e.
Go to and you should see the XAMPP splash page. Installing Git Install mysgit from [2]. Checking out a copy of Statusnet Statusnet Prequisites Email. Ejabberd downloads - High-Performance Enterprise Instant Messagi.