I think that the twitter model of communication would work very well for disseminating information and informal discussion in the corporate world. Is there a twitter-like web-app that can be installed at the corporate level to provide this?
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You can consider StatusNet |
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Yammer which uses Yams instead of Tweets here |
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Yammer is basically Twitter for Business ('yams' of information) where only employees of a company are able to access the closed environment (restricted by email domain). Discussions are possible as you can view all replys below the original message. You can follow work members and set up groups for common interests/job functions. There are now also communities:
You can have a desktop application to monitor your 'yams' in a similar way to Tweetdeck works for Twitter and there are Firefox extensions. |
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37 Signal has a product called backpack that is a little more than twitter but is basically what you are looking for. I believe their Basecamp product also has it built in project specific so that each project has its own feed. |
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If you've got WordPress installed, you can try the P2 theme. It's neat: inline comments, inline editing, real-time updates, etc. |
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You can consider TeamBox (which is actually a project collaboration tool). |
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You could probably use/customize the Jaiku Engine. But I'm not sure if it can be run outside GoogleAppEngine |
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My team is using Co-op right now for this. It's working really well, especially because it integrates with our time-tracking system, Harvest. |
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http://www.hipchat.com/ might be more suitable in such an environment. The guys behind it is pretty helpful and listen to their users as well. Campfire is also an alternative. |
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