Great to start using Innovate!

As the screenshot shows you can now micro blog and follow users in your own personal channel from right within your corporate intranet – referencing files, documents, links to anything inside or outside the intranet.

Innovate in your intranet!

This is a great product for some companies that are prepared to open up this application to certain types of users to encourage innovation.

One great aspect is that using the interface engine you can enable innovate to exactly the kinds of users you want to based on any combination of individual users, groups, roles or extranet areas for suppliers or customers – but you can leave other users with a more Intranet 1.0 experience – all within exactly the same system.

Companies can also have as many channels as they need – again on a permission basis, so that the right users will be encouraged to communicate with each other and share best practice in their open areas of expertise.

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I use Twitter within the context of my work to of course build up a network of inspirational people who are like minded about web based corporate software. Already the amount of focused and relevant  information I am discovering greatly exceeds the value of all my conventional RSS feeds and general browsing activities combined.

The way that I use Twitter is almost exclusively to point at, and to be guided towards – more substantive information on the internet – generally recent and relevant Blog posts.

What is exciting me greatly with Claromentis is that the new Innovate application ( customers can localize the name of course ) can be used in exactly the same way.

Tweeting about Intranet Information

As the screen shot illustrates I am dropping into the support stream a reference to a new document in the corporate document management system.

In fact I can reference anything at all in the intranet as they all have unique URLs – for example a persons profile, a News article, a sales opportunity, a task in a project  or a content managed page – to name just a few – can all be commented on in any of my streams and so draw the attention of my corporate followers to the source that contains significantly more information – if they are interested.

It is great to see the excitement that this generates in those customers that have been involved in our review and beta programs.  Certainly I absolutely know the value of working like this – it is exactly a corporate extension of the way I get so much value from my personal use of Twitter and Blogs.

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