Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, announced a new Web 2.0 collaboration solution that focuses on allowing enterprises to manage social content. Part of Day’s Communiqué family of products, Communiqué Advanced Collaboration (CQ AC) offers wiki, blog, and calendar functionality.

“Day’s new collaboration solution connects companies with the people that posses relevant information and feedback, enabling businesses to streamline management of their social media, while delivering the brand control and consistency required.” David Nuescheler, CTO, Day Software

A few days ago, Oracle launched the first official public-facing Oracle wiki.

“Welcome to the official public Oracle Wiki, where members of the Oracle community (employees and non-employees) collaboratively create and share content about Oracle-related subjects they’re passionate about.”

Via Collaborative Thinking.

Many organizations are experimenting with wiki-based collaboration projects. But only a small percentage of these projects make it past the initial excitement or pilot phase. One of the reasons for the drop-off is that there’s not enough thought given to them other than deciding which wiki product to install. This article presents a framework that can help groups wanting to use wikis for internal projects better plan and sustain their collaboration efforts.

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Beginning in 2005 General Motors began watching the emerging technology of Web 2.0 in search of potential competitive advantages. They’ve since found some of those advantages by implementing blogs and internal wikis. Their successful and popular customer facing blogs are frequently cited in Enterprise 2.0 articles. Fred Killeen, Chief Systems and Technology officer at GM, is convinced that these and other Web 2.0 tools will lead to significant positive changes for companies and says “Web 2.0 will drive change in the way companies do things”.

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