Yammer use took off in our workplace late last year, but since everyone has returned from the Christmas break interest seems to have dropped off somewhat. Maybe something like TeamBox, with its richer toolset, might be more attractive. Teambox organizes communication around projects. Users are members of projects, and a project has communication divided into conversations, task lists, pages and files. The concept seems to have similarities with Google Wave, but at first glance the user interface seems a lot more familiar. And TeamBox is open source allowing installation on your own server — so you can own the data. And can customize the app (built with Ruby on Rails). Now I just need a project to test it with…
Community: Teambox is a public open-source project.
Installing:If you want to run your own server with Teambox, some knowledge of Ruby on Rails and UNIX is very recommended.
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Message traffic on our company Yammer network is following the classic 80-20 principle, although in our case it is closer to 85-15.
Twitter for Teams: Teambox Launches Web-Based Collaboration Tool
The Twitter-like UX is familiar and fast, and the interface seems simultaneously lightweight and robust. For project management and team collaboration – including distributed teams – we can see this application going over very well.
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claudia snell added these pithy words on Jan 21 10 at 9:44 amI liked the idea of Google Wave a lot but it has taken way too long to become available to everyone. There weren’t enough other people in there to do much with it. This morning the Wave people seem to have come alive a bit on Facebook. We’ll see if it goes anywhere.
I’ll check out Yammer and TeamBox too.
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