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Yesterday two pretty cool things happened. Clearspace X won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for "Best Community Platform." We also had our biggest new hire orientation day in the company's history. I think it was close to 15 new people, which is more people than were at Jive when I started.
With 2007 coming to a close, I'm in a reflective mood and wanted to share some of my favorite changes to Clearspace and Clearspace X from the past year.
The change to the way discussion threads are presented is at the top of my list. Check out the difference between the way threads look in Clearspace 1.1.1 versus 1.10. In this screen shot you see the older style on the left and the newer style on the right. The newer style is threaded, and the treatment of the individual messages makes it easier to quickly understand the structure of the conversation.
A more profound change is the customizable Space Overview tab in Clearspace 1.6. By rebuilding the Overview tab with drag-and-drop widgets it became much easier to provide just the right information to visitors in a space. A long list of widgets is available, including some for pulling content in from other systems. Widgets have also been used in several customizations to add new functionality or integrate with other systems.
The "What's New" feed on the home page evolved as well. It started out as a feed of all the activity in the system, but this can be overwhelming in large, active communities. Now "What's New" can be personalized to create our own view of the activity in Clearspace. This change makes it easier to focus on your areas of interest. By clicking on "Your View" you can select only the Spaces from which you want to see new and updated content. This change can decrease the noise in "What's New" so that you can focus on what is most important to you.
Do you have a favorite change to Clearspace from the past year?
I participated in an Enterprise Collaboration panel with SAP, Oracle, BEA, Zimbra and Sony. It was a bit high-level but I tried to reinforce the importance of keeping collaboration focused on productivity. You can watch the video of it and the rest of the conference thanks to coverage by Veodia.
We also participated in the demo tracks. Ismael asked that we have our customers demo our software so we invited Intel and Attensa who both gave great demos of how they're using Clearspace and Clearspace X. Check out the video of Attensa's presentation (slides above) on how they're using Clearspace internally and the sort of impact it's made to their company (like the 31% reduction in email). Intel's video does an excellent job articulating their goals and the short term impact Clearspace X has had for them.
The best part of the conference was how many of the discussions recognized the need for true enterprise-class collaboration software that recognized the needs, challenges and reality-based technical environment that large companies deal with everyday. I remember one person at our booth saying, "you mean you make 'real' software that companies can actually use behind their firewall?!"
Yesterday, we were excited to see that PC World had launched their completely revamped community. They talk a little about it here and you can visit the community yourself to check it out.
I remember chatting with the PC World people just a few months ago. They have a really active community and they wanted a way to bring together different content and provide readers, as they put it, "the freedom to create and share" what they know.
Reading through the community feedback, it looks like they're well on their way. As their community manager put it:
This is one of the best post-launch days I've had on any community.
We applaud PC World for their leadership, innovation and commitment to providing value to their loyal readers.
