Socialtext

 

Wiki for Sharepoint

With Socialtext SocialPoint, Socialtext delivers key wiki features for easily editing pages, adding comments and tags, creating links, embedding images and attachments, as well as setting permissions by user or groups for the wiki workspaces. By working with Sharepoint and Active Directory, Socialpoint provides single sign-on access to multiple wikis, as well as integrates with existing Microsoft Office documents stored in Sharepoint through links.

Users can easily draft content in the wiki, gather collaborative feedback from team members, and then publish a final version of this wiki content as a Microsoft Word document that can be stored inside of Sharepoint. The SocialPoint integration also provides summary views of wiki content, such as 'What's New' and 'Watchlist' items, to be displayed directly inside the Sharepoint portal for a unified user experience.

SocialPoint supports both Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2003 and Microsoft Sharepoint 2007.

Best of Breed Option

Here's what a Microsoft Product Manager and Community Lead had to say about SocialPoint in 2007:

As I stated quick emphatically during my "SharePoint Collaboration and Community Tools" session at the European SharePoint Conference last Tuesday, the wiki functionality in WSS 3.0 was not designed to compete directly with best-of-breed wiki products like SocialText, but rather, it's the integration of a plethora of collaboration and community features that make WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 best of breed as a whole... More and more SharePoint customers who want advanced wiki functionality are looking to the specialized wiki ISVs like SocialText to provide it with an integrated user experience in SharePoint by way of 3rd party webparts.

Here's what our first SocialPoint customer had to say in 2006:

"We are beginning to use Socialtext in our Center for Integrated Health Science Education and Practice to work collaboratively on new ways of educating healthcare workers," said Ken Graetz, eLearning Officer at Winona State University, Minnesota. "We are also very excited about the possibility of integrating Socialtext with our growing Microsoft SharePoint installation. Combining the structure of SharePoint with the open, flexible features of Socialtext's wiki is a great solution for supporting teamwork."

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