The Intranet system is based on what we’ve been doing in the social media space for years: make it easy for people to create, edit, and modify content.

Truly, I think descriptions like this one, aren’t going to do it justice.  Heck I even saw it in action and didn’t get it until I used it as part of the Tubetastic promotion.  What I have to say is for you to go to over to ThoughtFarmer and request a trial.

Frankly building up a rich intranet shouldn’t be something that takes big team months to launch.  Just freakin’ do it.  Get your hands in there and start building.

In the past this would have made IT folks turn pale(-er?) and pass out, but since it’s all, essentially, disposable, you don’t have to be “perfect” the first time out.

And that, is something I wish I could have done years ago.

Post from: EveryJoe

ThoughtFarmer adds multilingual support, blogs, calendars, and forums to their Intranet suite

Recently, IDEO embarked on a new project to empower their internal communities to create and manage their own online collaborative spaces. With more than 500 employees in eight offices around the world, they sought better ways to share knowledge and collaborate across physical distances.

“We knew that wikis promised much of what we were after,” says Gentry Underwood, project lead for the initiative. “But most of the tools on the market are too difficult to use. We wanted something intuitive and straightforward, that our communities could pick up and start using without training.” Source: ThoughtFarmer Blog » ThoughtFarmer an integral component of IDEO’s intranet

Yep the easy and yet powerful Intranet.  Seems like a fools errand.  Okay seemed like a fools errand back in the late nineties when I was looking at such tools as Peachtree and Livelink.  Now, the tools are better, the computers and connections faster so this isn’t a fools errand.  Okay shouldn’t be.

IDEO must know good design and usability when they see it.  Is this the kudo for ThoughtFarmer?  Maybe.  One thing I do like to see is that Canadian technology is still on the leading edge of the industry.

Post from: EveryJoe

IDEO uses ThoughtFarmer to power its new Intranet