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.

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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.

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IDEO uses ThoughtFarmer to power its new Intranet

This week ThoughtFarmer has released v 2.5 of their Intranet system, which focuses on using drag-n-drop for user control giving you the information you want when you want it.

You might think that the era of the Intranet is over, but actually it’s only beginning.  When SarbOx hit the scene user control and document management became a high priority item for public companies.  Now having tight control over users, content, and revisions is key to just keeping your doors open.

The problem with a lot of “Intranet systems” has been that they aren’t great at meshing into existing systems and not the more easy buggers to use.  Believe me, back in the day I had to deal with a lot of them.

This is one thing that impressed me about ThoughtFarmer (beyond wikis is just selling them short).  It makes sense.  You can “get it” at the first look.

Even with the screen shots on their blog post I can get what I’d need to do on each screen.  Nice job guys.

Now, maybe I can get a chance to try it out live…

For more info on the new release: ThoughtFarmer Blog » ThoughtFarmer 2.5: The ultimate intranet

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ThoughtFarmer makes Intranets easier with their 2.5 release

First off is Aidan Henry’s list of Victoria startups to watch:

A few of the start-ups that are paving the way in the Victoria pure-play Internet space include:

• DailySplice – Personalized, daily podcast radio.
• Indochino – Affordable, tailored men’s suits online.
• Teampages - Simplified team and league management tools for sports.
• Oprius – Web-based application suite for network marketers.

Two other early-stage players include Zumer and Utilium (both in private Beta) .

Then we have folks at ThoughtFarmer presenting at Convergence Integration 2008 and Kris Krug at SXSWi (thx to Heri for linking to it).  Coming up at Massive Technology Show (Apr 1) we have Rebecca Bollwitt and Michael Tippett speaking.

Last but not least, Austin discusses a new startup fund for Montreal (linking to these sharp folks as well):

• Marc MacLeod, CFO at MobiVox (who writes a great blog on CFO life at a Startup)
• Boris Mann writes about the fund at Bootup Labs.
• Heri at Montreal Tech Watch covers the announcement and the investment in Standout Jobs.

And I ran into Eric, formerly of MyBlogLog, in the BlogHaus at SXSWi and he told me about the new MBL widgets to add to my side bar (check it out) so I’m also doing the verification for MBL hence…Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification.

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Canadians on the Web 2.0 scene–speaking, presenting, and generally out there