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Weblogs in the Enterprise?
Lushmore asks: "Some of our firmware teams have asked for a discussion forum tool similar to the many web bulletin boards or weblogs on the Internet. One missing feature common to most of the boards I've seen is, understandably, lack of finely grained security--the user/group structure is not sufficient for the enterprise. Is there a bulletin board/weblog tool out where users can be part of multiple groups and each group can have their own administrators?" I think the issue of Weblogs in the Enterprise extends far beyond the type of software used, so as an aside for this question, I'd like folks to think about one other issue: can the usual culture found in most firms support the type of open discourse common to successful weblogs? What extra advantages would weblogs provide over the already tried and true technologies like email, instant messaging and cellphones?
People from TechDirt, who earn their living by creating corporate blogs, have a white paper on enterprise blogging available. And then there is this InfoWorld article.
Check out PHPbb, it allows for multiple admins and groups, not sure if it's exactly what you need, but if not I'm sure with a few extra lines of PHP you could get it to do what you need! Good luck!
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
I'm gonna call this one now. No enterprise can endure the openness that weblogs usually have. The closest thing that you can have and get your discussion and security is either a plain old web message board, or a mailing list of some sort. But security is still an issue.
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"Now, where's the damn 'any' key?"
...have it under a password protected directory or only available to an Intranet. Then the users can still use it as they wish/need and the ass end of the company is at least mostly covered =)
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
Currently, tikiwiki could be a good option. Wiki, CMS, blogs, and more. Quite a nice user/group security layer also.
Robert Anton Wilson
If you make the E for Enterprise upper case, you'll get people asking why Patrick Stewart (Picard) and Jonathan Frakes (Riker) aren't making weblogs in the Enterprise.
Then again, the only one who I know of who does one on a semi-regular basis is wilwheaton.net (Wesley). (Yes, CleverNickName, I know you're reading this).
If anyone else would be doing one, I'd think maybe Levar Burton (LaForge) would, but I don't know their off-screen personalities very well. Levar just seems like the kind of person who would do a weblog, if he had the time. Maybe Robert Picardo (Voyager HoloDoc), as well.
Another alternative is to implement PHProjekt. This is a web based groupware system running in a LAMP type scenario.
It allows you to set up different groups separately and includes a forum system
It also includes timecard, contact, project management, chat and so on. I set it up at work for our company and it works very well.
CLO might do what you want. It provides groups of users which can be admin'd by different people, as well as a few other things such as group based file shares. To have alook at it just create yourself a new user. Thier isn't a downloadable package yet (I'm lazy) but just send a message to the admin (Bach) to get it.