Methods for Information Distribution?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 5, 2003 @10:30AM from the channels-of-communication dept.

Prep asks: "We're all faced with a glut of information. Everyone where I work seems to use email as their primary means of information distribution. However, thanks in part to huge file attachments and a massive influx of spam, email delivery times are now apparently exceeding the times that our user base deems acceptable, so I've began to wonder about other means of informing users of changes to information they deem important. Ideally, the user would subscribe to various feeds (changes in their network share filesystem, various intranet webpages being updated, RSS feeds, etc) and notifications of changes to those sources would be pushed to them on an automated basis. I'm wondering if an IM based solution might not be useful here. I can't imagine this is an isolated problem, and wonder what other /.'s are doing to address it."

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Hotline by johnos · 2003-11-05 13:01 · Score: 2, Informative

I'd suggest Hotline/Openline (shameless plug).

You can get the compiled binaries of the open source non-banner clients at the following URLs: PC Client, Mac Client

And the servers here: PC Server, Mac Server

Info for the app is here:
Hotsprings
Info on the open source projects here:
Opensprings