I was the first beta tester and power user of the Socialtext wiki; I’m pleased to see that the company continues to grow and innovate. They’re announcing two new innovations: Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People. The ink’s at Yahoo Finance. These innovations “extend the wiki platform for people to gain additional insight by managing their information, conversations and connections.” More specific info:

Socialtext Dashboard — personalized and customizable dashboards of internal and external social software activity. The social news feed of your colleague’s activity in wikis and beyond aids attention management. Enterprise-class and standards-based widgets, that users can generate, customize and assemble with a simple drag-and-drop user experience for what the individual determines productive. Or, starting with Dashboard Templates for the Four Solution Areas, users, or central administrators, can create and deploy dashboards for groups. Socialtext Dashboard supports third party widgets, and the OpenSocial gadget standard. Socialtext 3.0 also provides significant enhancements to its open APIs for enterprise integration

Socialtext People — social networking adapted for the enterprise. Throughout the Socialtext wiki, Profiles are made visible so at any time you can pivot to the people behind the content. Profiles and a user directory make it easy for colleagues to introduce themselves and discover implicit and explicit expertise. People can subscribe to the activity of colleagues. Groupings enable users to declare interest and expertise on their profile and other users profiles, making group forming as simple as adding a tag.

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