eportfolio
collect, reflect on and share your achievements and development online, in a space you control
networking
create online communities and social network through Groups, Blogs and Forums
open source
built on open source and open principles. Interoperate out of the box with Moodle
visone is a software for the visual creation, transformation, exploration, analysis and representation of network data, jointly developed at the University of Konstanz and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2001.
Social networking tool for enterprises: Collect ideas (for products, enhancements etc.) from the employees, make votes about it. Motivation done via incentives.
Apache ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Environment) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information.
You can hardly turn a web page these days without seeing a story that describes how people are using social networks, whether it is Twitter, Facebook or some other service to develop and build their personal communities.
When solving problems, how useful might it be if a user was able to tap into the collective knowledge of her peers or surrounding groups of people with whom she might naturally network in the workplace setting? How much quicker and with greater precision might she be able to solve daily problems? What if there was a communications mechanism that takes the best of what services like Twitter offers and co-mingled that with readily recognizable business processes? That solution is Apache ESME.
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