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Posted on Dec 11, 2007 04:41:47 PM | SamePage Team

Integrating RSS Feeds

After a long hiatus, we're back with more training videos. This week, we cover how to integrate RSS feeds from GoogleNews into your instance of SamePage. You can use this technique to integrate any external RSS feed into your instance. We'll cover more about RSS in the upcoming weeks.  You can download this week's video in WMV format here.

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Posted on Aug 10, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Project Permissions

You can download the video in WMV format here.

This week we show how you can add members to your projects. Did you know that the domain administrator and Project creators can delegate Project administration powers? This means that the Project creator can pick other users to act as administrators of the project, which means that the person will be able to access the Project Administration panel. This is a good thing if you have a heavily used Project with dozens of members. That way you can spread the administrative load, and avoid the need for a full time administrator. It's another great feature of SamePage that reduces administrative costs and organizational friction.

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Posted on Aug 09, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

New feature! Import and Export of Word documents

One of the most-requested and most-popular features of SamePage 3.3 is Word document import and export.  Many of our users had asked for closer integration with Microsoft's Office suite of products.  In response to customer demand, we have developed the import and export tools featured in this weeks video.  Word export and import are available in both the On-Demand and On-Premise versions of SamePage.  Look for more integration with Office in the future, as the SamePage dev team continues its rapid pace of development.
Download this week's video here in WMV format.

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Posted on Jul 18, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Youtube

Link to our Youtube profile.

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Posted on Jul 18, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

A Wiki by any name still works as good

One of the key features of SamePage is the ability to create any number of distinct wikis which we refer to as Projects. A Project is nothing but a container that allows a group of users (members) to manage a bunch of Pages.  Other wiki products refer to this as Spaces or Wikis.

What we realized is that it is important to allow enterprise customers to define what to call this "container" so it makes sense to their users.  Some of them may be comfortable calling them Wikis while others may want to call them Spaces or Projects.  We have had customers who want to create these Projects for specific departments within the organization - so they want to call these Projects as Departments.  Or if your instance of SamePage is being used for building and fostering communities, you may want to call it Communities.

With release 3.3 , we made this Project caption configurable for on-premise installations.  So you can modify the term "Projects" with a term more appropriate for your audience and usage. E.g. Wiki, Workspace, Space, Team, Group, Community etc. This will get reflected in all screens and toolbars automatically.



We believe a wiki by any name should still work as good

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Posted on Jul 06, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Adding Users

You can download the video here in WMV format.

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Posted on Jul 03, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Feedburner

If you have some problems subscribing to our RSS feed, we also have it via Feedburner, here.

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Posted on Jun 22, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Tables

This week's video demonstrates how to create and use tables. 

Tables are a very powerful feature in SamePage.  It is a powerful feature because it allows you to organize lots of information in a readable format.  Inside eTouch, we use a wiki page as our phone directory.   When a new employee joins the team, he or she can simply add a row to the table and include the relevant information. 

For more on tables, check out the video below.  You can also download the video in WMV format here. 

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Posted on Jun 11, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Now with Flash!

Our users have asked us for a Flash video tour of SamePage. You can download the video here.We'll be releasing a new how-to video every other week. Subscribe to our RSS feed and be sure to catch all of our exciting new videos. We can't promise high-speed car chases and daredevil stunts, but the videos will at least be informative. Some of our ideas are to show more advanced editor features like tables, as well as plug-ins like RSS and Youtube. What kinds of things would users like to see?

Here is an introductory video that shows how to make your first project and page:

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Posted on Apr 10, 2007 12:00:00 AM | SamePage Team

Freedom vs Security

This is a topic that has come up almost every time we have talked to customers about a wiki deployment within their enterprise. For a lot of folks out there, "secure wiki" may be an oxymoron - Isn't wiki all about social networking and a free, democratic environment that encourages everyone to contribute? Try telling that to someone in an enterprise and he will think you are out of your mind. While Wikipedia may be a great example of a mass collaboration site, there are enough instances of vandalism, wrong or biased information to make it unacceptable within most organizations. There is little doubt that security is imperative to ensure that the right people are reading and editing the content. On the other hand we all know from experience that if you make the security too tight and complex, you will turn away a lot of users thereby reducing adoption.

Then comes the question of how much content and functionality should one expose? Should you have to expose the whole wiki with thousands of pages to every user in the organization to "encourage collaboration"? What if Marketing wants to have its own wiki separate from the Sales wiki? What about partners or customers - can you expose parts of the wiki to get their contribution?  What if I want the wiki to be available to everyone but the Home Page should be controlled by a few? Can I have a wiki for the IT group that others can read and comment? In larger organizations requirements become even more complex - integration with LDAP and single-sign, nested groups and so on.

Though we can't claim that SamePage can address every situation, we can say in all fairness that it is much more enterprise-ready than most other wikis. Essentially SamePage offers much more granular security so you can have different levels of security for different wikis. Instead of thinking of SamePage as one giant wiki you can think of it as a collection of smaller wikis (called Projects) with inter-linked pages. Every Project in SamePage can have a different security configuration that is decided by the Project Owner. It can be opened to specific members, to all registered users , to anonymous users or some combination of the above. You can define different levels of security - Read, Read+Comment, Read+Comment+Edit and so on. Project membership can be assigned to specific users or groups which could be optionally pulled from your corporate LDAP so you can simply leverage existing hierarchies and groups. Further, within a Project, you can override the default permissions at a Page level  - so certain sensitive pages can restricted to specific members. Since Pages can be linked and words can be searched across Projects, you don't really miss the concept of one giant wiki. Features like RSS and Include plugins further allow you to mesh together content from different Projects while ensuring access privileges are respected at all times.  Audit trails and Versioning further help you to trace any accidental or malicious edits and quickly undo them.

This approach helps you to leverage the openness and viral nature of a wiki without compromising on the basic security of who gets to see or edit what. 

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