Thoughtfarmer visit

From KMWiki

I visited the offices of Openroad Communications in June 2007, while in Vancouver to visit my parents. I was interested in wiki products, learning about killer features, interesting developments.

Darren Gibbons and Chris McGrath spent an hour or so taking me through the ins and outs of their product.

ThoughtFarmer impressed me.

Those guys get it. As somebody responsible for running an intranet, I was jealous. It was fast, it was simple, and it did the important things well. Tagging and security particularly stood out.

Tagging is tiered so that keywords can be grouped (and later used to navigate through an organisation's content).

Security does everything your paranoid users would want.

At the time they were missing a few important features (RSS stood out), but that has been integrated since my visit.

Watch a four minute demo. Keep and eye out for those tiered tags.

For me, it's a great tool to run an standard intranet, with no wiki markup in sight.