picked this screencast from SocialText as the Screencast of the Week for a several reasons. Plus, I like that they used a screencast to show off SocialText in action - I can see how it works before I download it. This week's Screencast of the Week came to me by way of a Twitter contact, Alan Lepofsky. love the use of SmartFocus and Callouts ! Click the screenshot below to start the video. And, if you're on Twitter, we'd love to hear from you! Any nominations for next week's Screencast of the Week? Email me or leave a comment below! Happy screencasting! MORE >>

I'll take a look Platform2 - Socialtext Socialtext is an enterprise class social learning platform. It offers a variety of features including but not limited to: a desktop client that allows you to microblog - I think it's called Signals; microblogging; wikis shared spreadsheets - ala Google docs there are a range of socialtext and third party widgets to extend your social platform closed groups if you need them - though I'm not a big fan of them One problem with signals is that it doesn't support hashtags. Socialtext is Open Source as well, though outdated in that version. MORE >>

SocialText - The 'just enough' Collaboration Platform When I was evaluating SocialText earlier this year, I thought of it as the 'just enough' collaboration platform, as you'll notice from my video above. Ever since I think SocialText has discontinued that particular option and you can instead sign up for a full-fledged 30 day trial. There's one thing that's always annoyed me about SocialText though. While the desktop application is really cool, lightweight and powerful, SocialText itself doesn't support hastagging. Just like that - at the click of a button. MORE >>

Mark's also deploying SocialText , an enterprise grade social media platform and now that starts to look like what I'd like to see in the enterprise social media space. At this point Mark's showing a SocialText demo from the DAU, which isn't very interesting to me because I've seen it before, but I understand that it maybe cool for the group here. I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape. Mark's focus is to look at social media tools, their impact on an organisation's culture. for that matter) in a very Web 1.0 MORE >>

This is different from a Jive or SocialText how? Oh yeah, we also support all of the company’s needs for formal content, like classes, courses, job-role related learning etc…  Am I saying that all LMS’s are equivalent to a Jive or SocialText, no. Is all of this as elegant as it might be in Jive or SocialText? Does this mean that I’m not a fan or Jive, SocialText, WordPress, Yammer, or one of 50 other awesomely cool and innovative technologies? Many of whom I really respoect. Not even close. This is an “AND&# join. Crazy? Ditto for LMS. MORE >>