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  • Bonnie Bogle
    Dec 3, 2009
    Success Metrics from the World Bank's Open Atrium Based Intranet

    Big growth in buy in and use of the Communicate collaboration system
    Yesterday Eric joined Ric Castro, an information officer at the World Bank, in a presentation on how to make social software work for your team at the Potomac Forum. Ric manages Communicate, the Open Atrium powered hub that 1,000+ people use at the...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Sep 16, 2009
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    Open Atrium Gets a Community and Learns to Eat Its Own Dog Food

    Community Site Has a Collaborative Documentation Space and a Better Case Tracker
    We've just launched community.openatrium.com, a new hub for the Open Atrium community. From the day we released Open Atrium, we knew that we'd need a proper place for users and developers to go to collaborate. Until now, we've been using the issue...
  • Ian Cairns
    Sep 8, 2009
    2 comments
    The World Bank Launches "Communicate" Intranet on Open Atrium

    Using Open Atrium to deploy a highly custom, enterprise grade intranet solution
    The World Bank's Communicate intranet launched last week on Open Atrium with nearly 1,000 users. Their communications team spread around the world is better positioned to collaborate now that their main communication tool is custom tuned to their...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jul 14, 2009
    18 comments
    Open Atrium in Public Beta, Code on Github

    Beta Release of Open Source Intranet in a Box
    Open Atrium’s code is now in open beta! You can download the code from www.openatrium.com, learn more about its features, read why we open sourced it, and the check out the roadmap for the next release. What we’re most excited about now...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jul 14, 2009
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    Thank You Open Atrium Alpha Testers
    It has been a great couple of months working with all of the alpha testers on Open Atrium. People took a lot of time to make this project better, and we thank you for that. Everyone is going to benefit from this when you see the code this week. We...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jun 17, 2009
    48 comments
    Announcing Open Atrium: An Open Source Intranet Package Powered by Drupal
    Open Atrium (formally code named 8trees) is an open source intranet package powered by Drupal that’s fast and easy to install and start using, and open source so you can customize it to meet your exact needs. It’s first public release will be in mid...
  • Ian Cairns
    Apr 2, 2009
    4 comments
    Oxfam Uses 8Trees and Drupal to Test New Organizing Strategies During G20

    Pushing the Limits of Team Management with 8Trees
    Oxfam Great Britain needed a tool to help them collaborate online with their geographically dispersed team and some of its partners during the G20 event happening right now. 8Trees, our Drupal-based project management/knowledge management tool, acts...
  • Ian Ward
    Nov 3, 2008
    5 comments
    Improving Knowledge Management at the World Bank with Drupal

    Creating Group Work Spaces Using Organic Groups, Spaces & Context
    We recently upgraded the knowledge management system of the World Bank’s communications team. We had worked with their team two years ago to build the system – then meant to facilitate internal communications and keep everyone informed on...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jul 17, 2008
    19 comments
    Introducing Spaces for Drupal

    Leveraging Organic Groups and Context to Extend Custom Features Within Groups
    We do a lot of work building portals and intranets that provide collaborative online spaces for professional communities. Some of these projects are completely private sites, and some are open to larger user groups. In each case we need to provide a...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Oct 23, 2007
    1 comment
    Innovation to Improve Humanitarian Action

    Kicking off the Global Symposium +5 in Geneva
    I just got out of a working group where we outlined best practices, key issues, standards, and recommendations for Innovation to Improve Humanitarian Action, which will be presented at the Global Symposium +5 that  starts tomorrow...