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  • Mar 9, 2010
    DAI using Open Atrium to help their GIS teams in Pakistan communicate
    Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), one of the leading international development contractors, has deployed Open Atrium to help its GIS team in Islamabad communicate with its office in Peshawar and headquarters back in Bethesda on a capacity...
  • Dec 3, 2009
    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...
  • Sep 16, 2009
    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...
  • Sep 8, 2009
    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...
  • 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...
  • Jul 14, 2009
    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...
  • 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...
  • Apr 2, 2009
    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...
  • Nov 3, 2008
    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...
  • Jul 17, 2008
    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...