Enterprise 2.0 Social Software

Water Cooler

Our Enterprise 2.0 offering is dubbed the Water Cooler Chronicles. Why the name? We know all real communications happen around the ol' cooler, or alternatively the microwave on the 2nd floor next to accounts, but the former definitely had a sexier ring to it.

The Water Cooler Chronicles (or WCC) is an enterprise blogging, networking and collaboration platform constructed on top of the very powerful and secure Drupal open source content management system.

We've tweaked and customised the platform to cater for end users who find themselves in the middle of large corporates plagued by inefficient communications. The platform allows users to create a personal digital profile and a custom information management system. We then simply connect the dots between these micro-systems using aggregation and syndication technologies.

We're on the side of the knowledge worker - the person with a wealth of knowledge stored in their brains - knowledge that if harnessed and capitalised upon determines the mental agility of your company!

Features of the WCC blogging, networking and collaboration platform include:

  • Collaborative wiki functionality
  • A multitude of modules which provide extensibility and advanced functionality, some examples include instant messaging, podcasting, Google Video and Youtube integration, etc.
  • Comprehensive help tips, forums and FAQ's
  • A role based permission system that allows you to determine who creates, interacts with and edits content across the network
  • Search and advanced seach functionality
  • Polls
  • Threaded comments
  • Versioning control
  • Multi-user blogging
  • Content syndication
  • News (RSS) aggregation
  • Permalinks
  • Analysis, tracking and statistics
  • Discussion forums
  • Logging and reporting
  • Social bookmarking, points systems, post and comment rating, user ranking and other social filtering techniques
  • Image galleries
  • Web-based administration and a powerful WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content editor