Company Blends Blogs and Wikis Together to Simplify Business Collaboration

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11 — JotSpot, the first application wiki company, today released a new blog application designed specifically for corporate workgroups and internal corporate communications. Available immediately, the workgroup blog application typifies the flexibility of JotSpot’s wiki platform and adds to an expanding portfolio of lightweight business applications available for members of the JotSpot beta program.

“The reality is that companies are increasingly using a combination of wikis and blogs to capture important corporate data, so tighter integration of these two technologies is to be expected,” said Graham Spencer, CTO and co-founder, JotSpot. “Blogs and wikis naturally augment each other and when combined, provide businesses with a powerful set of Web tools that accelerate group collaboration. With this in mind, we developed a private workgroup
blogging application to harness the best of both worlds.”

The JotSpot blog application is built with all the core features users have come to expect from a weblog, including a simple publishing interface, permalinks, comments, categories or “tags,” and the syndication of content via RSS. However, a key differentiator with JotSpot’s blog application is how tightly it integrates with other content on the wiki. For example, a wiki page with notes from a meeting could be easily added to a blog post – giving the workgroup the immediacy of a blog with the permanence and archival ability of a wiki.

In addition, JotSpot users can set-up as many blogs as they like, with single author or multiple-author functionality. For example, a marketing department might have a blog where everyone can post content while the IT manager may have a blog that’s publicly available but read-only. Permission controls are integrated in every JotSpot wiki to provide users with varying levels of access to content, including corporate blogs.

AVAILABILITY
The new workgroup blog application is available immediately at no cost to all JotSpot beta users as part of the growing JotSpot Application Gallery. New JotSpot accounts have the blog application installed automatically by default. JotSpot users can access the gallery to install a blog along with other lightweight business applications in categories such as:

— Collaboration & Community — Forum, blog and survey apps
— Human Resources — Recruiting and timesheet/expense apps
— CRM — Help desk and contract management apps
— Project Management — Feature request tracking and activity management
apps
— Reference — Event calendar, contacts manager, to-do lists, and
call-log apps
— Consumer — RSS aggregator and check register apps
— And much more …

Users can get a free JotSpot account in about a minute at http://www.jot.com.
Further information about the JotSpot beta program can be found at http://www.jotspot.com.

ABOUT JOTSPOT
JotSpot, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is the first application wiki company. Founded and led by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, the company has a mission of making Web applications simple to build through the power of wiki. The JotSpot technology turns today’s document wiki into an application development platform and expands the boundaries of what a wiki can do for enterprise and workgroup users. For more information, please visit http://www.jotspot.com.

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