From the New Guy a.k.a Stephen Harvey
August 4, 2008
So, after a recent graduation from college, a great new job here at LUCRUM, and a bunch of people calling me the “new guy,” I am enjoying my first month at LUCRUM. Yet, somehow shortly after my third week here, I was abruptly sent to Santa Clara, California for some Clearspace training! I know; I’ll be the first to tell you how rough it was.
Now, before I get into what Clearspace is and what it does I’ll tell you that Santa Clara is amazing if you’ve never been there. It’s like a small version of Silicon Valley. They have every major IT related (and non IT related) corporation out there somewhere. My hotel was surrounded by a mixture of Yahoo!, McAfee, Cisco, Intel and HP buildings. However, if you’re looking for restaurants close by, good luck! I had to eat at Bennigans three nights for dinner since it was one of the few non-fast food places within a 10 or so mile radius. The weather was great and it’s a beautiful area as well. It was a good time and a great learning experience nonetheless and I might not complain if LUCRUM sends me there again.
Onto Clearspace…Clearspace is a superb new collaboration tool made by Jive Software. It allows users and corporations to participate in and manage message board discussions as you have before. In addition, you can create, edit, rate and comment on wiki documents, and you can read, contribute, comment and create your own blogs.
Collaborative content placed into any system (blog, wiki, documentation, etc) can later be retrieved through use of a common search as well. Other features include RSS capability, email integration, a reputation and reward system for participation, and personal user profiles.
Clearspace is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java is installed.
LUCRUM’s plan to use Clearspace is to host multiple instances for our customers and clients where they can collaborate and do all of the neat stuff listed above! I’m looking forward to it myself!
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Welcome Steve! I hope your next 6 months are as exciting as the first month!