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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Tuesday, January 21 2003 @ 11:21 am EST

I work in a division of large computer-manufacturing corporation. A few of us were sick of out inboxes being filled up with news story links (or worse still) copies of the actual stories. We'd then have to suffer the rants and opinions even if we had no interest in the story since we were copied on replies.

I had already set up a Linux box to capture and share requirements and use cases onine. I had been happy with the ease of use of PHP with Apache. We set up a new box (a very old Compaq machine) with a Debian installation and geeklog. In a couple of months over 100 stories have been posted. The number of contributors and the number of comments are both very small. We are still trying hard to train people to go to the site rather than their mail tool when they see news about our area of interest. We've even still had people send out mail when the story was already on our site. We are hopeful this will gradually change as we followup with each sender of spam and we've found that managers think it looks so impressive that they've really supported it.

Technically, it has been very easy to maintain, looks great, and has worked without failure. Being Open Source, we were able to add a little to the news feed plugin to make it understand a proxy to retrieve news through the firewall. A co-worker had looked at several alternatives and commented that the others were like launching the Space Shuttle when all you wanted to do was ride around the block. Great work geekloggers!

Personally, I've also been very happy with the level of installation and support documentation. It's not too much to read but enough to get running.

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