TWiki Web, a Popular Web Based Collaboration and Knowledge Base Tool - New Version, Dec 12, 2000

TWiki Web allows you to set up a dynamic intranet site and a knowledge base; manage documents and collaborate with your community by using just a web browser. TWiki announced a new version of it's popular collaboration tool. TWiki Web looks and feels like a normal Intranet or Internet web site. In addition, there is an Edit link on every page to change or create content. The tool is a Perl CGI script that takes text input, hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly. Features include automatic link generation, full text search, page revision control, authorization based on groups, email notification of changes, file attachments to web pages, and more. Get more details at http://TWiki.org/ and in the feature article of the Web Techniques magazine, Corporate Collaboration With TWiki, http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/12/thoeny/ "TWiki Web is designed to eliminate the 'one webmaster syndrome' where intranet content is outdated and insufficient" said Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki Web. "Empowering employees to make changes to the intranet, combined with a peer review of content makes sure that content is up to date and accurate. Many major companies in the telecommunication and consumer product industries depend on TWiki Web to streamline the information flow between the corporate offices." "Peter's message prompted me to revisit TWiki and boy, is it powerful" said Jon Udell, Byte Magazine's former executive editor. "Among other things, TWiki eases one of the concerns about classic Wiki, which is that the radically egalitarian "edit this page" scheme leaves no change log. TWiki includes powerful revision support. Every change leaves a footprint, and you can follow these easily and effectively." "We are using TWiki very successfully in a distributed environment" said David Attwood, System Architect at Ultra SBS, a large UK based defence organization, "initial user reactions were 'so what' now it's the most popular tool in our shared data environment!" The new TWiki version 01 Dec 2000 includes, among other enhancements, fine grained access control with authorization based on groups, advanced search features, and some security fixes. TWiki is available for download from the TWiki web-site. For more information, contact: Peter Thoeny, Peter@Thoeny.com Nicholas Lee, nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz http://TWiki.org/

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