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Productivity in the enterprise – Twitter-style

I wonder if companies should consider setting up an internal (password protected) tool called Prologue

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Basically it’s a private blog (hosted on a platform, in this case WordPress.com) where you and your fellow employees can broadcast micro-updates to the rest of the org (very efficiently – you could plug the RSS feed of your coworker updates straight into your RSS reader or Outlook/Entourage, etc). I love the innovation these guys have shown – this is just a special WordPress skin that does something clever with the Twitter microblog idea, delivering a lot of use to organisations and groups. Simple and clever. I like.

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