Tag: ECM

I finally got around to sending out the final email to all our users announcing we will be closing down SambaJAM on October 8th. It doesn’t feel as sad today, the saddest day was when our last paying customer did their final migration off SambaJAM to a new system a few days ago, which is…

Closing Down SambaJAM

As mentioned in my last blog, I’ve been working in the NGO sector the past few months and also following Alfresco, the first open source Enterprise Content Management system. Through my contacts in Alfresco I’ve been talking about potential partnerships between Alfresco and the NGO sector. First of all, I have to dispel a myth,…

How open source start-ups can benefit from NGOs

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When I visited Google.org 2 weeks ago in DC (blog here) I managed to get a sneak preview of their new offering, Google Sites, but was unable to blog about it as I’d signed a NDA when I went into the building. Now its been officially launched I am free to share my opinion on…

Google Sites is NOT Sharepoint

I’ve recently been running a vendor assessment for an NGO (Non Government Organisation, Charity) called NetHope. They are looking to build a collaboration Intranet for all their member NGO’s (there’s currently 18 of them!) to share information and documents. Obviously, I included Alfresco in the vendor assessment, and also Plone, which is heavily supported by…

Alfresco the first open-source Enterprise Content Management system?