2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms

In the 2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms report published by leading independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. MindTouch was named a strong performer against its key competitors. MindTouch is pleased to offer this report (regularly $1,749) along with several technical and educational resources free of charge.
Before You Buy! 10 Questions You MUST Ask Your Prospective Collaboration Vendor

Are you currently evaluating a new collaboration solution? Thinking of escaping vendor lock-in and deploying a newer Enterprise 2.0 deployment, one with web 2.0 features and capabilities? To help you with your decision, MindTouch has licensed a recent whitepaper published by Diversity Limited, one of the collaboration industry's leading sources of analysis and commentary.
How to Crowdsource Your Content and Technical Documentation

To create a corporate knowledge base that leverages the power of crowdsourcing, companies must first attract and engage their “in” crowd of people, including employees, customers, business partners, and industry experts, who have a vested interest in the new information and ideas that will be generated by the crowd.
Crowdsourced Documentation and MindTouch Collaborative Knowledge Base

MindTouch is open source software and accrues every cost savings associated with that licensing model. Implementing a MindTouch CKB can be a very quick and inexpensive project. Initial ROI can be seen within days and will only grow as the crowd increases.
Take Charge of Your Intranet 2.0 Initiatives

Web 2.0 revealed the value that can be derived from mass participation. Intranet 2.0 adapts those same social technologies to the smaller enterprise domain to create a collaborative Intranet. Innovation grows as collective thought is both enhanced and subjected to the increased scrutiny of real-time collaborators.
Intranet 2.0: Collaborative Networks for the Intranet

For most companies, the expense of their corporate intranets is a cost of doing business. The next generation intranet is now available and transforms stale, static corporate intranets into collaborative networks that connect people and ideas with lower costs and increased productivity.
How to Implement a Best-in-Class Intranet 2.0 Site

The days of static, outdated content on your Intranet are over. There are a myriad of vendors that provide solutions, but only a handful that are next generation. While Sharepoint leads the pack, the tool is locked into an outdated platform which limits its Web 2.0 features. MindTouch does not have legacy software to maintain and thus has been built to incorporate more Web 2.0 features. The trick for these vendors is to build Web 2.0 applications that work within the enterprise.
Using MindTouch to Create Mashups and Composite Applications

This online 'how to' webinar is focused on showing attendees how to use MindTouch to create mashups and composite applications. You will learn how MindTouch can be deployed throughout the enterprise to create a truly collaborative working environment and how to use MindTouch for federating data sources and systems into a 'single pane of glass' view for the entire organization.
Create Simple Enterprise Workflows in MindTouch Using Forms and Templates

In this webinar discover just how MindTouch can be deployed throughout the enterprise to create a truly collaborative working environment and how to use MindTouch to create simple workflow using forms & templates.
Now Using MindTouch Productivity Tools & DekiScript for Business Automation

Learn how to use the MindTouch productivity tools and underlying technology for business automation. In this webinar discover just how a wiki can be deployed throughout the enterprise to create a truly collaborative working environment and how to use MindTouch for business automation.
Down With Stale Corporate Intranets

Throughout the past decade, companies spent millions of dollars and man-hours building in-house intranets on portal frameworks designed to increase the flow of information and collaboration among employees. However, because these intranets were designed by engineers and HR departments — not by the employees who would use them — many today sit static, serving as vast dumping grounds for departmental files rather than the collaborative platforms they were intended to be.
Salesforce.com Integration, Automation & Reporting Using MindTouch

Are you a Salesforce.com user? If so, you should attend this informative webinar which discusses how to use MindTouch with you Salesforce.com deployment for automation and reporting. We'll show you how you can extend the value of your CRM strategy by integrating collaboration best practices.
Managing Content for Continuous Learning at Autodesk

“We have yet to find a solution as powerful as MindTouch; it provides the speed and agility our support team needs by minimizing the time we waste trying to find content and lowering our cost of actually developing that content in the first place.” – Victor Solano, Senior Product Manager, Autodesk
MindTouch Resources
We’ve collected some useful resources into this single location so you don’t have to go searching. Here you will find some great information in the form of white papers, videos and recorded webinars to help you learn more about MindTouch products and solutions for product documentation and collaboration. If you are a MindTouch customer, sign in to the support portal for additional resources and answers to your questions.
- White Papers Educate yourself on market trends
Some thought-provoking white papers that will help you consider social knowledge base resources and collaboration strategies.
- Free Download Managing Content for Continuous Learning at Autodesk
- Free Download Before You Buy! 10 Questions You MUST Ask Your Prospective Collaboration Vendor
- Free Download How to Crowdsource Your Content and Technical Documentation
- Free Download Crowdsourced Documentation and MindTouch Collaborative Knowledge Base
- Free Download Take Charge of Your Intranet 2.0 Initiatives
- Free Download Intranet 2.0: Collaborative Networks for the Intranet
- Free Download How to Implement a Best-in-Class Intranet 2.0 Site
- Free Download 2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms
- Webinars Learn more about MindTouch and Industry Best Practices
With our free webinar series, it's easy to learn how MindTouch solutions can be deployed throughout your enterprise to create a truly collaborative experiences. Please continue to check this page for schedule updates and registration opportunities.
Webinar: Getting Started with MindTouch TCS - See how easy it is to get started with your MindTouch TCS Social Knowledge Base
- Learn to effectively use your product help to attract new users and business
- Find out how companies like RightScale, Autodesk and ExactTarget use MindTouch TCS to drive down support costs
- We may also be demonstrating our MindTouch and Zendesk integration
Who should attend - Customer support managers and agents
- Those responsible for tech pubs
- Product managers and marketers
- Community builders and managers
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- Recorded Webinars MindTouch webinar archive
Couldn't make one of our live webinars? No problem, check out our top webinars below. For a full list of industry best practice webinars, go to our blog's webinar archive.
- Watch NowOrganizing Help Content: Overcoming the Problem of Findability with Tom Johnson
- Watch NowSearch Engine Optimization 101: Understanding SEO with Jeff Carr
- Watch NowLessons from the Masters: Trends You Need to Know for Your Next Web Support Site Makeover
- Watch Now Creating Culturally-Correct Web Content For Global Audiences with Maxwell Hoffmann
- Watch Now Are You Content Strategy Material?
- Watch Now “Support 2.0: Leveraging the Social Web for Customer Support” with Anne Gentle
- Watch Now “Creating a Content Strategy for Support Centers” with Ann Rockley
- Watch Now Replay “Managing Technical Writing Teams” with Scott Abel and Richard Hamilton
- Watch Now Exceptional Customer Experiences Start with Terminology Management with Val Swisher
- MindTouch Source Code Free / open source projects (Formerly DekiWiki)
- Free Download MindTouch Core is one of the most popular open source projects in the world. Intuitive enterprise wiki, development platform, and web services framework.
- Free Download MindTouch DReAM is the open source .NET Web Oriented Architecture Framework (WOAF) that is redefining how enterprise software is built.