Podcast: Ross Mayfield, SocialText

03-05-2007

by Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery's guest on this episode of Podleaders is Ross Mayfield. Ross is the CEO and co-founder of SocialText - one of the leading Enterprise wiki applications.

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Tom invited Ross to talk about wikis in general and SocialText's offerings in this space.

Here are the questions Tom asked Ross and their times:

Ross, can you tell me a little about SocialText. How did SocialText come about, what brought you into this space? - 0:42

There are now many competitors in the wiki space - how did this come to be and how are you dealing with it? - 03:19

Neither the SocialText Unplugged nor the SocialCalc are available in the main product, is that the case? - 08:18

Questions from readers:

• Dennis Howlett
  What's the spread of take-up of SocialText? And what does a typical SocialText user 'look' like? - 11:12
• John Collins
  Enterprise 2.0 - what does it mean and is it a useful term to use? - 14:25
• Ina O'Murchu
  Where do you see the future lying with all the social networks evolving especially with regards to their interoperability? - 20:33
• John Breslin
  What do you think about Semantic Wikis - 22:55
• Paul Watson
  how do I migrate 1000 pages of my Wikimedia powered wiki to Socialtext. - 27:23

Do you see a lot of resistance to the use of Wikis within organisations, and if so, how do you overcome that? - 30:32

You wrote on Twitter that you are finding that your blog is becoming a slog - are you starting to suffer from "blog fade"? - 34:54

Unfortunately, at this point there was a lot of echo in parts of this podcast - consequently it had to be cut including a question from Bernie Goldbach and a few other pieces.

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