Comments on: Jive Software introduces Clearstep, an online community for social and Enterprise 2.0 folks

By: High Fiver, Finger Pointer | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold

High Fiver, Finger Pointer | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:25:22 +0000

[...] friends often blog about companies they love, problems they want to solve (or help), and opinions from their experiences. Which leads me to [...]

By: chriskalani

chriskalani — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:11:07 +0000

Thanks man. I actually totally leaked the design a couple months ago on my site: http://chriskalani.com/archive/clearstep-enterprise-20-community/

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Nevermind. I answered my own question. ;)

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:26:44 +0000

@Gia Interesting point on the “experts.” I saw this as a community of folks deeply involved in this sort of social activity within their respective enterprises—and I might have mislabeled them as experts in this regard—who would have a social circle of like-minded folks in Clearstep.

Sorry for that misinterpretation. I’ll make an edit to the post to clarify that point.

If it’s open to anyone, I guess that begs the question of why this just wouldn’t happen out in the open on an existing social network?

I don’t need an answer to that. It just popped into my head.

By: Gia Lyons

Gia Lyons — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:20 +0000

Thanks for the props, Rick! I know. My title is ultra-long. If you’re still interested after reading it, then I’m all yours.

Also, I hate “experts”. This community is open for everyone, not just experts.

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:46 +0000

(Bumps into the elephant in the room) Maybe like say, oh I don’t know… OpenID?

By: Michael Sigler

Michael Sigler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:45:31 +0000

Thanks for the props Rick. Kalani, Barry and Gia and the rest of the people at Jive have done a great job getting it off the ground.

Aaron – This is one of very few instances in which we don’t use our single sign-on model for a community. It was a hard choice for us but something we needed to do. I encourage you to hop into the community and comment on it. I agree that many companies struggle with just that sort of thing.

Out of anyone who does SSO well, I’d say Blizzard does the best job with WoW. Same account for their forums, managing your account and the game.

By: Jesse Wilkins

Jesse Wilkins — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:34:09 +0000

Just tried to register and the captcha appeared to have a / in it. Apparently it didnt and the form RESET THE ENTIRE THING. Nice try, lemme know when it’s fixed and I may try again.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:15:37 +0000

Looks promising… if nothing else it’s a good way to get some hands-on experience with Clearspace.

I’m not at all excited about creating yet another username and password. I wish companies would make it easier to participate without answering a bunch of questions and setting up yet another account…