Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share screencast, Part One
One of the joys of working at Optaros is the opportunity to work with colleagues like Jeff Potts, who you may know from his blog (ECM Architect) or as the author of Packt Publishing’s Alfresco Developer Guide.
I asked Jeff to add his expertise to the Labs blog by way of a demonstration of Alfresco Share, which is a social collaboration platform built on top of the Alfresco stack.
In the below screencast, Jeff walks through a quick (~12 minute) demo of the core features of Share, including:
- Site Dashboards
- Joining Sites
- Wiki
- Blog
- Document Library
- CIFS
- Calendar
- Discussions
Since the screencast is mostly live demo of a working Share site, you’ll likely need to “full screen” the video for best viewing (click the icon to the left of the volume icon which looks like a small TV).
In part two of the screencast, which I’ll post early next week, Jeff walks through the customization options Share enables, as well as some custom components Optaros has written:
- Status Update, which allows for rolling status updates across the team using the site, á la Facebook status or microblogging, including the ability to aggregate across collaboration groups in an enterprise
- Shared Bookmarks, which enables the easy posting and sharing of bookmarks across a collaboration site.
Tags: Alfresco, Blog, Collaboration, ECM, Forum, Jeff Potts, Microblog, open source, Screencast, Share, video, Wiki
February 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
[...] asking me to do this for some time so I finally caved and knocked it out. It’s a 12-minute screencast that shows the basics of Alfresco Share, an open source team collaboration tool which Alfresco markets as an alternative to Microsoft [...]
February 13th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Will you release the components for microblogging and bookmark sharing as open source?
February 13th, 2009 at 5:47 am
If so I would gladly participate in those projects to get Alfresco more close to products like Lotus Connections and Socialtext
February 13th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Albert,
Awesome! That’s just what we’re looking for. Yes, our intent is to make those components available as open source. The microblogging/status update component is pretty much ready. There are a couple of known issues but I don’t think they need to be perfect before we make them available.
The bookmarking has a bit more work to do, as you will see in the Part Two screencast. At a minimum it still needs edit and delete capability. Right now there’s no way to get rid of a bookmark once you’ve added it. I think tagging and commenting should also be high-priority enhancements.
When we get the code out there we’ll post updates so that everyone knows where to get it and how to contribute.
Thanks for being willing to pitch in.
Jeff
February 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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October 19th, 2009 at 7:01 am
[...] for too long), I did a couple of screencasts on Optaros Labs showing a demo of Alfresco Share (part 1, part 2). In part 2 of that screencast I showed two custom components: Status and Bookmark. [...]