Recently, I was at a customer who wanted to implement our blogging solution for their internal knowledge workers. They had some interesting requirements in terms of how users could comment and moderate blog entries.
The use case required the system to allow a central group to moderate blog entries before they get formally published. Additionally, blog authors could have the power to specify whether or not comments would be forced to anonymous. If comments were not forced to be anonymous, then users could comment using their real name or an alias.
Here's how the proposed solution looks like:
I am bit concerned with all this moderation and 'secret identities', especially around adoption. And it makes me wonder... how many organizations have deployed an internal blogging solution that allow interacting with the solution with secret identities ?
I think it is important that Connections allows for anonymous comments, as well as for comments using some kind of external authorization (like yoru blog does). My (public) blog is hosted on bleedyellow.com, and only other users on that site can comment on my blog... Would be nice if every reader could comment...
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ReplyDeleteTo be honest any company choosing for connections as their collaboration platform I know for sure they will not publish their blog component publicaly to the world. As within a company you have always already all users equipped with userids/password (to login on their workstation) it would be much better that connections can handle all know platforms so it could interact with those platforms for SSO functionality.
Windows/AD/kerberos
Apple
Novell
Linux
So if Connections could integrate in the above 4 platforms for workstation to browser SSO. I guess then it don't mind.
Luis, you and I have discussed this before - especially the use case from TexasSwede above. I really like the concept you showed in the slide show. It would be nice to have that as a core component of Connections and as an option in the Blogs configuration. If Admins choose to allow Anonymous comments at all, then each Blog should also have this option. If Anonymous = Yes, then it would be great to see the option to just use an alias or an authenticated account.
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