Six Apart on Linking Communities

The genre of blogging has currently shifted as people realize that communities, not individual bloggers, actually move markets. The latest news article on CNet discusses Six Apart’s plans to sell off its blogging service LiveJournal to several companies including Typepad, Movable Type, and Vox.

This new transition will bring about many new features; the product will let end users mark people as friends (just like in social networks) and track projects that they are currently working on. This is a great Enterprise tool, since corporations are bombarded with unsuccessful intranets. Stepping away from its Enterprise features, it also has a great system that restricts who can see personal posts. Read the entire article to get the full picture of the incredible technology being used to at Six Apart to create these content management systems.

Finally, organizations are beginning to see the importance of social networking, and the effects that communities can have on the Enterprise workplace. Communities and groups have long been used on a personal level, but its transition to the business side has not been so quick. But, there is hope