Title: December 2006 | Test Lab: Traction Juices Up Collaboration
December 18, 2006: P.G. Daly of Intranet Journal's Test Lab wrote a terrific and comprehensive review of Traction. The full review is worth reading, but here are a few quotes:
About the platform: [Traction] combines the best of blog and wiki technologies and packages them into
an enterprise-ready package with their Traction TeamPage and Traction
Communicator products... In this juiced-up
hypermedia platform you get the advantages of blogs (ease of posting
and distributing content to the web), wikis (power of collaborative
authoring), web applications, and document management rolled into one.
About discussion support: All commenting uses rich text format and is placed directly within the
subsection [paragraph] of the content you wish to contribute. This differs from the
big "comments" section at the bottom of a page you typically see on
blogs. No more trying to untangle the spaghetti of comments at the bottom to
follow a particular thread and discern which part of the article it
relates to.
About ease of use and social tagging: Because the structure is blog-based it is easy to
manage and easy for users to contribute regardless of their technical
savvy. Add to that the power of social tagging where users can label
other user's content in a way that suits their own workflow and you
marry the synergy of team with the autonomy of the solo-worker
