We’ve published our first NewsGator case study – take a look! There’s lots of info about how Triple Point is using RSS, weblogs, and NewsGator within their company. An excerpt:
Using NewsGator and other tools, Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape. NewsGator provides seamless access to this information, all while preserving the familiar user experience of Microsoft Outlook.
I’ve been trying (with little success) to re-develop an electronic forms system using RSS that could integrate with email (especially with email groupings). Maybe the best way forward would be a development of NewsGator/Outlook, perhaps using the little used TextArea element of RSS: emails could be sent that were integrated with an associated RSS form and the form input responses could be returned by RSS.
It strickes me that NewsGator would be uniquely placed to supply this desperately needed enhancement to email/groupware.
Many years ago I produced a very simple forms creation and response consolidation process (in cobol) for British Railways (they called it FFWD ‘forms forwarder’). See http://radio.weblogs.com/0117018/outlines/FFWD.html
This was highly regarded and was extensively used (by people and by computer systems) but it was abandoned when standard email systems were implemented. Maybe now is the time for something just as easy to use to come back on standard transport systems.