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Attensa Blog Migrates to MoveableType Enterprise

This is the last post for the Attensa blog on Typepad. We have completed the integration of MoveableType Enterprise with the Attensa.com. Here's the new Attensa blog with a some more detail on the migration. We've kept the feed the same so subscribers won't miss anything.

MoveableType Enterprise up and running at Attensa

Rahsaan Roland Kirk released an album in 1973 titled Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle. It features a live 21 minute saxaphone solo. When you listen to it, it's impossible to discern when the man took a breath. Incredible.

We are in the process of transitioning sections of Attensa.com to the MoveableType platform. Yesterday our crack web team showed me MoveableType Enterprise in action working on our servers. We're starting with the news section so that loading news releases, updating our news coverage and event schedule will be as easy as posting to this Typepad blog and there will be a feed for each section. I'll be working with this miracle. Incredible.

Introducing Project Dogfood and Michelle's Flog Blog

There's a project at Attensa called Project Dogfood. We've set up internal wikis and blogs to help us track fast moving projects, collaborate a little more cleanly and to give everyone on the team experience applying Enterprise 2.0 tools to our real world programs and projects.

Part of the motivation for Project Dogfood comes from our work with Six Apart. After sitting through three Business Blogging seminars, you can't help get caught up in Anil Dash's enthusiasm and wanting to apply the practical pointers on approaching business blogs that flow from DL Byron.

As part of Project Dogfood, I wanted to get more people involved in telling the Attensa story. I'd like to introduce Michelle, our customer service lead and author of the Flog Blog posts. I've asked Michelle to share her knowledge of Attensa for Outlook to help people get more out of the 1.5 beta.

We'll be sharing more about our learnings from Project Dogfood as soon as I flog the next victim into blogging.

Attensa and Outlook 2007

We are frequently asked about the impact of Outlook 2007 on Attensa for Outlook. Tris Hussey shares his experience using Outlook 2007 here. Tris is the Director of Strategic Partner Relations and unofficial Chief Blogging Officer for Qumana software, a great blog editing tool that I'm using.

I'll spoil it for you by jumping to the punchline. Tris has gone back to Outlook 2003 but supercharging it with X1 desktop search and Attensa for Outlook 1.5 for feed reading.

Tris has been using the Attensa for Outlook 1.5 beta instead of FeedDemon for about a week and has this to say.  "Attensa. I think they are on to something here...I think my feed scanning is getting better."

10 Business Wiki Applications

Brian Keairnes at the StartupSpot has compiled a very practical list of business wiki applications covering sales, marketing, research, customer service, product planning and more.

Meet DL Byron - Author of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business

We met DL Byron on the road at the first Six Apart Blogging for Business seminar in San Francisco. Byron is a talented designer, entrepreneur and business blogging expert who has done some innovative blog strategy and design projects for Boeing and others. He's working with Attensa connecting our web marketing and blogging strategies and bringing some polish to our look and feel.

Did I mention he's an author? He is. If you live near Santa Monica you can meet Byron, the author of the new book Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business. Textura Designs and Colorado Ski Country USA (another of Byron's clients) are hosting an espresso break following the LA edition of the Six Apart Attensa Business Blogging seminar.

Join us June 22 at 2:30 PST
Sheraton Delfina
530 West Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310.399.9344

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