If your company is like a lot of large organizations today, you have one or more groups using Microsoft SharePoint as an intranet platform for document management and user-generated content. According to a recent Forrester Research Report, SharePoint use is growing fast, but it comes with some integration and adoption challenges for organizations. One of [...]

For a quick rundown on the features and benefits of using illumio as an individual productivity tool, we’ve created a quick 5-minute video and put it up on YouTube. In this video, I walk through the illumio user interface, covering topics like: - How to add RSS feeds - How illumio filters RSS feeds to show you the [...]

Many illumio users are subscribing to RSS feeds via public illumio groups. illumio groups are an easy and free way to create a bundle of RSS feeds on a specific topic and share them with others. But one downside to joining a group is that there may be a few feeds within the group that [...]

illumio, the only RSS reader that automatically filters feeds based on your interests, just got better. After many months of hard work, we released a new version of illumio yesterday that has a completely redesigned user interface. The illumio UI is now browser-based with a simplified navigation and easy-to-read display of articles and questions. Keep [...]

Tacit Software recently received some great news – we have been selected as one of KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for 2008. The list is compiled with input from an informal panel of judges including colleagues, analysts and end users. Companies making this list are said to exemplify “a single-minded commitment to [...]

illumio users have created hundreds of public illumio groups to share their favorite RSS feeds and network with others. Topics ranging from knowledge management to global warming reflect the diverse interests of our growing user base. One of the features available to group owners once they’ve set up their RSS feeds is a selection of widgets [...]

I just watched an online presentation yesterday by Basex, a market research company focused on collaborative business environments. The topic was information overload. Basex is launching a study to look into the problems of information overload for today’s knowledge workers and recommend solutions that companies can take to help their employees. An [...]

What do Virtual Worlds, Sierra Club, Bollywood, and Knowledge Management all have in common? They are all RSS feed bundles that illumio users are sharing with each other. One of the nice benefits of being an illumio user is that you can create illumio groups on any subject and share your RSS feeds with [...]

Can you spare 2 seconds to connect with a friend? That’s how long it takes to forward an article to a friend using illumio. People call illumio a next-generation feed reader because of the way it automatically filters news and blog feeds to show you only the most relevant stories. But what people [...]

We released illumio 2.1 today, and one of the coolest features is the ability to search on RSS feeds. In previous versions of illumio, users could subscribe to their favorite feeds by importing them from their browser (Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox) or via an OPML file, or by entering the RSS feed URL. [...]