ClearStep is a new collaboration tool/community for businesses. It’s partitioned into meta-topics discussing how to use online communities and how to collaborate internally within the business itself.
So you’ve got sections for maintenance, community building, and measuring how social media campaigns work. Users can contribute to topics and discussions, adding subtopics, making annotations to documents, accessing feeds, and doling out tasks to other users. As far as the social tools go, ClearStep does a good job of keeping users connected and active. Users are prompted with recommendations of users with similar interests, there’s a personalized home page for each users, showing them topics that may be of interest to them, along with RSS feeds and easy access profile data. It’s definitely worth checking out.
Jivesoftware.com/Clearstep In Their Own Words
“Clearstep is a gathering place for Online Community and Internal Collaboration practitioners to interact, share best practices, and gain access to a much wider range of perspectives on common community and collaboration issues.”
Why Jivesoftware.com/Clearstep It Might Be A Killer
Clearstep has a very clean, clear interface. It serves a very real need and delivers a lot. There’s a big space for ClearStep. It’s well constructed.
Some Questions About Jivesoftware.com/Clearstep
How is ClearStep going to branch out and get more people interested? Will some be worried about working on a separate server? 
