Organizing Ideas for a company brainstorm: Wiki, blog, what?

January 18, 2008 9:23 AM

I work in a subdivision of a large music entity. There are many high-level ideas and challenges that float around every week. I'm trying to research a system that would allow for our staff of several hundred people to be able to both post ideas and solicit feedback on improving our products, our relationships, etc to a central website as well as being able to respond to others ideas. (for example: "how do we better provide value to cd purchasers" or "what can we do to optimize communication between department") Challenges: - Many of the people involved are not computer-savvy (not sure they'd be able to figure out how to use a wiki) - The individual items will need to be easily categorizable and accessible (this is why i hesitate to use something like Wordpress or Blogger, because after something's no longer on the home page, its out of peoples heads) - There will need to be an intuitive 'global' view I guess I'm kind of asking for something like AskMeFi, actually. But with an additional summary layer. Ideas would be greatly appreciated!
posted by softlord to technology (7 comments total)

look into the free software pligg.
posted by jrishel at 10:02 AM on January 18, 2008

What about a forum?
posted by sarelicar at 10:03 AM on January 18, 2008

Imaginatik's Idea Central Software may be up your alley. It's web-based and seems to offer a lot of the concepts you'd want to utilize, but it may be a bit pricey. (Just Googled for "brainstorm software".)
posted by disillusioned at 10:24 AM on January 18, 2008

Salesforce.com Ideas
posted by GuyZero at 10:52 AM on January 18, 2008

Dammit, GuyZero. *shakes fist*

I was about to post that!
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:01 AM on January 18, 2008

There's also Bright Idea
posted by Arthur Dent at 2:46 PM on January 18, 2008

Sony BMG in the UK has its key staff using the Vox platform - mainly to share information about what they're doing, and tips for bands.
posted by skylar at 2:51 AM on January 19, 2008