You may know that I'm a big fan of the Blogtronix web publishing engine, a "CIO friendly" platform which brings together blogs, wikis, document management, social networking tools, and RSS feed aggregation. What I mean by "CIO friendly" is that it is based on technology the corporate CIO is likely to be comfortable with (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server rather than LAMP or something esoteric), is built for high volume use and brings together a collection of useful collaborative functionality in a coherent , secure management structure and user interface. This contrasts with the collection of "best of breed" and web 2.0 tools that might already be springing up in many corporations as departments start using a variety of tools to help them collaborate. My friend Jerry Bowles calls it "the Swiss Army knife of collaboration/publishing platforms". The Enterprise Irregulars use Blogtronix to power their site and aggregate their blogs together, as does the Social Media Collective. But as well as being a user, I have to declare an interest here, because we've just become the UK representative for the product.

At our last London Wiki Wednesday, the Blogtronix guys let me leak the fact that Reuters are a customer. Although I've been alluding to this major project for months, we can now speak about it properly. Reuters are using the platform to create a new online community around environmental markets called ReutersInteractive which will grow to 10s of thousands of users. This has just launched in beta, and people may not realise that, actually, this is an open community. Go ahead and sign up to find out what Reuters are doing to build their community, and taste the way Blogtronix works yourself.

Reuters is the first implementation of version 2.0 of Blogtronix, which has a significantly improved user interface. That makes things easier to find, but also adds publishing workflow, a lot more web presentation flexibility, forum capability, as well as integration with EditGrid for collaborating with online spreadsheets, and Atlassian's Confluence, if you need to do more than Blogtronix's integral wiki functionality. Here are some screen shots, but try out ReutersInteractive and call me if you want to find out more.