A Good Start

It seems to be strange to start a blog about eRoom just at the time when the successor of eRoom is lurking out of the door.
It is true that eRoom did not get any major updates the last couple of years. Well, the most visible update that came to eRoom when EMC took over Documentum and the eRoom Software was the new logo which now contains the name of the new owner.
It is also true that the successor of CenterStage is now released after years of new product development. But is this a reason not to blog about eRoom?

Yes, the collaboration business has changed during the last years, when eRoom did not get any further evolvement and CenterStage was this new product to bring collaboration into the Web 2.0 age. During this time EMC Documentum did not attend the competition in the collaboration marked. Other products came to the market at this time, products like Sharepoint which have not seen the best market acceptance a couple of years ago. Sharepoint seems to be now the new hot thing.
Other ideas of collaboration have been evolved the last couple of years, Wikis got important, Twitter came to live and google is trying to reinvent collaboration with the Wave.

There are lots of topics which are worth to blog about:

• Working with eRoom
• Using eRoom Extensions to enhance the possibilities
• Archiving eRoom contents
• Managing a eRoom installation
• Migrating eRoom to other systems
• Replacing eRoom with other collaboration solutions
• Integration into business processes
• Discussing about new collaboration ideas

I do not want to limit this blog to eRoom. But this is what I do most in the moment and this is what I am be able to share.
I expect that other collaborative platt form will find their place on this blog. I expect that the number of posts about Sharepoint will significantly grow over the next months. And, if the folks from EMC will do their work, CenterStage will also find the way to this blog.