Services introduction 

We have been building weblogs for 4 years 272 days and specialise in Manila and Radio. We have found that Frontier is the most configurable, most adaptable platform there is in the content management market. It has produced some of the most widely adopted open standards: RSS, XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API, all came from Userland.

We use Manila and Radio because it's not just blogging that's needed in professional environments. Managing content is central to everyday publication of company and professional information and both these products have content management deep in their cores.

Intranets 

Blogging software combined with a simple yet powerful content management system is a winner when it comes to cost and ease of use.

Setting up a new website for a community of process, or a quick, short lived group or individual project is a doddle. It is good to think of some websites as being disposable, though in practice very few are deleted. Each member of staff can have their own website, and blogging knowledge into it builds up a corporate knowledge base which is associative, multi-layered, multi-faceted, contextual, accessible, and dynamic.

There are features to Manila and Radio that generally get little or no publicity but are compelling when it comes to group working:

MetaData plugin: essentially turns Manila into a database web application

Outlines: organising thoughts or other structured information, calendars, slides or to do lists.

Reading RSS: feeds allows up to date and fast access to current events or people.

Writing RSS: publication to multiple platforms on a subscription basis means instant conversation.

CyberSaps:

We build intranets especially tailored to the needs and aims of your organisation and employees. With training, mentoring, on-going maintenance and upgrades.

Company blogs 

Much has been written regarding the use of corporate blogging. Years ago we would advise clients to update the front page of their websites as often as possible, with fresh information or news.

Now, clients can do that themselves:

Simply by highlighting some text in a webpage, clicking a bookmark, brings up the 'clipped' text ready to be edited or commented on, decide on which category or feed(s) it'll appear in and your done. That's blogging news from other sites.

Or, view feeds in your aggregator, or email, click on the 'post' or 'blog' button brings up the same editing box.

Or, post via email or mobile phone.

Being able to have an active front page for a company website, means people may come back, knowing that you are possible 'the' source for highly focused information, and if that information changes daily, even hourly, readers may come back as frequently.

Bringing out a personality, be it the company's personality, or an individual's personality makes a greater connection with the reader. Real people like other real people.

CyberSaps:

We build blogs specifically for your company, and council on the personality of the blog.

Professional blogs 

This is where your personality is key. Or, personalities, as there maybe a few of you blogging to the front page. You are the company, be you a management consultant or self employed painter and decorator. As the CEO you'll be telling it like it is, shooting from the hip and hitting bulls-eye every time. Well, most of the time.

Your competitors will be out to get you, your readers will pooh-pooh you when they can.

But there is much to win:

You learn. You get better, more knowledgeable, up to the minute, cutting edge.

You test. Need to fly a kite? Experiment? This maybe to place for that -- non-destructively.

You are corrected. A network is a smart as the smartest person in it. Sometimes, that isn't you.

CyberSaps:

We design blogs specifically for you, and council on your direction and aims.

Single blogs 

Initially, this is how you must start. Later you will need more. Even if you are the biggest, multinational company, you should start with just one. See how it goes. See what direction it starts moving in. See what traffic is coming. What reception its getting. How all this is being interpreted inside the organisation. One will be easier to manage.

Later, even the painter decorator will need more. Some maybe private, some will be about a specific product or project. Others will be for each employee, or each project, the uses of blogs are unimaginable.

A single blog can be split into more categories or departments, thus, sometimes there is no need for actual other blogs.

Single blogs can also be opened up to other people, be they authorised by the owner or completely public. With or without moderation by the owner(s).

CyberSaps:

Build and manage single and group blogs. Cultivating the right image for the developing aims of the blog.

Hundreds or thousands of blogs 

Communities of blogs, be they behind a firewall, handed out to employees or customers or just wide open to anybody -- these are our speciality.

Both Radio and Manila can be configured for communities. While Manila can be configured by the owner of each site to be either public or private, open for all to join or not. Manila even allows the individual site owner to configure the site for group blogging, be that invited editors or public editors, with or without moderation. Manila, is completely configurable through the browser.

CyberSaps:

Build and manage communities of blogs, and have been doing so for 4 years 272 days .