Since the release of Socialtext 3.0 in September, we've been hard at work adding several exciting improvements, and have now released Socialtext 3.1.

Many of the enhancements in this release were based on your feedback. We love working with our customers, please keep the input coming.

This presentation covers many of the new features: whatsnewinsocialtext31.pdf, but here is a quick sneak peak:

You can now easily add Microsoft Outlook to access your calendar, contacts, and tasks, as well as YouTube videos, SlideShare presentations, and other powerful tools.

The My Colleagues widget which was first released in 3.0, has now been updated to make it easy for you to see both the page updates and social networking actions that your colleagues are taking. You can even subscribe to the information via RSS feed.

Alan, these look great. Can we get a link to the Outlook widget?

contributed by scott schnaars on Dec 19 12:42pm

Soo excited about the email integration!!

contributed by Justin Kistner on Dec 19 1:25pm

Scott, rather than posted a link, the proper method is to click "Add Content" at the top right corner of your Dashboard. You will them be presented a list of gadgets. Outlook is one of the many choices.

contributed by Alan Lepofsky on Dec 19 5:50pm

A nice enhancement might be to add the year to the user/date/time stamps of the entries. For example, here is one entry on this page: "Created by Alan Lepofsky on Jan 28 5:38pm. Updated by Alan Lepofsky on Apr 6 7:18pm." In reading this example, I don't know what year it was. I suppose I could guess 2009, but who knows? Perhaps there is another way? - JohnA

contributed by John Atherton on Jun 22 9:40pm

Hi John, you can choose how dates are displayed for you, via Settings - Time - How should displayed dates be formatted?

contributed by Alan Lepofsky on Jul 13 8:18am