FeedVis tool, Springnote & embedding a LibraryThing widget into our webpage

You see, 2.0@CSL is yielding results - I swear! I got a web ticket from one of our unit heads who'd created a LibraryThing account & added books of interest to the audience of her unit's portion of the website. She wanted (get this!) me to put a widget / sidebar section in that displayed said books in the page itself. I did so - it was so quick & dirty I can't tell you - and it's on the staging server for her to review. Hopefully, she'll let me roll it into production pretty quickly.

I've been thinking alot about the "21st-century Organization" (a blog I happen to follow, too, on occasion), an ecosystem for innovation and agile development. I really want to create a framework for the agile development of web services / aspects of the web presence. I've done the back-end work 2 x now in the past month to create Wordpress blogs on our server. (In one case, the demand was driven directly by the 2.0@CSL project!) This is one simple technique for putting a framework in place for content creators. Unfortunately, even this is a fragmented, piecemeal approach, and it will not scale endlessly.

The 2 tools I'm playing with:
* FeedVis
* Springnote

I still want a better wiki product for the backend of our intranet, for example. I might just have to do that test implementation of a CMS to both experiment & to achieve what I want for the intranet. We run MediaWiki, but for this group, there's definitely too much of a learning curve to make it likely that they'll be using it regularly. And since the whole deal is that I want some open discussion about the website, upcoming projects, etc., I need the tool to be so dead simple to use (no wiki markup & no need to install a separate editor/client program to do the translation from WYSIWYG to wiki markup) that there are no barriers on that front.