Today, at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, we’re announcing the third generation of our wiki-inspired intranet platform: ThoughtFarmer 3.0 Multilingual. Read the official press release.

Localized interface and multilingual content management

ThoughtFarmer now supports a localizable interface, easy language switching, and multilingual search. Pages automatically display in your home language, if available, or intelligently fall back on your secondary language preference. Watch a 90-second video overview.

Create blogs

Create department blogs or employee blogs. Use them for project reports, status meetings, and for sharing your latest insights and ideas.

Create and share calendars

Create multiple event calendars. Share launch dates, project schedules or important deadlines. Control who views and edits each calendar.

Create forums

Now, in addition to inline comments on any ThoughtFarmer page, you can create dedicated discussion forums.

Support for high-capacity, load-balanced deployments

ThoughtFarmer 3.0 contains numerous performance enhancements that results in drastic speed improvements in all environments. Data replication across distrubuted data centres is now supported.

ThoughtFarmer 3.0 contains over 100 enhancements and improvements, as well as minor bug fixes. A full list of changes will be available in the release notes.

From June 9th to 12th, Darren and I will be descending on Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

At 12:15pm on Tuesday, I’ll be presenting on the following topic:

Intranet 2.0 in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps

In this fast-paced, entertaining presentation, intranet consultant and ThoughtFarmer co-creator Chris McGrath will share the 10 not-so-easy steps to convert an impossibly complex, seldom used corporate intranet into Intranet 2.0: a simple, social intranet that helps employees collaborate, share ideas and find information.

Come by the demo pavilion to catch the presentation, or stop by our booth. Send us a message on Twitter if you’d like to schedule a meeting with either of us — we have some available time when the expo hall is closed.

It’s shaping up to be a great conference for anyone interested in next-generation collaboration tools for the enterprise. Hope to see you there!

Darren and I will be at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week. Our plans for the week:

• Stake out our booth
• Show off the latest version of ThoughtFarmer
• Meet some players in our marketspace (the nice ones)
• Scowl at some players in our marketspace (the mean ones)
• Court the media & analysts
• Hand out 7000 business cards
• Find some good restaurants

Drop by our booth! We’re booth #15 in the Long Tail Pavilion. And for some commentary on the Expo, follow us on Twitter.

We’re making our semi-annual pilgrimage to London this weekend. Well, not “we”. Me. I’m leaving Gord at home this time. Sorry, Gord…
I’ll be visiting current and potential ThoughtFarmer clients as well as social software consultants. Schedule:

• Monday, Nov 19: London
• Tuesday, Nov 20: London
• Wednesday, Nov 21: Dublin
• Thursday, Nov 22: London

I’d like to meet you, too, and I’ve got a few slots still available. If you’d like to get together, shoot me an email: cmcgrath@thoughtfarmer.com.

L’Atelier, a subsidiary of massive global banking firm BNP Paribas, analyzes new trends in high technology.

They interviewed me last month at the Office 2.0 conference.

Read the review and see the interview.

After the Office 2.0 conference, Darren, Nick and I were left with 322 business cards, 11 ThoughtFarmer t-shirts, 3 very expensive paperweights, and some cyberspace artifacts:

Clint Boulton mentioned ThoughtFarmer in his eWeek article on Collaboration:

I used JotSpot in a previous life, but I haven’t seen a whole lot of enterprise wiki action. So I was thrilled to take a peek at ThoughtFarmer, an enterprise wiki made by OpenRoad Communications. Designed to compete with products from Atlassian Software Systems and Socialtext as a Microsoft-based behind-the-firewall product, ThoughtFarmer’s interface looks almost like the Google News page…

Tris Hussey reviewed ThoughtFarmer in his Blognation post, “ThoughtFarmer Cultivates Something New for Intranets and Wikis“:

One of the cool companies I ran into at Office 2.0 is Vancouver-based ThoughtFarmer. Their tagline is “beyond wikis”, which you might think is corny (okay, that was the last farm pun) but when you see it in action you’ll see that ThoughtFarmer is something totally new and different.

Reichart Von Wolfsheild declared ThoughtFarmer as one of the top 3 product demos at the Office 2.0 conference. He sat through something like 43 of them (ouch), so he should know:

Lastly, the three best speakers (to me) represented: EchoSign, MindTouch, [and] ThoughtFarmer. Watch the videos of their demos from Office 2.0 to see why. Hint… passion, and knowledge of the product/service, the market, and the audience.

And finally, some Flickr photos:

See a live demonstration of the latest features from ThoughtFarmer 2.3 in this live-recorded video from Office 2.0:

The Office 2.0 conference announced today that it will broadcast all sessions and demos live.

• Thursday, September 6th, 3:30pm Pacific: Miko Coffey (ThoughtFarmer customer) on panel of Enterprise 2.0 practicioners
• Thursday, September 6th, 4:12pm Pacific: ThoughtFarmer 2.3 Live Demo
• Friday, September 7th, 11:24am Pacific: ThoughtFarmer 2.3 Live Demo

Live & recorded Office 2.0 videos

ThoughtFarmer customer Miko Coffey, Head of Digital Media at the U.K.’s NESTA, is part of an elite group of Enterprise 2.0 practitioners invited as panelists to the upcoming Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, September 5th to 7th.

Miko’s team has integrated ThoughtFarmer with a suite of other Enterprise 2.0 applications, including BaseCamp, Central Desktop, Community Server, del.icio.us, Diigo, Feedburner, TypePad and Wufoo.

NESTA’s use of next-generation web applications is particular impressive because they’re public sector. You can hear more about Miko’s success with ThoughtFarmer and other Office 2.0 solutions at the conference.

ThoughtFarmer is sponsoring the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, September 5th to 7th.

Office 2.0 should be a fascinating few days. All attendees receive an iPhone. All demos are internet-based. All marketing collateral is in electronic format. In many ways, Office 2.0 is what the conference of the future will look like.

If you’ll be at the conference, make sure to stop by our demo pod — we’ll be showcasing ThoughtFarmer 2.3.