From the Gilbane Report: Near-Time, Inc. announced enhancements to their hosted collaboration platform that deliver improved collaborative capabilities. The new features include the addition of a dashboard overview of activities, improved group file management, tools to automatically organize Wiki content, and podcasting enhancements.The Near-Time dashboard lets members see all of their group activity in a single screen, bringing individual needs and community interaction together. It gives users a comprehensive view of what has occurred across their collaborative spaces, integrating Weblog posts, Wiki pages, calendar events, and files. Users can view and sort new changes in chronological or contextual order. This brings organization to unstructured group information across multiple collaborative environments and various projects. Near-Time’s new Wiki home page creator organizes Wiki pages automatically by category and recency. Automatic home pages enable users to work together contextually. Users can also create their own Wiki home page and toggle between automatic and custom modes. This allows multiple users to discover and access content in a much more efficient and organized manner, thus consolidating information across all collaborative groups. Near-Time’s new file services enable users to share and organize files in folders and directly upload files. File folders can be assigned categories and leverage the contextual tools of the application and the Internet itself. The podcasting enhancements allow users to make podcasts available from both public and private Near-Time spaces. http://www.near-time.com