Great Ideas. Shared.

Participo is a UK based software and consultancy practice. We use a hands-on, collaborative approach to help groups discover, learn and share their knowledge and ideas.

Why a flower?
Our logo is a Thale Cress flower; we heard a story about how bio-engineers modified Thale Cress to flower red in the presence of explosives from discarded landmines; a simple, low cost, yet highly effective way to prevent people walking into danger.

We think it’s a great example of how simple ideas can have a profound affect on people’s lives.

While we don’t really ‘do’ mission statements, and we’re definitely under no pretension that we’re saving lives, we do strive to underpin our products and projects with great, simple and accessible ideas that improve people’s (working) lives.

So, we chose Thale Cress as our logo – to share the story, and provide us with inspiration.

Our Web Based Software:
Our primary software focus is our Enterprise web-based application:

Attention Management System
A fully-managed SaaS application for organisations who need to deliver ‘Learning LifeCycles’ of content, product information and assess knowledge levels in realtime across highly distributed workforces of employees and outsource partners.
Our biggest customer has generated over 3 million responses from over 15,000 employee and outsource partners.

Wiki frameworks
We’ve come to regard a wiki as an Enterprise collaboration ‘Operating System’ – a baseline of collaboration functionality. On top of this ‘OS’ we have built multiple wiki frameworks; combinations of software and services, including:

• FeedBackLabs – Idea management framework to enable Open Innovation
• Questions – wiki framework to augment knowledge bases
• Stats Pack – detailed statistics framework for Confluence- enabling detailed reporting on collaboration efforts and successes.

Consulting
Some of the more recent projects we have delivered:

• Implemented an enterprise-scale wiki and blog-based collaboration and knowledge sharing platform for a major organisation’s EU workforce
• A full service project delivering an agile, wiki-powered customer support platform for a large UK telco.
• Rapid installation and agile customisation of an enterprise wiki platform for a large Australian telco.

Research Areas:
As part of our client work and R&D, Participo focuses on developing ‘social software’ – ideas and applications that support our belief that groups of people work, learn and deliver real ‘value’ when given the freedom to informally collaborate and share their ideas and work through  networked computing.

• The collaborative, business and educational potential of learning lists
• Re-defining how weblogs can work for large organisations
• We’ve been thinking a lot about how corporate learners spend their attention
• Ideas on the future of reading
• Strategies to support open collaboration in organisations

Participo Ltd. is registered in England and Wales, no: 05318994

Participo Ltd, Minshull House, 47 Chorlton Street, Manchester, M1 3FY, UK