So you enjoy tweeting from the office, but you can get fired for that. Or you’re trying to use Skype to share information with your project team or engage in a virtual conference, while the sysadmins are not really happy with that? Many large companies have found their solutions for that by developing expensive internal communication platforms or paying a lot in licenses to Microsoft or other giants. Now it can all be decided by your willingness to improve the inbound conversation and engage more and more of you workforce into one shared dimension. And the biggest surprise is that it’s coming in the form of Open Source platform from a defence giant – Lockheed Martin. Eureka Streams lets employees to engage into relevant conversations related to work issues or project while allowing them to share data, media and thoughts in real time. Almost like the ill-fated Google Wave, this tool lets multiple users to share real-time information. Unlike the Wave though, it has been tested in the last year and half by those more than 40 000 employees at Lockheed Martin and proved to be highly effective. Visit their website to learn more and make sure your developers download the SDK and play with it.