Business Social Software for SharePoint 2010 – Advanced Social Computing & Microblogging

Deliver Social Computing Business Value with NewsGator Social Sites for SharePoint 2010

From Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, NewsGator Social Sites has a solution for your advanced social software needs. Social Sites can help you take advantage of the benefits of business social software TODAY with its MOSS 2007 version in use by over 1 million paid enterprise customers. And Social Sites will help meet your future enterprise social networking needs with its support for SharePoint 2010.

Advanced Business Social Software Features for SharePoint 2010

Social Sites offers you these critical business social software features that are above and beyond what SharePoint 2010 offers out-of-the-box.

• Communities of Practice

  Places for people to collaborate that can be easily discovered and administered. The actions taken in communities (adding a document, creating a wiki page, voting on an idea, etc.) are automatically radiated out to all community members.

• SharePoint 2010 Microblogging

  Featuring lightweight conversation with community integration, comments, liking, email notifications and summaries, and mobile interfaces, microblogging has proven to be an effective business social software addition.

• Ideas

  Innovation management integrated into your social network for the capture, development, voting, and implementation of ideas.

• Mobile Support

  Native clients for iPhone and Blackberry to allow viewing of activities, updating status, commenting, uploading photos, joining communities and adding colleagues.

• Expertise Discovery

  Integrated scoring of expertise areas based on user actions and social feedback.

• On-Boarding

  Email notifications and wizards to integrate new users into your social network.

NewsGator releases multiple versions of Social Sites each year and additional business social networking capabilities will be added with each release. With Social Sites’ rapid development cycles, you can keep up with the fast changing social computing market.

Enhancements to SharePoint 2010 Social Features

In addition to the value-add features detailed above, Social Sites also provides you with critical enhancements to SharePoint 2010’s out-of-the-box social features.

• Activity Streams

  Aggregation of events from across all of SharePoint beyond just the activities done by colleagues or specific tags. Aggregated events include community actions, microblogging, commenting, third party status updates (from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.), and additional SharePoint activities (profile, document, discussion, blog, announcements, and more). Also includes input and output of events via API, feed, and email.

• Advanced RSS

  Enhancement of RSS output from SharePoint (both in content/format and in solving security challenges to retrieve) along with aggregation of RSS from many sources.

• Tagging & Rating

  Ability to tag, rate, and comment on documents and list items. Also includes tag clouds at site level.

Get Started Today with Enterprise Social Computing

NewsGator can help you develop a social computing strategy that delivers business value today using MOSS 2007 while transitioning seamlessly when you upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Contact us to begin developing your SharePoint 2010 social strategy.