Social Sites™ Enterprise - Social Computing for Business

Deliver SharePoint Social Computing Value with NewsGator Social Sites for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007

The future of productivity and collaboration is here and it’s called NewsGator Social Sites. Social Sites provides enhanced social computing for business capabilities for SharePoint including enterprise social communities, microblogging, social profiles, activity streams, social networks, innovation management, social computing analytics, enhanced RSS, social bookmarking, social search, and more.

Introducing Social Sites 3.1! Check out our latest datasheets, whitepaper and case studies. Read our Social Sites 3.1 press release.

If you have deployed (or are evaluating) Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 for your portal services and collaboration environment, you’ll want to ensure that your teams get the most value from your investment. Using Enterprise Social communities, NewsGator Social Sites makes it easy to create cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improve expertise discovery and internal networking, and energize MOSS with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles, and more. SharePoint social computing for business adds flexibility, functionality and overall value to your portal.

Features of NewsGator Social Sites 3.1 include:

• Enterprise Microblogging

  enables users to post short, quick Twitter-style status updates to their colleagues. Fully integrated in to SharePoint, Social Sites’ new microblogging suite includes a “global conversation” page, ability to target messages to a community or person, community-specific update streams and conversation modules, e-mail status updates and notifications, hashtag support, “like” buttons to easily indicate positive feedback, ability to add a comment by replying to a notification email, standard and custom filtering of status updates and activities, photo and video attachments , and APIs for consuming and publishing activity information.

• Social iPhone & iPad Client

  provides on-the-road users with direct access to their enterprise social computing environments without the need for a browser. The social iPhone client accesses all the relevant updates from the user’s colleagues and communities and enables users to send status updates (with photos and videos), comment on and ‘like’ updates, receive notifications, participate in community discussions, and more. NewsGator’s social client also works with the iPad.

These new SharePoint social computing features complement the existing value provided by NewsGator Social Sites, including:

• Integrated activity streams for an easy view of colleagues’ activity within SharePoint (documents, tags, communities, etc) and outside of SharePoint (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.)
• An activity stream email digest that helps users stay connected to enterprise social networks via enterprise or mobile email
• An Innovation Management social business application that integrates idea generation, capture, and prioritization into your social network for increased employee participation in innovation and an improved competitive position
• A simple yet powerful RSS reader that enables users to easily read, mark, tag, clip, rate and initiate discussions around stories for improved worker knowledge
• A self-assembling, Wikipedia-style knowledge base that pulls from wikis across SharePoint and enhances SharePoint’s experience with AJAX editing, tagging, rating, automated table of contents creation, custom wiki tags, and more.
• A visualization of internal subject matter experts arranged according to their automatically calculated expertise ratings.
• Improved search to ease the discovery of communities, people, content, and tags within SharePoint
• Extensive reporting for valuable insight into the business benefits provided by your social network
• A Profile Builder/On-Boarding Wizard that shortens a new user’s or new employee’s “time to productivity”
• Enhanced discussions, content ratings, and tagging for better collaboration and knowledge sharing
• User-created communities with enhanced discussion lists for collaboration and knowledge capture
• Expertise discovery and social network visualization capabilities
• A more modern, responsive, and engaging experience with lightning-fast pop-up views, tagging, tag clouds, and fresh, relevant content

Implement NewsGator Social Sites 3.1 and watch productivity soar. Contact us to learn more about social computing for business and enterprise social communities.