Enable Internal Communities
Enable employees to collaborate, communicate, and innovate across organizational lines, geographic locations, and time zones. With NewsGator’s online communities and groups designed specifically for the enterprise, companies can experience positive business results, including:
- Improved productivity
- Enhanced collaboration and communication
- Increased innovation
- Lower IT support costs
- Expanded worker knowledge
- Shorter product/service development times
- Accelerated revenue
- Reduction in redundant work efforts
Social Sites and SharePoint provide online community and group tools that are tailored to business purposes. Our behind-the-firewall solution follows your corporate security and access protocols and protects your confidential, internal information. Socials Sites plus SharePoint provide the following community features – all designed to facilitate collaboration and cooperation among your employees:
Simple Community Creation
Enables non-technical users to easily and instantly create communities around projects, interests, or activities. Users simply set community security as public or private and provide a community name, URL, description, and tags.
Discussion Components
Offers community members a central location to engage in rich discussions and integrates discussions with email to encourage participation when employees are away from the intranet.
Document Management
Provides community members with a repository for creating and collaborating on documents.
Community Discovery Tools
Offers people lists of recently created and most popular communities along with search and tag clouds for easy discovery of communities.
Community Recommendations
Provides users with a list of recommended communities based on their reading activity, social network, and intranet activity.
Community Activity Tracking
Offers users a news feed of the latest activity undertaken by other community members, including tagging, discussion comments, and document posting.
RSS Subscriptions & Notifications
Enables users to subscribe to community updates and news via RSS and receive updates via the location of their choice, including SharePoint, mobile phones, web, and desktop interfaces.
Automatic Content Population
Automatically populates community with fresh, dynamic, relevant content using community tags and RSS news feeds.
Community Member Display
Provides a photo listing of all community members with mouse-over access to their profiles for easy people discovery.
Social Bookmarking
Allows users, while away from the intranet, to tag any URL and have that content automatically appear within the community for viewing by other members.