Empower Social Networking Within Your Company
Business social networks make it easier for employees to find and track peers and subject matter experts - leading to improved teamwork and better communication that helps businesses to:
- Simplify people discovery to improve productivity
- Facilitate collaboration for more efficient and effective development of products and services
- Expand worker knowledge to drive innovation
- Shorten product development times to accelerate revenue
Social Sites and SharePoint provide capabilities similar to consumer-based social networks but tailored to business purposes. More importantly, Social Sites and SharePoint offer social networking features that follow corporate security protocols and keep confidential, internal information within the protected environment of the firewall. Socials Sites plus SharePoint provide the following features and more – all designed to turn your corporate directory into a social network and make it easier for employees to find colleagues and subject matter experts:
Social Network Graphs
Provides a graphical display of an employee’s social network based on explicit and implied connections with other colleagues.Recommended Connections
Offers recommendations for additional connections based on common community membership and content interactions, including tags and feeds.Profile Pages
Driven from tacit behavior as opposed to requiring a person to update information constantly, profiles provide a quick snapshot of a user’s interests and expertise by depicting their authoring, tagging, RSS reading behavior, favorite subscriptions, clipped articles, community actions and recent SharePoint activity. Social Sites profiles also enable users to include their photo, interests, work and education history and position in the organizational hierarchy.Subscribe To Person
Provides employees with the ability to subscribe to an expert’s SharePoint activity and posts via one click.News & Activity Feeds
Offers users a constantly updating, chronological list of their colleagues’ activities in SharePoint, including tagging, discussion contributions, community actions, and document, blog, and wiki posts.
