-- Allows employees to easily share ideas, information and documents by enabling them to create ad hoc communities around common interests, areas of research, projects, etc. -- Provides for easy discovery of groups via customized recommendations, tag clouds, search, and lists of recently created and popular communities. -- Offers a discussion component that includes rich e-mail integration, which allows users to participate in a community without ever logging in to the site. -- Simplifies content additions by allowing content to be tagged into the community, added via social bookmarks and RSS feeds, or uploaded to a community document store. -- Offers chronological views of community activity from both a single community and consolidated from all communities a user belongs to.Social Networks
-- Provides employees with social network graphs based on both explicit and implied connections, making discovery of content and colleagues easier. -- Shows each user their strongest connections based on common content, interests, and intranet activity. -- Recommends colleagues to a user based on common community membership, tags, and RSS subscriptions.About NewsGator Social Sites NewsGator Social Sites provides behind-the-firewall social computing and enterprise RSS capabilities that lower IT support costs, improve productivity, and increase knowledge sharing. Social Sites integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable enterprises to build communities and internal social networks while leveraging existing investments and maintaining appropriate security. Social Sites drives portal adoption by keeping content fresh and relevant, enhancing usability, simplifying content and expertise discovery and bringing users back through precision notifications. Social Sites features include tacitly built profiles; social network graphs; communities; advanced tagging and tag clouds; RSS feeds, subscriptions and management; notifications; and colleague tracking capabilities. For more information, please visit: http://www.newsgator.com/Business/SocialSites/Default.aspx. About NewsGator Technologies, Inc. NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises and media companies leverage social computing solutions to deliver real business value. The company's enterprise social networking and widget services are in use by hundreds of the world's most recognized brands, including Bank of America, Biogen Idec, CBS, CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, Procter & Gamble and USA Today. NewsGator Social Sites and Enterprise Server give enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content, expand employee knowledge and improve productivity. NewsGator Widget Services enable media and brand companies to better engage their audiences and extend the value of their brands through viral syndication of content. NewsGator also offers free, award-winning RSS aggregators for the Web, desktop, mobile devices and e-mail clients. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com All products and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.
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