Government & Military

Would you like to boost productivity within your agency? Would you like to improve collaboration among your military personnel? Does your department need to cut costs? Do your federal, state, or local government employees have difficulty finding information and subject matter experts?

NewsGator provides secure computing solutions designed specifically for you including Gov 2.0 Collaboration Software Applications uniquely designed for government and military agencies. Whether part of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the armed forces, intelligence agencies or civilian agencies, our Gov 2.0 products can help you to better collaborate, manage knowledge, share intelligence, and find experts.

The current administration’s Open Government Initiative mandates that federal organizations cooperate to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public cooperation, and collaboration. Inter- and intra-agency solutions for communities of practice, learning, professional development, and knowledge management are vital to improve the way federal organizations function.

NewsGator solutions have been providing collaborative computing to the government and military for nearly a decade. We strive for intimate customer interactions where feedback and innovation are crucial to our collective success. NewsGator Gov 2.0 solutions enhance and work seamlessly on SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), WSS / WSF platforms, and in hosted environments. 
 

Gov 2.0 Software Capabilities

Our solution boosts any federal organization’s performance – both inside the entity and out – with the following capabilities:

Communities: Easily collaborate with peers, other departments and agencies regardless of time & distance.

Microblogging & Activity Streams: Gain better visibility of peer contributions, community activity, new documents, and latest news.

Knowledge Explorer: Effortlessly find experts and uncover knowledge or intelligence data.

Innovation Management: Drive innovation via simplified generation, capture, and prioritization of ideas.    

Social Profiles: Boost efficiency with personal start pages and public profiles that detail your expertise and social actions.

Security: Control access and protect confidential information with granular security controls    

Communities of Practice

Professional communities formed around specific skill-sets (i.e. composite material engineering) or job descriptions (policy analyst) are the core of the community of practice approach. By linking people together based on professional domain, organizations can break down silos created by functional areas or projects, and generally build overall capacity in those skill areas.

Questions and answers are a foundation for communities of practice providing a simple mechanism for users to reach out to a group of experts to help solve a problem.

Document sharing and collaborating around documents is a core feature of a professional community. Places where people can ask, comment, blog and much more around a document or other work-related information is one of the important ways that community members collaborate.   

Videos provide an engaging medium to transfer knowledge and expertise. Take a video of a subject matter expert answering company-relevant questions, and watch as users engage.

Blogs provide a simple way for subject matter experts or leaders to communicate with a broad audience.

Wikis allow a web-based mode for document co-authoring. Interested in creating a Wikipedia for certain areas of interest? No problem.

Experts and members are listed as a function of their contribution to the community and whether they are helpful, active, most networked, and more. Community experts are the emerging subject matter experts in your enterprise.