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Learn how Merck is using social computing to communicate, collaborate and innovate.

Join Robert Maguire, Merck's Executive Director of Shared Business Services, as he discusses how the company uses Social Sites and SharePoint to create a place where the company's brand and culture were successfully unified.

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See Social Sites in action at Universal McCann

Social Sites & SharePoint provide UM with an online destination that facilitates collaboration & content sharing across the global UM network.

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With social computing, Deloitte is effectively meeting the needs of their highly-distributed workforce

Deloitte uses social computing capabilities with their clients to improve collaboration, share knowledge, encourage innovation, facilitate connectivity, and improve productivity.

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Social Sites® for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

If you’re using SharePoint 2007 for your portal services or enterprise collaboration framework, NewsGator Social Sites turbo-charges your existing investment. Social Sites 2007 with the SharePoint collaboration platform enables seamless integration with your employees’ existing business processes and workflows, is safely located behind your firewall, and keeps your intellectual property where it belongs. Social Sites makes SharePoint 2007 social.

With Social Sites 2007 you can create rich social profiles, share ideas and expertise, and effectively communicate with colleagues using all of the most promising features from consumer social networking and community software. We remove the friction from getting started and allow you to quickly be productive by making recommendations to easily connect with colleagues and communities.

Check out our 'Facebook for the enterprise' software solution today.

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Testimonials

“The NewsGator Tomoye-powered Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) provides broad access to resources and knowledge sharing and supports the real-time needs of our acquisition workforce. In addition, NewsGator provides top-notch support and incorporates our feedback and feature requests into their product roadmap.”

- Jill Garcia, ACC Program Manager, Defense Acquisition University

“[Using Social Sites] increased awareness as people were able to join communities and interact. We’ve received explicit feedback from our users like:
I didn’t even realize there was a community of practitioners in that particular area.”

- Kevin Dana, Director of Social Computing & Collaboration, Accenture

“Now logisticians have access to advanced knowledge, the price of which we just can't quantify. Before LoGNet,the reality is that knowledge transfer was taking years. Now, valuable first-hand experience and information is transferred in a matter of days. Any given member has a network of thousands of mentors, which gives them the experience they need and helps us to drive innovation within the logistics profession in the U.S. Army.”

- Bob Dalton, LOGNET Facilitator, The U.S. Army - U.S. Government Procurement

"In conjunction with NewsGator Tomoye, FRAMEweb.org has successfully contributed to a dramatic shift in the paradigm of natural resource management that would have never been achieved with traditional development channels such as reports and face-to-face meetings."

- Sarah Schmidt, DAI, Participation and Outreach Manager for USAID's Capitalizing Knowledge Connecting Communities (CK2C) Initiative

“With the combination of SharePoint Server 2010 and Social Sites 2010, we can more effectively apply the power of social computing to our most important business objective –delivering great results for our clients."

- Jonella Donius, CIO, Fleishman-Hillard

“Newsgator has added cohesiveness to the community by incorporating another level of communication to bind us all together. The discussion forums are very helpful in that you do not need to know specifically who to pinpoint when posting a question or idea. Having an established community of experts exposed at the first point of contact limits the forwarding of emails and keeps the communication flowing.”

- PepsiCo Participant in a NewsGator Social Sites Pilot

“In 18 months, D Street [powered by Social Sites] has become a very popular application at Deloitte. An average of 2,300 of the 26,000 active profiles are viewed by over 850 visitors per day. D Street now hosts 3,000 blogs, 60,000 photos and 11,000 resumes and is the place to connect at Deloitte.“

- Patricia Romeo, VP, Talent Innovation at Deloitte

“NewsGator Tomoye, from my experience, clearly understands communities of practice (CoPs) first, and builds the application second. Each version continues to evolve to support the needs of CoPs first and foremost.”

- LTC (Retired) Mike Dorohovich, Chief Editor, Acquisition Community Connection, Defense Acquisition University

“While out of the box, SharePoint is pretty good, NewsGator Social Sites just makes it awesome. We're finding that Social Sites is the critical glue in making it easy for our users to find information, share ideas, and collaborate with their peers. At the end of the day, Social Sites is wildly improving the ways we communicate across all parts of the organization.”

- Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology, Denver Art Museum

Bersin and Associates Testimonial

"Tomoye’s communities of practice is a strong compliment to SharePoint, creating a seamless platform where knowledge workers can create true business value."

- Deb Bannon, Sr. Product Manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group, Microsoft Corporation

NewsGator can help you develop a social computing strategy that delivers business value today using MOSS 2007 while transitioning seamlessly when you upgrade to SharePoint 2010.

Microblogging

What would an enterprise social software system be without microblogging? This Twitter-style status-updating feature has taken the water cooler concept to a whole new level. Social Sites microblogging allows your users to communicate, collaborate, and locate knowledge - from the convenience of their desktops or on the road. This intuitive conversation tool is built specifically for professional use.

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SharePoint microblogging, provided by Social Sites, helps you avoid the costs and overhead of another third-party solution. It also provides peace of mind in knowing your organizational conversations are secure and housed in a reliable system. This capability allows you to take the temperature and view the culture of an organization in a unique way.

Top 4 Reasons Why You Need Social Sites Microblogging

1. Converse – exchange information on the fly within your organization

Let users talk all they want – status updates can be more than 140 characters
Make status updates more personal and contextual by easily uploading relevant videos, links, files, and images
Encourage real-time brainstorming and decision making activities

2. Find – reduce noise by focusing on the channels of information that are important

Targeted updates to specific colleagues or communities
Classify updates with hashtags and view a tag cloud of hashtags
Integrated with Activity Streams, the Social Sites event store

3. Access – multiple rich clients are available

Use email, mobile, and desktop applications for flexible updating and consuming of status updates, comments, and likes
Receive an optional, daily email digest of all activity in the last 24 hours

4. Administer – administrative tools give you control of a secure and reliable system

Delete inappropriate updates or comments
Use APIs for publishing activities and retrieving activity stream data and details on users

Learn more with our Social Sites Microblogging Datatsheet >