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Fleishman-Hillard boosts services with social networking and collaboration

The firm chose Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as the foundation for its enterprise collaboration portal. Together with NewsGator Social Sites, Fleishman-Hillard remains an industry leader in integrating social networking into its clients solutions.

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Accenture is driving Collaboration 2.0 with features such as microblogging, communities of practice, and enterprise social profiles.

Check out Kevin Dana, Director of Enterprise Social Computing and Collaboration for Accenture, and Brian Kellner, VP of Products with NewsGator, as they discuss Accenture’s success with social computing.

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Social Sites® for SharePoint 2010

We now make SharePoint even more social. NewsGator continues to deliver the best enterprise collaboration software for business with Social Sites for SharePoint 2010. NewsGator Social Sites goes above and beyond SharePoint 2010 to make your organization truly social – with improved microblogging, an aggregated activity stream, a full range of mobile clients, and rich social insights.

By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure – instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall productivity with Social Sites 2010.

Don’t wait to maximize the benefits of your SharePoint investment. Take a look at our social software capabilities – your competition is already deploying them now. So, contact us to find out how we can guide you down the path towards Enterprise 2.0 success.

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Testimonials

“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

“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 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

“[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

“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

"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

Bersin and Associates Testimonial

“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

"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

“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

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 social collaboration and conversation tool is built specifically for professional business use.

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

Top 4 Reasons Why You Need Social Sites Microblogging Software

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 microblogging status updates more personal and contextual by easily uploading relevant videos, links, business files, and images
Encourage real-time brainstorming, social collaboration and business decision making activities

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

Targeted updates to specific colleagues or communities
Effective social collaboration by classifying updates with hashtags and viewing a tag cloud of hashtags
Integrated with Activity Streams, the Social Sites event store

3. Access – multiple rich clients are available

Use business social software clients - including email, mobile, and desktop - for flexible updating and consuming of status updates, comments, and likes
Receive an optional, daily email digest of all microblogging and social collaboration activity in the last 24 hours

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

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

Learn more with our Social Sites Microblogging Datatsheet >