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Communities
Establish and cultivate a collaborative setting for internal and external stakeholders. Turn SharePoint groups into Social Sites communities of practice and interest for projects, initiatives, and common interests. Use pre-defined templates to kick-start your community planning.
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Microblogging
Allow for spontaneous knowledge sharing. Avoid the costs and overhead of another 3rd-party solution while also providing peace of mind. Ensure organizational conversations are secure and housed in your SharePoint environment.
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Activity Streams
Collect an aggregated flow of events, content, and activities to provide users with relevant and timely information. Filter these events including those from SharePoint, external social media streams (e.g., Twitter), and other internal and 3rd-party applications.
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Spheres
When a SharePoint Team Site or a Social Sites Community is too in-depth, but email is too limiting, Social Sites 2010 lets you create a user-generated, light-weight public or private group called a Sphere.
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Social Profiles
Eliminate the friction and fear of social networking by jump-starting adoption, participation, and collaboration with a simple profile-building coach to help your workforce create and maintain their face to the organization.
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Social Insights
Protect and expand your investment by measuring and tracking activity by community, type, and user. View easy-to-consume dashboards and monthly activity reports to evaluate user adoption and participation levels.
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Questions and Answers
Getting an answer is a just-in-time solution. Allowing people to ask and answer questions within a community is one of the quickest ways to drive the value of cross-enterprise collaboration.
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Lync Integration
Conduct fluid real-time and asynchronous conversations through the Microsoft Lync integration for Social Sites 2010. View user presence and initiate on-the-fly IM, audio, and video conversations.
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Glassboard Integration
Glassboard - a free social mobile application using Windows Azure-based services - lets individuals anywhere engage in private group sharing with external stakeholders using their mobile devices. Discover and interact with Glassboard groups through Social Sites.
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Desktop & Email Clients
Participate in Social Sites without being inside the platform. Filter activity stream by top news, questions, ideas, topics, communities, or colleagues to quickly find information. Ask and answer questions, submit ideas, and post, comment, flag for follow-up, and like events and activities.
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