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Social Sites® Idea Stream for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

For your business social enterprise software, ideation is an iterative and social process that benefits from concepts like crowdsourcing and collective intelligence. With the NewsGator Social Sites Idea Stream module you can directly affect the productivity of your SharePoint 2010 idea sharing and discussion with direct integration.

Whether you’re inventing new technologies, advancing existing products, or trying to improve service delivery - it’s crucial to provide intuitive methods that support the capture of input, feedback, and conversations from your customers, partners and employees. Now you can achieve these goals with SharePoint 2010 by integrating the Idea Stream module directly into the collaboration deployment.
 

  

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Testimonials

“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

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“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

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"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

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“[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

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“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

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"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

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 “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

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“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

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“We evaluated some other social networking tools like Jive, and we played around with Yammer. We tried Ning and Chatter as well. But NewsGator just kept rising up to the top of our scoring. So we decided the social networking tool for eBay was going to be NewsGator built on SharePoint.”

- Ramin Mobasseri, Enterprise Portals Manager, eBay

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“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

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“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

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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.

Contact us to begin developing your SharePoint 2010 social strategy.

Idea Stream

The Social Sites 2010 Idea Stream solution package provides a user-friendly social media collaboration interface to gather, evaluate, and prioritize ideas all within the context of your social experience. Our ideas module is integrated directly into your work stream where users can collaborate, participate and stay engaged.

Drive Innovation
Innovation is an organic part of the social computing workflow, not a siloed application. By including ideation in your user’s daily lives, you are empowering their engagement, shining the spotlight on your emergent leaders, and enhancing the visibility of new ideas. Within any community, users can post ideas where fellow community members can comment, vote, or share those ideas.

Solicit Feedback
Keep the lines of communication open 24/7 thanks to social networking software for business. Replace the old-fashioned suggestion box with a more accessible, track-able, and streamlined mechanism. As you know, ideas happen anytime, anywhere, so users can submit, view, comment, and vote on ideas from their mobile clients as well. Your organization’s best ideas will naturally flow to the top.

Make Decisions
Use the social media collaboration Idea Stream to identify your idea generators as sources of expertise. Hold ideation contests and competitions that are quick, social, interactive and fun. Your stakeholders get involved by voting and offering comments. Your decisions are more informed. And the contributors feel heard and respected.

Focused Brainstorming
As a business leader on a mission, Idea Stream allows you to set up simple or more complex idea campaigns that are community-like environments to submit, review, approve, and implement new ideas. Users can follow, vote, share, and comment on the idea campaign just like a community – through their My Newsfeed page or their mobile client.

Each campaign site can be customized depending on how extensive the idea is, and for even more focused brainstorming, authorized users can set up private campaigns to capture, nurture, and refine new ideas in a discrete setting.

Social Sites 2010 Idea Stream
Idea Stream
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Post an Idea
Post an Idea
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Interact with an Idea
Interact with an Idea
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Social Sites Idea Stream provides your organization with the following features:

  • Simple user interface for idea submission
  • One-click to vote (and un-vote) for an idea
  • Easy-to-use discussion and commenting features
  • Search and sorting functionality
  • Administrative interface to create campaigns, categorize ideas, turn voting on and off, and moderate conversations
  • Access to insights and filters – which ideas are ‘most popular’ or ‘hottest’
  • Display of all user actions (idea creation, voting, commenting, and promotion) into the Social Sites activity stream
  • Integrated online communities for light-weight project management of promoted ideas
  • Export data to Excel to analyze and use for presentation materials


Click here to view our Social Sites 2010 Idea Stream datasheet, or click here to contact us for more information about this tool.