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Social Sites® Spheres for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

With a Social Sites integration for your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 software, you can increase internal group communications by creating a social sphere. The NewsGator Social Sites software is easy to integrate and increases your SharePoint capabilities to create a more social business enterprise.

By creating a social media sphere, your employees can share common goals and solve problems collaboratively with the right group of people. You can increase productivity using the Spheres application in SharePoint by connecting groups and streamlining the problem-solving process.

Your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 software can now be truly social with the integration of Social Sites and utilization of Spheres. Every sphere can have its own thread to help your business streamline operations and create easy access to employees with common goals.

  

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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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“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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“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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“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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"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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"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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“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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 “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 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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“[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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“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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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.

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Internal Group Communications: Spheres for Social Sites 2010

Traditionally, when many of us leave a meeting, we leave with a task (or many tasks!). Sometimes those tasks are short-term projects involving you and a few co-workers – both local and remote. Instead of drowning in internal group communications while exchanging torrents of emails with this group, wouldn’t it be great to create a virtual space where you could interact, share links, ask and answer questions without involving your IT team and without creating a full-fledged SharePoint or Social Sites community?

Enter Spheres…

Using Spheres in Social Sites 2010

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.

Creating a Sphere is quick and easy. Immediately after a Sphere is created, members can share messages, links, and questions and answers. Spheres greatly improve internal group communications and, ultimately, business agility by letting users target sharing more specifically to a subset of individuals (much like an email distribution) and facilitate ad-hoc, one-to-many exchanges in the transparent work stream. For example, you can create a Sphere to:

  • Carry on topical dialogues or short-term projects after a meeting wraps up
  • Plan for an upcoming event or stay connected when you are on-site at a big conference

Features of Social Sites Spheres:

  • An authorized user can create a public or private Sphere in seconds
  • The owner of the Sphere can invite others to join the group individually or using distribution lists or Active Directory Groups
  • Admin ownership of a Sphere can be changed when needed
  • A private Sphere is not discoverable; owners must invite users to join
  • Users can follow and stop following any public Sphere
  • Users can create, discover, and manage Spheres through an intuitive menu
  • Users can @ target a Sphere much like a community
  • Users can filter Sphere activities in the Newsfeed much like a community

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