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Social Sites® Video Stream for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Now your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can easily use video file sharing with the NewsGator Social Sites Video Stream module. By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint collaboration you can utilize Video Stream to eliminate download delays and improve business social enterprise with video communication.

The NewsGator Social Sites Video Stream software allows users to integrate their video communications into everyday activities for more engaged interaction amongst co-workers. SharePoint video capabilities will be improved with the integration of Social Sites by allowing streaming video to decrease the viewing wait time.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. That's what some of the world's most successful companies are discovering as they create videos for product demos, Microsoft Lync-recorded virtual meetings, on-demand social learning, customer stories, or any number of real-life scenarios.
 

 

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Testimonials

"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 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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“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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“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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“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 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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 “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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“[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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“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 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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Video Stream

This popular social experience of creating videos has posed a problem for many companies because they have no way to effectively distribute, organize, and share this content within their organizations. To address this issue, NewsGator introduced their Video Stream solution package to provide organizations with a "YouTube for the Enterprise" solution that is truly social.

When employees shoot a video, Social Sites 2010 video file sharing software allows users to upload large videos in a broad number of supported file formats. A thumbnail is automatically created of the video and is then posted to the activity stream. Users can socially interact with the videos by watching them inline within the activity stream using the Microsoft Silverlight Player, liking them, adding comments, and seeing comment history and reactions to videos. Employees can browse videos by community, most liked, most recent, or most viewed.

Video Streaming Solutions: Streaming, File Compatibility, and Deployment Options

Video Stream delivers bona fide streaming versus progressive download, meaning users never experience frustrating delays while the video loads the next segment. Video Stream delivers smooth HD streaming of up to 1080p, yet intelligently dials down the size of the video to a range your network can handle at the time.

Users need not worry about file compatibility, either. NewsGator Video Stream automatically handles all the major codecs, including Windows Media (WMV, WMA), AVI, QuickTime (MOV), DirectShow Filters, MPEG-2, AVCHD, and Dolby Digital. It also supports Silverlight 4.0 and the Smooth Streaming output codec.

There are multiple deployment options — integrate Video Stream directly into SharePoint 2010 or in conjunction with NewsGator's comprehensive social platform, Social Sites 2010. Organizations can use Video Stream to create a standalone video community or can add video capability to every community. Or they can do both.

So let your employees fully experience social learning. Have them unveil a product, demonstrate a process, or introduce a new concept. Or let them call up a colleague on Microsoft Lync, and upload the video call recording into the Video Stream. A minute's action is suddenly worth a million words.

An overview of Video Stream features:

  • Create and add a YouTube-like Video Center to any community
  • Upload large videos in a broad number of supported file formats
  • Surface videos in the activity stream and view them inline using the Microsoft Silverlight Player
  • Can be customized to leverage broad range of output codecs and other video players (no more codec-compatible nightmares!)
  • Automatically create a video thumbnail for each uploaded video
  • Supports smooth streaming to optimize video playing quality level based on the available network bandwidth
  • HD viewing experience up to 1080p
  • Socially interact with videos by adding comments and seeing comment history and reactions to videos
  • Browse videos by community, most liked, most recent, and most viewed
  • Effectively distribute, organize, store, and share videos throughout your organization


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

Video Center Community
Video Center Community

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View Video Directly in Activity Stream
View Video Directly in Activity Stream

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Individual Video Page
Individual Video Page

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