NewsGator Social Sites’ Top 25 Microblogging Features For SharePoint

In light of all of the chatter over the last 24 hours about enterprise social computing and microblogging, I thought it was timely to highlight NewsGator Social Sites’ microblogging features that are built in to SharePoint.   If you have SharePoint, this is a great way to meet employee demand for microblogging in a way that easily integrates with the rest of their workflow and communications.  And for more info, check out our microblogging whitepaper released today.

1. Provide ‘Twitter-like’ microblogging capabilities within SharePoint
2. Engage in lightweight, efficient conversations or share status updates (140 characters per entry)
3. Integrate microblogging comments with Social Sites’ Activity Stream
4. Use microblogging features to comment on other SharePoint activity such as document uploads, blog posts, or wiki contributions
5. View a list of colleagues that are ‘following’ your microblogging activity
6. Integrate with social network updates from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
7. Use a “Like” capability to provide easy feedback on activities
8. Upload photos and videos to your status update via mobile, desktop, or portal
9. Automatically add thumbnails of the web page that was saved to your Bookmarks

10, Create custom lists of people and/or communities to follow

11. Filter status updates by colleagues, communities, your activity, top updates, or custom created lists of people and/or communities

12. Target messages to specific users or communities

13. Search across all microblogging activity including status, comments and events using keywords or hashtags

14. Integrate conversations within Social Sites Communities to enable focused conversations around a topic

15. Use email to update your status while away from your SharePoint social computing environment
16. Receive daily email digests of your colleagues’ microblogging activity
17. Receive email notifications on activities you have created or activities that you have commented on and use email to respond to subsequent updates on the thread

18. Use Social Sites’ mobile application that brings microblogging to the iPhone 
  

19.View a global conversations page that provides an overall timeline for the status activity across the organization
20. Employ hashtags to easily classify and discover status updates with a topic area
21. View a tag cloud of all hashtags used in updates

22. Enable administrators to delete inappropriate updates or comments
23. Utilize APIs for consuming and publishing activities
24. Easily support your company’s SharePoint security protocols and Active Directory implementation
25. Integrate microblogging within your employees workflow rather than providing it as a separate destination

To learn more about enterprise microblogging within SharePoint, send me an email and we can schedule a demo for your company.