Make WSS Social

No matter how far along your organization is on the SharePoint maturity cycle, NewsGator is available to support you. For those of you who are currently running the free version of SharePoint (WSS/SharePoint Foundation), you know that it makes a great file store and document repository with some support for discussions, etc. 

How about Social though? Not so much. No personal profiles, no expert location and no communities. Does it have to be this way? We say no.

Behind the scenes, NewsGator has been working on an application to help users deployed on the free version of SharePoint get social as well. Now you can take advantage of profiles, expert location and communities, all within the familiar SharePoint look and feel; helping you get social within your budget.

Profiles – give users a way to add people to their professional network so they can follow their work through activity streams; empower microblogging and status updates for users either online or through a mobile interface; share bookmarks and blogs on SharePoint list items; store and share personal files.

Expert location – roll all this activity up into a global roster of helpful, active, and most networked users in your enterprise – all these people are now searchable.  Have people add their LinkedIn profiles and index those as well through the expert search.

Communities – create communities around professional disciplines to create Centers of Excellence.  Questions and Answers, Videos, Blogs, Wikis, Ideas, and more are all in there and included.

Afraid that going social might limit you if one day you wish to expand on these capabilities? Don’t worry about that either. Not only is NewsGator available to introduce you to social, we can help you further integrate it into Microsoft SharePoint, if you decide to go that route, as well. We have a killer migration path in place to help all of our users that are interested in making the switch from the free version of SharePoint to the paid version. 

Interested in learning more? Get a sneak peak of this new application and join the growing number of SharePoint enterprises going social by registering for our upcoming webinar: Make WSS Social, taking place on August 18, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST.