“Hashtag Assistant” effortlessly enriches metadata stores and enhances information discoverability

Every lock has a key.  For enterprise content management and social collaboration, hashtags are that key.  Hashtags (#) mark important keywords or topics and make microblogs and questions & answers more visible, discoverable, and relevant in the activity stream. Hashtags unite users around common interests, topics, and projects, and encourage meaningful discussion and collaboration within an enterprise.

Ok, so hashtags are great, right?  But what happens when you get an overzealous tagger or someone who tags nothing?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have some smart suggestions? NewsGator’s latest “Hashtag Assistant” feature for Social Sites 2010 makes it easier to tag the right terms quickly.  Social Sites Hashtag Assistant suggests tags from the Enterprise Metadata Service as the user types.  Click on a suggested hashtag and it is automatically added to the post or question. To keep it simple for users and to ensure system performance remains high, only single-term hashtags are suggested — and of course, a user can still choose to create their own relevant hashtags as desired.

To find out more about how NewsGator’s hashtag suggestions feature can increase the visibility of important content within your organization, please visit www.newsgator.com.