If you’re company has a SharePoint 2007 portal, then consider Newsgator Social Sites. According to the NewsGator Web site itself, “NewsGator Social Sites extends Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with social feedback (i.e. bookmarking, tagging, commenting), social networking, and community functionality by leveraging the SharePoint platform and social computing services.”
Since these are all things that peak my interest, I decided to check it out for myself by signing up for their free webinar. I wanted to learn about what NewsGator and other companies are currently doing to maximize Web 2.0 technology for internal collaboration. And, it’s interesting stuff!
NewsGator is a behind-the-firewall social computing platform used for collaboration. It includes all aspects of Web 2.0 third generation technology, which includes blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networks, tagging, social bookmarking, people profiles and mash-ups.
If you and your co-workers are using external emerging media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and external blog services to collaborate, you may want to consider the following risks (provided by the webinar) that these emerging technologies pose to your company. According to the webinar there exists:
• Very few business-related functions/features
• Employees don’t want to mix fun/personal profile with professional life
• Different countries gravitate toward different social networking sites
• Security and privacy concerns
• Difficult to integrate other internal systems
• IT Support challenges
NewsGator, in partnership with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 tackles all of the above-mentioned risks. Check it out for yourself!
