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Developer Lightning Tools
Supports SharePoint 2010 • MOSS 2007 • WSS v3
Price, US $ 1,800.00
Licensing Per WFE
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.lightningtools.com/social-squared/default.aspx

Social Squared is an Enterprise Forum solution for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

Social Squared Forums for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 | SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundations offers the ability to host a large online discussion environment within SharePoint itself. If your users rely too much on email, consider a Forums solution making SharePoint the true discussion hub that users require.

Features Include:

  • Unread topic indication
  • Topic and post moderation
  • Email alerts for new topics and posts
  • User post count
  • Topic ratings
  • User signatures
  • Search
  • Quote posts in your reply
  • RSS support
  • Full customization of look and feel

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Fully featured and well done forums tool

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Overall, this is a wonderful product. It is the best and most full-featured forum add-on available for SharePoint 2007 and 2010. It is easy to use, manage, setup, and apply updates. I have also had great interactions with their customer service folks and they are top notch.

The only con to this product is no built-in SharePoint Search integration. However, with that said, the following work-arounds are all viable options to integrating SharePoint search when working with this product:

A) If the forum is on a anonymously-accessible page (not requiring authentication to view the page), you can add that page as a regular web page to the SharePoint Search content sources rather than as a SharePoint page. This tells the indexer to treat URLs and such like Google would rather than looking for SharePoint content.

B) Create a simple web part to add to the Search page of your SharePoint site that acts like the Bing or other federated search web parts do. So that when someone searches on the SharePoint Search Center site, you have a web part on the right that displays the search results of the forum in addition to the normal results.

C) Use FAST Search Server and have it index the databases of the forums.

Product Reviews

Pros - Full featured forums (wysiwyg, email notifications, rss, moderation, etc).
- SQL storage (doesn't rely on the SharePoint data storage layer, which is a very good thing not to do)
- Easy to use for all users
- Easy to moderate and setup forums
- Easy to setup and apply updates
- Great customer service from vendor
Cons - No SharePoint Search integration built-in. Searching the forums requires the user to goto the Forum and use the search function there, the SharePoint Search indexer does not see the forum content.
Version Reviewed 1.0.0.8
Reviewed By John Chapman
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Reviewed by John Chapman
January 10, 2011
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