NewsGator Social Sites for SharePoint is a social computing solution for your portal SharePoint environment. NewsGator Social Sites makes it easy to create cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improve expertise discovery and internal networking, and energize SharePoint with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles, and more.
 

Enhance Collaboration with Communities

• Instantly and easily create communities around projects, work divisions, activities or interests
• Engage in rich discussions and create/share documents with your community members
• Keep up-to-date on your communities’ latest news and activities via tags, relevance data, and RSS feeds
• Discover communities via search, pre-set lists, and recommendations based on your reading activity and social network

Find Experts & Peers with Corporate Social Networking

• View a graphical display of your social network based on explicit and implied connections with others
• Get recommendations for additional connections based on common content, tags and interests
• Subscribe to a person to follow an expert
• See top tags, favorite subscriptions, saved stories, and recently posted content on profile page to quickly understand a user’s interests and expertise

Make SharePoint a “Web 2.0” Experience

• See mini-profile from any user’s name
• Easily bring fresh, relevant news into any site to increase user adoption
• Add tagging and tag clouds to any site
• Follow colleague postings and status changes with the News Feed
• Discover newly popular content, see all feeds from SharePoint in one place, subscribe with a single click, and route updates to mobile devices or pop-up notifiers