Overview

The Awareness Platform Summer ’08 release brings powerful new capabilities to the Awareness platform that allow for the rapid creation of dynamic, feature-rich, Web 2.0 communities.

The highlights of this release are:

• A richer user experience through improved social networking, a customizable user interface, and new organizational constructs in communities (neighborhoods and groups)
• Broader gathering and sharing of content through improved widgets and an expanded API
• Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 allows you to connect your SharePoint users with your external-facing Awareness-powered communities. This integration was made possible through the development of a strategic relationship with Microsoft.
• Greater insight into community activity and metrics through advanced community management and reporting
• Dramatic increases in performance and scalability

Some Key Features/Enhancements

• Improved social networking
  • People lists
  • Status
  • Profile privacy
  • Presence
  • Activity Feeds


• Personalized user interface
  • Drag and drop UI
  • Rich user experience


• User-created Groups and Neighborhoods
  • Ad-hoc and structured community organization
  • "Gathering places" for interested users
  • A way to show affiliation


• Portable widgets and improved APIs
  • Broad mechanism to gather and distribute content
  • Empowers companies/partners to build or extend their own communities
  • Integrate with other collaboration/social networking services


• SharePoint integration
  • Bring the power of Web 2.0 communities to SharePoint
  • Connect SharePoint users to external-facing Web 2.0 communities


• Advanced community management and reporting
  • Greater insight into the patterns and trends of the community
  • Participation metrics
  • Reports and graphs about user activity, content usage, etc.


• Increases in performance and scalability
  • Fast page load times
  • Large communities
  • Large volumes