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
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