Newsgator News & Articles

NewsGator (news, sites) announced the beta release of their SharePoint-based social computing platform, Social Sites 3.0 in late June. At that time they announced two new features: Socialpedia and Knowledge Explorer. With general availability starting today, there's another new feature added to the 3.0 mix: micro-blogging.

Is this enough to make you choose NewsGator over some other SharePoint enabled social computing platform? Here are a couple of other things that may sway you.

NewsGator (news, sites) believes that social computing solutions like Social Sites are the next generation of operating system for the organization, calling them the "most productive home base for knowledge workers". They say the latest version of Social Sites -- v3.0 -- includes new capabilities that will transform the content in your organization into social knowledge that is both broad and deep. 

If you are listening closely, there are probably a lot of employees in your organization with a lot of great ideas. Problem is, they aren't getting to the right people. Newsgator (news, site) has a solution to help you bring those ideas to the forefront. It's called Social Site Ideas and it is part of the latest release of Social Sites 2.7.

There is not an organization out there today who isn't implementing or planning some kind of enterprise social computing solution. There are a lot of things to consider when developing your strategy and just as many technological solutions out there to choose from.

Here we offer you 8 articles on social computing, some focused on the plan, some focused on the technical solution. Both will provide you plenty of information to focus on your plans.

There was a time when all we heard about were social networking solutions lovingly termed "Facebook for the Enterprise". We don't hear that much anymore and there's a reason for it. Enterprises are getting smarter about how social computing solutions can be leveraged and they are much more resistant to the belief that Facebook-like participation is possible or even necessary.

CMSWire had the opportunity to speak with J.B. Holston, CEO and President of NewsGator, on the topic of enterprise social computing and how solutions like their RSS engine -- now called Social Sites Professional -- is changing the face of social computing for enterprises today.

The race for enterprise 2.0 stardom is on. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe,  Amazon and Skype have all been in recent news regarding the topic.

Sadly,  SuiteTwo, an Intel-backed enterprise 2.0 suite, is dropping out when competition is tough and the economy is even tougher.

When you think of the rebellious and loose nature by which blogging is often described, it might be that Las Vegas is the perfect location for the Second Annual BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Scheduled for September 20, adding to what is already a busy weekend for bloggers, the expo will feature advice, insight and experiences as shared by senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and industry thought leaders, all of whom attendees can learn a thing or two about how to implement social media.

Ma.gnolia, a free social bookmarking service, has recently announced plans for a complete rewrite of their social bookmarking system that will lead to improved maintenance, expandability, customization and monetization. With so much work and such little time, Ma.gnolia certainly has its hands full with all the things planned for the future.

In an effort to save advertisers, who are predicted to “waste” an estimated 4.5 billion dollars US on paid search advertising in 2008, WebTrends has released WebTrends Ad Director. In fact it was Ad Director who helped predict the very estimation it is poised to prevent.

Political National Conventions are the unlikeliest of venues to find anything noteworthy or novel, but the Democrats’ party this time around comes with a new and quite interesting entertainment. The addition of a bunch of ‘grass-roots mobile bloggers’ will post video, pictures, opinion and coverage direct from the Convention floor to a central hub at Zannel.com called the PoliticsBlue channel. Not a groundbreaking idea, really. More an inevitable and welcome addition to the modern media landscape. But potentially a watershed event which will herald new media adoption among the technophobe proles.

Two well-known social computing companies have joined forces to help you get your content out to the widest audience possible. What does that mean? Increased revenue — something everyone wants.

The partnership integrates Gigya’s distribution and tracking technology with NewsGator’s syndication network providing a streamlined content syndication process, a network of over 50 platforms and detailed tracking information.

NewsGator Technologies was one of the nine companies who announced product integrations with Microsoft SharePoint at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week. For these guys though it wasn’t “breaking” news, as they have been talking about the latest version of Social Sites for a few months now.

The Enterprise 2.0 conference has kicked into full swing and Microsoft seems to plan on taking center stage. They have already laid out a number of new announcements that give it’s flagship content management system SharePoint an overflow of social networking options.

First introduced last year, NewsGator’s Social Sites were built to provide Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to SharePoint Server 2007. This week they have announced several new features to Social Sites that increase the social networking and community capabilities of SharePoint even more.

In its ongoing efforts to bling-bling big business, Enterprise RSS firm NewsGator has added a series of Enterprise 2.0 functionalities to MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Dubbed NewsGator Social Sites, the solution purports to add a bit of collabo-friendly playfulness to the MOSS platform. And if there’s anything Microsoft could use right now, it’s a friend.