If you survey Facebook and LinkedIn, you may be surprised to find out how many employees of your company publicly identify themselves and are active in employee centric groups. Technology savvy employees want the ability to search and find expertise within the company, but many do not have the tools inside their organization. External social networking sites can cause problems with company privacy, marketing and public relations, and expose internal information to competitors.
Today SharePoint 2010 has built-in tools to facilitate:
- Advanced User profiles and organization profiles
- The ability to tag specific content with 'Like' or 'Dislike'
- The ability to rate specific web pages, documents, or discussions
- Enhanced MySite functionality
Companies that want robust social media tools should consider looking at functionality from NewsGator. Eastridge is a certified NewsGator sales and service partner, and uses NewsGator Social Sites for:
- Micro blogging
- Activity Streams (similar to Facebook landing page)
- Communities
- Knowledge Explorer
- Social Insights
- Advanced RSS