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Tech Update: Near-Time brings content, collaboration and social networking technologies togetherPosted by Betsey Merkel. |
Here's an excerpt from this week's news release:
Near-Time Delivers the Social Enterprise
Major Update Brings Content, Collaboration and Social Networking Technologies Together
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct 15, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Near-Time, the leading Enterprise 2.0 hosted collaboration service, today announced the immediate availability of comprehensive social networking functionality for the Near-Time platform including a member interest engine, community level dashboard and advanced search facilities. These capabilities are built on an integrated platform that now marries the best of social networking functionality to an organization's collaborative workspaces.With this update business professionals can now create, collaborate, discover and engage with customers, partners and coworkers in a unified collaboration solution. Read more here.
The article outlines the new features and updates:
Near-Time Goes Social
Interest Engine -- This is the foundation for Near-Time's new social features. An improved user-interface includes more details about individual users. Users identify topics in which they are most interested and Near-Time automatically surfaces links to content and tags they may be interested in and other members who share their interests. For screen shots and details information about this update visit http://social.near-time.net.
Social Networking -- Social Networking capabilities are now live in all Near-Time community and collaboration spaces. Members can network with other members based on common profile interests and connect to other users in other networks based on new associations.
Automatic Space Overview
The automatic space overview dashboard aggregates all group activity on a single page, allowing users to monitor all active areas of a community or collaboration space and aggregates new contributions onto one well-organized page. This page also automatically generates an RSS feed which can be embedded into other areas of a space using Near-Time WIRES(TM). For screen shots and details information about this update visit http://social.near-time.net.
Comprehensive Discovery and Navigation Resources
Search -- A new search and advanced search user-interface is presented throughout the space. Users can focus their search on an active area of the site (wiki, blog, forum, etc.) from the search tab drop down or search their entire Near-Time space. Search results now emphasize the author to provide improved context. For screen shots and details information about this update visit http://social.near-time.net.
Bubbles - New navigation elements are present throughout a group's Near-Time space which accelerate content and member discovery. Mouse-over action shows a summary window that includes links to the author's profile and to other related content.
Integration with Google Maps -- Users can now easily see the geographic distribution of other users. This is particularly useful for applications that have a regional or geographic focus.
Improved Calendar
The calendar (Events) feature has been rebuilt from the ground up, creating a greatly improved calendar for every community. Multiple events are automatically color-coded and can be toggled on or off by users. Users can also navigate between day, week and month views. Calendar events are now included in search results and can be categorized for discovery using the contextual navigation tools. For screen shots and details information about this update visit http://social.near-time.net
To find out more about Near-Time, go to www.near-time.net.
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