Tools


The modules attain their full potential with these interactive tools..

Tags

Tags allow for collaborative multiple classification. Should an email on the budget for your project be kept under “finance” or “project”? Both!

Everyone tags the most important information the way they want to find it. Information is automatically grouped along these lines and allows for natural searches for anything.

A “tag cloud” is a list of all the ways people classify information, sorted by frequency. You immediately have an overview of the available information.

  • Everyone tags information the way they want to find it
  • Everything can be found using natural language
  • Tag clouds map out the available information
  • Most popular “categories” stand out
  • Access to linked information

Comments

Any information can be enhanced by comments, questions, answers, full conversations. A complete context is added to the basic knowledge.

Rating

This simple mechanism allowing everyone to flag the most important, useful, fun information makes the “best” information stand out.

New to a subject? The main information is quickly available.

Each person has her list of favourite links for quick access to their important resources.

  • Each person flags his most important, useful, fun information
The “best” information « floats » to the top
A novice can directly access the main information
  • Everyone has her own list of favourite links
Quick access to work resources

  • Extra-professional uses
Best blog, picture, …

 

Subscriptions / RSS

One of the main differences with “real-life” networks: easily keeping up-to-date.

A colleague changes departments? Alert. Finally got his diploma? Alert.
A new person started in the marketing department? Alert.
Someone commented on your blog post? Alert. Answered one of your open questions? Alert.

Stream of updates for …

Contacts: New contacts-of-contacts, updated know-how

Groups: New members, discussions, events, …

Blogs: New posts, responses to comments

 

Rich media

A picture is worth a thousand words. Rich interaction is supported by rich media.