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Most of the micro blogging apps released in the recent times like Yammer and Co-tweet are essentially a clone of Twitter which supports closed group of business users. We found that what would be more useful is to have the micro blogging tool essentially as part of the complete Social Intranet for an organization. So you could share short snippets of information as News, Event or discussion with your colleagues with one single simple interface. Also now it becomes much easier for you to track and respond to all the happenings in your team or organizations. Get ready for Injoos Flash being released in the next 5 days. Register to Injoos to know more.

Strange as the title may seem, I really want you to wake up Sid ! I just cant believe that You are not there anymore. I want you to wake up as the turn of events over the last couple of days has been cruel to say the least and unjustified. Why you?

I write this piece in memory of a dear friend, a customer, an ardent supporter and more importantly a very good human being. Siddhartha Padam, Sid to me and a lot of us, was sadly killed in a fire accident in Bangalore on 23-Feb while he was at work. He along with 2 of his colleagues was snuffed out by a fire that engulfed the Carlton Towers where his office was located.

My association with Sid started when I joined the Corporate Planning team in Infosys. I always found him to be interesting, full of life and ever smiling. I have learnt a lot from him while we have had numerous coffees, lunches and drinks together. We quit Infosys in 2007 to go our own ways, to explore the world and to seek our destiny. I set up Injoos and Sid started the Chesapeake operations in India. Our association continued as I always looked at Sid as a trusted advisor and have sought his opinion on my business very often. He was quick to point out things and give me feedback on what I should be doing. He also whole heartedly embraced the product we were building - Injoos teamware - and started using it in his organization. He has been a tremendous customer who has stood by us and given us invaluable feedback.

It just doesnt seem right that he is not there anymore. Not because I wont get advice or feedback, but because he did not deserve to leave us this soon and all of us deserved more of him. I sat with him on 18-Jan to videotape his testimonial for Injoos and I still cant believe that a month later, he is not there to see it. It all seems like a game, a cruel Game that god plays with all of us. He takes away good people, people who have made a difference to a lot of fellow human beings. I am overcome by emotions that I cannot describe - sadness, anger, frustration, helplessness…………

I have no words to describe this loss or to offer comforting words to his family. All I can say is my heart goes out to the family and I pray to God to give the family the courage to bear his loss.

Me, my family and my colleagues are with you in this hour of need.

Is it the system that is responsible or is it pure destiny? I dont know the answers but I definitely know that I have lost a very good friend and I once again say, Please Wake up Sid !

We just did a minor upgrade to the platform to bring you more exciting features to enhance your productivity. The library has been enhanced to give you the ability to drag and drop files and folders. Just grab the file or folder that you would like to move and drop them into the target folder. There is an option to either copy or move the files or folders.

The bookmarklets have been enhanced to allow you to directly get some description for an article you are posting. Just mark the text on the website you are reading and invoke the bookmarklet to post the article into Injoos with the marked teaxt appearing as a short description for the article. You can also tag the article by putting a # before the text to be used as Tag. This can be done in the bookmarklet as well as when creating a news or discussion inside Injoos.

We have also introduced the ability to delete news, discussion and discussion replies. This is available to the creator of the content.

Real Time Enterprise, Mashups, Collaboration, Software-as-a-Service, Community Management, Social Media - These are no more buzz words that are all over the place. These are the enterprise trends to watch in 2010 according to ReadWriteWeb. Mashable predicts that Social Activism will explode across the web and that that micro-volunteerism will extend beyond Wikis. Enterprises are becoming more and more part of the social revolution.

All these trends are now incorporated into Social Business Software (also known as Enterprise 2.0) products. Injoos Teamware is abreast of this trend and I am excited to write about some new features that have been built into the product in Release 4.0.

Your Intranet in the Cloud

At the forefront of this change is the ability for enterprises to create their corporate Intranets on the Cloud for easy information access and collaboration among team members. What is more, you can lock in the access to only people with corporate email IDs thus preventing unauthorised people from getting into your network. We have also introduced an admin functionality as an overarching feature that allows businesses to manage their networks and users. So go ahead and create your private network for your business and start collaborating.

Groups and Sub-groups and all other collaboration features remain as they are. The difference being that the Groups and Sub-groups now belong to a Network (read Your Company). This will allow businesses to mirror thier organization structure on Injoos easily. For example, create your company network and create groups for each of the departments - say HR, Marketing etc. The subgroups can be used to create programs or initiatives within each department. Whats more, there are projects that can be created both at the Group level as well as the sub group level to track initiatives and tasks.

Widgets and Bookmarklets

Information consumption and creation just became easier with the introduction of 2 new features - Widgets and Bookmarklets.

Injoos Bookmarklet that can be added to your browser bookmarks bar and used to post information directly into Injoos from the website you are reading. Bookmarklet also allows you to choose the group into which the information has to be posted. This powerful feature enhances the information creation ability greatly without having to leave the page one is reading.

Widgets for your Company Network can be embedded on any website or blog easily using the Embed Code provided. This allows information from the company network to be accessed from your website or blog. View the activity feeds for the groups that you are a part of in the network or upload files into the group library via the widget.

Share Files with external users

A great new way to share your files on the group library -  we have introduced file sharing with external users that allows a team member (with access) to share files with another user who is not a member of the network. This capability allows collaboration between distributed teams as well as external users.

Back-up your files

Need a backup of the entire library or just a folder? No worries, use the new download option on the library to create a zip of your folder or the entire library (only moderator).

These and many more features of the product make it a powerful platform for businesses to setup their intranets in the cloud and enable their teams to collaborate. It is like having your Private cloud on the Public internet.

So what are you waiting for ? Setup your company network or just join your network and start collaborating and managing your business the Social Way.

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