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Injoos now on Iphone, IPAD and Android devices.

Jagdish — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:35:40 +0000

It is always great to be able to be in touch with colleagues when on the move, not just through intrusive mechanisms like email, voice calls or chat. but by being able to follow the activity feeds. Injoos now provides a great new way of knowing what your colleagues, team and company is unto while on the move. We now support all major smartphones on Apple and Android platforms. You can even react to a alert on your feed by responding to say a update on a proposal, project or a discussion. A great way to stay connected, improve productivity and continuous collaboration.

Click here to get access to the App.

Here are some screen shots of Injoos on these devices.

Injoos is now on Google App marketplace

Jagdish — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:58:06 +0000

If you are already a registered user of Google Apps you can quickly enable Injoos for the members in your domain (company, organization). Just go to our listing in the Google Apps marketplace and click “Add it now” to get started. As the Google Apps domain administrator you will become the administrator for your company’s network on Injoos. You can then invite your colleagues to the network to start collaborating in a whole new way!

Injoos on a high

Jagdish — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:12:06 +0000

Injoos recently got named as part of the “Top 25 Most Promising Internet Companies“. Would like to congratulate Injoosers for making this happen. Striking the right balance between innovation and utility for any product is a great challenge. This is a recognition of the Injoos team being able to walk the talk.

2009 was a great year for Injoos.

- There was a increased adoption for new ways to collaborate online and the usage of email took a steep decline.

- We added whole host of features like “Networks” and “Micro Blogging” to the Injoos platform making it the most comprehensive Social Intranet in the Cloud.

Going forward we see a clear adoption of the Cloud paradigm and SAAS business models in businesses which is both, cost effective and increases productivity. Together they have the right potent to open up the untapped talent and energy in any organization.

The most useful micro Blogging tool for Businesses - Injoos Flash

Jagdish — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:54:28 +0000

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.

Team Injoos contributes to the North Karnataka Flood relief

Jagdish — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:03:39 +0000

We decided to do our bit for helping the affected people from this natural calamity. The team contributed to the cause through the Deccan Herald Prajavani Flood Relief Fund.

The entire north Karnataka and parts of coastal and Malnad regions are in the grip of one of the worst natural disasters the State has witnessed in a long time. The floods that have followed the torrential rains have brought unprecedented misery to lakhs of people. It has been in the form of death of many of their loved ones, destruction of houses, properties, crops and loss of most of their belongings. Rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations for the affected people are a gigantic task and it will take weeks, if not months.

Cloud Computing + SaaS + Collaboration = Collective Team Intelligence

Jagdish — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:01:04 +0000

Cloud Computing + SAAS + Collaboration = Collective Team Intelligence @ BT Summit 2009

View more presentations from Injoos Web.

Collaboration by definition is a way for teams getting things done. There has been various stages in which collaboration technologies have developed and used. Starting Form Email, Chat, Tele Conferencing, Video Conferencing and Enterprise Intranets. The new generation Social collaboration technologies being developed now are evolution in the way teams will work in future. For Social Collaboration to happen effectively it needs two key pillars (a) Cloud Computing Infrastructure (b) SAAS Business model. Knowledge workers need access to the collaboration platform 24 x 7 and from multiple devices. The system should also be Secure and Scalable. This can now be achieved by creating a Social workspace in the cloud on demand which all the team members can effectively use. These workspaces should integrate both the traditional communication and collaboration technologies like Email, Chat, Web conferencing, ECM and new Social technologies like Blogs, Wikis, Micro Blogging so that no information of any nature casual or formal is lost. This is most effective way to achieve team knowledge sharing and capture, without having the individuals to put any additional efforts for the same.

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore

Date: 3-4 November 2009

Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

To try a 30 Day Free trial of Injoos teamware.

Seamless collaboration with Release 3.5

Jagdish — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:25:47 +0000

Seamless collaboration is being able to get your team members quickly into a project, allow them to easily update the status of the task and comment and review documents without having to switch between multiple applications and the need to have a stoic processes. With the 3.5 release Injoos introduces a new and social way to conduct your business.

You can now use all the social collaboration features of Injoos along with the ability to track and run projects. The new Projects section allows you to keep track of all your projects and tasks under one roof. Get all your team members to socially collaborate on projects. Simple and intuitive workflows can be built on the task to allow you to assign and track the tasks. Easily view the project and task status through the color coded icons. Tasks can also be linked to other items on the group like the News, Events ,Discussions and Files on the library.

Bookmarking has been a great utility for many knowledge workers. Now bookmark all your favorite items across all your groups in Injoos. Add your bookmark for an item by simply clicking the bookmark icon in item detail page. Bookmarks can be accessed and edited from the “My Cabinet” section and from the bottom bar.

You wanted to restrict some events to a sub set of team members in the group. A la private event. Events feature has been enhanced to provide the user a facility to create these private events.

What happens when you don’t have a offline word processor and want to create a document online. You can now create a new Document, Presentation or worksheet completely online and invite you team members to collaborate on it. This feature can be accessed from the Injoos Library.

Finally a cool new way of viewing your pictures stored in the library. Try the new wall!

With release 3.5 feel like the tramp on the Easy street.

We are out with Release 3.0

Jagdish — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:17:38 +0000

You have not heard from us for a while and must have started to wonder what was happening at Injoos. We have been working hard to get new powerful tools bolted onto the Injoos Teamware platform which will help you make your collaboration a breeze and get more bang for your valuable time.

The first feature I am excited to talk about is called the “Activity Feeds“. You always wanted to know what your colleagues were upto without waiting for that weekly meeting or the status report. With Activity feeds Injoos now provides a easy but powerful way of tracking activities of the team. Think of this as a dashboard where you get continuous realtime update when a team member uploads a file into the library or posts a new blog or event or starts a discussion.

The new “My Home” section will feature latest activity feeds from all the groups you belong to. Clicking any one of the feed items will take you directly to that specific discussion or news, saving you considerable time and effort. This new page replaces the old “Happenings” page which had become redundant.

With this release (Release 3.0) we have adopted a new layout and we believe that this will enhance your experience many fold and help you get the best of the platform. This is a 3 column layout with action boxes on the left and right and the information element neatly laid down in the center for an enhanced visual appeal. The menus and messages have been made consistent across pages.

The other big enhancement is the “User Profile“. You have always wanted to build a detailed profile which included both professional and personal aspects. With this release you will can build a comprehensive profile and share that with the other team members. Also members can get a snapshot of your group activities on your profile. For an individual, user profile will act as a comprehensive dynamic resume and for the team & managers a comprehensive team directory.

We pumped up the search with many advanced search options and made it available where you would need it. Also search is now sticky and you can go back to your last search results by just clicking the icon on the bottom bar.

There have been many more smaller enhancement and we will be updating the site and help files to reflect the same shortly.

As always we look forward to your critique and suggestion and hope that you will like the new look and navigation and make full use of the new features.

We are on cloud 9

Jagdish — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:10:34 +0000

We are on cloud 9, no pun intended! Injoos has now moved to a next generation cloud computing platform. Cloud computing is new way of doing web application hosting. The advantages for users will be faster performance of the application, give the application a dynamic ability to scale based on usage and all this with an enterprise grade security. We are not taking a chances due to any hardware fault as we get multiple level of redundancy being in the cloud. So now you know why we feel like this.

We will fanatically support your operations on Injoos.

Jagdish — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:39:53 +0000

As we have interacted with customers in the last few months we have felt your need for getting a stronger support. We plan to augment our rich Help, Forum, Tutorials and Demos with personal chat support and webinars.

Also we plan to discontinue the “Free package” with limited features which we have currently and provide customers with a 30 day free trial on the Fully featured “Starter package” from next month onwards.

You can also look forward to various premium features which we will introduce in the coming months. As always keep sending in your feedback and that will keep us motivated to do more.

Injoos team-ware R2.1 released

Jagdish — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:43 +0000

Continuing with the theme we had promised; Customization, we are happy to bring out this new version of Injoos. There are now a whole new set of tools available for enhancing your experience with the platform and making the user interface more fun. We have 20 new templates for showcasing your group website ! Not just that you can drag and drop widgets and change the name of the tabs to your needs. Get a full featured dynamic website up and running in few minutes.

The second big area we have focussed on is the group library. We wanted to enhance the utility of the library so that you could get more form it. This was one of the big suggestion we had got from our early customers. So with R2.1 release you can create multiple sub folders and manage the files in the most familiar manner that you are comfortable with.

Looks for the next post with details of the features. Thanks again for choosing injoos as your collaboration and knowledge management platform. You can look forward to more exciting and powerful features on the platform in future…

Injoos office pictures

Jagdish — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:01:23 +0000

Checkout pictures on Flickr.

Injoos added to Enbase - Bangalore Startup Database

Jagdish — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:19:34 +0000

This is a Wiki page of all Indian startups and VCs. You can find Injoos at http://enbase.net/db/Injoos

Injoos added to Linkedin Companies database

Jagdish — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:42:42 +0000

Injoos is now on listed on Linkedin’s companies database.

The Big Release

Jagdish — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:36:38 +0000

Today we have moved Injoos team-ware platform to the next level with the R2 release. The platform now has more horsepower with a host of new features and as you would have observed a spanking new user interface. The stability of the platform has given us the confidence to move out of the Alpha mode. Thanks for all your feedback and suggestions and we look forward to your continued support to improve the site.

Injoos listed on Indian startup directory

Jagdish — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:14:58 +0000

Injoos is now listed under the Enterprise Software -> SaaS category. For more:

http://ecosystem.pluggd.in/index.php/directory/saas/

“Think of Injoos as a twiki + whole lot of extra features” - Pluggd.in

Jagdish — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:16:01 +0000

Injoos is a collaboration platform that marries the power of web2.0 with knowledge management tools - and is delivered as a SaaS application.

The basic concept behind Injoos is to decrease the email clutter that goes around in any team and instead, focus on productivity by being the single point of usage for all things related to a project.

The site lets users create groups - one can join other communities based on interests (ranges from RFID to Startups etc), post news items to groups, discuss topics, manage files (i.e online version control) etc.

Read the complete blog.

Injoos timeline on Lifeblob

Jagdish — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:24:39 +0000

Welcome to 2009.

You can now view Injoos blog in a visual timeline way on Lifeblob. Checkout:

http://www.lifeblob.com/user/injoos/view/timeline

Looking back at 2008

Jagdish — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:11:04 +0000

What a year it was ! Burning midnight oil in our first office we put heart and soul in building the first avatar of Injoos team-ware. On June 5th 2008 we launched Injoos in it’s limited Alpha mode and received a torrent of feedback from enthusiastic supporters. This made our booth in the Startup City event to receive the highest footfall. With all the collated feedback we started enhancing Injoos team-ware with the goal of getting out of Alpha into the first release by end of the year.

This year also gave us an opportunity to interact with you and get to know your needs better. With your continued support we aspire to make Injoos team-ware as the preferred solution for collaboration needs of teams world-wide. We now recognize that Injoos is the leader in Enterprise2.0 software segment from India.

We want to make 2009 even more exiting for you and your teams. Expect a whole host of new cutting edge features on the platform very soon.

Thanks/Dhanyavaad/Shukriya and wishing you a very Happy New Year !

New Injoos website

Jagdish — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:00:34 +0000

We have launched the Injoos corporate website which provides exhaustive details on the Injoos team-ware product and pricing. You will also find various use cases for the product, Faqs and information for partners.

We believe that Injoos team-ware provides the most comprehensive and cost effective collaboration solution for SMBs, Educational institutions and NGOs. Checkout:

http://www.injoos.com

Employee communication challenges in today’s environment - Part 2

Jagdish — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:21 +0000

Case 2: Progressive large organization

This is a fairly large organization with more than 10000+ people. The organization recognized early the need of a dedicated employee communication cell. The team came up with a plan of using multiple delivery mechanisms for communicating with the employees. The email messages were replaced with online campaigns with polls and feedback, the regular town hall sessions were now webcast live, online chat sessions were arranged with the CEO and Senior Managers etc.

Well all this did give a fillip and excited the younger employee more in interacting with the senior leaders but like everything else it did fade out. There were some inherent problems for e.g. with webcast it was seen as impersonal and distancing with no direct feedback mechanism. Even the chat did not gain in popularity as high level of moderation was clearly evident. So what went wrong ? Well for organized orchestrated communication meetings and events does not engage the entire organization. What still works is personal communications by line managers in smaller groups of people.

If this can be complimented with online groups platform where team constantly engage with each other and their managers the pressure on the employee communication cell as the sole mouth piece of the organization goes down. This team can now focus on gathering data through an organization wide group network and analyze to find patterns and then insert the proper messages at the points where it makes an impact. For example if a group is posting news items and stories on it’s news board it also gets a message from the communication cell clearly marked as one of the news items. If it interests the group the team starts to comment on the item and rate it up so that to stay on top of their message heap. A very effective way to create a sticky message!

Power to the People campaign

Jagdish — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:10:57 +0000

We at Injoos are trying to showcase “Power of Groups” through a campaign “Power of the people”. This is a theme based campaign where people have to create groups based on themes like Technology, Entertainment and People to name a few. The contest will illustrate the Power of Groups. It will showcase the news and information created by groups and the value created by it.

Injoos is also inviting the Students across different educational institutes in Bangalore, India. The most valuable Student Group will be identified and awarded as “The Best College group”.

The Campaign opens on November 10^th and closes on December 10^th, 2008. Registration for the contests has already started and the further details can be downloaded from Injoos website www.injoos.com/power.

Employee communication challenges in today’s environment - Part 1

Jagdish — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:00:25 +0000

Here is Part - 1 of series of blogs I plan to post on this subject.

Current scenario:

People in general are better informed now than before.
Speed of viral messaging.
Faster speed of communication through SMS, Twitter,
Everyone has an opinion. Blogs!
Management still stuck with old paradigms and old notions.
Nothing beats a personal touch even today in the digital age.
How do we handle scale, multi geo communication?

Some of the best practices used in leading companies:

Case 1: Small sized IT firm

The organization in it’s infancy has 200+ IT professionals and has been growing. The internal Information systems team had setup couple of online Bulletin boards. Basically this was implemented using Microsoft outlook shared folders visible to all. The employee and management bot could post messages, the Bulletin board was divided into various section line Official, Buy and Sell, Sports & Interests, General etc. There were also email IDs published for various functions such as Canteen, facilities etc. The employees could send emails to these concerned person or team using these mails ids. There was bulletin board usage guidelines published. Anyone violating the norms was communicated by the HR team.

Since the general culture of the organization was open people tended to discuss issues of concern on the bulletin board for e.g. quality of food deteriorating in the canteen and the response of the food manager. Th HR person kept regular tab on these messages and immediately caught any issues early before it blew into a major fiasco. The HR Manager also quickly brought relevant issues to the notice of senior managers to take actions and communicate back to the concerned parties.

The advantage of the electronic medium from this example is obvious that the manage could detect issues early and come up with solutions. But the fact is that it takes a daring employee to go and raise issue in the bulletin board. What if there was mechanism where casual discussions or chats happening between employees could be looked at to see if there are common patterns and identify issues. Something like having casual canteen discussions and see what the hot topic is.

These things are now possible in the online world with web2.0 tools used widely in social networks and social media sites. For example rating news posted bubbles up the hit news to the top or looking at a tag cloud shows what are the hot topics being discussed. If mechanism like these are adopted inside organizations for example having a platform to support organization wide groups and teams will help HR and senior management unravel many of these issues way in advance, get feedback on policies implemented etc, Thus overall improving the communication with the employes.

Injoos takes Hampi Utsav to the people

Jagdish — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:42:47 +0000

Injoos today took the vision of Gov. of Karnataka to take the world famous Hampi Utsav to the people around the globe lauching the website www.hampiutsav.com. The website features the Injoos groups platform where the news will be updated live on the showcase page hampiutsav.injoos.com with the content contributed not just by the official media team but by any individual attending the event.

Some of the press coverage for the website:

Times of India

Deccan Herald

Local Indian language support

Jagdish — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:03:49 +0000

Here is an easter egg on Injoos. You can create groups where members can communicate comfortably in their regional languages. This means that you can not say pickup a regional news content but also comment and discuss in your language. This happens as Injoos supports unicode technology. Please install Barahawhich supports major Indian languages on your machine. For e.g. checkout dasara.injoos.com which has posts in Kannada language.

Injoos on Crunchbase

Jagdish — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:14:01 +0000

Made an entry in Techcrunch’s Cruncbase directory.
Checkout http://www.crunchbase.com/company/injoos-web-solutions

Injoos takes part in Mysore Dasara Live webcast

Jagdish — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:47:24 +0000

Injoos is proud to be part of the Mysore Dasara Live Webcast. This event is being was co-anchored by Injoos. The link is live and can be viewed at http://www.mysoredasara2008.com.

You can showcase your group to the world !

Jagdish — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:31 +0000

Injoos has always strived to create a online home for the real world groups and communities. The Showcase feature which was released last week is an endeavor towards that goal. With the release of this feature groups can now showcase their activities to the world. This could mean more participation for their cause or just more awareness of the kind of things they do.

One of the key design goals we had undertaken was to ensure that the groups not just decide wether they like to have a showcase page or not, but also decide what content goes out on the page. This is their showcase to the world and we felt that the groups need to have control of what they want to show. The moderator of the group has full control on picking the news items or discussions he/she wants to be showcased. But if the groups is say public and moderator is not so particular about which item is on the showcase he/she also has the option not to put any filter and get everything out as it happens.

So now you could create a dynamic webpage for your group instantly. The page has Pictures, Announcements, Upcoming events, News, Discussions, Links and Details and Statistics about the group. The group members could now use this as their landing page and login to Injoos. The URL for this page could be Groupname.injoos.com.

Checkout some of the showcase pages:

Cricket on Injoos http://cricket.injoos.com/

Mysore Dasara event on Injoos http://dasara.injoos.com/

To turn on the showcase for your group goto Community Settings on the moderator menu. Click the showcase tab and choose the desired subdomain. One your have successfully created your subdomain you can goto the showcase tab again and configure your showcase page in a WYSIWYG format.

Injoos changes the way Mysore Dasara event is covered

Jagdish — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:08:12 +0000

This year Injoos has endeavored to change the way the Mysore Dasara event is covered in the media by providing a dynamic and ever active online group sites for various events and encourage people participation. Please visit http://dasara.injoos.com which the Injoos showcase page for the Dasara event.

You can also access the Mysore Dasara official site http://www.mysoredasara.com or http://www.mysoredasara2008.com

Clicking the “Share your Dasara Experience” on any of the pages will lead you to the relevant Injoos Group site. Ex. Yuva Dasara page http://www.mysoredasara2008.com/yuvadasara.html has the corresponding Injoos group site http://dasarasports.injoos.com/

The Press and bloggers are also using Injoos for sharing stories on Dasara event as it happens. http://dasarapressroom.injoos.com/

Wishing all a very Happy Dasara !

Injoos Landing page and blogs revamped

Jagdish — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:40:43 +0000

After releasing some of the key features like Showcase for the groups we decided to give the Injoos landing page a more improved visual design. Not just that we added more blogs to communicate more and better with the users and hence have linked these blogs directly on the landing page.

Injoos Blog - This is the Injoos corporate Blog and we will talk more about Injoos business, events etc.

Injoos Features - This blog will focus on new and existing functionalities of the Injoos platform. We will also try and provide your insights into new features as they are built.

Power of Communities - This blog will features posts on how various groups are benefitting from Injoos platform and how new groups could use the platform and gain from it.

We look forward to your valuable feedback and continuous interaction.

Injoos Key functionalities - movie

Jagdish — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:40:50 +0000

Challenges for an Enterprise

Jagdish — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:00:39 +0000

Article as it appeared in the August edition of the Smart Techie magazine. Challenges for an Enterprise

Injoos Key functionalities - presentation

Jagdish — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:37:44 +0000

The presentation gives you a quick run into some of the key functions of Injoos platform.Injoos slide show

Injoos article on Smart Techie magazine - July 2008

Jagdish — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:37:09 +0000

Injoos.com, a site for online groups did it’s Alpha launch on June 5th. It addresses the need for a group platform - simple setup, single login, strong privacy controls, rich multimedia information sharing and powerful interactivity.

Injoos has:

/One login/ to connect to the multiple groups a person belongs to, while preserving his/her privacy and identity in each.

/One view/ to break down the information overload faced today into what’s relevant, what’s popular and what’s not, helping one keep up with key information from all the groups.

/One space/ to contain all of the group’s activities - ideas and stories in text, pictures, links and videos; events planned, issues discussed, a multimedia document library holding the group’s files and collected wisdom, and interactions through voting, comments, polls and messages.

Injoos is free to use, so you can get your group started today.

http://www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine/pay.php/FKRQ249226014

Single dashboard to all your groups

Jagdish — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:42:39 +0000

The Happenings page on Injoos provides you with a unique dashboard view of your groups. You can read all the top news, events and discussions. You could also add news, events and start discussions right from this page. The widgets on the right hand side give you a quick access to your messages, event registrations and items you have posted.

Injoos booth receives highest footfall at Startup City event

Jagdish — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:20:05 +0000

Injoos Booth

Injoos Demo

It was a great experience sharing the product prototype with the users and getting feedback. People showed lot of enthusiasm with the concept and the product features. We ran out of the Injoos T-shirts which we were giving out for people trying the product and giving detailed feedback.

Injoos at Startup City

Jagdish — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:40:15 +0000

We will giving opportunity to test drive the Injoos app at the Startup City event happening on 24 May 2008 at Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore. We look forward to your valuable feedback.You can find more details of the event on http://www.thesmarttechie.com/startupcity/sponsors.php?496