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Small but powerful enhancements to Key Features : Tags

Srini — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:23:59 +0000

We are listening to you ! While you have been busy doing what you are and using Injoos, we have been at it too ! We have made some subtle changes to key Injoos features that greatly enhance the utility of the product.

To start with, we have enhanced the tagging in Injoos to be all pervasive. Tags are the glue that hold all the content types together and this feature has now been enhanced to give you ‘Trending Tags’ at all levels, be it the Network or the Group or the Subgroup. Trending Tags are shown weighted based on the popularity of the tags across your network or the group and gives you insight into what people in your network are thinking about currently. Item level tags have also been enhanced to to bring you the connections between an item and others that are linked to it through the ‘Related Tags’. Related tags are populated automatically based on the tags on the item you are viewing and its connections with other items in your network. There is also the popular groups that are shown as a Tag Cloud on the network home page.

Tags can also be edited at the tag cloud level or on an item. You can now delete or rename tags. To edit your tag, click on the Edit Tags option at the network, group or the item level and click on the appropriate tag to delete or rename the tag. Deleting/Renaming the tag at the network or group level will remove/rename the tag on all items on which you have used the tag. Deleting/Renaming it at the item level will remove/rename the tag from the item. Whats more we also show you the 5 most popular tags on the item at the TagSearch results level. At any point, just click on the tag to be taken to the results page.

If this wasn’t enough, we went a little further and provided you with the Auto suggest Feature on Tags to enable you to reuse Tags that already exist (and to avoid Typos!). Whats more, you can now search tags using a combination of keywords to drill down to the item that you are looking for. And yes , we now added tagging to our microblog - Flash.

So what are you waiting for ? Go ahead and start tagging and build those important connections. Experience the power of contextual relationship between various content types!

And yes, we are listening. So if you have something to convey to us, please leave a comment or write to us at ‘contactus at injoos dot com.

Keep watching this page for updates on other Enahancements

Wake up Sid

Srini — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:20:04 +0000

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 !

Release 4.1 : Introducing Drag and Drop, #Tags and Auto Description

Srini — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:49 +0000

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.

Intranet for your Business - in the Cloud

Srini — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:32:49 +0000

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.

Try the 30 Day Free trial of Injoos teamware.

Keep track of your team from Anywhere

Srini — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:00 +0000

We are working hard to make Injoos The Collaboration Platform for businesses. We have lined up a set of cool new features in the coming December release that greatly enhance the usability of the product and aid in easier content creation and collaboration from wherever you are.

We are developing a browser widget that you can embed on your site so that Information from your groups inside Injoos is now available to you from wherever you are. You can get feeds from your groups on Injoos, view, download and upload files from the widget directly into the Injoos Library.

We are also introducing a couple of easy ways in which you can share info with your teams as well as tag them appropriately for future reference. Bookmarklets that can be pulled to your browser bookmarks bar to enable you to easily post an interesting thing you are reading on the web into the group as a news item. You can also use the #tags on the words inside the description or the title of the any item you are submitting to create tags on the item. This can be done from the bookmarklet as well!

Enhancements to the Library will include the ability to now share your files and folders with external email IDs for easier collaboration with people not part of your organization. The new download option for the Injoos user will provide an option to download the entire library or a specific folder as a Zip onto the desktop.

Try the 30 Day Free trial of Injoos teamware.

Injoos now a member of Intel Software Partner Program

Srini — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:21:09 +0000

Intel Software Partner

Injoos is now a member of the Intel Software Partner Program.

Being a member of this program provides us with access to powerful tools that we use to innovate and optimise our solution.

Our endeavour is to deliver desktop like performance on the SaaS model and this partnership with Intel will help us maximise our capability and performance on cutting edge Intel platforms.

The new showcase a.k.a group website

Srini — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:00:36 +0000

We now have a true website builder with this release. You can create dynamic portal within minutes. So how does it happen ? Just enable the showcase for your group and jump to the showcase configuration page.

Step 1: Drag and drop widgets. Change the name of the tabs.

Step 2: Select one of the several themes from the scrollbar on the left and then just press apply. You can preview your website also.

Step 3: SEO: Make your website friendly for search engines like google to find it. Add multiple keywords. You can even add analytics code like the popular google analytics which helps track the traffic to your site.

We took some of our existing showcase pages and customized the same. See how they have transformed now!

cricket.injoos.com

movieweek.injoos.com

Try the new features and have fun. You don’t need to be a software geek !

Group Library taken to next level - manage your media & files with ease

Srini — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:00:11 +0000

Managing your files and media now is much simpler with Injoos. The group library has been completely revamped so that your can either view your files in the way your are used to on your desktop/laptop or in new friendlier web based interface. Here is a look into some of the changes.

Icon view of the files: Right click the icon for detailed actions on each of the file.

List view of the files: You can see complete details of the files like who has uploaded etc.

Gallery view for all the media: All the images can now be displayed in a friendly gallery view for you to browse through. You will see integration with Cooliris which is browser plugin that just blows your off in terms of it’s image rendering.

Slideshow view for images: Get a larger view of the images and browse them in a slideshow.

Folder Management: Now your can create multiple levels of sub folders, move and copy files between folder and set permissions. If you accidentally delete the file you can retrieve it from the recycle bin.

Sharing files with public: The showcase page of your group has now been enhanced to display and allow download of files and media. This can easily be achieved by moving files to the shared folder and setting appropriate permissions to the file by the moderator. The files in the shared folder are displayed on the group portal a.k.a group showcase.

Enhancements to the Showcase (Website builder) and the Library

Srini — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:27:19 +0000

Based on customer feedback we are enhancing the Library and the Showcase on Injoos to provide more powerful and easier to use functionalities.

The Library at the heart of Injoos Teamware allows teams to store documents and collaborate on them using the rich set of features built into the library. No the library is being made more powerful and easier to use. To start with , the current library will give way to a file management system with the facility to create folders easily and add files into them. One can also move, copy , edit, share the documents within the group. The library will also feature access control that enables the owner of the group/document to restrict actions on the documents in the library to members with explicit permission. This feature can be used to create basic workflows for document collaboration within teams. The library will also feature list view (detail) and thumbnail view. Access to different file types is at the click of a button via the filters provided. Image gallery is enhanced to provide a slideshow using the native functionality or with the cool Cooliris (requires pliug-in).

Creation of a showcase (website) for the group is easier and more powerful with the configuration menu revamped. The showcase features customizable pages, themes to match the look and feel of your organization/enterprise, ability to turn on/off information widgets. The showcase also features the view only library view as well as the ability to provide users with the ability to download select documents.

Now use Injoos for your

Alumni associations
to showcase your projects
capture lecture notes in one place for reuse later
as a centralised repository for papers and publications
or any document/artefact that the group needs
anything …
…everything

The Injoos Teamware is now more powerful, easy and flexible to allow groups to capture systemic knowledge as well as unstructured chaotic knowledge that is present in day-to-day interactions thereby providing a robust platform to enterprises, organizations and individuals for Knowledge Continuity

Keep watching this space for updates

Injoos release R2 out in production ! Check out the cool new features

Srini — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:46:37 +0000

Injoos R2, the second major release is out and this brings together the most comprehensive set of features for collaboration among teams. After being in Alpha for 6 months and getting feedback from the early movers as well as through usability studies, the product has been enhanced inside out keeping in mind the needs of today’s internet user.

The release brings some major enhancements to the product as well as some cool new features. Revamped profile and account settings, a Group Home page from where one can pretty much do all activities, image gallery and slideshow for the library, document viewing and editing through integration with Zoho Docs, subgroups nested under groups to build your org/team structure, web/voice conferencing through integration with DimDim, enhanced showcase (portal) for the group to name a few. Add to that the advanced search that allows one to search inside documents for keywords.

Logging into Injoos or registering with Injoos is now easier with incorporation of OpenID support. You can use your Google or Yahoo userID or any other OpenID provided by providers like Blogspot, SingleID, Verisign etc to easily login to Injoos. No need for lenghty registration process. We have left that to the biggies to authenticate and give us a go ahead. And yes , your ID is absolutely safe as we don’t store your Google or Yahoo ID anywhere on our servers. We just let them authenticate you for us !

To start with, the landing page for your group, which is the showcase page with its subdomain URL or your own URL mapped to the subdomain, has been enhanced give you a rich look and feel. There are custom pages that one can add as well as upload a group logo or banner GIF to create your own identity

Signing into Injoos just became a whole lot easier with the ubiquitous OpenID support. No need for registrations and lengthy procedures involving email confirmations. If you have a Google ID or Yahoo ID or an OpenID provided by Blogger, SingleID, Verisign etc, you can sign into Injoos without registration. Create a login and add as many email Ids or OpenIDs as possible to allow you to login to Injoos.

A home page has been added for your group to allow you to get a snapshot of what is happening on the group in one view.

This page will become customizable so that one can add widgets and customize the layout.

If you are not a member of any Group, you can create a group easily or just browse for a group of your interest from the browse groups functionality. Look for groups based on category, popularity, no of members etc

Teams will love the feature of web conferencing that has been integrated into the calender on Injoos. Injoos has integrated DimDim webconferencing into the product that allows a user to create a web conference on the fly. No software downloads required. All you need to do is to register to DimDim to get a free userID and password. Yes of course the events can be synchronised with the desktop

The Library on Injoos is a powerful feature that enables you to submit various kinds of documents and media for the use of the group. You can store images, video, audio, documents, presentations, spreadsheets etc.

A image gallery has been added to the library that helps you view images as thumbnails or as a slideshow

The library has also been integrated with document viewing and editing software from Zoho. No need of expensive office software. Just upload a file to the library and access it and edit it from wherever you are via the web. Again, no software required …just a browser and connection to the internet.

All the pages on Injoos now feature a top and bottom menu bar. The bottom bar has been designed to give you quick and easy access to various activities as well as allowing you to create news, events, discussion etc easily from any page. The bottom bar also features a windows style menu for access to various groups and setting information. Your personal mailbox and calendar is also one click away from the bottom bar.

The job of the moderator is now easier with access to all the moderation tools from a easily accessible window.

The user controls for Account setup, profile setup and preferences for email notifications have also been enhanced and made easy.

Upcoming features in 2009

Srini — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:58:20 +0000

As Jags said we are looking to add some interesting features to make the Injoos team-ware experience even better. Here are few of them we are working on which we will be delivering shortly:

Group - Sub Groups: We realize that organizations needs a ability to create smaller teams form their members to work on specific projects or initiative. The group - sub group feature will allow you to create multiple sub groups under any group and get all the collaboration tools for this sub group. Access controls can be setup for the same.

Customization: We understand the need for teams to personalize their workspaces and website. Keeping this in mind we will bring in customization to the Injoos team-ware. The groups can add banners, logos and choose color that reflect their identity.

Binary search: While we have powerful search to look into all the information that gets generated. We plan to enhance the same to search inside the stored documents.

Open ID: Registering with Injoos will become easier we will be enabling logging in through User ID and password of popular websites like Google and Yahoo through the implementation of Open ID standard.

RSS out: Look for easily sharing updates with other or tracking them through the RSS out feature for the showcase items.

New features new formats

Srini — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:06:04 +0000

As I have said earlier our focus at Injoos has been to continue to innovate and add new useful functionalities to the Injoos team-ware platform. The weekend release code named “Blue” added a host of features which include:

Rich text editor for news – bullet, number list, hyperlink, annotate and change the colour of your content. Edit the content in a full page editor. You can also submit your story in any Indian language using Unicode.

Calendar changes – Events functionality has now been enhanced to include reminder notifications and recurring meetings. There is also an option to sync the event with a desktop client like iCal or Outlook. View the event listing as a daily view or a monthly calendar view.

Searching communities became easier with the category view (default). View a list of communities by category. View the profiles and join communities that match your interests. Switch to the card view when required.

Enahanced community member profile - now view greater detail of your fellow community members on the member center. Of course this is subject to if the member has chosen to make his profile public and viewable by all community members

View documents inside Injoos – Zoho viewer now integrated with Injoos. You can now read documents, browse spreadsheets or see presentations from inside Injoos. All without the necessity of having a Microsoft Office or Open Office or any other productivity suite.

Import news and articles into your community through RSS. The moderator of the group can add RSS feeds on topics related to interests of the community. News from the feeds can be selected and posted into the community for consumption by all. Filter news from around the world through RSS into your community

Spotlight – Information related to other communities on Injoos or promotions on Injoos brought to you through Injoos Spotlight

We hope you benefit from these and other features and continue to provide us your valuable feedback and support.