The Injoos Blog

“Injoos – SaaS based Collaboration Platform” - Pluggd.in

Jags — 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

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

Welcome to 2009.

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

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

Upcoming features in 2009

srinivas — 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.

Looking back at 2008

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

New features new formats

srinivas — 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.

Employee communication challenges in today’s environment - Part 2

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Dasara Jambu Savari watched live in 76 countries

Pramodh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:18:47 +0000

In one of the momentous occassion of Mysore Dasara in the recent past, the Jambo Savari Live Webcast on Mysore Dasara’s official website was well received all around the world. Kannada Kootas from USA to Australia have sent congratulatory messages for making such an effort to the Mysore Dasara Mahotsava Samithi as well as to all the persons involved in bringing this webcast.

There were more than 2,59,452 visitors from 76 countries like USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France, UAE, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore who visited the website. There are replies and appreciation from Singapore Kannada Koota and Kentucky Kannada Koota, showing that the Kannadigas outside are as enthusiastic in being part of Mysore Dasara as the people here. The web visitors spent an average of 5 minutes in the website, before the webcast. This went up during and after the webcast.

Perhaps, for the first time, a live public festivity of such magnitude has been webcast in India

Dasara webcast live

Injoos takes part in Mysore Dasara Live webcast

Jags — 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 !

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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.

Power Tools for Your Group

aparna — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:00:54 +0000

Share a News Story
Members can post news or information stories to the group. News stories can have text, multiple pictures, and multiple web links to external sites.

Organize an Event
Members can add an event to the Group Calendar, giving details of date, location of event, with text and picture descriptions, and track those members who are attending the event.
Add a picture of the map, routes or venues, pictures of activities or sponsors, or photos of the last event to provide more information.

Share rich media from other sites
News items can have embedded content that members can see on the same page, without moving to another website - such as videos from Youtube, picture albums from Flickr, slide presentations from Slideshare, and many more, making the news story more powerful.

Add a Poll
Injoos offers flexible polls (multiple choice answers, upto four answers) that members can add to any news or event item, to survey the group’s opinion on any topic, as poll statistics.

Start a Discussion
Members can start discussions on new topics, or reply to an ongoing discussion. Each discussions can have many threads or sub topics. The Moderator can create multiple forums or discussion rooms to organize the discussions on different subjects.

Build/Browse a Group Library
The Group Library can hold documents, media like pictures, videos and music, or one of the many supported file types, shared by members for the benefit of the whole group. All members can browse through the library folders, or search for a document name or type. They can create their own folders, or upload new files and documents.
Members can also add web links to each document, pointing where more information is available.

Member Feedback
Members can comment on all news, events, and library items to provide their views, ideas, questions and suggestions to the member who posted it, or requests for more information.

Ratings
Members can also rate News or Library items up or down, indicating their recommendation. This allows other members to see recommended information in the Group.

Messaging Center
Members can send private messages to other members through the messaging center, which is full featured with private member Inbox, message reply and forwarding, New message composition and Group address book. Moderators can send Announcements to the whole group through the Messaging Center.

Email Updates
Members can receive updates on new information in their groups through emails. Members have control over how many updates they get, and can also turn off this option.

Tagging and Searching
Members can add topic labels called ‘tags’ to all content in Injoos to make them easily searchable for themselves or others. Tagging allows members to browse all news, events, library documents etc on a single topic, and also to see what topics are popular in the group.
A member can also search through all content posted to the group using the Search feature, using keywords, which may appear in any item’s title or text.

Manage Spam or Abuse
All members can report an item to the Moderator as spam, copyright violation or abuse, including the news items, events, discussions and library documents. The Moderator reserves the right to delete or cleanup such items, and warn or suspend a member for such activities.

Multiple Moderators for a large or active group
A Group Moderator can invite other members to become additional Moderators and share the work of managing a large or very active group.

Moderator Tools
Moderators can change settings for the group such as Auto approval of members. They can provide community information for new members such as description, location and charter, set up Joining forms for new members to fill, approve new memberships. They can send announcements to the entire group. Moderators can suspend membership for abuse, and cleanup spam items. They can also see a history log of their activities.

Injoos Key functionalities - movie

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

Challenges for an Enterprise

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Jags — 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 is live. Welcome.

Pramodh — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:37:06 +0000

Greetings from all of us at Injoos.

The alpha version of Injoos (www.injoos.com), the most full-featured platform for building online communities, is live. Injoos communities have member-only access, with features like moderator approval of members, private (unlisted) communities, and spam/abuse management.

We know a lot of interest has been generated in our product. It’s a great moment for us to. We enjoyed creating Injoos for you. We’d like you to try it and provide feedback before the platform goes into a general release. Tell us how easy or hard it is to use, how special (or generic) the features are… anything.

Its easy to get started

• Register for an account at www.injoos.com. You may want to think up a good nickname for yourself.

• You’ll get an email confirmation, with a link to join.

• Click on the link to confirm.

• Login.

It’s easy to join

• Explore Injoos (use the link at the top of the page).

• Search for communities - by interests or activities. (If you type a ‘%” sign, all public communities on Injoos will show up).

• Want to join a public community. Just make a request to join it, or

• Create your own community (decide whether it will be public or private) and invite others.

That’s it.

Once you’ve joined a community, you can share buzz, update group calendars or restart your favorite arguments on the discussion board. Injoos even lets you share rich media like photos, embedded videos and slides, audio and other files as well as links to your community.

What’s where on Injoos

The Happenings page has the latest community news, events and discussions.

The Resource Center is your community library. You can add new files for the use of the community, or download files from there for your use.

The Member Center has all the information about the community. While there, check out the Tags page to see what’s really moving and shaking up the community.

The Sidebar stores your latest stuff - messages, your events, items you shared recently, etc.

Use Ratings and comments. When you see an article or event you like, give it an Up rating (or Down if you don’t like it). Add a comment to any news or events. You can even add a poll to news or events, to see if others agree with what you think.

Share News and Events. These buttons let you spread the word to your community about interesting news, articles or events. These could be text, images, links, even links to videos (Youtube gives you embed code you can paste in to link).

Start Discussions. What’s a group without discussions? Click on the discussion button to start the group thinking and talking.

If you need to change your Injoos account settings, click the My Profile or My Account links at the top right of the page. While you’re there, you can check your messages and your calendar, etc there. When you want to go back to your community, select it from the My Communities box at the top right corner.

Be a Good Communitizen. If you see something inappropriate or nasty or spammy, show your concern - report it to the Moderator.

So please try out Injoos. Explore, join, create and comment.

See you in Injoos!

Injoos booth receives highest footfall at Startup City event

Jags — 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

Jags — 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

Hello all

aparna — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:39:10 +0000

Welcome to Injoos blog, where the team at Injoos writes their mind about communities.

Like many of you, the team at Injoos have all been part of online groups and networks for a while. We feel there is a need for making these communities much more powerful - a lot that could happen, but was not happening, in terms of sharing, interaction and collaboration among the members.

So we came up with Injoos - a platform for communities. We wanted Injoos to be a place where you can find or create a community of people with common identity. These are people sharing your life - your background, your interests, your values or just a common space - where you live, work, learn, play or hang out.

This blog is not about Injoos as such, but about communities. Your comments are welcome - if you’ve got a great story about how communities are making a difference to you or where you live, then do share it here.

Thanks for reading ..You can check out the rest of the blog, or put it on your RSS reader to get regular updates.