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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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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.

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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.

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)

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