Founded in 2003, NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises and media companies leverage social computing solutions to deliver real business value. NewsGator is funded by Mobius Venture Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and Visa Ventures. Headquartered in Denver Colorado, NewsGator has other offices in Canada and Netherlands. NewsGator has over 200 corporate customers and more than 75 employees.
Social Sites Enterprise 3.0
Social Sites provides enhanced social computing capabilities for SharePoint, including enterprise social communities, micro blogging, social profiles, activity streams, social networks, innovation management, social computing analytics, enhanced RSS, social bookmarking and social search, among others. Using enterprise social communities, NewsGator Social Sites creates cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improve expertise discovery and internal networking, and energize MOSS with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles, and more. The features of Social Sites 3.0 include:
- Enterprise Microblogging enables users to post short, quick, Twitter-style status updates to their colleagues.
- SocialPedia, a self-assembling, Wikipedia-style knowledge base that pulls from wikis across SharePoint and enhances SharePoint's experience, with AJAX editing, tagging, rating, automated table of contents creation, custom wiki tags, and more.
- Knowledge Explorer provides a visualization of internal subject matter experts arranged according to their automatically calculated expertise ratings.
