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NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user.

The overall goal is to make it easier for Social Sites users to stay engaged with work tasks, information and colleagues.

ESN software, which adapts social media features for workplace use, is seen to fail when employees view it as yet another separate inbox that they need to check. When this happens, the ESN system becomes a deserted island.

Thus, NewsGator and other ESN vendors consider it a priority to make sure their software is threaded into the business applications and processes that employees use daily.

In version 4.0, NewsGator for example has a new feature called Follow a Document, which lets employees receive notifications on their activity streams about changes to documents that they consider important.

Another feature called Top News rearranges items on users activity streams, giving more prominence to items Social Sites deems more relevant and important based on each individuals actions and profile data.

An existing feature called Question Routing has been improved to get questions posted in groups answered more quickly and precisely.

Also new in Social Sites 4.0 is the ability to post requests that require approvals to the activity streams of those involved in deciding on them, and giving them the ability to approve or deny them in the Social Sites interface.

Social Sites, which is designed to be used with SharePoint implementations on customer premises or in dedicated hosting environments, now gets in version 4.0 a link to Office 365s SharePoint Online, hosted by Microsoft on a public cloud.

The feature, called O365 Bridge, lets Social Sites on premises installations tap their organizations Office 365s SharePoint Online as an extranet for external collaboration, giving users the ability to upload files to their SkyDrive Pro accounts and monitor Social Sites activity streams from Office 365.

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India, June 18 -- People in Jharkhand have put a spin on online social networking, without the internet - they are expressing their opinions on a "social networking telephone line" called the Jharkhand Mobile Vaani (JMV).

An initiative of Gram Vaani, a social technology firm based in IIT, Delhi, the JMV has a service mobile number that receives comments on any social issue from callers throughout the state.

When people call this number to share their opinion, this is recorded, just as updates on social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

When others call this number, they get to hear the recorded opinion and in turn, record their comments to this. These comments are also forwarded to the persons whose opinions were recorded. All this, while having to pay nothing - callers only have to leave a missed call on the number and the JMV team rings them back.

This telephone service has been operational for one and a half years and according to the JMV team, gets at least 2,000 calls daily from rural parts of the state.

The service has a wide reach. People have called in with their grievances and updates from their village or block regarding the success and level of implementation of Right to Education Act and MGNREGA schemes as well as child labour complaints.

Anil Kumar, a school teacher in Godda district, uses the service regularly. His last update on JMV was on the electricity crisis in his district. He has also been updating about the weather conditions as well as his opinion on the course structure in schools.

"Ordinary people like me get few opportunities to get heard," he said.

"I frequently use this platform to express my opinions and share my experiences. The response I got from other callers has been good."

"We try and convey the messages to the departments," Gram Vaani state head Rakesh Kumar said. "Several recordings and comments have been forwarded to the human resource and social welfare departments."

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Jharkhand logs onto social networking without internet

BOSTON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BroadVision, Inc. (BVSN), a leading provider of e-business and engagement management solutions, today unveiled at the E2 Conference a new ecosystem of partners to continue momentum of the Clearvale(R) PaasPort Partner Program. The company announced three new partnerships in North America including Collective HR Solutions, i2i benefits, and Wild at Work to meet the increasing needs of enterprises to engage more effectively and seamlessly with employees, partners, suppliers, and customers.

The Clearvale PaasPort Partner Program enables partners to build a line of business in the cloud by reselling and/or hosting the Clearvale enterprise social networking solution to their business customers to generate new, recurring revenue streams. The Clearvale PaasPort Partner Program continues to grow rapidly worldwide across a broad range of industries including human resources and employee benefit consulting, telecommunications and Internet service providers, business process outsourcers, system integrators, and many more. Leveraging the Clearvale PaasPort Partner Program:

Through this unique program partnering companies can bundle their services on the cloud-based social business platform and resell the Clearvale solution to their existing customers, either on their own or as part of a larger package of services. There are three types of Clearvale PaasPort partners:

"Enterprise social networking is one of the fastest growing technology sectors today. The expansion of the Clearvale PaasPort Partner Program demonstrates our commitment to enabling partners to reap the benefits of this growth market without the investment in infrastructure or engineering," said Peter Chu, Vice President of Strategy, Products, and Marketing at BroadVision. "We are excited about our new partnerships and look forward to the continued success and expansion of our partner program in North America and worldwide."

Clearvale is the social network for business where transparency and accountability mean real work gets done. Working socially with Clearvale enables companies to unlock true business potential by empowering employees to share information anytime, with anyone, and on any device; engage with colleagues, partners, and customers; and track business processes, sources of knowledge, and network adoption. Only Clearvale enables businesses to establish separate social networks for both internal and external entities and manage them together as a whole, creating a social enterprise ecosystem.

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"HR organizations are increasingly adopting new, cloud-based technologies that make it easy to communicate and collaborate seamlessly with employees, consultants, and service providers. Clearvale helps us meet the demands of our clients by providing a flexible platform that allows us to build private, semi-private or open communities for financial management, employee communication, and HR benefit consulting. We are excited to offer Clearvale to our customers who are looking to maximize efficiencies and drive down costs of HR services, while implementing the latest technology to directly engage with their workforce."

Nov Omana, Founder of Collective HR Solutions, LLC

"With Clearvale, our team can easily communicate and securely share information in personalized communities on the network, which is imperative to building and maintaining partnerships with our clients. We strive to provide our clients and their employees with a new experience, and Clearvale helps us create a unique resource for employees and employers to interact with their employee benefits, retirement plan, and HR documents anytime and without thumbing through large sums of paper. Now, access to plan information, blogs on the latest legislative changes, company calendar, business administrative documents, and direct links to all carriers and vendors are in a centralized location for each individual client. This offering is so powerful that we have added new clients based on our use of Clearvale."

Dan Maass, Partner and Co-founder of i2i benefits

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