Mediaboss Marketing

Jive revamped the employee directory of its enterprise social-networking suite to make it easier for users to find colleagues whose expertise they can tap.

The suites Social Directory component, designed to hold detailed profiles, now lets people endorse each other, a new feature Jive feels will make even more evident the skills and expertise of employees.

Its hard to find people to get work done, said Nathan Rawlins, Jives vice president of product marketing.

In addition, when people create new groups or projects, the Jive tool will automatically suggest colleagues to invite, based on their expertise, the company said on Wednesday.

I can build up my expertise profile but now people can endorse and recommend me even for new expertise I dont have on my profile, he said.

Jives suite lets companies create whats commonly known as Facebook for the enterprise intranets that are dynamic and interactive, letting employees create profiles, participate in discussion groups and online communities, share documents and files, as well as publish blog posts, microblogs, and comments.

Jive has also expanded profiles depth by adding data on how each employee fits within the company structure, what peoples most significant contributions have been, and information on their recent activity.

The suite now offers more granular usage metrics, so that administrators can get a more detailed view of how different pages, documents, blog posts and other content were received by employees, based on indicators such as likes and comments. This sentiment analysis can be isolated via various filters, including by department and by influential employees.

To promote interaction among employees, the suite now displays a list of people who are on a page at the same time, and gives them tools to communicate in real time right in that interface.

With this latest update, Jive finished integrating the social task-management features of Producteev, which it previously acquired, so that it now offers what the company considers a full menu of capabilities for tracking what needs to get done in various projects. Jive will continue to develop and market the Producteev product as a standalone, separate tool.

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Jive sharpens social-collaboration suite's expertise directory, task management