A Busy Day at NewsGator!

For those of you used to very frequent posts in this blog, April was unusually quiet. However, May is starting off with a bang. We have a lot of exciting items to talk about including NewsGator Enterprise Server 2.0, new customers for our business offerings, a brand new Web site and a new Webinar.

Let's start with NewsGator Enterprise Server 2.0. Version 1.0 of this award-winning product came out 19 months ago and we released four "point" versions over the last year. NGES 2.0 is the most significant update we've had and is designed to become the foundation for large companies Enterprise 2.0 initiatives. The release is chock-full of new features, but there are four categories in particular that I want to highlight. They include:

• New Ajax Interface- The Web reader is faster and more powerful, thanks to a drag-and-drop Ajax interface. We also added options for displaying and sorting feeds
• Collaboration and Relevancy- We've added the ability to tag posts, sort by tags and discover tagged articles through a tag cloud. We also included a relevancy engine allowing users to see which articles and feeds are are most important to them or their peers
• Feed Reading Options- Giving people the most ways to access feeds has always been a differentiator for us and we go even further adding support for NewsGator Go! (Blackberry and Windows Mobile)NewsGator Desktop (pop-up notifier), Lotus Notes (6.5 and higher) and Lotus Sametime 7.5.
• SharePoint 2007- Many of our largest customers and prospects are adopting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) as their departmental or enterprise portal and we help them extend that capability through our "Site News" Web Part, which brings updated, relevant feeds into MOSS. We also leverage MOSS as a publishing platform by taking RSS feeds from MOSS and distributing them to the other feed-reading locations

The new Web reader (both UI and relevancy/collaboration features), the new feed reading clients (BlackBerry in particular) and the SharePoint integration have been especially well received. There are a lot of other features including a new reporting interface, but you can read about those in the release, but everyone we have shown the product to has been extremely excited.

Next let's talk about Adoption of NewsGator Products by Businesses. More than a 100 companies, a majority of them being Fortune 1000 companies or highly recognizable brands, have purchased NewsGator Enterprise Server and NewsGator Private Label Platform. Some of the new ones include Biogen Idec, Willis Re, Woman's Day and a couple of newspapers that are owned by the New York Times Regional Media Group.  That list also includes some companies we can't mention including Fortune 100 banks, defense contractors, entertainment and media conglomerates and semiconductor manufacturers. We'll be talking more about them in this blog in the future, but in the meantime, you can read about them what they are doing with NGES and NewsGator Private Label Platform.

Next up, we have a brand new Web site. It's been over a year since our last redesign and the focus of the new site was to better delineate our products for individuals from our products for businesses. The home page is a little cleaner, navigation is clearer and we added a lot of interactivity in the interior sections. Finally, we're eating our own dog food here and the news components on the site are all powered by the NewsGator Widget Framework (a.k.a Buzz) that is part of the Private Label Platform. We would appreciate any feedback you have regarding the new site.

Last, but not least, we have a new Webinar to mention. It's called "Increasing Portal Usage and Value with RSS" and it features Brian Kellner from NewsGator and Steve Todd from Microsoft. If you are a portal administrators, portal developer or a marketer responsible for putting content on a portal, this free, one-hour event is absolutely worth your time You can sign up here.

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