With studies showing that nearly three-quarters of businesses are exploring social computing options, the following questions inevitably follow: Do we really need it? How might it help?
Luckily, NewsGator is stepping in and greatly helping companies answer these questions with a simple but powerful online tool called SCORE -- Social Computing Online Readiness Evaluation.
SCORE is an innovative, interactive questionnaire that poses 25 questions about your work place and its information needs, collaboration requirements, knowledge work, IT challenges, customer base, and competitive landscape. Then it scores your organization on a zero-to-100 scale rating based on how urgent it finds your need for enterprise social computing technology. It even goes one step further and provides a tailored, vendor-neutral list of tool recommendations plus specific, quantifiable benefits you could expect from implementing the suggested technology.
Susan Scrupski, author of the popular ITSinsider blog, calls SCORE "a surprisingly objective and effective way to uncover enterprise social computing needs and sketch out the possibilities -- with a time investment of barely 10 minutes."
NewsGator developed SCORE based on our extensive interactions with thousands of customers and prospects initiating enterprise 2.0 programs; in particular, our enterprise social computing platform, Social Sites, has provided us with a uniquely comprehensive perspective among social computing vendors. In short, we feel our strategic perspective is worth sharing.



Laura Farrelly, VP of Marketing
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