NewsGator Social Sites Activity Streams with Vizit Connector

You are here – Social Sites Activity Streams

GPS for the car is a vast improvement over printed maps. Both give you directions, but the GPS on (or in) your dash delivers the information visually, in context, in the moment. It’s actually similar to what NewsGator’s recently announced integration of Social Sites with Vizit does with social enterprise activity streams

Vizit’s NewsGator Connector lets users socialize documents in SharePoint; highlighting key passages and adding social footnotes that guide collaborators to important information, enabling productive, focused discussions. This creates amazing efficiencies when deployed through Social Sites Activity Streams.

Traditionally, resources linked into an activity stream simply pop a user out to another application and the wilderness of what may be a lengthy document. Like a scrawl of directions next to a printed map, it’s up to the user to figure out where the relevant sections are. Enterprise social is supposed to be more efficient than that and with Vizit integration into Social Sites, it is.

Vizit-socialized links posted into Social Sites activity streams not only allow the documents to be viewed within that same activity stream, but also direct users to particular paragraphs called out or footnoted by the original poster. This has two obvious benefits:  first, it keeps the collaboration activity streamlined and focused in one environment, rather than forcing participants to other applications and inviting inherent communication lags common with tools such as email;  second, it keeps the collaboration and comments focused on information deemed most relevant in the moment by the poster of the link. In this way, all people active in the stream can be sure they are not just on the same page, but the same paragraph.

Vizit’s ability to tap into over 300 different types of document formats and provide previews of their contents also gives Social Sites users a leg up when it comes to discovering information. Those visual previews mean no more blind-clicking into document after document in search of the right information — kind of like that GPS in your car giving you an easy way to see the nearby food and fuel options without leaving the highway.

Enterprise social is a vast and ever-expanding landscape. Social Sites and Vizit make it easier and more efficient to see where you are and where you’re going. How about you? Spending much time in the social breakdown lane, clicking and closing poorly organized document archives in search of the right information to share?