If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know that at any one given time, there are a lot of different things going on at NewsGator, since we have a whole host of products that provide solutions for a wide range of issues and end users.  You'll also know that I sometimes like to profile exciting developments that are going on outside of NewsGator's Media & Consumer Products.

Well, here's one of them: today we're launching NewsGator Social Sites 2.5.  If you don't know about Social Sites, it's an enterprise product that enhances Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007's enterprise capabilities.  Today's product launch includes cool new updates that include enhanced analytics, search resources, activity streaming features and more.  Basically, we like to see NewsGator's Social Sites as "Facebook for the Enterprise."

In short, companies use Social Sites to drive improved internal communication, simplify the discovery of knowledge and experts and to enhance company-wide collaboration, and improve overall productivity, providing tangible benefits to enterprise companies.  For instance, NewsGator Social Sites 2.5 allows users to create a community discussion around any article, document, or blog post created in Share Point, which can be rated on a five-point scale within Social Sites to enhance discovery by other users.

I know that our enterprise software team listened to a lot of customer feedback in creating NewsGator Social Sites 2.5, and I'm sure that the additions this time around make it an even better enhancement to SharePoint.