Improve Corporate Communications - Corporate RSS

Increase Your Internal Communications Effectiveness with a Corporate RSS Platform & Social Computing

Most corporate communications, marketing and HR professionals have trouble ensuring that information they send out gets read and/or acted upon by their stakeholders. E-mail is an ineffective communication tool due to the volume received by most employees. A recent Accenture survey found that 59% of managers reported missing valuable information daily as a result of e-mail overload. NewsGator’s corporate RSS platform aims to reduce the noise and increase the visibility of important internal communication.

Social Sites Professional delivers information to places your stakeholders can actually use it ─ SharePoint and other portals, mobile devices, their desktops, and preset folders in Microsoft Outlook. Internal corporate communications such as company announcements, newsletters, clippings, marketing documents, benefit and policy information as well as notifications from enterprise applications can be sent via our Enterprise RSS solution. Benefits of consolidating Corporate RSS with Social Sites Professional include:

• Increased information relevancy
• Higher communications retention and response rates
• Improved productivity as information is brought directly to knowledge workers
• Fewer e-mail interruptions from non-critical messages
• Increased portal/intranet usage by incorporating updated, personalized information
• Reduced IT support costs from working with a single RSS platform
• Up to 85% lower overall bandwidth usage as a result of viral RSS reader adoption
• Mitigation of security risks – prevent malware vectors through an extra layer of security
• Easier access to archived information for future retrieval and compliance

Behind-the-Firewall Corporate RSS with NewsGator Social Sites

NewsGator Enterprise RSS and social computing solutions help to greatly improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of the corporate communications function. With Social Sites, you can significantly improve the way information is found and shared throughout your organization using these unique features:

• Information Aggregation

  Aggregates and informs users of relevant information from websites, SharePoint and other portals, blogs, wikis, premium content providers, internal communications, enterprise business applications (ERP, CRM, HR, ECM, etc.), and external news sources.

• Syndicate Feeds

  Delivers information to the device/location of the employee’s choice, including Outlook, web, portals, mobile, and desktop and synchronizes feeds across the devices.

• Tag Clouds

  Supports easy sorting and views into popular content.

• Information Discovery

  Offers feed taxonomies, searchable index of more than a million external feeds, persistent keyword/phrase searches, and access to any internal, external, and authenticated RSS feeds.

• Notifications & Alerts

  Informs employees of important information via the device/location of their choice.

• Clipping Capabilities

  Provides clipping folders to save information and/or share it within employee groups.

• Portal Integration

  Integrates with SharePoint and other portals to bring fresh, relevant content into the portal and to inform employees of portal updates when they are away from the portal.

• Active Directory

  Supports integration with Active Directory and other LDAP stores for single sign-on and user management.

• Subscription Management

  Enables managers and/or administrators to subscribe select employees or even the entire organization to relevant content and information.

• Feed Management

  Allows administrators to lock, block, and white-list feeds to ensure access to only appropriate content.

• Integrated Reporting

  Provides management with statistics on usage and feed popularity.

Contact NewsGator Technologies today to learn more about how to leverage external enterprise communities.