Product Guide of Social Enterprise Tool weConnect 2012 (Nexocial)

1. Product Tour

2. © 2012 Nexocial BV. All Rights Reserved
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3. Contents
weConnect 04 Like, share and collaborate 13
Discover en share information 05 Share and like everything 14
What are you working on? 06 Follow people and content 14
Activities 06 Create your group 14
Personalize your screen 06 Messages 14
Connect your experts 07 Search and find everything 15
Show yourself and your expertise 08 Universal Search 16
Build your own address book 08 Contextual Search 16
Connect with external experts 08 The technology 17
Create rich content 09 Go to the cloud, safely 18
Files and photos made easy 10 Cross-platform 18
Communication and expert blogs 10 Multi Language 18
Structure the unstructured 11 Requirements 18
Questions and answers 11 Complete feature list weConnect 20
Events and tasks 12
Rich text editor 12
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4. More than 1 billion people are a member of a digital social network to- With weConnect we have translated this technology, using all our
day. For the last few years it has been the fastest growth market in the knowledge of Generation-Y and our extensive knowledge about how
consumer space. Having access to a breadth and depth of information, Enterprises operate, in a way that fits your business. We have taken all of
we are connected to everybody. The explosion of social technologies, the fundamentals that are great about weConnect 2007 and revamped
cloud-based services, and access to web services through apps give our platform to a complete new experience, providing a more secure,
people powerful new ways to connect and share. These changes in the more accessible and more personalized environment for everybody.
landscape motivated the most significant changes to weConnect 2012 weConnect 2012 delivers the social future of your company.
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5. Discover and share
information Everybody communicates. Knowledge and information is shared
in a way we have never seen before. The digital revolution has
created new ways for people to express themselves and every-
body gets involved. Social technology has changed the world as
we know it. This type of technology connects people with each
other and distributes information in real time. Top down com-
munications meets bottoms up. Nobody can stop it. the real
question is: How are you going to manage it.
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6. Micro-blogs are the most common used social tool Your activity timeline is interactive
What are you working on? Personalize your start screen
This is the most common question asked. weConnect 2012 provides an easy Everybody is unique. With weConnect 2012 we empower you and your em-
way for people to answer that question and add relevant context to it. With ployees to provide the experience that appeals to you most. Set information
short status messages now everybody can tell what they are doing. Add links, the way you want to see it, change color schemes, switch to high-contrast
videos, hash-tags and include others in the conversations. With automatic reading or choose your own personal background picture. But of course, if
trending topics, you have an easy overview of what people in the organiza- you prefer your corporate Visual Identity, you have the opportunity to let
tion are discussing and the possibility to join the conversation. your employees choose from the backgrounds that match your identity.
Activities
An automatic activity stream collects a continuous flow of events, content,
and activities to provide users with relevant and timely information. You
can filter all of these activities including those from external social media
streams (e.g., Twitter, Yammer, LinkedIn), and other internal and third-party
applications. Filter activities based on context and content. Drill down on any
topic to have the most relevant information for you available.
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7. Connect your
experts People are the most important asset of any company. Your ex-
perts are the ones that can drive the company into a more
knowledgeable company and that drives value. In the current
economy it‟s of vital importance that you not only capture the
knowledge of your experts, but also retain the knowledge of
those experts. With high-potential employees leaving the com-
pany you run the risk of losing their knowledge and their net-
work. Now you have a method to keep it all.
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8. Build your own address book
Making connections within the company gives you faster access to your
contacts and to the company related information of the people that are
most important to you. But that‟s not all. weConnect 2012 integrates
some smart features that make your personal address book even more
usable. Based on your connections, the signal list has automatic filters,
showing you the information from those connections. weConnect 2012
helps you reducing the information overload.
You can browse, filter, search for anybody by name or via any specialty or
keyword in the company and invite people to become your connection,
Your personalized company profile book enabling you to find the right person at the right time. Click through to
their full profile and start connecting.
Show yourself and your expertise
The easiest way for anybody to show themselves is to make their profile Connect with external experts
known within the organization. Tell your colleagues a little bit about yourself
Have you ever wanted to find that one expert that should know the ques-
and what your specialties, interests, education and so on are. With our easy
tion to your answer, but couldn‟t find the right person? Those days are
to use profiles you can upload a profile picture, resize it and make sure that
over now. weConnect 2012 has the ability to import your connections
your profile matches you. We have even integrated advanced technologies
from LinkedIn in order to not only create an extended network of people
for you, to save you considerable time. Instead of rebuilding your profile
inside your company but also of experts from the field. Whether you need
again, your profile is already filled with the available information from Share-
to contact that one decision maker of your customer, or you need access
Point and Active Directory. To make it even more convenient, you can also
to an industry expert, weConnect 2012 connects everybody now, and
import your LinkedIn profile. Your profile will be ready to go within a matter
provides your employees with easy access. You can search on keyword,
of seconds. Of course, you can customize the information in your profile the
or browse on company. One thing is for sure: your searching for the right
way you want it to be, even after you have imported your profile from
person inside and outside the company has become a lot easier.
LinkedIn. Your expertise will be shown through your personal badge. After
setup, the information you share and is liked will be reflected on your badge.
A company profile book has never been easier before.
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9. Create rich content
Micro-blogs, blogs, wiki, discussions, tasks, the choice is yours
what you want to create. More importantly we have made sure
that whatever you want to create, you can create it your way.
With our Office 2010 style editor with Ribbon bar, your content
will always look beautiful. Format text the way you need it to be,
insert video‟s, pictures and documents anywhere you like. You
can even browse through your SharePoint documents and at-
tach those to content you create. Beautiful content made easy.
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10. Communication and expert blogs
Whether you are communication manager, CEO, subject matter expert, or
any other employee, your voice can be heard. With weConnect 2012 every-
body gets a blog that can be used to write information that you think is im-
portant for yourself and the organization. Capture and retain knowledge or
spread the message, it‟s now all within the tips of your finger. Add an instruc-
tion video or even a video message of the CEO. The possibilities are endless.
Comment on blogs and moderate those comments to give feedback and get
engaged with the experts. weConnect makes sure that the writer will get
your comments in their inbox, message box or signal list, two-way communi-
Documents in a row cations are enabled. If you really like a blog, why don‟t just give it a „like‟?
That way the writer knows you appreciated his blog.
Files and photos made easy
Files are still the most important form of content in any company. We have
made sure that uploading and sharing files is extremely easy. Share it for on-
ly you to see, with a limited group of people or with everybody in the organ-
ization. When you browse for a file, you can select one or more files at once
to save you the most time.
When you open up a document you can directly save it back to weConnect
by pushing the save button in your Office program. weConnect will keep the
file version history and you can choose any version of the document that you
like to work on. Even if you delete a document, don‟t worry. It is safely stored
for you in the recycle-bin to be retrieved when necessary.
Photos are stored and shared the same way as files. On top of that, we have
made a beautiful photo viewer, so we you can enjoy your last event pictures
or company party photo‟s.
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11. Structure the unstructured
Wiki‟s are an easy way to work together on the same piece of information. In
this way you can create for example all of the companies work instructions,
manuals and support documentation very fast in a wiki. On boarding docu-
ments are another example that easily can be created and maintained via
wiki‟s.
We‟ll make sure it looks good and that it can be found and discovered in the
most easy way you can imagine. We have added version history, editing sig-
naling and comparison to every wiki, so nothing will get lost. With an auto-
matically created threaded Table of Content people can directly jump to the
Green is good
right wiki for reading, editing, commenting or liking.
Capture ideas and provide answers
Threaded wiki for easy up table of contents
Ideas are everywhere. Do you currently have the ability to capture all the ide-
as from your employees? We enable you to facilitate discussions in a natural
social way that structures them into easily accessible topics. You can give
feedback, like and contribute to discussions via different entries, ask ques-
tions, provide answers and verify those answers. We will make it very clear
which discussions have the right answer and who provided that answer.
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12. Calendar and tasks With the document and picture manager, you can just browse to that one
specific document. You can copy any content and just paste the content di-
weConnect 2012 provides a general calendar for the organization and a spe-
rectly into the editor. If you copy pictures into the editor, we will make sure
cific calendar for every group. We keep track of your employees' birthdays,
those pictures are automatically stored within SharePoint, even if you copied
and notify people on our activity list about birthdays. It‟s always nice to re-
it from an internet page. To name a few features:
ceive congratulations on the right day. With the tasks option you can create,
 Multi language spell check
assign and manage group tasks. weConnect 2012 provides an easy overview
 Automatic formatting
of the tasks and sends notifications about the tasks to your inbox. In this way
 7 ways of pasting content
it becomes really easy to manage the work you disperse.
 Print and export to PDF
Rich text editor  Developer code snippets
 Full screen mode editing
Creating content has never been this easy before. With our ribbon style edi-
 Font and background color
tor you will get the same experience that people are already used to with
 Extensive help instructions
Office 2007 and 2010, providing you with advanced features. It has all the
Creating content should be very easy, and with our new editor we have
editing options to make your blog, wiki, discussion look beautiful. Integrating
made it easy for everybody.
videos and pictures will deliver more context to your message and you can
even attach a document that is stored somewhere on weConnect or on your
SharePoint.
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13. Like, share,
comment and What are weConnect users saying?
weConnect survey results revealed benefits in six key areas: team
communication, productivity, knowledge sharing, employee
collaborate
onboarding, company culture and employee engagement. 84%
of the users say they feel better connected with their coworkers
because of weConnect: “Employees from one country ask a
question and employees from another country respond with real
-time information and suggestions”.
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14. Create your group
Within a company it‟s all about team work. Working smarter, not harder.
weConnect 2012 enables you to create your own group. If you want to share
your information with everybody in the company, create a public group. If
you want to keep the information confidential, you can create a private
group. Every group has a full set of features where you can share: status up-
dates, blogs, wiki, discussions, files, photos, tasks and events. The owner of
the group can set the security for the other team members and have com-
plete control of user management for the specific group.
Messages
Comments like and share everywhere
Everybody has his own message box to receive updates, messages, notifica-
tions, comments and more. One single place where you can read, reply and
Share, like and comment everything forward your messages. We have also looked ahead and made sure that this
When we were researching and exploring social technologies, we found that function is smart enough to reduce your email load. You can choose wheth-
three areas are extremely important. Sharing information in an effortless way, er you just want the messages in your messages box, in your inbox or both.
being able to provide comments to enable two-way communication and set
likes for specific contents. Likes have emerged as the new star-ratings. So we
have made it as social as possible for you and made sure that you can share,
like and comment literally everything. To share some feedback we had from
one of our customers: “I‟m not sure if I done it right, but my manager has
given me a like, so I‟m good to go”. It‟s a whole new world...
Follow people and content
Keep up to date about the communications and work that people do.
Whether it is your CEO, your most important subject matter expert blog or
the people in your team. Now you don‟t have to miss a thing. By following
people or content you will get notifications in your message box and in your
inbox. You can personalize your notifications and turn them off whenever
you want.
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15. Search and find
everything The average information worker is searching 20% of their time to
find the right information. Reducing that amount of time is
something that lots of software companies are trying to. do Get-
ting information based on recommendations and likes of your
colleagues will enable people to filter the useful information
from the noise. Relevance is not decided by a computer system,
but by people.
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16. Search everything and everybody Automatic search filters
Universal Search Contextual Search
The search box on the upper right provides a very powerful search that has On every page we have integrated another search box for your convenience.
been built on SharePoint Search, but has been enhanced socially. The search When you are on a blog page and use the contextual search box, your re-
results don‟t only provide you the right content, but also retrieves the people sults will only show you blogs. When you are on a wiki page, your results will
and all the information that is stored in their profile. We have added some show only wiki. Of course we have added the same advanced social algo-
smart algorithms that determine how relevant content could be for you, rithms to provide the most relevant content for you.
based on the number of likes, views and other attributes. That should give
you the best result on top. However, we understand that there is not one
search algorithm that gives the best match for everybody. Therefor we have
integrated also smart filters that automatically determine which content is
available and adjust themselves to that content. You will find your infor-
mation a lot faster with weConnect 2012.
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17. The technology
Every company is different. Technology should adapt to the
company instead the other way around. No more long time
implementations, but easy add-ons to existing technology to
start quickly, painless and with low cost. That’s an old idea
becoming reality. Integrating completely into your current
investment and infrastructure, keeping your security, compli-
ancy, manageability. No new skills needed and extremely
flexible.
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18. Cross Platform
Everybody has their own choices. Choices about computing environments,
browsers. weConnect 2012 supports all major browsers including IE7, IE8,
IE9, Firefox 3 and 4, Safari and Chrome. Whether you use weConnect on
your PC or on your iPad, it‟s your choice. We will make sure it just works.
Multi Lingual
As we and our customers work in an international environment, we have
made our tools completely multi lingual. Accessible and readable for anyone.
Whether you have offices and people is Europe or Asia,, based on your
Cloud Ready browser language settings we automatically set your language. However,
you can still manually choose another language if you would prefer.
We have built in multiple deployment options for your IT administrators
Whatever way you choose, we will always make sure that your information is Requirements
stored inside your safe Sharepoint databases. You can deploy weConnect  Sharepoint 2007 or 2010
2012 on a webserver inside your company, connected to Sharepoint, or se-
 Active Directory or other Sharepoint compatible directory infrastructure
curely in the cloud.
 IIS 7 or 7.5
With weConnect 2012 we have separated the interface layer with the storage
layer. This way we have the ability to partly deploy weConnect in the cloud in  SQL Server 2005, 2008 or 2008R2
a safe way, providing your users all the flexibility of the cloud and providing  Sharepoint MySites / Profile Sites
your compliance departments the comfort and security of your data.
 SMTP or Exchange server to send email
With our hybrid approach of cloud computing we counter the problems that
 .NET Framework 4.0
arise with the American Patriot Act. The United States of America will never
be able to look in your data, or request any data from any company, as you Optional
are the only one with access to your data, securely stored in your Sharepoint
 Azure for Cloud hosting
computing environment.
Your data is your data, and that should stay that way.
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19. Complete feature
list of weConnect 2012
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20. Discover and share information Create rich content
Micro-blog with video and link sharing Full featured blogs with rich text editing options
Trending Topics Full featured threaded wiki with table of contents and version history
Share activities Full featured threaded discussion topics with verified answers
Timeline based activity feed with filters and sort options Export all content to PDF for easy printing
Personal backgrounds and colors Rich text editor with Microsoft Office Ribbon interface
Company offered Visual Identity Version history on all information, including files, blogs
Recycle-bin integrated through Sharepoint
Rich text editor with Microsoft Office Ribbon interface
Connect your experts
Extended profiles with full text search
Easy customizable fields with picture editor
Linkedin profile import and import from multiple sources
Active Directory integration with auto complete on people picker
Import 2nd line connections from LinkedIn
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21. Like, share and collaborate The technology
Full featured threaded discussions with verify options Full featured blogs with rich text editing options
Comments and likes on all content Full featured threaded wiki with table of contents and version history
Follow people and content Export all content to PDF for easy printing
Personal message box Rich text editor with Microsoft Office Ribbon interface
Personalized Email and message notifications Version history on all information, including files, blogs
Private and public groups with user management Recycle-bin integrated through Sharepoint
Each groups has a full set of tools: micro-blog, blog, wiki, discussion, files Rich text editor with Microsoft Office Ribbon interface
and photos
Choice of hybrid cloud deployment
Governance and group user management all build in Microsoft Sharepoint
Server, accessible through weConnect
Each groups has a full set of tools: micro-blog, blog, wiki, discussion, files
and photos
Search and find everything
Full text search on all internal and external people
Search through sharepoint
Universal and contextual search
Attach documents to content
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