Did You Know - Clearspace/SBS and Friend Management

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:04:14 GMT

An interesting aspect to the system is the concept of Friend Management. In our organization, this is sleeper functionality. When you befriend someone, you can use labels to organize your friendships into meaningful groupings. In the UI, go to Your Stuff > Friends and on the right hand side you'll see the Add/edit Labels.

You might be asking: What can this do for me?

By grouping your friends/connections into these buckets, you get an RSS Aggregation feed that notifies you when anyone in that grouping performs an action.

This is a very powerful way to follow people in the organization, whether you are in the SBS Dashboard, RSS Feed Reader, or external system with RSS Consumption Services.

Users can have multiple labels, so you can bleed a person across the different areas as you deem necessary by simply applying multiple labels to your friends. Another important element is that this association is controlled by the user, not by the system.

It's pretty easy and very powerful, so give it a whirl and let me know what you think! Any one have any other sleeper features they'd like to share? Shout 'em out! =)

Dust'n off the ole' Blog ... 2.5.x Rocks the Kazbaa!

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:32:34 GMT

Ok guys, you got me. Come up for air after a 1.9.0 to 2.0.2 upgrade, and you knock it out of the park with 2.5.x, yet again. This along with all the other items on my plate, have led to a small hiatus in participation in the Jive community. I can only hope that I am able to stay more active as time progresses....oh yeah..2.5.x...rock'n!

User Groups and Social Networking have been the missing elements in our community implementation, and here we are less than 1 year from our official community launch and we are getting ever so close to a fully self-sustainable community. I can only wait until we go live with 2.5.x and all of our users will be able to take part in the new UI elements and features, as of right now...it looks like November 2008!

Some +1's for 2.5.x,

TinyMCE 3.x - so much more Web 2.0-ish than its predecessor. Plus the ability to expose macros into the UI when creating content making it easier than ever for end-users to consume macro functionality. It's Win freakin' Win!

The new Table of Contents Macro - I saw remnants of this in 2.0.2, but it wasn't activated. Check it out....my thoughts are that you'll like it. You'll like it so much you'll use the cleaner Style drop-down interface even more.

Social Groups +1 +1 +1, what more can I say...it was like Jive was reading our minds! Scary, time to get out the foil-helmet again.
Friend associations. I thought the Org. Chart view in 2.0.x was cool, but this is way better...interested to see how close our community users are once they self identify themselves as friends.
Concatenated Tag Searching - This one was one of my favorite sleeper features. Click on any tag in Clearspace 2.5.x, and you'll be presented with a list of additional tags to further filter on. Easily add and remove tags to see content...the interface is intuitive, and provide a nice shade of grey for Tag Groups.

So where do you go from here, only the team from Jive can say....but one things for sure...if they keep up this pace...I foresee another upgrade in my near future. Have a feature you are super-psyched about, let me know...always interested to pass it along through the groundswell!

Take a gander through the Clearspace Feature Discusson community. Find some features tagged feature-request or enhancement, and share your thoughts on what you'd like to see in the next version of Clearspace!

Blog Posts From Friends of Jivespace Tagged With 2.5.x

Did You Know - Clearspace/SBS and Friend Management

You might be asking: What can this do for me?

Dust'n off the ole' Blog ... 2.5.x Rocks the Kazbaa!