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NetworkAbility™ Enterprise Social Media - Features

Discover the Collaborative power of NetworkAbility™… true Enterprise Social Media

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about the terrific features of NetworkAbility. Our Free Enterprise Social Media application is designed to be made available to every member of your organization. NetworkAbility offers powerful collaboration features within a closed enterprise network; software that will change the dynamics of how your organization communicates.

NetworkAbility social collaboration features will effectively leverage the knowledge that exists within your organization, build a strong sense of team that will become a hallmark of your organizational identity, encourage networking and team building, and help foster the exchange of new ideas.

Our Features section is divided into four areas:

‘The Network’ - the foundation of NetworkAbility Enterprise Social Media
Other Great Features – a description of the other powerful features that make up the core NetworkAbility
Upgrade Features – additional features that are available to your organization for a very reasonable cost
Administration & Security – a summary of some of the technology behind NetworkAbility

* Registration must be for a verifiable company, non-profit organization, or other registered organization. Registrants that are considered to be a competitive entity or cannot be verified (by registration details) as representing a legitimate entity will be denied access. Due to hosting restrictions, the free NetworkAbility offer is presently only available for N. America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

The Network

The Network - Features

Enterprise Social Network

'The Network' is the collaboration hub of NetworkAbility Adopting social media tools will help organizations ensure that diverse team members can perform as one unified team. Get to know the strengths and capabilities of others in the organization; our social media applications will help to bring innovation to light much more quickly.

'The Network' is integral to NetworkAbility and works to build a strong sense of community and to encourage all members of an organization to work better, together. Some of the main features found in the Network include:

Detailed User Profiles – detailed profiles can be created by each user and will include profile photo, contact information, personal information such as education and work experience, hobbies & interests, etc.

User Search – Easily search for individuals from the main site search or using the search facility within 'The Network'.

Open or Private Work Groups - Create Work Groups for any occasion and invite any number of users to participate in discussions and information sharing.

Live Chat - Instant Chat facilitates real-time communication and collaboration. All online users are connected by a Facebook inspired chat function that is accessible from anywhere in NetworkAbility.

Private Messaging – Immediately cut down on the volume of email your users deal with every day. Private messaging will let all members correspond within The Network and create easily accessible discussion threads.

Photo Gallery - The Photo gallery provides a place to share images with others in the organization, no matter where they may be located. Maintain a photo record of your organization and events.

Video Gallery - Video Share allows you to store videos by category and create a video database for your organization. Easily introduce the power of video as communication tool for your organization using embedded video.

Notifications Facility - Your members will be able to customize their notification settings so that they receive all notifications directly through The Network or, optionally, by email as well..

There are also many other Great Features within NetworkAbility that will make this one of the most indispensible applications in your organization.

Other Features

Other Great Features

User Groups - Users on your Social Intranet will belong to just one group so it is important that the groups remain general enough that there is no overlap. Groups are customizable for each organization and will most often be based on different office or city locations.

Groups may also be established for outside interests such as supplier, customer, or consultant groups. The main purpose behind groups is to allow control over published and posted information

Work Groups - Within 'The Network', you will have the ability to create work groups that will help individuals to connect, share ideas, and ultimately become more productive.

Work Groups are a great way to invite participation from different stakeholder and form any number of custom groups, both open and private.

Directory - The Directory is a simple to use, highly effective listing database for your organization's contact information. The Directory utility is a very versatile application for maintaining a current list of company contacts; readily accessible and fully searchable for maximum usability.

Heads-up Display - The HUD is a very useful user panel that gives a snapshot of key information, such as profile photo, current status message, and number of new notifications, for individual users. It is also one of the fastest ways to navigate to your Network zones to manage your photo galleries, video uploads, Groups, and Events.

Article Publishing - With the NetworkAbility publishing utility your social network site administrators will be able to keep content fresh and the landing page will always highlight what is most current.

Easily create, update, and edit all article content from the front-end using our simple yet powerful editor tools. Upload images and also use blog style preview display, you will love how easy it is to keep members informed. You can even target content to different user groups!

Events Calendar - Keep everyone on the same page for those important upcoming events. NetworkAbility's Events Calendar helps develop intra-organization scheduling consistency. It is a place where any number of events can be posted and be visible to all users. If there is an important event or milestone, everyone will know... in real time.

  • Displays important events that your users want to know about. Events can be scheduled to repeat on regular intervals or for a set number of occurrences.
  • Real time updates allows all users to see Upcoming Events published on the Intranet Home page.
  • Maintain a record of events such as statutory holidays and upcoming milestones.
  • File calendar events under various categories.

Fully Customizable Template - NetworkAbility provides your site administrators with the control to create a custom design for your site using your company logo and color schemes. The template facility is very intuitive and you can easily try out different designs until you create just the right look..

RSS Feed Manager - Using our unique javascript feed manager, you will be able to customize RSS feed information to choose from essentially any RSS feed available. This provides your organization with great flexibility to provide the information tailored to your users, your industry, and your local area.

User Poll - Collect information or gather consensus with our very fun and highly useful Polling feature. Whether you want to know how organization members travel to work or the best date to hold the office party, polls will help you get the information you need. The NetworkAbility polling utility will also display results to all users, including a color coded pie chart option.

  • Create and manage polls from the front-end.
  • Polling utility utilizes Ajax technology to enhance the user experience.
  • Select start and end dates, the poll feature automatically limits voting to one per user I.D.

Powerful Search Facility - Your users can easily deep-search into all social network areas and this is an advantage we would like to highlight. Research shows that one of the biggest failings of many information and collaboration tools is a lack of adequate search capability. NetworkAbility is changing all that.

  • Search facility that drills into all areas within the network.
  • Our Intranet offers a fully customizable advance search function.
  • Automatic indexing as new content is added.

Notifications - With NetworkAbility, users can select notification preferences for new content and activities within work groups. Users may choose to have notifications sent to their email account, The Network private messaging or to both. This is a great way to cut down on email volume when you are at the computer and still stay in touch when you are mobile.

The Most Intuitive Administration in the Industry – Guaranteed! - A wise man once said, 'Never underestimate the importance of ease of administration when evaluating a software solution.' We could not possibly agree more and this has been our mantra for development.

NetworkAbility is entirely administered from front-end accessible Admin Panel and, as a design standard, nothing remotely complex was tolerated. We are 100% confident that NetworkAbility is hands-down the most user intuitive social media software available. If you think otherwise, we will give you our application for FREE! Hey wait a minute, it already is free. Oh well, the point is that it also rocks.

Upgrade Features

Upgrade Features

File Manager - Gone are the days of searching your email for a long lost attachment or trying to figure out which document is most current. File Manager facilitates information management by providing an organized, central and secure location for any type of document.

File Manager allows you to upload, download, create custom folders and sub-folders, restrict access to files by User Group, and receive update notifications as files are posted.

Forum - The forum application helps people to share and develop ideas, or it can be used as a message board. It is a way for everyone to have a voice. Some examples of forum usage include: “Office Classifieds,” “Carpooling,” “Ideas for social events” etc.

Bulletin Board (extended publishing) - With Bulletin Board, users with publishing capabilities can create pages for any number of custom publishing categories (department blogs, policies updates, Newsletters, etc). Once the page is created, articles can be published to these pages and content can be targeted to different groups within your organization. You can also add attachments, insert images, and open a commenting feature.

Photo Gallery - The Photo gallery provides a place to share images with others in the organization, no matter where they may be located. Maintain a photo record of your organization and events. Note: Free version is limited to 10 galleries and 20 images per gallery.

Video Gallery - Video Share allows you to store videos by category and create a video database for your organization. Easily introduce the power of video as communication tool for your organization using embedded video. Note: Free version is limited to 50 video embeds.

Job Board - The job board helps keep everyone informed about what positions are open within your organization. Keep employees up-to-date regarding job openings and encourage the involvement of all in the recruiting process. The tool features a simple job posting process and electronic application form that allows upload of CV.

Admin & Security

Administration & Security

Collaboration SuiteNetworkAbility is deployed from Amazon Web Services (AWS) so that we can provide our users with the highest level of security, availability, and dependability. The points below cover several of the security features inherent in AWS. For more detail, IT administrators can visit the AWS Security and Compliance Center or download the AWS - Overview of Security Processes whitepaper. There are also a number of administration & security features built into the software, ensuring confidentiality and integrity of our customer's systems and data. 

Secure Software Design - NetworkAbility relies on User IDs and passwords to authenticate users to access services. The application has been developed following software security best practices. Accounts can only be accessed using 128-bit encrypted Username / Password log-in over Certified SSL (secure socket layer) connection.  

Access Permission Levels – Permissions refer to the access level settings, which control who can publish as well as who has access to certain administrative functions. There are three permission levels including: Employee; Publisher; and Admin Manager.

Admin Manager is the highest permission level, with access to all front-end administration features. Admin Managers have all the permission access of the publisher level and can also permanently delete content and have control over User Account create / edit / delete, creating User Groups, and configuring the template design.

100% Front-end Administration – NetworkAbility has been developed on the premise that administration should be every bit as intuitive as the overall user experience. Administrative features are easily accessible from the front-end and we have bent over backwards to avoid the complex administration control panels that are so prevalent. Administering an application has never been so easy and our customers don't hesitate to tell us so.

Cloud Delivery via Amazon Web Services – The main advantages that cloud deployment adds to our Enterprise Social Media application is that we now enjoy a maximum level of reliability, redundancy, and security. Amazon cloud services are highly engineered, taking advantage of fully scalable and often virtualized resources to provide the highest level of performance and security available.

Network Security –The AWS network provides protection against traditional network security issues with a level of protection that has evolved over years as the world's largest online retailer. Security measures include proprietary DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) mitigation, SSL-protected endpoints for greater authentication security, host-based firewall infrastructure, unauthorized port scanning policies that are further enhanced by our own strict management of security groups.  

Data Backup –NetworkAbility data files are backed up on a daily basis and stored in archive to ensure the integrity of customer data.  Data stored in Amazon's S3 and Elastic Block Store is routinely stored in multiple physical locations as an additional protection measure. 

Data Center Security - Amazon data centers are protected by industry leading physical security measures and policies.  The infrastructure is designed to anticipate and tolerate failures with a high degree of redundancy including the ability to load-balance any affected facilities. Fire detection and suppression, power redundancy, and climate controls are all designed to the highest standards. 

PHP / SQL Development Standards – NetworkAbility is developed to PHP/SQL design standards. PHP refers to the prominent standard programming language for developing complex web-based software applications, such as community web portals like Facebook. Similarly, as much of our programming is driven by data access and data management-based code, SQL best practices are an integral part of our development standards.