Communities
Communities form the core of Neborhood platform. You get the flexibility to build
communities for your various departments, subjects, classes, batches, projects and
interest groups. You get the choice to build open as well as restricted communities,
to suit your requirements. Community members are then able to work efficiently with
the support of various collaboration and communication features.
Job Postings
Allow your corporate partners to tap into your pool of students and alumni for recruitment.
Corporates are able to post job openings which are then accessed by students and
alumni. Corporates are able to get ready access to a large resource pool and alumni
benefit by given an opportunity to make appropriate career moves. And the bond with
the institute is strengthened all along.
Rich Profiles
Neborhood provides an easy way to maintain rich profile for each individual. The
profiles contain not only details like past experience, education and skills but
also tags assigned to the individuals by his class-mates, faculty, alumni, etc.
These tags provide an equally important insight to the expertise and qualities of
the individual.
Apart from the individuals, there is provision for Corporates as well to create
and maintain their profile on Neborhood.
Wikis
Remember Encyclopedia Britannica? What do people use today? Wikipedia.
If you want to build a knowledge base for your institute, which is not static, but
evolves every day; then Wiki is the right tool. Using Wiki, everybody can contribute
to enhance the knowledge base, as well as to easily get the required information.
Calendar
When is the next assignment submission? What day are we going for an industry visit?
When is convocation function? When are the birthday celebrations going to happen?
Using calendar, your users not only get instantaneous answers to these types of
questions, they can also create new shared events.
Blogs
Blog is a medium for effective communication. It encourages faculty and students
alike to pen and share their thoughts using an easy WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get)
editor.
Alumni can blog about their experiences in the real world giving a first hand insight
to the students.
Q & A
Questions and Answers provide the ease of tapping into institute wide knowledge
pool and getting answers to those who need them. Anyone can post questions and get
answers from anyone associated with the institute, irrespective of barriers like
physical location.
Bulletin Board
Want to update people regarding a small project development? A department restructuring?
An administration notice? An HR update? Do it elegantly using Bulletin-Board without
bombarding people with more e-mails.
Network
While communities provide a more formal platform, you can give your students, faculty
and alumni a choice to nurture their professional network through this feature.
This provides an option for quick and simple communication as well.
Document Sharing
It is convenient to send documents through e-mails. But. It clogs the network and
inboxes of recipients. It becomes a pain to find a document in the inbox after 2
months.
With Neborhood, documents are stored at a common place, in a proper structure determined
by you. This, along with full-text search, tags and ratings, enables your users
to spend their time in reading the documents and not searching for them.
Picture Sharing
It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words. Neborhood provides you and your
users a simple way to upload and share pictures with each other.
Video Sharing
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then a video probably speaks a million. Upload
and share important videos of trainings, lectures, CXO messages, etc. within the
organization.
Polls
Polls provide an easy way to take a quick and quantifiable feedback from people.
Enable your users to get to know what people think about a particular issue/topic/question
and enable them to make the right decision with right inputs.
Tagging
Neborhood provides the facility to attach tags to documents, people, blogs, wikis,
communities – and in the process developing metadata for your institute. This collection
of tags collectively becomes a folksonomy, enabling people-friendly search mechanism.
Rating
Have you ever faced the dilemma where your search results returned 5 documents,
all appearing to be matching your requirements? Now which document to open first?
Let this question be collectively answered by people from your institute itself
– by rating the content. By seeing the overall rating of a document/blog/wiki, a
user gets a very good idea of what is likely to satisfy his requirements.
Search
Neborhood provides a very powerful search feature, including full-text search. This
means that the keywords searched by you will be looked for inside the documents
also, and not only in the document names. Using the search, you can find the relevant
information based on your requirements.