Communities
Communities form the core of Neborhood platform. You get the flexibility to build
communities for your various departments, locations, 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.
Rich Profiles
Why does it happen at times that, in spite of having the expertise within the organization
we look outside? Enable your managers to locate the desired expertise within the
organization in a jiffy, through rich profiles maintained for each individual. The
profiles contain not only details like past experience, education and skills but
also tags assigned to the individuals by his co-workers & managers and blogs penned
by him. These tags and blogs provide an equally important insight to the expertise
and qualities of the individual.
Wikis
Remember Encyclopedia Britannica? What do people use today? Wikipedia.
If you want to build a knowledge base for your organization, 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 regional sales call? What day are we going for company outing? When
are the birthday celebrations going to happen? Can I use the big conference room
for my department meeting?
Using calendar, your employees not only get instantaneous answers to these types
of questions, they can also create new shared events and book your meeting and conference
rooms for same.
Blogs
Blog is a medium for effective communication with employees. For example, when a
CEO has to communicate the organizational vision and direction to the employees,
typically a mail to “All Employees” is sent out. How many times does he hear back
from any of the employees? On a blog, more employees are likely to share their thoughts
by way of their comments on the blog, leading to open communication.
Similarly, any employee can pen his thoughts using an easy WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get)
editor and share it with others.
Q & A
Questions and Answers provide the ease of tapping into organization wide knowledge
pool and getting answers to those who need them. Employees can post questions and
get answers from anyone in the organization, irrespective of location, department,
hierarchy.
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 employees a
choice to nurture their professional network within the organization through Network.
This provides an option for quick and simple communication.
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. What if a new team member joins – should he be welcomed by bombarding him
with numerous emails containing a number of documents?
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 people
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
employees 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 managers, department heads, project leads 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, bookmarks – and in the process developing metadata for your organization.
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 in your organization 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 across all content types (Documents, blogs, wikis, etc.) or within a
specific category, based on your requirements.