Global Communication Tool

Our Social Squared forum has been designed as a communication tool that helps build a community around your SharePoint sites. It looks, works and feels exactly how a discussion forum should be in SharePoint - your users will love it.
Help move your company discussions away from people's email inboxes and into an open communication tool. Social Squared uses Microsoft SQL Server for data storage so it can easily scale to thousands of users and tens of thousands of posts while also making more advanced forum functionality available.

Here are some of the key features of Social Squared:

- standard web forum look and feel that is totally customizable.
- indication of new posts since last visit
- moderation of topics and posts
- reply to posts including a quote
- user post count and signatures

For more information about Social Squared please see the Social Squared Homepage.

Team Based Discussions

Very often a small team of 10-20 people will want to collaborate and discuss topics on a SharePoint site. The Lightning Storm Forums is perfect for this as it can be setup within seconds by a Site Owner and members can start using it straight away.

The Lightning Storm Forums use SharePoint Lists as storage of topics and posts and therefore require no external configuration.

Standout features of the Lightning Storm Forums include:

- standard web forum look and feel your users are familiar with
- user security driven by standard SharePoint groups
- look and feel driven by SharePoint CSS and Themes - knowledge base functionality for building an FAQ area.

For more information about the Lightning Storm Forums please see the Lightning Storm Forums Homepage.