Check out our SharePoint Forum Solutions
Our SharePoint forum web parts have been designed as a communication tool that helps build a community around your SharePoint sites. They look, work and feel exactly how a discussion forum should be in SharePoint - your users will love them!
Social Squared for Large Organizations
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.
Storm Forums for Teams and Smaller Companies
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.
5 Reasons how using a SharePoint Forum as part of your SharePoint deployment will reap big benefits for your organization.
1
Improve SharePoint Usage
By implementing a SharePoint Forum within your SharePoint deployment you'll get people coming back to the SharePoint site. They'll be back to check for new topics or read others replies. As it becomes part of their daily routine to check the forums, before you know it they'll be looking to use other areas of SharePoint.
2
Encourage communication and collaboration at all levels
Communication within any size company is difficult. Sending out an email newsletter is very impersonal and doesn't allow for effective discussions around the topics it may raise.
By using a SharePoint forum to publish communications, ideas can come from all levels of the business rather than a director or vice president getting the answers his immediate employees think he wants to hear. Ask a question in an open forum and you can get answers from all levels of the business. Some companies allow their staff to voice their opinions with full anonymity by turning this option on in their Social Squared SharePoint forum.
3
Create a Q&A environment
If I have a question about a topic, how do I know that John who works in a different department in a different country knows the answer? If I post the question in a SharePoint forum John could well come across it and help me out. With advanced functionality in Social Squared it's even possible for people to alert John that he should pop over to a particular topic for a read.
4
Create a sense of community
Work isn't all about work! It is about being together doing things you enjoy. As well as using a SharePoint forum for work related matters, it's the idea medium to organize a charity event or run your companies 5 aside soccer competition. All of the things your company does to make it a fun place to work can be done through SharePoint - which again helps improve SharePoint usage.
5
Reduce email!
Leaving one of the best to last - deploying a SharePoint forum within your organization can help reduce the amount of email you have to deal with. Receiving email isn't necessarily a problem, as long as you read it, action it and delete it. But for many their inbox becomes a silo of information - locked away that nobody else can access. It'd be much better to open that information and knowledge to others rather than keep it hidden away in Outlook.
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