Community - Communication - Collaboration.
Social Squared is the most powerful discussion tool available for SharePoint. It will enable you to provide the 3 C's to your SharePoint sites - Community, Communication and Collaboration.
Indiana University use Social Squared forums for SharePoint to drive collaboration and SharePoint adoption, plus allow users to support themselves and their peers. Read more...
Help your users move away from spending their life in email by discussing ideas and answering questions using an open forum tool. Social Squared easily deploys and runs within SharePoint to give you a communication tool that helps build a real community around both Internet and Intranet sites.

How Forums Should Look and Work
At Lightning Tools we have been involved in message boards and web forums on the Internet for as long as we have had a web connection in the 1990's! We have been involved in growing communities around web sites and seen how discussion forums really helps with this.
With this knowledge we have built a forum tool that will help you build a community around your SharePoint deployment. The features the tool currently have include:
- Forum Badges and User Reputation
- Post and topic voting
- Starting new topics and adding replies via email
- Tagging
- Display active forum users
- Forum Terms and Conditions
- Follow a user
- Unread topic indication
- Topic and post moderation
- Email alerts for new topics and posts
- User post count
- Topic ratings
- User signatures
- Search
- Quote posts in your reply
- RSS support
- Full customization of look and feel
Try Them Now
We are running Social Squared on our own support site so you can try them out without having to install anything. Please check out:
http://connect.lightningtools.com
Download a trial
Click here to download Social Squared.
Purchase Details
Social Squared is available for $2499 per SharePoint Server. Software maintenance is 20% of the list price per year and includes:
- Product updates, including for new versions of SharePoint
- Unlimited technical support via email, phone and remote desktop
- Purchasing Social Squared entitles you to a 2007 and 2010 licensed version.
If you have any questions or wish to purchase please contact support@lightningtools.com