The upgrade of the OpenMission Community Server is complete. The upgrade allows the following new and improved features to be used by your missions site:
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Wikis The Community Server wiki is an efficient tool for teams to capture, create, and collaborate on information. With built-in workflow and easy, rich text editing, anyone in the enterprise can create content that is visible to team members and available for editing and collaborative contributions. Our wiki also includes permissions and moderation tools, structured or unstructured content, and user voting to visibly rank the value of wiki pages.
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Blogs From public to private Web logs, our enterprise blogging application is multi-faceted, easily supporting thousands of blogs and growing according to your needs.
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Forums Our forums enable interactive collaboration between individuals and the community. The enhanced user interface includes additional question and answer features that bring verified answers to the top of the thread, providing visibility of valuable information to the reader.
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Rich Media & Video Community Server media galleries are a core application that displays multiple types of files, images and videos in a more meaningful way. You can effortlessly integrate video from third-party services such as Flickr and YouTube, and with ratings and tagging functionality, users can express their opinions and sort media for relevancy.
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Robust User Profiles Community Server provides full-featured user profiles that include activity lists, a ‘wall’ where other users can post notes to you, and an announcements ‘blog.’ The new functionality makes the user profile a focal point of the community experience.
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Groups Now you can create micro-communities within your site! These groups become your own social circle and allow the members of that circle to have exclusive access to group-specific media galleries, blogs and messaging.
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Messaging & Social Streams Send an instant message to a friend, an individual in the community, or to the entire group. You can even “micro-blog”! The private messaging feature is its own application in Community Server, making it easy for users to communicate with individuals and with the community at large (including their friends).
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Integrated Ratings & Comments Allows users to comment on group posts and encourages collaboration across the organization.
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Discoverability of Content (RSS, Tags)Leverage the accessibility of your content with this extensive search capability. With the help of tag clouds, this application helps to bring the most relevant content to your community.
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Optimized Control Panel The control panel gives the community managers the tools necessary to easily manage each application. The Community Server control panel is streamlined to simplify common tasks with a new user interface, more efficient workflow, and task isolation.
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Ease of Content Creation Community Server offers easy-to-use content management tools that allow you to organize content easily and reduce your management costs. With a WYSIWYG editor, neither technical skills nor developers are required to publish content or to make edits.
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Extensibility with Web Services In this release, this full-feature Web services (REST) API gives remote access to all Community Server data (i.e., posts, users, settings), which allows for easier extension of the platform and interoperability with external applications.
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Flexible UI Easily integrate your brand across your community with our flexible user interface. Engage users with a consistent look and feel, or even localize your content!
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Localization of Content The Community Server architecture is international friendly and gives you the option to publish sites in languages other than English.
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Rich Security & Permissions Model Our powerful permissions model allows you to manage the role vs. the user, and our security application empowers you to determine how visitors will access your content.