Collaboration 2.0
Colloboration solution built in Plone that combines collaboration software and social media into a very powerful solution!
Today I want to blog about a great collaboration environment built in open-source Plone (which we also use): Cynapse
Cynapse is a firm based in India that was founded in 2001 by Apurva Roy Choudhury and Dhiraj Gupta. The philosophy behind the firm’s product was to design a collaboration portal that would be as easy as possible for employees to use and that would require as little learning as necessary. As simple as Facebook and blogs.
cyn.in offers these 2.0 elements:
- Status Messages (like Facebook)
- Wikis
- Blogs
- File Sharing
- Images
- Events
- Links/Bookmarks
- Videos
- Discussions
- Forums (pure discussions)
- Contextual Discussions (surrounding a document)
- Audio
- Messages
2.0 Features and Actions:
- Commenting (on any content area)
- Rate Content (“like”)
- Tag
- Search Capabilities
- Advanced search options to search by category, title, description, author, and item type.
- User Profiles (current status, bio, location, contact information, recent activities (in blogs, wiki, discussions, etc.), presence in particular spaces, top user tags, top-rated items, and recent comments.
Other Key Features and Elements:
- Statistical graphs (for content and people)
- Filter content activity stream by tags, content type, date, contributor, search phrase
- Desktop client option for persistent viewing of staff status updates
- Administrative Controls: Rules, Rights, Privacy: the administrator can assign specific rules and rights for each individual user and group. For each one, the administrator can choose to allow adding content, editing content, viewing content, and/or revising content.
All in all quite impressive. We will we experimenting with this solution in the next few weeks so come back to this site (or subscribe to the RSS feed) to read our reviews!
