YoolinkPro joins The Small Business Web.com
YoolinkPro is the first corporate social network to join the Small Business Web initiative: Joining SBW is a great opportunity to offer new services to YoolinkPro users and better integration to other popular applications. It turns the SaaS ecosystem into a consistent information system for your SME.
SaaS is a great generation of software: they provide more flexibility and allow users to pick the best task-specific software: social network, customer support, CRM, emailing, billing or project management for instance. For the first time in IT, you can pick the best of each field.
7 social routines to boost your corporate social network
Enterprise 2.0 is never about features, it is always about adoption. Projects never fail by lack of bells and whistles. Lack of interest by end users explains most of 2.0 failures. So project managers should be obsessed with one single question: how do I make users want to use my 2.0 service?
We tried to give some answers in a short 5-step guide. Last month we talked with Bertrand Dupperin about adoption and what he calls “Social routines”. “Social Routines” are about giving social reflexes to teams, it’s about helping people to use new services such as micro-blogging by providing them with clear use cases. Total freedom is often scary for users, so you have to give guidelines so they can invent their own way to use the software in their daily jobs.
Share even more easily on Facebook, Twitter or via email
We are really glad to announce our browser’s plug-in version 3.0.
Sharing on Facebook and Twitter becomes even more powerful. When you click on the plug-in, the page’s content is automatically analysed and the title, beginning of the article and best picture available are extracted. You can also add a comment.
It is simple, quick and efficient.
You can chose to share the information on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or via email at the same time.
5 features that make YoolinkPro unique
Enterprise 2.0 and corporate social networks are hot topics. Why do we think YoolinkPro is different? Two reasons:
- First we are obsessed with adoption, so every feature is easy to understand by any user. If a feature needs a documentation, then it means we failed. Of all the services available we think our ergonomy is the best.
- Second we not only foster discussion we also allow users to truly manage documents and share them with the right people. YoolinkPro is not just about short conversations, it is also about sorting and sharing relevant business documents and links.
The proof is in the pudding: Here are five top features that could make a difference to your company:
YoolinkPro Now Available on the Google Apps Marketplace
06/15/2010 — Yoolink today announced it has added YoolinkPro, a corporate social network, to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Users can access YoolinkPro to share ideas, questions, experience, information and documents with their teams. YoolinkPro turns informal communication into corporate knowledge so everyone can work in the same direction, more efficiently.
“Social networks are the best way to foster collaboration and to distribute knowledge within a company. So adding YoolinkPro to Google Apps was a natural move,” said Sunny Paris, YoolinkPro’s CEO. “By integrating YoolinkPro with Google Apps, we are offering Google Apps customers a set of social features to make it easier for them to share their work and start discussions with their teams and colleagues. YoolinkPro boost collaboration on Google Apps.”
YoolinkPro is awarded “Best Innovative Service for Information professionals” by a jury of experts
A panel of French KM and IT experts has elected YoolinkPro, a corporate social network, as the best innovative service for information professionals during I-Expo, a fair dedicated to knowledge and information management within companies.
The final decision has been largely influenced by the design and simplicity of the service as well as the strong focus on sharing and collaborating, rather than pure news distribution. They could also use the service in a matter of minutes, which is a dramatical advantage on traditionnal software that usually recquire days of setting up before being accessible.
It is a great news for us, and not just because we like medals: we won against traditional software editors, which shows the industry is changing. Information professionals used to gather and distribute information, while now they organize the information and foster discussion and sharing between members of the company. They have become real information hubs within their organization.
YoolinkPro Usability Update: New feed and new tweet discussions
Güven, our great lead designer has just come up with a new feed. Why did he design a new feed? Because he wanted to put people first. Pictures are now easier to see and they are all on the left side of the feed, which makes it easier to read. He also did quite a bit of work on giving the feed some unity, since as it evolved, it was not always quite clear which item was important, which was addressed to me.
On top of that, there is a brand new feature. You can now comment on micro-messages. It makes it WAY easier to communicate, to ask a question or to start a debate about something. It makes it clearer to know who answered what.
No rights, no boxes, no problem: give a chance to E2.0 freedom
Freedom is a scary thing. No limit, no boundary, everything’s possible. It’s definitely not something we are used to; we have to cope with barriers all the time, whether physical or social. It’s true in life, and it’s also true in social software.
Enterprise 2.0 is all about breaking down the barriers and sharing knowledge. It offers unprecedented freedom in information management and in social connections. Yet when project managers face such unlimited possibilities, instead of harnessing them, they tend to get scared and try to return to old paradigms: “no, this has to be only limited only to my sales team, no one else should be able to see it even if they try” or “I can’t let people sort things themselves, I want to control the structure of information completely and build a logical structure”. And who’s paying the price for that? The end users.
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