William's Blog

In the last few posts, I’ve written quite a bit about the general Idea Management space, best practices, and how CorasWorks Idea Management for SharePoint is designed to support these requirements. Let me take a moment and point out some product marketing resources.

The main place to go is the Idea Management solution landing page on our web site.  Here you find a screenshot based Tour of Idea Management – the basics in 10 screen shots.  You’ll also find a detailed features listing.  It breaks up the feature set into 6 categories covering the following:

- Idea Community Portal

- Idea Communities

- Idea Portfolio Management

- Customization

- Administration

- General Platform Features

That information should get you going.  The next step is to request a demo of the solution.  There are links in the landing page area to make the request.  It is a great one to see in action – running on SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010.

In case its too much trouble to head over to the landing page, let me drop a screenshot here to wet your appetite.  It is a shot of a detail page for an idea in an idea community within the Idea Community Portal.

This shot of idea details highlights a number of key Web 2.0 features:

· The use of CSS-styling for consistent Contribute forms across the community.

· Star rating and the Star Power algorithm.

· Comments, with email links, and recent comments (reverse order bookmarks)

· Group upload of documents - great for work sharing vs. hoarding documents in siloed, hidden team sites

· Status feedback and RSS feed subscriptions (subscribe by community, tag, author or individual articles)

Need more, drop me a line…

william