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The best of social networking and content management in one neat solution, Liferay Social Office can revolutionize the way your team works without forcing you to change.

Work from the Desktop

Liferay Social Office lets you work from your desktop. It features integration with Microsoft Office®, which means that when you update files and documents from your local drive, they can be automatically uploaded to your Social Office online.

Liferay Social Office makes use of publicly available SharePoint® protocols to allow users to open, save, version, lock, and share documents directly between Liferay Social Office and Microsoft Office®. This opens up new ways of integrating desktop workflow with web-based collaboration and document storage. For example, a marketing team working on a new product campaign can store Powerpoints, brochures, copy and graphics in a Social Office workspace's document library and brainstorm ideas using our integrated IM, Wiki, and Forums.

Document Library

Liferay Social Office acts as a web-based shared drive. Instead of worrying about multiple copies of the same document and duplicate work, use our secure Document Library to centralize and organize all your files. Time-saving features are built in, including multiple file uploads and familiar desktop folders. You can even change a file's format at the time of upload (ie, .doc to .pdf).

Team Calendar

Create, manage, and search for group events using the community-based calendar with task lists. Events can be shared across different departments, and event reminders can be set up to alert users of upcoming events by email, IM, or SMS.

Today's Events

Users can view all calendar events from each of their Sites in a single place on their home page.

Wikis

Beyond document sharing, Social Office provides full-featured Wikis to facilitate communal information capture and gathering. Team members can easily start new wiki entries to build up a team's personal online encyclopedia.

Blogs

Convey information and facilitate conversations around blogs directly. Liferay's Blogs provide the best features of modern blogging tools and allow you to keep up with everyone's thoughts and activities via dynamic RSS feeds to your email or a "Recent Blogs" display.

Forums (Message Boards)

Forums are a perfect solution for facilitating conversations within a department or project team that is collaborating around shared ideas, or for capturing and sharing the tacit knowledge of your workgroup.

Liferay's Forums tool rivals standalone products in its feature set with RSS alerts, email-based subscriptions and replies, and tie in with activity tracking. Liferay's Forums are secured by our granular system of authorizations which grants varying levels of control to administrators and users.

Profile

Each user can fill out their own online resume-style profile that can help members discover expertise in the organization. Support project profiles, profile tagging, and personal information.

Sites

Sites are separate, secured areas you can create in Social Office that can be used for the various departments or teams within your organization. Each Site has its own set of collaboration tools (message boards, blogs), RSS feeds, shared document librarym, and a shared calendar showing the events for the day.

Creating a Site is simple and can be completed with no page refresh! Create as many spaces as you like and as you need.

Search

Search across all Sites on the server or within a specific Site. Social Office's federated search combines results from all types, including documents, forum threads, blogs, wiki entries, events, and users.

Contacts

This allows users to keep track of people both inside and outside the organization and automatically adds colleagues that share Site membership. Uses can email an entire group of Site members all at once.

Instant Messaging (Chat)

Built-in Instant Messaging gives you access to all logged-in team mates. Chat boxes stay at the bottom of your screen as you navigate through Social Office and conversations remain secure behind your firewall.

Activity Tracking

See what everyone is up to. Activity tracking keeps tabs on personal and team activity and displays this information in various "Recent Activity" viewers for each specific tool, for all items tagged with a certain key word and on a Facebook-style Activity Wall.

Tracking works for wiki entries, blogs, message boards and recent activity in the document library!

Announcements & Alerts

Broadcast messages to different group of users whether they are simple announcements or "newsletter"-like in purpose.

Each person can control how they receive alerts: via portal-based web alert, SMS, Email or any additional delivery mechanisms configured by the portal administrator.