Ektron expands our web 2.0 offering with the new Community Platform and introduces Social and Professional Networking to your business.

The new Social Networking Framework in Ektron CMS400.NET has been built from the ground up giving you, and your members, the most powerful toolkit of community themed features making your site the place for people to meet, interact, and discover a new way to collaborate, find information and work together.

Social networking is not just for your teenager anymore!

What do you want your social network to do? Do it with Ektron CMS400.NET v7.5

Communication:

Maintain communication among friends, family, co-workers and anyone else in your network. Send personal messages via email and Web alerts to friends in your network right from your personal Workspace. E-mail addresses remain confidential ensuring complete privacy protection. Your message dashboard keeps you up-to-date with messages you have sent and received.

Discovery:

Browse and search the network for individuals with similar interests as you. Friends and favorites can be added with a click of the mouse. Send out personal invitations to friends, family and colleagues to join your growing social network. Share documents, photos, and other content that interests you with built-in tagging. Find new friends and join new groups who share the same interests as you by tagging your content.

Personalization:

When registered, all members will be assigned their own personal Workspace for designing, maintaining and sharing information about themselves and what interests them. Create structure around information to create navigation. Share documents, assets and any other information about you and promote discussions with a two-way message board. Blog about what’s new with you or allow friends to comment on your page.

Interaction:

Further enhance interaction with content in the entire network with tools like bookmarking, favorites and flagging. Bookmark favorite pages and add content to your favorites with a click of the mouse. Rate content, post reviews or start discussion threads against content. Offended with someone’s page? Flag it! Flag pictures, movies or anything else to automatically notify administrators about offensive content.

Starter Sites are fully functional sample Web sites designed to help you learn Ektron CMS400.NET and achieve common Web deployment scenarios.

Each sample is complete and well documented so you can use the code as a baseline to jump start your web development projects immediately!

What do you want your website to do? Do it with Ektron CMS400.NET v7.5

Ektron Press:

Ektron Press leverages Ektron CMS400.NET to allow you to increase inventory, up sell online classified listings, manage user submitted content, encourage reader interaction and much more.

Ektron University:

Ektron University allows students and faculty to edit their own online content while recruits, alumni and parents sign up for Web alerts to keep them informed about the community.

Ektron Community Center:

More than just a place for external community members to meet and exchange ideas, The Ektron Community Center can be used to start an online knowledge base.

Ektron Intranet:

Allow department heads to easily categorize and update important documents. Limit access to sections based on an individual’s role and integrate log in seamlessly with Active Directory.

Ektron Travel:

Make your travel site a destination in and of itself. Ektron Travel allows travel fans to use your site to build an online persona and invite their friends to do the same.

EktronVille:

The Ektronville Starter Site enables effective government to citizen communication while making your town’s Web site the place for people
to exchange ideas on local events and issues.

Ektron Legal:

Launch your own “blawg,” rise to the top of search engine results and keep your firm and its relevance “top of mind” with past and future clients. Ektron Legal makes it possible.

Starter Applications are powerful applications that are built on the Ektron CMS400.NET engine. They leverage Ektron CMS400.NET’s flexible API made available via its SDK. Starter Applications are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes of organizations of any size, but are flexible enough to meet your custom requirements.

These Starter Applications are shipped open source and are free of charge. They work out of the box and, if needed, can easily be extended.

Extranet for Content Collaboration:

This Extranet is designed to facilitate collaboration among your project stake holders. You now have a central repository for all information associated with a project, as well as the collaboration workarea between the management team and the development team, both on your network and external to your organization.

Photo Gallery:

The Photo Gallery application combines easy-to-use photo sharing with the power of Ektron CMS400.NET’s Web content management. The Photo Gallery brings the flexibility of Ektron CMS400.NET’s taxonomy to managing photos and images on your site. Upload the photo once and share it everywhere and anywhere.

Wiki Application:

What makes the Wiki more powerful than other similar products, is the tight integration with Ektron CMS400. NET and its core engine. The Wiki takes advantage of features like search, taxonomy, and blogs, forums, as well as Content and Document Management.

Case Management:

This Case Management Starter Application is designed to facilitate collaboration among your clients and employees regarding issues that arise during the lifecycle of your projects. You now have a central repository for all issues as well as information associated with a project, and the collaboration dashboard between you and your stake holders.

In addition to the Social Networking Framework and the Starter Sites and Applications, many new enhancements have been made to the overall Ektron CMS400.NET feature set.

Take advantage of the enhancements made to the Ektron SearchControl, with added features like complete XML indexing, synonym searching and search suggestions. Optimize your communication with powerful enhancements to forums and deploy in confidence with improved DMS and site replication functionality.

Search:

Enhance your Web site visitors experience through search. Version 7.5 brings search capabilities to a whole new level on your site. Searching is faster and more accurate with the help of complete content indexing as well as powerful searching options such as synonym and suggested results.

Forums:

In addition to the already powerful forum functionality, version 7.5 brings forums to the enterprise level with enhancements like taxonomy integration, permissions, and ratings.

Document Management:

Ektron’s Document Management engine has been rebuilt from the ground up to work more efficiently with Ektron CMS400.NET. The ease of use has been improved, and the power and flexibility has been drastically enhanced to further meet your Document Management needs and improve overall user experience greatly reducing learning curve and increasing user adoption.

Photo Server:

Share your photos with friends, colleagues, and partners from one single location. Leverage the power of Ektron CMS400.NET to take advantage of the most powerful Web site application on the market.

eWebEditPro Upgrade:

Ektron’s award-winning WYSIWYG editor, the preferred choice by many content management solutions, has been upgraded with major performance enhancements to further meet your Web site authoring needs.

Site Replication Enhancements:

Replicate your Web site faster and more securely with improved functionality allowing you to remain free from other third-party applications that complicate your goal of a successful deployment.