The NewsGator Ratings Feature enables ratings on all non-hidden lists within the community (versus going to each list and enabling them individually).

NewsGator Ratings Feature

The NewsGator Document Following site feature provides users the option to follow any individual document within the site. This feature is available in both community and non-community sites.

NewsGator Document Following

Frequently, users may want to see if a particular document has changed but not care about an entire document library. SharePoint 2013 implemented a “follow a document” behavior that creates events which Aurea Social can display in the activity stream.

For SharePoint 2010, Aurea Social includes a feature to let users do the same thing. To take advantage of this, users select the “Follow Document” option from actions menu for the document, when viewed in the document library. Users can come back at any time to stop following the document from the same control.

Frequently, users may want to see if a particular document has changed but not care about an entire document library. SharePoint 2013 implemented a “follow a document” behavior that creates events which Aurea Social can display in the activity stream.

For SharePoint 2010, Aurea Social includes a feature to let users do the same thing. To take advantage of this, users select the “Follow Document” option from actions menu for the document, when viewed in the document library. Users can come back at any time to stop following the document from the same control.

Select a document to follow

After a user has selected a document to follow, edits on that document show up both as an activity stream item and as a notification.

By contrast, edits on documents in communities the user follows shows in their activity stream, but without producing a notification.

Followed documents

The NewsGator Keywords Feature adds a Tags and Notes column on the standard tabular list view of non-hidden lists within the community (for Documents, Wikis, Tasks, etc.).

NewsGator Keywords Feature

Click on Tag and note

Clicking on the “tag and note” icon in this column brings up the control to view all the tags and comments on the item and to add more.

This makes it much easier to add social data to your document and list libraries, and to view the same.

Alternatively, you can add notes to a list item is if your organization has opted to have comments on list item add or edit events in the activity stream automatically become notes on the list item.

For further details, see SharePoint Social Integration Settings section under Configuring Farm Settings, above.

When displayed in a document library or wiki library, the Tags and Notes column also tells how many notes each document has (referring to them as comments). This makes it easy to find the document-centered discussions in a document library.

The NewsGator Community Context feature allows an administrator to include any sub-site within the context of the Community. This means that events on lists within the sub-site will generate activity stream items.

NewsGator community Context

In many organizations, a leader may have another person draft a blog post. The leader then reviews, edits (if necessary) and approves the blog post. The point of this exercise is to let an organizational leader express views and let users within the organization respond to those views. The “ghostwriter” feature makes this process easier.

To activate this feature, you must access the site features page of the blog site and activate the NewsGator Blog GhostWriter Drafts feature.

1. Go to the community tab that hosts your blog site.



Click Blog tab

2. On the blog tab, go to Site Actions > Site Settings.



Navigate to Site Settings

3. Click Manage site features on the settings page.



Click Manage site

4. Click the Activate button by the NewsGator Blog GhostWriter Drafts feature.



Click Activate

When this feature is enabled, a new drafts list is added. The original author creates the new blog post in this drafts list. When the draft is saved, the “on behalf of” field can be completed.

Specify the On Behalf Of field

A notification email and a stream event are sent to whomever is specified in the “on behalf of” field.

Notification that the draft is posted on behalf of the specified person

Email received on behalf of the one specified

When the approver goes to the drafts list, all the draft posts are displayed.

Select the post and click Approve/Reject

After selecting the post, clicking the Approve/Reject button gives the option to approve the post. When the post is approved, it is published as being written by the approver. This means that both the blog post and the activity stream event for creating the blog post are shown as being done by the approver.