Freestone Social : Features

The Member Dashboard aggregates content on a single landing page, which creates a relevant and comprehensive overview of the community for each individual member. Members have the ability to customize their Dashboard through drag-and-drop technology.

• Personalized drag and drop widgets
• My Feeds
• My Contacts
• My Groups
• Featured Resources

Member Profiles visually display the member’s demographic information, interests, community actions and organizational involvement to other members, suppliers (if applicable), and the public/future members (if applicable). If allowed, guests can register for a community profile.

• Member profiles avatars requested on first entry
• Set Featured Members
• Profile recommendations from member-to-member
• Social media integration (YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, more)
• Personalized vanity URLs

Collaborative Groups are portals for members to interact around a particular topic allowing them to contribute discussions, documents and links. Groups can be admin-created or user-created and admin-moderated, user-moderated or not moderated.

• Public/private/hidden groups
• Vast privacy control mechanisms for group admins
• Group Discussion forums
• Group Resource Libraries
• Wiki’s and Live Documents for Real-time editing
• Group Polls and surveys
• Vanity URLs
• Group invitations, request to join management system

Members configure their Email notification preferences to determine how and when community messages arrive in their Email inbox.

• E-mail notifications
• New contact requests
• New messages
• Group invites
• New recommendations
• Instant, daily, or weekly e-mail digests of all e-mail notifications

Polls offer your organization a quick tool to gather feedback from your members. Your staff or your members can create single question/multi-answer polls.

• Customize all poll information
• Set survey options for visibility
• Publish results customized by poll

Discussions allow for dialogue around courses, channels, topics, or interests. Discussion Forums reside within a Collaborative Group.

• All members can create topics
• Topic details include title, description, replies, new posts, last author
• Attach files to topics
• Reply to, quote, attach file, or delete topic with priveledges
• Keyword searchable
• Subscribe to topics for e-mail notifications and follow updates
• Set custom notifications by topic

Help members manage content by leveraging automatic content distribution tools. Remain the content curator while allowing members to efficiently receive the most pertinent and relevant content they want to access. In addition, members import RSS feeds from external or community sources into their Member Dashboard to aggregate and manage additional content.

• RSS and e-mail notification of e-mail content alerts
• Members can subscribe in their own readers for content alerts
• Instant/daily/weekly digest options
• Administrative generated or User-Generated Content alert categories

If you look Google Docs but want to own and control the documents… or if you need Version control, you will appreciate the value of your own Live Document system. Live Documents allows for permission-based editing and commenting on resources in real-time.

• Version control, version number, date, time of edit
• Commenting system with each version
• Real-time viewing of edits
• Upload new versions, permission based

This is YOUR community. Every feature can be administered to work the way you prefer.

• Create other Community Administrators
• Create Moderators, and Set privacy/security settings
• Manage members, member types, permissions
• Manage organizations, content and associated permissions
• Manage Resources, tags, comments
• Manage groups – set features available to a group, moderators, and privacy/permissions

Take advantage of the vibrant activity that is taking place in your community with powerful reporting tools.

• Export member rosters
• Export all reports to Excel
• Adminated/3D graphic displays
• Over 35 pre-defined standard reports built-in