Marketing and Communication

Intranet, extranet and portal applications that can deliver specific benefits to the Marketing and Communications departments within your organisation. Learn some of the features of these highly configurable, pre-built business ready applications.

Acronyms and Glossary

Delivering a searchable dictionary of industry or organisation specific acronyms or jargon the SORCE Acronyms and Glossary application provides a one stop shop for internal reference or new staff training.

Key features of the acronyms and glossary application include:

• Centrally storing alphabetical terms used throughout the business reduces confusion with industry or organisation specific jargon or terminology
• Multiple descriptions for acronyms to highlight their use in different contexts enabling staff to quickly understand key terminology

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Announcements

Deliver key messages to individuals, groups or your entire intranet, extranet or portal with the SORCE Announcements application. Announcements promoting new business wins, important visitors, CEO messages, company performance news or even new system functionality can be seamlessly broadcast to your staff.

Key announcement features include:

• Categorising announcements enables them to be delivered to different audiences or different pages ensuring your message is delivered to your target audience
• Priority announcements deliver important information fast, delivering employees instant awareness of crucial news

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Article Publisher

For any authorised user, quickly creating rich media news articles is simple with the SORCE Article Publisher application. With online workflow built within the application, articles can be sent to line managers, marketing or a specific individual for review before publication ensuring only accurate content is shown.

Key article publisher features include:

• Content authorisation workflow to ensure the quality and accuracy of your news stories
• Time sensitive news can be released and expired when it suits you ensuring your intranet, extranet or portal is always up-to-date
• Articles grouped in categories and tagged with knowledge tags to help individuals find content that is relevant to them
• Integration to other applications enhances the accessibility of documents, images and other key intranet, extranet or portal content

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Bulletin Boards

Sharing department specific news or content with colleagues is simple with the SORCE Bulletin Boards application. Information can be publically displayed or shown to specific departments or individuals providing you with a greater level of control over the messages target audience. Messages can either be permanent or have an expiry date to help ensure that only relevant messages are shown.

Key bulletin board features include

• Complete access control is provided for each board, ensuring individuals only see information that is relevant for them
• Bulletins can be automatically released and expired on predetermined dates helping to ensure only the most relevant content is shown
• Integrating directly into the SORCE Media Library, bulletins can be enriched with images

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Contacts Directory

Centrally manage and access your organisations contacts from one location with the fully configurable SORCE Contacts Directory application. Associated with their relevant organisations, contacts can be grouped into teams or departments providing your employees easy access to individuals contact information.  The powerful predictive search functionality from within department or project pages delivers up-to-date contact information on demand.

Key contact directory features include:

• Powerful predictive search ensures up-to-date contact information is always at individuals fingertips
• Upon login, individuals can be made to automatically update their details on a regular basis to ensure contact information is kept up-to-date
• Allow individuals to maintain next of kin information which is accessible only to authorised HR individuals
• Store information relating to organisations you work closely with enabling staff to instantly find their contact information

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eBulletins

Promoting your recent intranet, extranet or portal news stories is easy with the SORCE e-Bulletins application. The e-Bulletins application enables you to automatically gather and brand news stories from across your system and send them off to your employees or other interested parties via email.

Key eBulletins features include:

• Extract content from key news articles to share with people outside of the organisation or with colleagues who do not have intranet access.
• Automatically gather and promote content from your intranet, extranet or portal to your users, increasing awareness and promoting collaboration between your staff, clients or other interested parties
• Brand your communications with email templates ensuring your brand message is consistent
• Ebulletins include link back to intranet, extranet or portal content increasing the awareness and traffic to your system

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Feedback

Collect feedback from staff for different areas of your organisation delivering these to the relevant individuals, groups or departments. Implementing the SORCE Feedback application delivers a clear route for staff to engage with your organisation.

Key feedback features include:

• Provide different feedback categories to ensure comments are directly sent to relevant individuals
• Capture comments from all individuals on your system to increase your understanding of their needs and wants
• Feedback can also be captured on various categories, understanding the strengths and weaknesses in different areas

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Forums

Share and collaborate with different individuals providing new solutions to challenges faced within the organisation. The SORCE Forums application delivers a collaborative environment connecting individuals around your business facilitating moderated posts on numerous subjects or issues. Project forums enable quick and easy collaboration between different parties involved in the project.

Key forums features include

• Create multiple subjects on to which employees can collaborate on, providing a quick method of collaboration across your organisation
• Moderate content and show individuals only relevant information to their function within the organisation
• Delivering social forums helps employees forge connections around the business

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Media Library

As the centralised repository for all your organisations rich media, the SORCE Media Library provides approved media in the format of your choice, without compromising the original. Media is stored within searchable categories, enabling your content to be easily found.

Key media library features include

• Simple to use conversion tools within the application ensure your media is displayed and stored in a format to suit you
• The powerful image manipulation provides the ability to crop, rotate, resize and mirror images ensuring your images always look their best
• Drag and drop media into third party applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint ensuring your media is easily accessible
• Automatically generated thumbnails for your media provide a fast and convenient reference when browsing your library

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Polls

Gather opinions and foster interaction with the SORCE Poll application. Create and manage both text and picture polls to get feedback on key issues affecting your organisation.

Key poll features include

• Manage the release and expiry dates providing time specific feedback from your audience
• Results delivered via email, after submission or after the poll has closed to feedback the general consensus to your voters
• Fully configurable enabling vote changing, opinion adding and anonymity to add new dimensions to your poll

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Page Creator

Tailor your message to your audience with the powerful configuration options of the SORCE Page Creator application. Deliver department specific or project based pages in the style of your choice without the need for any technical skills.

Key page creator features include

• Utilise your existing template library and site styles to create unique pages tailored to delivering your specific message
• Enhance your pages with seamless integration to your existing intranet, extranet or portal applications
• Page knowledge tags ensure your content is associated with key phrases searched by your target audience

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