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Overview
Blogging has become one of the preferred channels in Enterprises to share the experience and
knowledge and get instant feedback. Blogs also provide employees, customers and partners an
opportunity to voice their opinions and useful suggestions which can be very valuable for the
entire organization. Due to simplicity and huge benefits, Blogs have emerged as the preferred
choice for Enterprise for connecting with the people either inside or outside the organization.
Blogs also help you building communities of shared interests.
Blogs are easy to create and maintain as we don't need complex web design software
or editors.
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs
offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you
feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your
disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
SyncEx Blog Suite is a set of JSR-168/286 compliant portlets that can be easily deployed on
your Enterprise portal.
SyncEx Blog Suite is a powerful toolkit consists of all necessary widgets required for an
enterprise blogging solution. Portlets and widgets supplied with Blog Suite helps you
customizing blog as per your organizational requirements.
The important components included in this suite are as follows:
Blog Reader, Blog Authoring, Blog Administration, Archive, Recent Posts, Poll, RSS, Bookmarks
and Content Viewer.
These components can be combined together to create a complete professional looking Blog. In
case of the need of simpler solution, only Blog Reader portlet can be used as the customer
facing portlet.
These portlets can be mixed and matched according to the business needs at different parts of
the page which can maximize user experience. For example Poll gadget and RSS gadget can be
combined with the Blog reader portlet to create a composite application.
Apart from the core portlets Blog Author, Blog Search & Blog Admin, following are the other
components of SyncEx Blog Suite:
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RSS Gadget
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and
other Web content. SyncEx RSS gadget allows a blog publisher to pull content from various
other sources and show on his/her blog.
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Bookmark Gadget
SyncEx Bookmark portlet is a sophisticated yet intuitive favorite, and other referred resources
organizer that allows Blog publisher to share his/ her favorites with the rest of the world.
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HTML Gadget (Content Viewer)
It's an easy & simple way to create and display content on the blog page. It provides a mean to
Blog publishers to create and publish portal content without the knowledge of HTML. One can
add and edit the personalized content without much trouble.
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Recent Posts
As the name suggests, it displays the recently made posts by the author. Instead of showing the
complete post it shows a part of it that gives an idea about the post.
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Archive Gadget
As the name suggests, it displays the recently made posts by the author. Blogs are displayed in year and month tree structure. Instead of showing the
complete post it shows a part of it that gives an idea about the post. Blog publisher can decided
how many previous posts s/he wants to show on his/ her blog.
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Poll
SyncEx Poll gadget is a voting application to take the public opinion. Poll portlet provides users
with scientifically sampled survey to assess public opinion. Various customization options are
provided to tailor poll according to the blog publisher's need.
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SyncEx Blog Suite Features at a Glance
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JSR 168/286 Compliant application. |
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Blog Authoring & Publishing, Blog Reader, Blog Administration. |
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Community creation, Group blogging and Team blogging. |
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Fully customizable look and feel. |
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Multiple Blog Aggregation. |
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Search facility. |
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Pagination Feature to manage Blog data lists. |
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HTML Editor for creating the Blog. |
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AutoSuggest option in search page. |
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Include Recent Posts & Archive, Poll, Content Viewer, Bookmark, and RSS gadgets. |
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WEB2.0 based communication and social networking. |
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Specific fields to enter title and description of each Blog. |
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Insert objects like table, images and links to the content. |
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Save content as a draft to publish later. |
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Publish draft from within editing window or from view Blog window. |
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Option for using multiple blogs with different configuration inside the enterprise. |
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Supports comments from readers. |
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Provides statistics on view and comments. |
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Posts can be sorted on comments, date and views, on the SyncEx Blog Author portlet. |
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Supports multiple parallel instances of Blog. |
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Blog can be published inside intranet or over internet. |
