Gentlemen,
The New Beoworld Forum is now up and running, but clearly we need constructive feedback on any problems you discover. You will see that we have made some small chnages to the look and feel of the site and also you can go directly to many other pages outside the forum such as News and FAQ's
The key features of Community Server 2008 with Service Pack 3 are:-
- PM's (Personal Mail) becomes Conversations which allows more than two members are able to have a conversation between each other. As part of this upgrade process all members PM's have been converted to Conversations.
- Members effectively have their own home page where they can add their own announcements etc
- Many areas provide RSS feeds which are downloaded to local readers if the member requests a particular feed. There is a RSS feed logo wherever a feed is available.
- Where someone has asked a question and received an acceptable answer, that answer can be set to "Marked as Answer" so you can search for answers for a particular question
- You can your own "Friends List" and add a members to your friends list.
- We can now have advertisments at the top and/or bottom of the forum.
- We can setup several different "Look & Feel" themes which can be changed in real time at one click in the control panel. This is useful for example changing the way the forum looks on "Prize Draw" day or Christmas
- If we allow it, members can have their own "Blogs"
- We can setup "Groups" for example "The Wednesday Thread" Group
- There is now a Media centre for all kinds of documents including video, photos, PDF's and authorised members can have their
Media areas. Uploads to the media centre can be done and anyone can download items if we enable it. - The ability to integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 if we decide that would be an advantage
- Ability to stream video from the forum, so you could have an on-line video announcement for example.
- In CS 2008 we can sent bulk e-mail for Newsletters etc to members.
- Integrated search across blogs, forums, photos, and files in one consistent user interface
Location: Hampshire, England
