LEVERAGE SOFTWARE EXPANDS ITS SOCIAL NETWORKING AND COMMUNITY FUNCTIONALITY WITH RELEASE VERSION 5.3
New Features include Chat, Polling, Customization, Enhanced Reporting and Moderation
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 3, 2006 – Leverage Software, a leading provider of enterprise social networking and online community solutions, today released a new set of enhancements to its CustomerConnect and EventConnect products. The latest release adds significant enhancements for end-users and community managers, including improvements for enhanced collaboration, user interaction and adoption, reporting and moderation.
“We are simply listening to our customers and our end users,” said Mike Walsh, CEO and founder of Leverage Software. “In direct response to the feedback that we receive from our customer base and users within Leverage Software communities, we are very excited about the enhancements that increase the value to both community end users as well as community managers. We strive to continually provide our customers with the most robust, configurable, and best online community platform on the market, and this release provides us with the ability to contribute to that goal.
“We are always focused on providing our customers with the best software in the industry,” said Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO and founder, “and this release adds valuable new features to our expanding product suite. As always, with our hosted, software-as-a-service model, all enhancements are immediately available to all communities powered by our software.”
Group Chat
Community members may now connect with one another in real-time, through the Group Chat feature. The Integrated AJAX-based chat system requires no downloads or plug-ins of any kind.
Integrated Opinion Polls
Community administrators may now better solicit and understand the opinions and ideas of their community members by creating and delivering opinion polls. Multiple polls may be activated at one time, and data is summarized in real-time.
Group Reporting and Moderation
Administrators may immediately review group activity in aggregate, or drill-down. All items may be moderated.
Improved Customization and Configurability
Community owners may now customize the navigation section of their system, and activate, deactivate, and rename features with one click.
These newly released features expand Leverage Software's already robust social-networking and community platform which is powering the communities of more than 100 companies across the technology, media, and consumer industries. Features of the core platform include member profile space, online matchmaking and community visualization tools, ability to request introductions and set up meetings, robust groups functionality and threaded discussions, networking calendar functionality, email and RSS notifications, a collaborative space for document, photo and video file sharing, a targeted messaging platform and revenue-generating sponsorship engine, and robust customer analytics.
About Leverage Software
Leverage Software is the leader in enterprise-class social networking and community solutions, powering the online communities for over 100 companies in technology, media, consumer products, financial services and pharmaceutical industries including Microsoft, HP, Sun, SAP, Autodesk, Salesforce.com, Charles Schwab, McKesson, VNU, IDG, InfoWorld, Dow Jones and The New York Times.
With two innovative products - CustomerConnect for ongoing communities of purpose and EventConnect for extending the life of face-to-face and online events - Leverage Software empowers customers to create online communities where members can meet, build relationships, share ideas, contribute content, and learn from one another, while giving companies a way to drive incremental revenue through incremental sponsorships and targeted cross-sell messaging, increase customer satisfaction and retention, and glean valuable customer insight. Leverage Software is based in San Francisco and on the web at www.leveragesoftware.com
Media Contacts:
Mike Walsh
mwalsh@leveragesoftware.com
415.602.7060
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