LEVERAGE SOFTWARE RELEASES NEW SUITE OF COMMUNITY 'WEB 2.0' FUNCTIONALITY WITH VERSION 5.5
Blogs, private groups, interactive chat enhancements, and other features empower users to communicate and express themselves in new ways.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 5, 2006 – Leverage Software, the leading provider of enterprise social networking and online community solutions, today announced it had released version 5.5 of its industry-leading community-building platform. This version provides end-users with new ways to network, communicate, and express themselves.
"Our goal is simple,” said Mike Walsh, CEO and founder of Leverage Software. "We want to continue to ensure our customers have the most robust set of online community functionality in the world. By seamlessly integrating features like community blogs, private groups, and other features into our on-demand solution, every Leverage Software customer can offer these features to their own communities quickly and easily. No new software to buy, nothing new to install. This is our promise to each and every Leverage Software customer -- not only are we going to give you the best solution in the world today, but we're going to continue to innovate with you, so that you can focus on engaging with your customers, not spending time on software."
The flexibility of the platform provides even more opportunity to customers, adds Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO and founder, remarking on the 'mash-up' capabilities of the system. Our features are always coupled with a set of 'cut-and-paste' widgets -- which means you can use any of our features -- blogs, groups, interactive chat, file sharing -- in the way that makes the most sense to you."
New features in this release include:
Community Blogs
Every community member may now, with just a few clicks, create a blog within their community. The blog system is fully-integrated with all other components of the system, providing opportunities for community owners to engage with potential bloggers who may themselves not have individual blogs.
Private Groups
Community members may now create 'invite-only' groups -- empowering individuals to create a private sandbox for specific or sensitive topics within their community.
Interactive Chat Enhancements
The Leverage Software interactive chat system is 100% AJAX-based, which means users need never install a plug-in of any kind. Enhancements to this system now provide for 'photo previews' of other individuals within a chat room, as well as numerous other enhancements to improve the user experience.
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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