Community Central
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Harness the power of Community Central and SharePoint to create a centralized, easy-to-use framework for information sharing.
 
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Revolutionize your enterprise network community to share knowledge, build relationships and maximize business results with Community Central for SharePoint.

Available for SharePoint 2010, Bamboo Community Central for SharePoint helps you set up a centralized, easy-to-use community site in minutes—saving you valuable time and costly development resources. Community Central is a flexible, scalable, and affordable knowledge-sharing application, complete with forums, blogs, and social networking features like ratings and scoring for top contributors. Use Community Central for internal or external communities, for training or networking with peers and industry experts, or as a secure and searchable repository for enterprise knowledge.

Centralized administrative and client site
Enterprise Communications

Close the gap between you, your business and your customers. Build a global communications network in just a few steps using pre-built site templates.

Blogs and Forums

Elevate important forum topics with Sticky, and Suggest and Verify Answers to forum questions. Subject matter experts can share their knowledge via embedded video, and authors can subscribe to automatically receive forum email alerts.

Comments and Ratings

Empower your audience to enter comments and rate blog posts and forum topics to promote the most relevant information.

Searchability

Search individual sites or the whole community with refined and accelerated search features.

Central Control Panel

Administrators can update site settings, manage blog and forum sites, control statistics, and control security from a centralized control panel.

Community Statistics

Display statistics about community activity, easily identify relevant content by traffic and ratings, and track top contributors.

PLATFORM & BROWSER
SharePoint 2010 Compatibility Community Central is compatible with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.
CUSTOMIZATION & PERSONALIZATION
Site Templates Community Central, Blog, and Forum site templates allows you to easily group and customize content for different parts of your organization, different audiences, and different information security requirements.
Includes new site templates for German, Russian and Arabic.
Customization Administrators can customize banners and messages, navigation links, and titles.
COMMUNITY STATISTICS
Community Statistics View daily and total activity summaries per blog or forum site and for the entire community.
Content Relevance Identify the most popular blogs and forum topics based on views, replies and ratings.
Most Active Users Track the most active contributors using scoring with points assigned for blog and forum activities such as new posts, replies or comments, or verified answers.
FORUMS
Forums and Forum Sites Users can ask questions and receive verified answers in community forums powered by Bamboo Discussion Board Plus. Collect related forums in forum sites, which are displayed in a central Forum Home site and on the Community Home site for easy navigation.
Topic and Post Status
View the status of topics at a glance with helpful icons and tooltips:
New topic No New Update Sticky Topic Locked Topic
Posts are clearly marked so readers can identify the content most relevant to them:
Unanswered Verified as Correct Answer Suggested as Answer
Insert Video
Insert and play video in a topic or post using the following insert options:
Video Library option Computer option Link option Embed Code option
From Video Library From Computer From Link From Embed iFrame Code
Automatically subscribe authors to email alerts Provides the ability to automatically subscribe authors to receive email alerts on their topics.
View Counts Statistics are updated immediately to show the number of topic views, including views from anonymous users.
Integration with Bamboo Rating Column
Select from three types of rating controls to rate forum topics and posts:
True/False Rating 5-Star Rating 10-Point Rating Scale
BLOGS
Blog Sites Share information with the community using SharePoint Blog sites. Posts from blog sites are aggregated in a central Blog Home site, and links to blog sites are displayed on the Community Home site for easy navigation.
CAPTCHA Community Central integrates CAPTCHA technology as security for comments and to repel attacks from spam bots.
Navigation Options View blog posts by date or category and easily identify most recent, most viewed, and top-rated posts.
Integration with Bamboo Rating Column
Select from 3 types of rating controls to rate blog posts:
True/False Rating 5-Star Rating 10-Point Rating Scale
SUBSCRIBE & SEARCH
RSS Feed Set up an RSS feed to receive relevant information instantaneously.
Search Multiple search options to let users search globally (in all forum and blog sites) or locally (just "this" forum or blog site). Search results include content from forum topics and posts and blog posts and comments.
ADMINISTRATION & MODERATION
Control Panel Administrator can control the settings and permissions for all Community Central and individual forum and blog sites using a central Control Panel.
Navigation User-friendly navigation, including tab strips and breadcrumbs, so your audience can quickly get to the information they need.
MEMBER OPTIONS & SECURITY
Forms-based Authentication (FBA) Supports Forms-based Authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2010 for Community Central sites for both intranet and extranet.
Allow Anonymous Users Anonymous users can read Community Central forums and blogs (except locked forum topics which require a read account setup).
User Profiles Associate SharePoint user profile information, including profile pictures, with blog and forum posts.

Who can benefit from Community Central for SharePoint:

  • Organizations that want to keep their users up-to-date and self-sufficient by providing the answers they need online—whenever they need them.
  • Emergent businesses that want to hook their audience, attract new customers, and use social media tools to provide instant and up-to-date information.
  • Hosting providers that want to save time and money by supplying an active user base with instant answers to commonly asked questions or problems.
  • Companies that want to strengthen their customer service abilities by sharing knowledge internally and with external partners and customers.
  • E-learning institutions that want to provide students the ability to download training materials and share knowledge in "Birds-of-a-Feather" private discussions.
Product Description Price Order
SharePoint Foundation 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010
Server License for SP2010 - 20 blog sites and 20 forums max per site collection Software, Release 1.1 for SharePoint 2010 - per server license. This license is valid for use of the software to create up to 20 blog sites and 20 forums per site collection. There is no limit to the number of site collections the software may be activated on, but a license must be purchased for each active Web front-end server. Includes one year of basic technical support for SharePoint 2010 providing a 2-business-day response time and free access to all maintenance service pack releases. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase. (SA15.R1.1.20.SP2010.ML) $4,995.00
 
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Trial Download for SharePoint 2010 - 20 blog sites and 20 forums max per site collection 30-Day Free Trial Download for SharePoint 2010 (SA15.R1.1.20.SP2010.TD) FREE
 
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Premium Annual Support for SP2010 - 20 blog sites and 20 forums max per site collection Premium technical support for SharePoint 2010 provides 4-hour response time and free maintenance updates, minor and major releases. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase. (SA15.R1.1.20.SP2010.SP) $1,248.00
 
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Server License for SP2010 - 100 blog sites and 100 forums max per site collection Software, Release 1.1 for SharePoint 2010 - per server license. This license is valid for use of the software to create up to 100 blog sites and 100 forums per site collection. There is no limit to the number of site collections the software may be activated on, but a license must be purchased for each active Web front-end server. Includes one year of basic technical support for SharePoint 2010 providing a 2-business-day response time and free access to all maintenance service pack releases. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase. (SA15.R1.1.100.SP2010.ML) $14,995.00
 
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Premium Annual Support for SP2010 - 100 blog sites and 100 forums max per site collection Premium technical support for SharePoint 2010 provides 4-hour response time and free maintenance updates, minor and major releases. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase. (SA15.R1.1.100.SP2010.SP) $3,748.00
 
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Server License for SharePoint 2010 - Unlimited Software, Release 1.1 for SharePoint 2010 - per server license. This license is valid for use of the software to create unlimited blog sites and unlimited forums per site collection. There is no limit to the number of site collections the software may be activated on, but a license must be purchased for each active Web front-end server. Includes one year of basic technical support for SharePoint 2010 providing a 2-business-day response time and free access to all maintenance service pack releases. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase. Please contact our Sales team for pricing details. (SA15.R1.1.SP2010.ML) Call for Quote

 
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