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Special Interest Groups


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Group Collaboration

A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community established to enable the connection of members for the purpose of networking, group learning, and sharing ideas and information.

With this service a user can quickly have assembled all the components for a collaborative web workspace all under one roof for a select group of users.

Features

Feature

 Benefit
Collaboration Suite A group has pre-assembled a powerful collection of collaboration resources including:

  • Discussion Forum
  • File Library
  • Photo Gallery
  • Chat Room
  • Member List
  • Shared Calendar
  • Group Blog
  • Link Share
  • Group e-mail
  • Announcements
  • List Server
Group Creation Approval Allows Administrator to control what is created
Group Creation Fee Allows Administrator to charge a fee to create a group
Group Creation Key Allows Administrator to control who, or what class of user, may create a group. You can also determine how many groups users may create.
Group Join Key Allows Administrator to control who, or what class of user, may join any group.
Group Categories A group category tree makes it easy to locate groups of interest.
Detailed Audit Trail Know how your SIGs are being used. You can track: SIG create/edit/delete, member join/quit, new links, etc.
Public or Private Listing Control visibility of each SIG.

A SIG can be either listed or unlisted in the SIG directory.
Public or Private enrollment Control access to each SIG.

A SIG can be set to allow anyone to join the group without approval, or new members must first be approved by the SIG-owner.
Terms and Conditions A SIG can require members to accept certain Terms and Conditions before joining.
Group Logo Help groups build their own identity with their own logo.
Forum-to-library Archiving Collects relevent data for members.

SIGs support automatically copying Forum and List Server file attachments to the group's Library. That is, new messages with file attachments posted in either the group Forum or List Server will also have the file attachment copied to the group File Library. This makes finding important files easy.
SIG E-mail Distribution List Help members communicate en-mass easily with the group.

You have the option to automatically create a distribution list a SIG containing all the members within that SIG. This allows the SIG-OP (and optionally all the members) to send an e-mail message to all the members of the group.
Notifications Keeps members informed.

Users can be notified when new SIGs are created, SIG announcements are posted, new shared links are added, new photos, files, forum messages, etc.
Link Share Allow members to organize and maintain a collection of useful web addresses for the group
Group Calendar Keeps members informed.

Shared calendar of the group is especially powerful when combined with its automatic event reminders.