Jan 02
Welcome to 2009.
You can now view this blog in a visual timeline way on Lifeblob. Checkout:
Dec 24
As Jags said we are looking to add some interesting features to make the Injoos team-ware experience even better. Here are few of them we are working on which we will be delivering shortly:
Group - Sub Groups: We realize that organizations needs a ability to create smaller teams form their members to work on specific projects or initiative. The group - sub group feature will allow you to create multiple sub groups under any group and get all the collaboration tools for this sub group. Access controls can be setup for the same.
Customization: We understand the need for teams to personalize their workspaces and website. Keeping this in mind we will bring in customization to the Injoos team-ware. The groups can add banners, logos and choose color that reflect their identity.
Binary search: While we have powerful search to look into all the information that gets generated. We plan to enhance the same to search inside the stored documents.
Open ID: Registering with Injoos will become easier we will be enabling logging in through User ID and password of popular websites like Google and Yahoo through the implementation of Open ID standard.
RSS out: Look for easily sharing updates with other or tracking them through the RSS out feature for the showcase items.
Dec 24
What a year it was ! Burning midnight oil in our first office we put heart and soul in building the first avatar of Injoos team-ware. On June 5th 2008 we launched Injoos in it’s limited Alpha mode and received a torrent of feedback from enthusiastic supporters. This made our booth in the Startup City event to receive the highest footfall. With all the collated feedback we started enhancing Injoos team-ware with the goal of getting out of Alpha into the first release by end of the year.
This year also gave us an opportunity to interact with you and get to know your needs better. With your continued support we aspire to make Injoos team-ware as the preferred solution for collaboration needs of teams world-wide. We now recognize that Injoos is the leader in Enterprise2.0 software segment from India.
We want to make 2009 even more exiting for you and your teams. Expect a whole host of new cutting edge features on the platform very soon.
Thanks/Dhanyavaad/Shukriya and wishing you a very Happy New Year !
Dec 16
We have launched the Injoos corporate website which provides exhaustive details on the Injoos team-ware product and pricing. You will also find various use cases for the product, Faqs and information for partners.
We believe that Injoos team-ware provides the most comprehensive and cost effective collaboration solution for SMBs, Educational institutions and NGOs. Checkout:
Nov 18
As I have said earlier our focus at Injoos has been to continue to innovate and add new useful functionalities to the Injoos team-ware platform. The weekend release code named “Blue” added a host of features which include:
- Rich text editor for news – bullet, number list, hyperlink, annotate and change the colour of your content. Edit the content in a full page editor. You can also submit your story in any Indian language using Unicode.
- Calendar changes – Events functionality has now been enhanced to include reminder notifications and recurring meetings. There is also an option to sync the event with a desktop client like iCal or Outlook. View the event listing as a daily view or a monthly calendar view.
- Searching communities became easier with the category view (default). View a list of communities by category. View the profiles and join communities that match your interests. Switch to the card view when required.
- Enahanced community member profile - now view greater detail of your fellow community members on the member center. Of course this is subject to if the member has chosen to make his profile public and viewable by all community members
- View documents inside Injoos – Zoho viewer now integrated with Injoos. You can now read documents, browse spreadsheets or see presentations from inside Injoos. All without the necessity of having a Microsoft Office or Open Office or any other productivity suite.
- Import news and articles into your community through RSS. The moderator of the group can add RSS feeds on topics related to interests of the community. News from the feeds can be selected and posted into the community for consumption by all. Filter news from around the world through RSS into your community
- Spotlight – Information related to other communities on Injoos or promotions on Injoos brought to you through Injoos Spotlight
We hope you benefit from these and other features and continue to provide us your valuable feedback and support.
Nov 10
Case 2: Progressive large organization
This is a fairly large organization with more than 10000+ people. The organization recognized early the need of a dedicated employee communication cell. The team came up with a plan of using multiple delivery mechanisms for communicating with the employees. The email messages were replaced with online campaigns with polls and feedback, the regular town hall sessions were now webcast live, online chat sessions were arranged with the CEO and Senior Managers etc.
Well all this did give a fillip and excited the younger employee more in interacting with the senior leaders but like everything else it did fade out. There were some inherent problems for e.g. with webcast it was seen as impersonal and distancing with no direct feedback mechanism. Even the chat did not gain in popularity as high level of moderation was clearly evident. So what went wrong ? Well for organized orchestrated communication meetings and events does not engage the entire organization. What still works is personal communications by line managers in smaller groups of people.
If this can be complimented with online groups platform where team constantly engage with each other and their managers the pressure on the employee communication cell as the sole mouth piece of the organization goes down. This team can now focus on gathering data through an organization wide group network and analyze to find patterns and then insert the proper messages at the points where it makes an impact. For example if a group is posting news items and stories on it’s news board it also gets a message from the communication cell clearly marked as one of the news items. If it interests the group the team starts to comment on the item and rate it up so that to stay on top of their message heap. A very effective way to create a sticky message!
Nov 10
We at Injoos are trying to showcase “Power of Groups” through a campaign “Power of the people”. This is a theme based campaign where people have to create groups based on themes like Technology, Entertainment and People to name a few. The contest will illustrate the Power of Groups. It will showcase the news and information created by groups and the value created by it.
Injoos is also inviting the Students across different educational institutes in Bangalore, India. The most valuable Student Group will be identified and awarded as “The Best College group”.
The Campaign opens on November 10th and closes on December 10th, 2008. Registration for the contests has already started and the further details can be downloaded from Injoos website www.injoos.com/power.
Nov 04
Here is Part - 1 of series of blogs I plan to post on this subject.
Current scenario:
- People in general are better informed now than before.
- Speed of viral messaging.
- Faster speed of communication through SMS, Twitter,
- Everyone has an opinion. Blogs!
- Management still stuck with old paradigms and old notions.
- Nothing beats a personal touch even today in the digital age.
- How do we handle scale, multi geo communication?
Some of the best practices used in leading companies:
Case 1: Small sized IT firm
The organization in it’s infancy has 200+ IT professionals and has been growing. The internal Information systems team had setup couple of online Bulletin boards. Basically this was implemented using Microsoft outlook shared folders visible to all. The employee and management bot could post messages, the Bulletin board was divided into various section line Official, Buy and Sell, Sports & Interests, General etc. There were also email IDs published for various functions such as Canteen, facilities etc. The employees could send emails to these concerned person or team using these mails ids. There was bulletin board usage guidelines published. Anyone violating the norms was communicated by the HR team.
Since the general culture of the organization was open people tended to discuss issues of concern on the bulletin board for e.g. quality of food deteriorating in the canteen and the response of the food manager. Th HR person kept regular tab on these messages and immediately caught any issues early before it blew into a major fiasco. The HR Manager also quickly brought relevant issues to the notice of senior managers to take actions and communicate back to the concerned parties.
The advantage of the electronic medium from this example is obvious that the manage could detect issues early and come up with solutions. But the fact is that it takes a daring employee to go and raise issue in the bulletin board. What if there was mechanism where casual discussions or chats happening between employees could be looked at to see if there are common patterns and identify issues. Something like having casual canteen discussions and see what the hot topic is.
These things are now possible in the online world with web2.0 tools used widely in social networks and social media sites. For example rating news posted bubbles up the hit news to the top or looking at a tag cloud shows what are the hot topics being discussed. If mechanism like these are adopted inside organizations for example having a platform to support organization wide groups and teams will help HR and senior management unravel many of these issues way in advance, get feedback on policies implemented etc, Thus overall improving the communication with the employes.
Oct 31
Injoos today took the vision of Gov. of Karnataka to take the world famous Hampi Utsav to the people around the globe lauching the website www.hampiutsav.com. The website features the Injoos groups platform where the news will be updated live on the showcase page hampiutsav.injoos.com with the content contributed not just by the official media team but by any individual attending the event.
Some of the press coverage for the website:
Oct 17
Here is an easter egg on Injoos. You can create groups where members can communicate comfortably in their regional languages. This means that you can not say pickup a regional news content but also comment and discuss in your language. This happens as Injoos supports unicode technology. Please install Barahawhich supports major Indian languages on your machine. For e.g. checkout dasara.injoos.com which has posts in Kannada language.
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