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Mike Heck, a contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center, begins by saying, "Naturally, communities are all about the social experience, and [Community Server 2008] has a number of ways to build those relationships."

Here's a snippet of what he found when he tested our proven social computing platform:

1. "Community Server's profile page is the focal point of interacting with others; for instance, a 'wall' lets others post notes to you.
2. It's simple to create micro-communities.
3. You can micro-blog -- send brief text updates that are available only to your restricted groups.
4. Community Server includes basic search and a more advanced enterprise search engine
5. Community Server comes with a tag cloud, a pre-packaged widget that displays in the left or right sidebar of your Web pages.
6. [Regarding extensibility], you can write your own widgets or import them into Community Server 2008 from other sources, including Google Gadgets, SpingWidgets, and Widgetbox."

Mike also had the opportunity to test drive the beta of Community Server Evolution, our SharePoint integration application. He was able to view his Community Server forum threads and reply -- all without leaving SharePoint.

He goes on to say: "I had the same good experience working with blogs. Going the other direction, 'event receivers' let users see their SharePoint lists and document libraries in Community Server."

Finally, Mike tried out Harvest Reporting Server reports and had this to say: "These social analytics, presented as interactive charts, would be very helpful for external communities. Some of the same 50 core reports can provide measurable intelligence for in-house social networks -- perhaps departmental blogs that have high activity or content that doesn't rouse any interest."

And the nail in our competitors' coffins?

"Community Server 2008's social features that are popular on external sites proved an excellent fit for intranets, too. Community Server 2008 Intranet Edition's SharePoint integration [aka, Evolution] is superior. This fact, plus better overall customization via the REST API, pushes Community Server to the top of our enterprise social software list for now."

We couldn't agree more!

Read the rest of Mike Heck's "Lab test: Telligent Community Server 2008 spurs collaboration" here.

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