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How Jive Social Business Suite 4.0 Looks
in Microsoft Office, on iPhone
by Clint Boulton
Jive Within Office
Jive Microsoft Office Connector is a software module that lets SBS 4.0 users work on any Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet or presentation in Jive or from their desktop. The plug-in allows users to share content in Jive SBS with one click of the save button. Users can add editors, add tags, write descriptions and manage document versions.
Office Within Jive
Here is what Microsoft Office looks like in the context of Jive. The Office content is pictured in Jive SBS 4.0, which runs in the browser. Users can bookmark, rate and see similar content. Users can also make in-line comments while automatically syncing comments with the desktop plug-in.
Building Social Bridges
Bridged discussions are embedded within a new discussion thread in the other community. Both threads remain connected and responses can be published back to the original thread.
The Jive Community
Click a menu at the bottom left of the screen to bridge a discussion from one community to another.
Jive on the iPhone
Jive Mobile consists of a native iPhone application and a variety of new e-mail authoring and notification capabilities for Jive content. It also allows users to update their status, alerting their teams to their location and progress on projects.
What You Can Do with Jive Mobile
Jive's iPhone application lets users track activity, view user profiles, preview and comment on content, write blogs, comment on Microsoft Office documents, and search for people, places and content.
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Jive Software Oct. 28 unveiled Jive Social Business Suite 4.0 with a number of features, including integration with Microsoft Office, and a version tailored for Apple's iPhone. Jive also fortified its Jive Bridging module. Marketing and sales teams can now go out to public Jive communities and pull conversations about customer issues or channel partner needs back into their private Jive communities for internal discussion behind the firewall. They can then push their organized responses back out to the Web. Here are the key new features of Jive SBS 4.0, in pictures.