Tracking Document Changes in SharePoint
Published by the illumio team on July 23, 2008 -- Tagged ,If your company is like a lot of large organizations today, you have one or more groups using Microsoft SharePoint as an intranet platform for document management and user-generated content. According to a recent Forrester Research Report, SharePoint use is growing fast, but it comes with some integration and adoption challenges for organizations.
One of these challenges is turning SharePoint into a true collaboration solution that helps your employees streamline existing workflows and productively connect with the right people and information. This is where illumio can help.
I was talking to an energy company last week that is struggling with how to get more value out of their multiple SharePoint deployments. My suggestion was to use the aggregation capabilities of illumio to quickly filter all the wikis, blogs and documents in SharePoint to give each employee a personalized view of the most relevant information.
Imagine having a single web page that shows you the most important document, wiki, and blog updates that have happened across your organization, all prioritized based on your specific interests. This is what illumio gives you. Whether you have one or multiple SharePoint deployments in your company, illumio’s recommendation engine can pull in all that SharePoint content and show you what is most relevant to your job.
We’ve also developed a few web parts that import your illumio content rankings directly into SharePoint, so instead of using illumio as your home page, you can display the illumio recommendations within a SharePoint personalized dashboard.
Either way, illumio is a nice complement to SharePoint for filtering content and making sure you can stay on top of the updates you need to know about.
Video of illumio, the RSS Reader that Filters Feeds
Published by the illumio team on July 1, 2008 -- Tagged , , ,For a quick rundown on the features and benefits of using illumio as an individual productivity tool, we’ve created a quick 5-minute video and put it up on YouTube.
In this video, I walk through the illumio user interface, covering topics like:
- How to add RSS feeds
- How illumio filters RSS feeds to show you the most interesting news
- How the illumio plug-in automates the filtering process
- The different ways to view and sort news stories in illumio
- Some of the social features in illumio like commenting and forwarding
- How you can tap into the illumio community to get your questions answered
So check out the video, and if you like what you see, give illumio a try, it’s a free download.
Advanced RSS Filtering Features of illumio, the Smart Feed Reader
Published by the illumio team on June 6, 2008 -- Tagged , ,Many illumio users are subscribing to RSS feeds via public illumio groups. illumio groups are an easy and free way to create a bundle of RSS feeds on a specific topic and share them with others.
But one downside to joining a group is that there may be a few feeds within the group that you don’t want to get. With illumio filtering the feeds to only show you the articles that match your interests, hopefully you aren’t seeing this problem a lot, but sometimes it does become annoying.
Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem. There are some nice advanced filtering options within illumio that let you adjust your filtering at the feed level. To do this, simply click ‘Less Like This’ when you see a feed article that doesn’t interest you.
Within the ‘Less like This’ window (shown here), you have a few different options. One is to select keyword phrases from the article to add to your Ignore List. By doing this, you are telling illumio to ignore this keyword phrase in the future. If a new article arrives that contains this keyword phrase, illumio will ignore it and only recommend the article to you if other keyword phrases within the article are a strong match to your interests.
Another option is to change the matching threshold for the RSS feed by clicking ‘Change This’ at the top of the window. This means illumio will no longer recommend articles from this feed to you if they only match at 1 star. You can even set the threshold to 3 stars, so only the best matching articles will pass through the illumio filter and be recommended to you.
The final option is to pause the feed completely so that you never see any articles from this feed. This is the easy solution for unsubscribing to specific feeds in an illumio group without having to unsubscribe from the entire group. Click the ‘Change This’ link and then the ‘Pause’ option to do this.