Are you an organization that brands your corporate intranet ? If so, how far do you go :
- Customer logo and theme ?
- Full on new master pages, new CSS – you can barely tell it’s SharePoint ?
Really interested to know peoples thoughts. I can see the benefit for branding external facing, but internal is it worth the cost and effort (and potential upgrade issues) ?
I thought NewsGator was good as it’s service applications right inside SharePoint. The activity stream is very good and slightly better than SP13 one. There are some lovely additional features like turning an answered question stream into a permanent wiki with all data intact. NewsGator has a nice feature called Lookout which pulls all your content into one page like little widgets. Some of my fav features are:
- Gamification, awesome badges and proper weights to meet targets, Global or community level
- Broadcast, a way to post a comment to every activity stream on users mysite.
- Kudos, allows any user at any time to well give another user kudos
As with everything though it depends on what your looking for, the company i worked for at the time wanted an on premise product which wasn’t Yammer. The Yammer presentation we had was rather disappointing tbh, very poor SharePoint compatibility.
