This page details the features and requirements for SPIN / Communities. For details on the User Interface, please see the User Interface page. See the attached SPIN strategy, Feature Description, PDMA IT Projects, and Considerations for Events for additional details. Please also see the SPIN prototype at http://www.pdma.us for features (template is Fusion Core just for prototyping)
Features
M - MUST have this.
S - SHOULD have this if at all possible.
C - COULD have this if it does not affect anything else.
W - WON'T have this time but WOULD like in the future.
Phase I
Webinar Hosting (addressed through Adobe Connect directly) M: Web Conferencing - High-Quality Recording in a Format that can be used easilyM: Web Conferencing - Ability to display small video feed next to slides
- Archive (Administrative Backend to Content Store)
- M: Integration with PDMA SPIN / Community frontend
- M: Bulk Uploading (multiple Files)
- M: Social tagging
- M: Zero-footprint clients
- M: Security
- M: Integrated workflow and content lifecycle management
- M: CMIS Support (only if Alfresco/Drupal is chosen)
- M: Integration with Microsoft Office (Blog)
- Content Store
- M: CMIS Support (for those products based on Alfresco-stored content)
- M: Userpoint system and ability to pay for content using points
- M: Ability to register and pay for webinars (also with points)
M: Integration with webinar hosting platform API (Adobe Connect)- M: Template/Skin/Theme Customization
- M: Complex Content Search
- M: Anonymous or member commenting on products
S: Monthly subscriptionS: Integration with current Accounting System, Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0S: Category-based SearchS: Public/member voting
- Social Networking (from Gartner Social Media Study)
- M: User management: ability to create, modify or retire user accounts
- M: User profiles: information about each user that can be accessed by other users
- M: Roles and access control: support for multiple roles (for example editor, facilitator, community manager, moderator) with associated access controls
- M: Discussion forums: support for a persistant environment to post questions and answers or to have general discussions
- M: Template/Skin/Theme Customization
- M: Feedback Forms
- M: Twitter Integration - ability for users to utilize Tweet-meme widget.
S: Facebook Connect - ability for users to authenticate using Facebook login- S: Configurable group, project, team or community areas: end users with the right permissions can create themed areas for a group, project, team or community
- S: Blogs: end-user instant publishing functionality that displays entries in reverse chronological order and permits comments from others (import of existing content from PDMA's Wordpress-based blog)
- S: Commenting on Blogs, including Track-Back capabilities
- Association Management
Phase II
Webinar Hosting C: Webinar Hosting - Streaming Video for Live Events (Speakers and Audience)
- Archive (Administrative Backend to Content Store)
- M: Simple Check-In/Out and Version Control
- S: Shared drive
- S: Data management and Transformation Engine
- S: OpenCalais or similar Autotagging Capability
- S: Automatic Meta Data Extraction
- C: SharePoint Protocol Support
- C: Rules for content applications
- Content Store
- S: Monthly subscription
- S: Integration with current Accounting System, Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0
- S: Category-based Search
- S: Public/member voting
- S: Display of RSS-based Feeds (blogs and magazine)
- S: OpenSearch
- C: Web Casting - Integration of Streaming Video 'Widget' in SPIN Site
- Social Networking
- M: Multi-lingual Management
- M: Custom Profile Fields
- M: Date-based info (Calendar)
- M: Content Tagging
- S: Site Activity Feed
- S: Search for People and Experts
- S: People Directory
- S: User Relationships ("Colleagues","Followers")
- S: Facebook Connect - ability for users to authenticate using Facebook login
- S: Guestbook
- S: Invitation Engine
- S: Surveys / Polls
- C: Moderation, Privacy & Private Messaging
- C: Social Bookmarking in Community
- C: Twitter Feeds & Activity Stream Display
- C: Document sharing: the ability to upload, store, organize and share documents; not as critical as for collaboration we have the current Mindtouch Wiki and for the PDMA library we are looking at a dedicated system
- C: Image Galleries
- C: Location-based info (mapping)
- Association Management
- Post and respond to Volunteer Opportunities
Phase III
Webinar Hosting- Archive (Administrative Backend to Content Store)
- Syndication by multiple Methods
- Content Store
- M: Control over external advertisement
- Social Networking
- C: Chat Room
- W: Wikis: group authoring of collections of pages with support for "click-to-edit" change tracking and internal linking; not as critical we have a best-in-class Wiki installation with Mindtouch already
- S: Personalized Dashboard
- S: Shared Site Dashboard
- C: Video Sharing & Photo Tagging
- Association Management
- M: Event Management
- S: 'Micro-Sites' for Conferences
- S: Customer Relationship Management / Membership Management
