5. Take advantage of the benefits of today’s virtualized work environment with Ethos’
built in Collaboration Suite. This collection of collaboration tools comes pre-
bundled with Ethos Portal.
Blogs – Features include RSS support, user and guest comments,
browsable categories, tags and labels, and an entry rating system.
Message Boards – Includes support for sticky posts, statistics, recent
posts, RSS, email-based subscriptions, avatars, threads management (move
to another category), and full fine-grained permissions.
Enterprise Instant Messenger – AJAX enabled Jabber client allows users to
add “buddies” based on existing portal user accounts. Chat windows
persist across portal pages.
Shared Calendar – Community-based calendars with task list can be used
to keep track of group-based events.
Address Book – Manage your contacts within the Ethos Portal.
Mail – A full AJAX-based webmail client can be configured to interface with
many popular IMAP email servers.
RSS – Subscribe to frequently read RSS feeds from within the portal
Collaborate
framework.
Wikis – Collaborate on collective knowledge with Ethos’ built-in Wiki, with
versioning and reversion capabilities.
Microformat Support – Transfer your calendar and user information via
Web 2.0 standards. Ethos portlets offer data in microformats (hCard,
hCalendar, etc) to be easily used by and integrated with third-party
applications (Yahoo, Technorati, etc.).
Calendaring Support – Import and export events from the Calendar
Portlet. Ethos supports iCal and Exchange.
Meta-Tagging Support – Use Ethos’ new tagging functionality with Ethos’
CMS portlets to dynamically share important or interesting content with
other portal users.
