Overview

As you may have noticed, SharePoint 2010 doesn't have a News template. Strange, isn't it? Have you ever seen an intranet site that doesn't have a News section? There's not many, if any.

News is usually the cornerstone of message delivery for any organisation and its intranet. So an intranet site most definitely needs a news template... and a social one at that!

We want to change the common perception that a company's news must be a one way discussion sent from the top down, without input from employees.

Attini News brings a much needed news template to SharePoint and in the process, helps SharePoint make news social, instilling all the benefits of two-way communication.

With Attini News, we've made news easier to publish and organise, while allowing people to contribute, ask questions, and comment on a news article.

What does attini news provide?

• A social panel - this enables real time view tracking and statistics, a 'like' function, related news, videos and blogs, the number of comments and tagging
• Targeted news items and aggregated news from multiple sources
• Comments - people can react to news articles online
• More article content - new features including titles, by-lines, body, date, 'published by' and attachments
• The ability to embargo publishing or publish news in the future
• Filtering based on profile (country, business, department)
• News display - carousel, list, feature
• Aggregation - aggregates news from anywhere in the SharePoint farm
• Aggregated views - displays most viewed and most discussed
• Weighted views - tag cloud, author cloud, category cloud
• Multiple web parts to meet business needs
• Reuse of web parts across entire SharePoint farm
• Enhanced news search - provides results in a format that makes sense
• Support of structured taxonomy and folksonomy.