Conduit Community Toolbars Redefine Workplace Communication.Re/Max California, SuccessFactors persistently connect employees with corporate resources, community and content via community toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced the successful deployment of Conduit for workplace communications. Several organizations including RE/MAX California and SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand Performance & Talent Management solutions, have created and launched community toolbars to instantly connect employees, via the browser, with the latest corporate resources, alerts, news, and the intranet. This has resulted in a more informed and productive employee community. Internal corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. can directly impact corporate performance by strengthening employee communities and fostering integration between departments. Hence, organizations are in constant search of a better way to keep their employees connected and informed. While email is the current standard, it is not persistent and is frankly and overused and tired medium. Conduit is ideal as it's a fresh new medium that is persistent on the employee browser, is completely free, easy to use, and does not require engineering support. The SuccessFactors TeamBar was created in one day and with no engineering resources. It integrates the company's internal functions and presents all of the resources in a single application that sits on each employee's browser as a toolbar. The TeamBar consists of the following: * Single login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. for all corporate applications * CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. * Communications tools * Product demo environment * Employee directory * Intranet * Accounting and expense report systems * Product development tracking * Other online resources both internal and external * The company's web-based Performance & Talent Management Solution which helps employees manage goals and development, evaluate performance and get feedback. "With our company growing so rapidly, we needed to find an easy and customizable way to centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. access to all communications and corporate tools," said Max Goldman, Group Product Marketing Manager at SuccessFactors. "We chose Conduit as it presented a fresh new way to engage and inform our employees, it was free, and took us less than an hour to create. We continue to receive tremendous positive employee response, and 100% participation, and are incredibly pleased that Conduit met our very high expectations." "Who better to understand the importance of consistent and persistent internal corporate communications than the global leader in Performance & Talent management," remarked Ronen Shilo, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Conduit. "Our mission is to facilitate the engagement of communities, and certainly employees are the most critical community for an organization. We are thrilled to be part of SuccessFactors' mission to leverage Web2.0 services to create connected engaged internal communities." In only three simple steps, any organization can create their corporate browser bar with select company content, efficiency tools, third-party resources and the best of their intranet. Packaged free components include alert functions (RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , ticker ticker An automated quotation system on which security transactions are reported after they occur on an exchange floor. Even though the newer systems are electronic and no longer actually tick, the name of the old mechanical device has stuck. ) communication (messages & chat), radio, weather, and email notifier. Create your corporate browser bar at www.conduit.com. About Conduit Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users via the browser. Conduit delivers unprecedented community loyalty and site traffic for over 130,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. , Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX, TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 112 countries around the globe. Conduit's innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware (MALicious softWARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan. and spyware Software that sends information about your Web surfing habits to its Web site. Often quickly installed in your computer in combination with a free download you selected from the Web, spyware transmits information in the background as you move around the Web. . The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA. For more information about Conduit, visit www.conduit.com or email info@conduit.com. |
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