Employee Profiles

When you first log into Rabbit you will find default information about yourself. You can update this information so that people know more about you. Update training courses you’ve been on, write about your particular areas of interest, what your current projects are. All this information makes it easy to locate expertise.

Company Directory

Use the company directory as your start point, and search it by location, by employee or by department/team/group. It’s easy to find out who you should be talking to and contact them. When you’ve found the user you want all you have to do is decide how to contact them – and you can interact straightaway with in-built tools like Corporate Messenger.

Wiki

Many project groups like to collaborate through use of a Wiki. With Rabbit wikis are taken to the next level as not only can you build the groups easily, but your information is easily accessible in its original form as the wiki makes use of Rabbit’s FS. Users can be assigned tasks, update information and the wiki integrates with Rabbits project management application if you want to formalise the project boundaries.

Blogs

If you want to create your own blog, start from your personal profile, and then you can determine who views it. From the CEO creating a corporate update blog to the individual talking about their rundown to a big show it’s a simple tool to improve communication. Blogs can be published outside the business as well to improve customer communication and to help in corporate profiles.

Discussion boards and topics

Each project or social group has its own discussion board so it’s possible to create an informal discussion amongst the members of the group. This board can be used to quickly comment on documents as in a wiki, or for a more general chat and brainstorming area.

Articles/publications
content viewing

When you first log into Rabbit you’ll see new articles for the groups that you belong to (including your company information) but you can also view all available articles from a single folder.

Group Events

Within your project or social group you can publish events and dates that can integrate with your corporate calendar.

Organisation Chart

Having an up to date organisation chart is critical to the business. It’s not just a tool for HR but helps all employees understand who fits where, and provides a good communication tool to new recruits. With Rabbit the organisation chart is created directly from the company directory; if you add in a new team, department or employee, or change any details, then the organisation chart updates automatically.

Project & Social Groups

This feature is at the heart of Rabbit’s collaboration capabilities. Create your own workgroup (or even social group) and share information and applications with selected users – colleagues, customers or other contacts. Setting up a group is as simple as naming it, deciding what applications are required and inviting users to join. Projects can start straightaway; everyone sees the relevant information, takes part in discussion groups, views key group events and tasks, and works quickly and productively without unnecessary duplication. The HR department can set up a working team for salary surveys, the marketing team can set up their own project for delivering the new brochure and share files with their design agency, and the theatre aficionados can arrange lunch time meetings and visits without impinging on work areas – again this is where a ‘callout’ of some sort would be good as an illustration

Marketplace

Most businesses have some way of letting employees put items up for sale – and marketplace takes postcards off the noticeboard and puts info up on to the intranet. There’s no risk of inappropriate information flooding the system – you choose whether you want to read marketplace or not.

Content publishing & management system

If you want to publish an article for everyone to read Rabbit provides a simple content management system. You can add files, pictures, media clips or just write the story through an intuitive interface. If you are a nominated contributor, you can choose which group or company to publish it to so that other users can read it instantly. There’s no need to wait for IT to upload the article – it goes into a simple queuing system for approval and then instant publication. It’s the easiest way to manage articles in a corporate intranet environment – quick for users to learn and use, quick to approve and quick to become available so the information is dynamic and relevant for readers.

Content publishing
approval system

Although it’s important for corporate communications that it’s easy to publish, it’s also important for corporate reputation that articles can be edited and reviewed before publication. Rabbit provides a simple escalation and approval tool so that the content editor can see newly-submitted articles; review, amend and approve them. The submitter is notified when the article is approved and released – there are no bottlenecks.