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eXo and Seesmic: Integrate Your Social Intranet with Existing Social Networks

Modern social intranets built with eXo Platform can be extended with the eXo plugin for Seesmic Desktop. This integration allows enterprise users to access real-time updates from internal users and groups, alongside external feeds from social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook – all within a single interface.

eXo Plugin for Seesmic

What is Seesmic Desktop?

Seesmic Desktop is a social management application that integrates multiple social network accounts, including Facebook, Linkedin, Google Buzz and Twitter. The plugin marketplace offers many social networking, entertainment, utilities and e-commerce integrations to extend the functionality of Seesmic Desktop.

What does this interoperability effort demonstrate?

The eXo and Seesmic interoperability brings together personal and enterprise social networks. eXo Platform gives Java shops a way to add the ease and features of the consumer web to enterprise applications. The eXo plugin for Seesmic Desktop takes this a step further, integrating users’ internal activity streams with their day-to-day social network interactions.

How do eXo and Seesmic work together?

The eXo plugin for Seesmic Desktop is offered in the Seesmic Plugin Marketplace. Customers using eXo Platform for their social intranets simply download the plugin, then connect with their company account. Internal activity streams – from colleagues or groups - can be displayed alongside other social network feeds. Developers interested in the technical details of how the plugin was built can check out the “Using eXo APIs with .Net” tutorial on the eXo Resource Center.

What can you do with the eXo plugin for Seesmic?

Access to Your Social Intranet: Integration of eXo services inside Seesmic Desktop is a convenient way to access real-time updates from co-workers, teams and applications published in a social intranet, directly from the desktop. Users can view enterprise activity streams alongside other services they frequently access already, such as personal Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts.

Engage with Your Community: The eXo plugin for Seesmic makes it easier for enterprise users to track conversations related to their company across multiple social networks. By integrating the social intranet into a familiar 'daily use' sort of tool like Seesmic, co-workers can respond and collaborate on business-related activities happening in the online community.

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