We just added a new application called HummingbirdShare to our application directory. I have to admit this is a really interesting application: in one single repository, you can manage all the important company files accumulated that should be easily available to anyone in your company. Wouldn’t it be great if you could put your videos, presentations, images and any other important content in one single place, easy to find, with a great visual interface and ideally enabled with lots of social features - such as how many times my product sheet has been viewed by my colleagues? That’s exactly what HummingbirdShare provides and on top of that it makes file sharing and collaboration easy! Did I say it’s a really interesting application? Well you should definitely have a look at it.
In fact, HummingbirdShare is a content management and knowledge sharing system that allows you to store and access all your company’s important information in a single place. You basically got your “company YouTube”, document tube and your “company LinkedIn” all packaged into one application.
The user interface is straightforward and provides a consumer-style experience, which intuitively highlights the most important information.
Adding and sharing content is easy from videos to documents (example: presentations, price lists, etc). They even make it super simple to share links from anywhere on the web like the Wall Street Journal or YouTube.
They support all of the file formats you would expect such as all video formats, PowerPoint, Excel and Word and they even include a file viewer so your employees can access key information right from within the web site. There is no need to install applications or file viewers. All can be seen right there through your web browser on your laptop or your mobile device.
In addition to being an easy to use enterprise video and document content management system, HummingbirdShare is also great for best practice sharing and it provides social features such as ratings, tags, number of views, etc. It even allows your employees to post comments and get feedback from your peers.
Searching for content is a powerful component of HummingbirdShare. Let’s say you want to find content or people who have posted information about marketing; simply type “marketing” into the search box and pick out the content that helps you most. The search results will not only show you the relevant content for marketing but also show you how others have rated the content and how popular it has been with your peers. You will also find all the people in your company whose expertise is marketing.
Do you want to know of who knows what in your company?
No problem. When you go to the Experts hub, you can see the profiles of all your employees and what information they have posted to keep track on what they are working on.
In a nutshell, HummingbirdShare is perfect for companies looking to efficiently share information and ideas.
Content management system: Store your important videos and documents, such as marketing collateral, sales presentations, customer demo videos in a single location. It saves you time finding information you need to get your work done and then share it easily with your colleagues. No need anymore to struggle to share large files via email. HummingbirdShare makes sharing of files of any size and format easy.
Who does what and who knows what: Employee profiles make it easy to find the subject matter experts in your organization and to learn what projects they are working on.
Knowledge sharing and learning from each other: Create a learning company culture, by allowing your team to learn from each other and enable sharing of best practices. In fact, HummingbirdShare is perfect for onboarding new employees – you can post relevant new hire information, track viewing and connect them to others in the organization with similar knowledge and skill sets to jumpstart onboarding.
HummingbirdShare saves you a lot of money because it integrates many applications into one you would need to buy separately otherwise.
It replaces:
SharePoint or any other content management system
Company Wiki
Company social network
Company video sharing
Company document sharing system
Company learning management system.
In conclusion, HummingbirdShare is not only fun but a very practical way to share knowledge across your organization saving you time to find the right information and people.
