Glossary

Clusters provide secure cloud hosted communities with integrated team workspaces including a collaboration toolset at the fingertips of all users. Each team member can select the tools best suited for their needs without extra costs, software downloads, or concern that others may not have access to compatible tools.

Each Cluster consists of Cluster Home and GroupsProTM pages. The Home page acts as the summary for all community activity and contains the Media Mosaic to highlight contextual content. Categories and icons can be customized or selected from a menu of existing sectors.

Clusters can either stand alone or live inside Knowledge Networks. 

TallyFox surveys use cross tabulation to report results.

Cross tabulation is a statistical technique used in the analysis of survey results that establishes an interdependent relationship between two values but does not identify a causal relationship between the values. For example, a cross tabulation might show that water professionals with a PhD believe 5 times more often than those without a PhD that arsenic is the most important water contaminant affecting our health. Cross tabulation can be used to analyze the results of surveys that, for example, indicate a preference for certain solutions to issues based on which country the respondent resides.

Discussions are extended communications consisting of threaded comments dealing with a particular topic.

Discussions begin in groups and can be selected as public or privat. Public discussions can be viewed on group, Cluster, and Network home pages to encourage broader engagement.

Private discussions will only be visible to members of the group where the discussion is taking place.

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. http://drupal.org/

Written in PHP, Drupal is used to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.

Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world.

Networks powered by TallyFox use Drupal as their core CMS framework.

The Events tab on each Network and Cluster homepage provides a comprehensive list of global events that pertain to the Network theme or Cluster client.

Clusters have their own private Events list, and can elect whether to share them on the Network homepage as well.

Hosted solutions do not require in-house expertise to set up the software or infrastructure and typically have a lower total cost of ownership. Hosted solutions often allow users to automatically scale as they need to, allowing lower entry level costs.

Networks, Clusters and EventFox communities   have their own dedicated  Knowledge Bank.

The Q&A knowledge bank acts as an ‘Experts exchange’ where questions can be submitted directly or in relation to content published in the Media Mosaic.

Alerts are automatically sent when an answer or a comment is posted in response to your question.

Each Knowledge Bank also includes a summary of all poll results. 

The Library is a central repository for all public content uploaded to a Cluster or a Network. Library content is accessible to all members by navigating to the main Library tab on the home page. 

The Media Mosaics frames deliver a variety of topical content designed to engage members and makes building Knowledge Bank easy.  Mosaic frames are interactive where users can ask questions, comment, and bookmark and share the content internally and across the web. Questions, answers and comments made to Mosaic frame content is stored and searchable under the knowledge tab in the Q&A knowledge bank. Frame types include: Hot Topic; Events; EventFox; Who’s Who People; Who’s Who Organization; and Crisis Maps.

The Mosaic provides an easy way to share and retrieve content based on keywords. Frames can also be sorted by custom categories by clicking selections in the legend below the Mosaic.

All content resides in the Media Library which is accessible by the link below the Mosaic or the Hot topic tab at the top of the Network homepage.

A poll is a utility for gathering opinions that is posted on Network or Cluster homepages.

TallyFox polls are single questions with an unlimited choice for answers. They can be posted by the Network or Cluster manager or moderator.

Short for Resource Description Framework. RDF details information such as a site's sitemap, the dates of when updates were made, keywords that search engines look for and the Web page's intellectual property rights.

See RSS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to find and publish content on related themes in a standardized format.

An RSS document includes full or summarized text, links to full articles or webpages, publishing dates and authorship.

Each Cluster has a configurable RSS feed on the home page for Industry news. The easiest way to subscribe to this feed is to link it to your browsers bookmark toolbar. The Industry News RSS feed will then appear in your Bookmarks toolbar. 

TallyFox SmartMatchPro™is expert search made easy.

SmartMatchPro™ identifies members with specific Know-How settings, tracks updates in real time and alerts you when new members join who match your search terms. Your personal SmartMatchPro™ settings can be selected in your Account dashboard. People and content matching the expertise that you are looking for are immediately identified.

Alerts will be sent to you when people and content show up that match your smart match settings.

Social Media uses web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media into social dialogues.

Social media on Networks powered by TallyFox has two forms.

One is on your personal, Cluster and group profile pages that list Social flow links (LinkedIn, Facebook...) for you, your group or your Cluster.

The second is the utility to easily share content from the Media Mosaic with social networking sites, inside Networks powered by TallyFox or by email.

A tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (content, group, discussion, wiki) that allows it to be found again by browsing or searching.

Networks use two different types of Tags: Industry Tags and Keywords.

Industry Tags allow members retrieve information based on a common lexicon. Industry tags show up on the Tag cloud on the left column of Networks, Clusters and EventFox Communities.

Keywords are free tags that are mainly for personal information, or for smaller groups within a Network or Cluster to tag and retrieve content based on unique terminology. Key words are displayed in the tag cloud on the right column of groups.

When using advanced search, results for both industry tags and keywords are found.

Trending discussions showcases the   most popular discussions taking place on Networks, Clusters or Groups.

This helps everyone to know what the "most popular" topics currently are and capturing them in a dynamic delivery allows the communities to understand the most interesting topic under discussion.

Web conferencing is synchronous (real-time) online meeting between two or more parties. This communication can combine voice and video communication as well as screen sharing, white boarding, document upload and real time chat.

Clusters support multiple concurrent Web Conference rooms each with up to 25 or 50 attendees. We support both VOIP audio and dial in numbers for numerous countries around the world.

Each Web conference has its own private, secure room with a unique pin number that is available only to attendees.

No software is required to download in order to use web conferencing on Clusters powered by TallyFox.