Hallwaze is an enterprise social network that enables enterprises to achieve high level of employee collaboration. It brings the power of all new and traditional communication tools on one centralized secure platform. It helps to minimize time lost in meetings, travel expenses, duplication of efforts and data. This is a quick guide to help help enterprises get started instantly with Hallwaze.
2. Introduction
Hallwaze is an Enterprise Social Networking platform that fuels innovation and
triggers 360 degree collaboration. It enable enterprises to unlock the human capital
and induce a collaborative culture and facilitates better communication that drives
productivity leading to faster and higher quality work.
Hallwaze keeps you connected to the knowledge, ideas and resources you need
every day at work. It is optimized for extended use on your desktop and mobile that
enable you to stay connected with your enterprise anywhere, anytime.
Its unique feature set enable you to perform your tasks at work, faster. Ask a
question, share a link or document, find an expert and exchange ideas. Get yourself
involved in conversations with your colleagues, seniors and leaders. Convert your
casual conversations to meaningful outcomes. Here is your quick guide that will
help you to get started with Hallwaze!
Harness the power of Social with Hallwaze!
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Introduction
3. Hallwaze helps you to…
• Get connected with your colleagues located anywhere
• Discover experts in your enterprise and get their help in your work
• Save time by finding relevant information instantly
• Share your ideas, express yourself openly and reach senior colleagues
easily
• Co-ordinate work with others and save time by preventing duplicate work
• Gain visibility and insight on what’s happening and where
• Gather opinions and feedback from everyone in your company
• Stay connected with your company through Hallwaze Mobile Apps
And much more….
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What you can do with Hallwaze?
4. Contents1. Getting Started
a. Enter Hallwaze
b. Enter Credential
c. Hallwaze Homepage
2. Managing Your Profile
a. Update Your Profile
b. Setting Your Email Notification
3. Making Connection
a. Make Connection
b. Follow Group & Topics
4. Hallwaze Main Stream
a. Understand Main Stream
b. Activity Stream - Enterprise
c. Activity Stream - Broadcast
d. Activity Stream - Groups
e. Activity Stream - Recommendations
f. Main Stream - Bookmarks
g. Main Stream – Hidden
h. Delete/Edit Post – User
i. Delete Post – Admin
5. Microblogging
a. Update, Like, Share, Comment
b. Polls
c. Droplet
d. Tasks
e. Events
f. Calendar
6. Search
a. People
b. Groups
c. Topics
d. Activities
7. Groups
a. Join
b. Create & Invite
c. Public Group
d. Private Group
e. Closed Group
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Contents
9. Update Your Profile
• A profile is your identity in
your enterprise and it can
be seen by all members
allowing others to learn
about you and your role in
the organization
• On your profile, you can
display a photo, job title,
job description,
certifications, skills,
education, passions, email
and other information
• By updating your interests
and expertize you get
recommendations to
connect with people who
have similar interests
defined
Step 1: Click on your
image and select
“Profile” tab from the
drop down.
Step 2: Provide details
about yourself, your
interests, experience
and your expertize on
tools, skills and
languages.
Step 3: Rate yourself on
a scale of 1 to 100.
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Update your profile
10. Update Your Profile
Step 4: You can define the
topics for your feeds
whereby reducing the effort
to go on internet to search
for information you need.
Step 2: Set on what
type of activities you
want to receive an
email notification.
Step 1: Click on your
image and select
“Settings” tab from
the drop down.
Step 3: Set if you
want to sync your
outlook calendar
with Hallwaze.
You can choose what
notifications you want
to receive in your email
to stay updated as
desired
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Setting your email notifications
12. Step 1: Look for the search box at the
top of your Hallwaze wall and enter
your search keyword. You will then be
suggested with all related topics,
groups, people in which your search
term appears.
Step 2: Click on people
whom you wish to
connect with and
select “Follow”.
• Connect with experts and like minded people in your enterprise
and follow them to know what they are up to
• When you follow a person, you are subscribing to their updates,
which will then appear in your Home Stream
• You can start following people, such as your manager or team
members by simply doing a search and clicking on “Follow” button
• You can also choose to “unfollow” people using the same process
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Make Connections
13. Update Your Profile
• Just click on follow button to follow
groups and topics instantly
• When you follow a group or topic, all
future comments and replies appear
on your Home Stream
• Hallwaze recommends you topics,
people and groups of your interest,
so that you don’t have to put an
extra effort to search for people or
groups to connect with
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Follow Groups and Topics
15. When you click on
“Main Stream” a drop
down appears.
The “Private” tab shows
you the information
shared privately by you
and others; shared
whether in groups or
with individuals
Click on “@Tagged” to
see only the posts
where you are tagged
“Following” tab shows you the information shared
by people and topics you follow
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Understand Main Stream
16. When you select
“Enterprise” from the
drop down you see all
posts shared by your
colleagues on the
enterprise wall whether
in groups or individual
post
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Activity Stream - Enterprise
17. When you select “Broadcast”
from the drop down you see all
announcements made by HR,
Admin, Finance and other
functional groups or by
executives with in your
enterprise
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Activity Stream - Broadcast
18. Activity Stream - Groups
When you select “Groups”
from the drop down you
see every information or
files shared in those
groups you follow and the
ones you have created
Groups can be used to share documents and files to further enable your
teams collaborate on them
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19. When you select
“Recommended Feeds”
from the drop down you see
all the recommended
content feeds by Hallwaze
ECI engine which it feeds on
the basis of your defined
skills and interests
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Activity Stream - Recommendations
20. When you select
“Bookmarks” from the drop
down you can see all your
saved conversations that
you have book marked for
future reference
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Main Stream - Bookmarks
21. Main Stream - Hidden
When you select “Hidden”
from the drop down you can
see all the conversations
that have been marked
hidden by you
By clicking on this toggle switch
you can hide or unhide an
irrelevant post to make it
disappear from screen
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User can delete
his/her post or
comment at any
time
App that opens
the activity in a
new tab
Option to provide
link of this post
Option to edit the post
will be visible unless
someone
likes/comments on it
Delete/Edit Post-User
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Admin can Delete
any post
App that opens
the activity in a
new tab
Option to provide
link of this post
Delete Post-Admin
25. Update, Like, Share, Comment using -
Share your message either
enterprise wide, within
groups or post privately to
selected people
Start a new conversation by clicking on the
pencil icon from top right menu bar. From
the pop up window choose update and
write your message you want to share
Upload and share documents,
presentations, images, files and videos
easily. Tag and involve other members
in document updates and manage
version control of the documents Type your comment or
suggestion here, attach
reference files and click
on ‘Comment’
Like using the thumb
icon, while you can see
the number of likes
adjacent to the icon
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26. Polls
• Polling feature is a great way to take survey’s and
do public polls to know people’s opinion and
suggestions on topics
• This is a simple yet powerful way to gather
feedback on ideas or recommendations
Hallwaze gives you an
option to throw a poll in
group, to selected people,
privately or publically. You
can post a poll enterprise
wide too
To attach a poll to your question -
click “Poll”. Enter the question
you wish to be answered,
followed by the answer choices
and click post
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27. Droplet
Share a droplet either with your followers/Groups
publically or privately; or post enterprise wide
Droplet are your reference notes for
managing your work faster and
easier. A user can share droplets
with colleagues publically or
privately. Droplet enable real time
sharing and collaboration
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You can save formatted
content using Rich Text
Editor and drag and drop
multiple type documents,
videos, photos, links, tables
and more
28. Tasks
Set start and end date of your
tasks to keep track when the
task is due
Manage work by creating tasks and setting estimated hours
for each task. Click on the pencil icon from top right menu
bar. From the pop up window choose tasks to create parent
tasks, sub tasks and assign or reassign tasks
Attach reference
documents and files to
help the assignee
complete the task
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“My Tasks” tab shows you
the list of tasks assigned to
you and the % progress on
those tasks. Also, can see
the tasks created by you
from “Created By Me” tab
29. Events
You can manage events by creating an event in Hallwaze.
Click on the pencil icon from top right menu bar. From the
pop up window choose events and attach event schedule
while Hallwaze will send you auto alerts about the event
Set start and end date of your
meeting to send alerts to the
attendees and enter location,
video conf or call details for
the meeting
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Hallwaze will automatically sync your
enterprise email such as outlook with
your meetings in Hallwaze
30. Calendar
You can manage meetings by scheduling them using
Hallwaze Calendar. Click on the calendar icon from top
right menu bar and schedule a meeting which gets
automatically populated in your company email
calendar. Also, if you schedule a meeting in your
enterprise email tool, it automatically builds an
instance in Hallwaze to keep both in sync
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32. Search
• Hallwaze empowers
you with a robust
search feature so you
can quickly search
streams by keywords,
person or group
• Look for the search box
at the top of your
Hallwaze wall and
enter your search
keyword
• You will then be
suggested with all
related topics, groups,
people in which your
search term appears
Refine your search for activities
using advanced filters
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34. Groups – Create and Invite
From here choose to
make your group public,
private or closed
Click on groups icon from the
top right menu bar and click
on “create new” for creating a
new group
• My Groups will show the
groups you follow
• Groups I moderate will
show you the groups you
have created
• Explore option will show
you a list of groups you can
join
Create groups for -
• A group is a place for you to connect with
people with a shared interest
• Groups can be about anything —projects,
departments, functions or interests
• Group members participate in discussions,
keep track of the group-related documents,
and remain aware of the group’s activities
• Groups can be public, private or closed
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35. Groups – Create and Invite
• Manage files in a
particular group by
uploading all files at one
place and maintaining its
versions
• Upload multiple files in
one go for easy
collaboration
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36. Groups – Public, Closed, private
From groups page - Click on
‘Explore’ and Join or unjoin
public, private or closed groups
Groups that are “Private” do not
appear in search results to maintain
its secrecy. We cannot directly join
a private group, Only Group Admin
can invite you to a private group.
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To join a closed group you send a request to
the group admin to join the group. Once group
admin approves your request, you will be able
to join the group