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Introduction

Joincube is a web-based business oriented social network that lets you share and collaborate with your team anytime and anywhere.

This collaboration tool integrates your team members allowing them to send messages, chat, create groups, share files, assign tasks and more, meanwhile it keeps your organization knowledge organized and always accessible.

Why Joincube?

Because it can reduce almost a 40% of the time demanded by management tasks and also integrates your team expertise.

Joincube is delivered as a SaaS application (Software as a Service), so it includes full support, all new releases and free upgrades, with no minimum contract and no sing up fee.

Main features

Dashboard

• Notifications sent directly to you by other users in your workspaces appear in your email inbox and on the dashboard page.
• From the unified dashboard page users can quickly see all the activity and progress across all of their projects. Each workspace is private so users you invite in can only see work relevant to them. The dashboard is an invaluable tool to manage all your collaborative work from one central place.

 Micro-Blogging and Messages

•  Micro-blogging is a different way of communicating that complements email and Instant Messaging. The core concept behind micro-blogging is short, frequent status messages that can be seen by people who want to know what you're up to.

Instant Messaging

• Business instant messaging lets you talk instantly with your colleagues. Communicate in real time
• Get the instant replies you need without ever picking up the phone.

Tasks and Activities

• State your goal and invite others to help complete it. Assign to-dos, attach files and keep everyone on the same page.
•  Quickly and easily mark tasks as complete, or re-assign them to users.
• Track progress of each task - ensuring deadlines and milestones are met on time and work is delivered efficiently.

Wiki pages

•   A wiki is a Web page that is easy for anyone to create or edit. Wikis are a great way to share written content with your co-workers.
• It's easy for users to interact with Wiki pages. Anyone can follow comments, add comments, and share the page content.

File Sharing

• Quickly and easily upload multiple files into your workspace with Joincube's simple interface. Store and share any size and any type of file.
• Every Document has a version history. This shows you who created the document and who made changes to each revision.
• Share files with co-workers or groups inside your organization. You and your network can access them from any computer with an internet connection anywhere in the world.

Groups

• You might sometimes want to have a different set of access controls to your content. Groups allow you to do that.

Comments

•  Start a discussion with team members to keep all conversations and comments in one central place. See how many comments have been added and by whom with profile photos.

• You can comment on any item that you can see and when you make a comment, the person who performed the activity that generated the item is notified via email.

Searching Information

• To ensure you can always quickly find the information you want use Joincube's search function - this searches both titles and descriptions of items so nothing is ever lost and can be found in just a few seconds.