This article is the introduction of a ten-part series on LumSites. In this series, we will present some of the key features to help you grasp the potential of this application that has flourished since the beginning of the year. If you are interested in new ways of communication, you’ll discover here the large scale of use cases you can address with LumSites. We will describe awesome features and native settings that have seduced companies attentive to improve their communication.

What is LumSites ?

LumSites offers huge scope and we often discover new possibilities from our customers' feedbacks. It’s sometimes difficult to give a concise overview of the solution.
For sure, as indicated by its name, LumSites is a solution to create sites in order to share content with your ecosystem (internal portal, extranet, social platform, project communities, etc.). But, we can not circumscribe LumSites to a CMS (Content Management System) because of all innovative features and design that break the new.

10 key features

We have picked out 10 points for our upcoming focus:

Profiling

Users must be identified to access to LumSites. We get users' data from Google Users Directory, if available. You can create groups in order to provide them with access to some specific parts of the site and to address dedicated content.
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Responsive Design

LumSites offers an out of the box high quality user interface, which works on every device. LumSites is designed in a responsive way so that users can get the same experience whether they are at the office or in mobility.
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Content Customization

LumSites achieves the feat to address relevant and customized information to the appropriate people in one unique platform. Not only top down, but also bottom up and peer to peer.
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Design Customization

With LumSites you can design an environment that fits your identity and matches with your organization. Easy-to-use and flexible, you can pick in all the built-in features to customize your workplace.
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Multi-Lingual

To reinforce the appropriation of a workplace, you must write content in users' native language. LumSites offers you a common framework and dedicated spaces for each country or entity: the content are only displayed in user defined language.
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Google Widgets

LumSites is a perfect match for business already using Google Apps. There are deep relations between the two platforms: Email, Calendar, and Drive can be embedded using the widget engine.
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Users Directory

LumSites Users Directory helps you find the right people in your company and learn more about them through a dynamic organization chart. Users update their own data, so you can reach them instantly.
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Newsletter

To encourage group of users to come and interact on your platform, you can send them newsletters directly from LumSites. In 3 clicks, you can elaborate a digest report: select the articles to include in the newsletter, add a banner, choose users' group and send!
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Community

LumSites encourages user feedback and collaboration: comments, communities, document sharing and notes. Social features transform the corporate platform into a collaborative workplace and tend to replace old ways of communication.
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Tutorial Module

A tutorial module is available to guide end users around the environment upon their first connection, with screenshots and videos, reinforcing the change management strategy.
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