Tandem Sandbox
Community, connections, collaboration

• Stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. To share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.
• Provide a single workspace for teams/groups to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions within the organization and over the extranet.
• Easily author and manage documents, and help to ensure their integrity with enhanced features including the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
• Help people and teams/groups stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
• Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases, or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format with new templates for implementing blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members — ­no special technical knowledge required).
• Stay productive while mobile with enhanced support for offline synchronization that users can use to manage document libraries, lists, calendars, contacts, tasks, and discussion boards even offline, and to synchronize changes when reconnected to the network.

Desirables:

1. Services and features
   1. content management
   2. status – snap shot, grid view, dashboard
   3. secure
   4. real time
   5. content – voice, audio, text, images
   6. shared
   7. calendaring
   8. messaging - email, sms, im, discuss/comment
2. Electronic Distribution and access
   1. mobile
   2. web based
   3. RSS news feed
   4. eNews letter
   5. (not?) necessary to go to paper
3. Data
   1. archived
   2. searchable
   3. link
   4. open for migration
   5. back up
   6. history
4. Considerations
   1. Time, timely, time line
   2. Money
   3. Skills (HR)
   4. Tech Maintenance
   5. Quality – Customize
   6. Appropriate target audiences
   7. Reliability
   8. Migration or portability or flexibility