One sometimes overlooked capability on the platform is the ability to create a personalized dashboard to collect social content. Dashboards can be more than simply a display of charts, graphs and project related data. Sure you can include all of that, but it is also a way to collect and display relevant content from social media feeds, RSS news feeds, communities, and web pages of interest.
Let’s say you’re a product manager or lead engineer and need to stay up on industry trends, new technology and the latest news for your product area. Instead of bookmarking these sites in your browser and scrolling through each site to find information, you can simply go to your personalized dashboard to view all relevant information from multiple sources. And, if you want to find additional information, you can perform a single search across all dashboard feeds.
Now, if charts, graphs and data are what you need, the dashboard capability also lets you connect to multiple data sources (internal and external) and display the data in context and different formats. In short, the dashboard gives you a "one stop shop" to stay up to date on all of the information you need to make better and more informed decisions.
