You Spoke, We Listened - 30,000 Strong element14 Community Gets Even
Better Following User Feedback
Engineers shape the future of what they want from an eCommunity.
Over 150 community requested enhancements implemented, including:
private discussions, document preview and collaboration, and Microsoft
Office® support.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--element14, Premier
Farnell?s innovative online technology resource and community for
electronic design engineers, announces a significant upgrade of over 150
new features that will benefit its 30,000-strong eCommunity of global.
Members of the element14 community are now able to have private
discussions and post private documents, see previews of documents
created with Microsoft Office®. These enhancements follow comprehensive
user feedback into the features and capabilities that are most important
to global electronic design engineers.
?The fact that element14 continues to grow significantly is the fact
that we continually evolve the available resources to match the changing
needs of electronic design engineers whether they are in Europe, the
Americas or Asia?
Private Discussions and Documents
Engineers now have their own private workspace where they can create
confidential discussions and view and share documents with only the
participants they choose. Furthermore, if they are working on a project
with a remote partner, they can use their private space to store,
collaborate, share and message with them.
Rich Document Preview
The new document preview allows users immediate access to rich technical
content from around the world covering all the technologies and
manufacturers on element14. As users search for answers, the new
preview mode displays documents immediately without the need to open
attachments. Users can now also collaborate and easily share feedback on
any document by leaving comments and notes, significantly improving user
collaboration.
?The fact that element14 continues to grow significantly is the fact
that we continually evolve the available resources to match the changing
needs of electronic design engineers whether they are in Europe, the
Americas or Asia,? said Devashish Saxena, Senior Vice President Global
eCommerce and Social Marketing at Premier Farnell. ?These latest
enhancements, which are a direct result of user feedback, include over
150 new features that allow users to customize their experience on element14.
For instance, they can now easily customize their community page by
showing only the people, spaces/groups and content relevant to them,
they have access to many new interface layouts and a new preview widget
lets users easily review their new page before it is published and make
it their starting point for their element14 experience. Also, users can
set up a new digest e-mail to receive daily, bi-weekly or weekly updates
on content of their choosing.?
About element14
Launched in June 2009, element14 is the first, innovative
information portal and eCommunity specifically built for electronic
design engineers boasting 30,000 live users (as of October 2010). It
provides product data, design tools and technology information, whilst
incorporating Web 2.0 functionality to facilitate communication,
interaction, collaboration and information sharing between colleagues
around the world. Users can consult experts, discover trends, post
blogs, articles and comments in this world-wide forum.
element14 is an innovative offering from Premier Farnell plc
(LSE:pfl), FTSE 250, a leader in multi-channel distribution and
specialty services for electronic design engineers throughout Europe,
the Americas and Asia Pacific. It has a stocked range of 450,000+
products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,500 top
manufacturers. The company has group sales of £795.3m and over 4,100
employees globally.
For more information visit: www.element14.com.
Premier Farnell and Farnell
Aakriti Kaushik
PR Manager,
Europe and Global
Tel: +44 (0) 113 279 0101
Email:
akaushik@premierfarnell.comor
Pinnacle
Marketing Communications, LtdJonathan Roberts
Account
Director
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8869 9339
E-mail:
j.roberts@pinnaclemarcom.comor
element14
PRJanice Fleisher
Communications Americas
Tel: +001
(1) 773 907 5941
Email:
jfleisher@newark.comor
Hui-Yun
Chen
Communications APAC
Tel: +65 6380 3239
E-mail:
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