Thursday, May 3, 2012

Social Networking in SharePoint 2010

One of the major changes in today’s computing environment is the influence of social networking, and how it affects day-to-day business activities. So how will SharePoint 2010 (news, site) get with the times when it comes to social networking

The same engine that helps you share pictures videos is generating a High Revenue . The idea of not being part of a social network like Twitter or Facebook has become much more uncommon than it was in the early days of SharePoint 2007.

1. New and Improved Profile Page

The SharePoint 2010 user profile page is the beneficiary of a lot of great design work by the SharePoint product team. It has also benefited from a lot of useful functionality similar to the features you are used to using on your Facebook and Twitter pages. A lot of these features are self-explanatory, but I’ll mention each one in its own right.

 Overview — This page includes a quick snapshot of your social content. It includes the note board (which functions like a “wall” for various postings),

A small colleague web part and another web part showing your commonalities with other users. It also displays basic profile data, your picture and presence information linking back to Office Communicator.

Organization — This page includes a very sleek org chart that is bigger than the smaller version on the overview page. It shows your peers to the right and your superiors above you in a top to bottom hierarchy.

Content — Includes content like recently touched documents and blog posts.

Tags and Notes — Start tagging and posting notes on other pages and your activity will be seen here.
 
 Colleagues — A running list of employees in your organization that you consider colleagues. When on another user’s profile page, you can add them as a colleague. You can also see suggested colleagues from your own colleague tab.

 Memberships — This displays the distribution lists and sites that you belong to. Items can be made private if need be.

Dynamic activity feed

The activity feed aggregates content you track and content you publish into a dynamic listing much like what you would find on your Facebook news feed. This listing is customizable and the SharePoint team has made this feature highly extensible.


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