Social Media and Hosted SharePoint
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My Sites
When you create a social network using SharePoint and start adding users, personal spaces on SharePoint are automatically being created for each user you add. These personal spaces are called My Sites, which work like many other social network sites, but with added features and capabilities. Included in each My Site are places to view and manage documents, links, calendar, relationships, and other personal information.
Blogs
Microsoft SharePoint includes several ways to implement blogs. Actually, every My Site has a blog incorporated. In addition, users can create new SharePoint blog sites and attach them to an existing Team Site. This gives the team a blog that adds extra content and value along with their document repositories, calendars and lists. SharePoint blogs can also be archived and indexed for search, which makes them a repository for collective knowledge.
People Search
People Search is an important SharePoint feature for large or growing organizations. It makes finding the right individuals much easier than with most directories. Multiple types of searches can be used, including by expertise. Results can be sorted by fields like job title or by social distance. Once you choose a result, you’re taken to the public profile of that user which will include all public information that they chose to share.
Wikis
Microsoft SharePoint also has built in wikis for sharing information and group collaboration on content. The wikis provided by Microsoft SharePoint include the content management features of SharePoint like version history, document check-in, approval workflows and permissions.
This is by far a limited list of the features available through Microsoft SharePoint. Many features that haven’t been discussed here, but we may have given you an idea of the social network and collaboration capabilities of SharePoint. To be honest, there isn’t much you can’t do with this product.
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Adrian Gates (Adrian@apps4rent.com) is a Business Manager with Apps4Rent ;which offers premium hosted Exchange, Microsoft Hosted SharePoint Services and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services.
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