Chapter 12. Understanding and configuring social capabilities

An overview of SharePoint 2013 social capabilities

Microblogging and activity feeds

Task aggregation

Community sites

Microsoft SkyDrive Pro

Comparing SharePoint 2013 to Yammer

Mobile clients

The new social features in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 are among the most dramatic changes that were introduced with this newest release of the product. In this version, Microsoft builds on the existing components of My Sites and user profiles and adds microblogging, newsfeeds, communities, and a host of infrastructure changes to integrate these new additions throughout SharePoint. In this chapter, we will examine these new features and understand how to configure them as well as how to plan user adoption. ...

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