Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration

Summary

In this chapter, I introduced the fundamentals of social networking. We started by looking at how Microsoft implemented social networking capabilities into SharePoint 2010. Users are central to any social network and collaborative system, so I covered user profiles and user personalization via My Sites.

My Sites provide individual users in an organization the capabilities to host their own content and disseminate content to peers in the organization. You read about how SharePoint 2010 envelops the social network features—tagging, notes, liking, taxonomy, and folksonomy into user My Sites.

My Sites are not the only mechanism for publishing content to your peers in the enterprise—you also read about blogs and wikis, which carry from SharePoint ...