Chapter 17: Social Computing and SharePoint 2010
What’s In This Chapter?
- Managing, using, and synchronizing user profiles
- Setting up and customizing My Sites
- Creating and using wikis and blogs
- Applying ratings
- Using the Outlook 2010 Social Connector plug-in
- Searching for people in SharePoint using People Search
Social computing is one of the fastest evolving trends on the Internet. This dynamic trend has touched the corporate environment and most, if not all, companies are thinking about using social computing in some capacity, but we are yet to see broad-scale adoption like we have seen on the public Internet. Social computing is generally about establishing communities, and building and maintaining relationships. It is usually recognized as involving blogs, wikis, social networks like Facebook, and micro-blogging like Twitter. Social computing (usually referred to as Web 2.0 on the Internet and Enterprise 2.0 in the corporate setting), is representative of a collection of different technologies. But in its most general sense, social computing is people interacting and sharing information, which is the exact goal of SharePoint and collaboration. SharePoint’s social computing capability addresses the following areas:
- Capturing and sharing information
- Enabling people to find and engage experts
- Improving productivity
SharePoint 2010 social computing features include a new and better organized My Site, which provides dynamic news feeds so that people can stay up-to-date on colleague’s ...
