Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013

Chapter 17. SharePoint social enterprise features

Social enterprise features in Microsoft SharePoint have forever changed for the better with the release of SharePoint 2013. Many of SharePoint’s new social features allow organizations and their people almost instant access to social capabilities ranging from newsfeeds, to following people and content, to taking advantage of Yammer, one of Microsoft’s recent acquisitions.

The investment that Microsoft has put into these new features, along with the global trends in social components within organizations, attest to the fact that social components can be a game changer for how people collaborate and communicate with one another throughout the workplace. Efficiency and productivity can dramatically ...