Microsoft® Office 365 For Dummies®

Chapter 5

Collaborating Has Never Been This Easy!

In This Chapter

Using social computing in the workplace

Showcasing your background and skills in My Site

Managing content across intranets and websites

Setting up a team collaboration site with versioning and workflows

Creating an intranet by using the SharePoint Online Publishing template

In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

— Charles Darwin

Undoubtedly, many workers collaborate online every day by using e-mail, Instant Messaging (IM) web conferencing, Wikis, and a slew of collaboration tools. Recent studies, however, have shown that 20 to 50 percent of collaborative activities result in wasted effort caused by poorly planned meetings, unproductive travel, and redundant e-mail communications.

This chapter helps you turn those inefficiencies into sizable gains simply by applying the out-of-the-box features of SharePoint Online. If you ...