Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects

Chapter 7. Building a Team Blog Platform

In this chapter you will work through the process of creating a functional internal blog. Although the default blog template is functional, it lacks some key features that allow teams to manage blog content. This chapter’s solution demonstrates one method for submitting new content, flagging content for peer review, and submitting content for approval. This is a common scenario for organizations seeking to provide some degree of editorial control over the content on their intranet. The chapter’s example is built using functionality in SharePoint Enterprise.

Identifying the Business Problems

Blogs have been a fairly common tool for many organizations, but asserting some degree of control over the content they ...