Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out

Chapter 6. Sharing information with SharePoint social networking

The Newsfeed

Community sites

Performing community site management

Moderating a community

Extending your community to the cloud with Yammer

Summary

MICROSOFT SharePoint has included features that are “social” in nature for quite a long time now. User profiles, My Sites, blogs, ratings, and so forth all helped SharePoint evolve beyond team collaboration into a social networking tool designed for the enterprise. It was not until the introduction of the Noteboard and other related features in SharePoint 2010 that customers truly began to consider SharePoint a viable enterprise social platform. However, SharePoint 2010 still had many shortcomings, perhaps the most significant of which was that ...