SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

Using Your My Site

Before getting into the nuts and bolts of My Sites, let's take a tour of the available features and how you can use them.

Tracking Members

You can use the Colleagues Web Part to keep track of team members, partners, and anyone else you regularly work with. When you use this Web Part, you can find out whether an individual has reported to work for the day and the activities she is involved in, such as a meeting or a phone call. You can be reminded of such details as when it's a team member's birthday or anniversary and be informed of major events, such as when she changes departments or are promoted.

Tracking Links

Your My Site has a separate My Links page, which you can use to add and organize links to any web site. You can collect links by project name or some other criteria and filter the links with Privacy Groups. Then only those groups you allow can see certain collections of links.

Tracking Document Approval

Configure a workflow for your documents so you can keep track of which have been submitted for approval, which were approved or rejected, the rationale for the decision, and tasks related to documents.

Storing and Sharing Documents

You can use the Documents Web Part on your My Site to link to any document you have ever created or modified on any SharePoint site in the site collection. You can also view any tasks assigned to you related to these documents. My Site is set up by default to show all the documents you are connected to on up to five sites in the site ...