SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 17

Yours, Mine, and Ours: Social Networking

In This Chapter

Using the Ribbon to share and track sites

Tagging in SharePoint

Making it your own with My Site, My Profile, and My Tags and Notes

Talking on blogs, wikis, and discussion boards

The folks at Microsoft got to thinking how SharePoint is a lot like social networking communities on the web. Social networking services build online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, and consist of services and sites such as instant messaging (IM), discussion boards, blogs, wikis, bookmarking sites, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, and so on (and on).

Let me tell you, I have a family member who uses them all. I just can’t. And neither should you feel like you have to use all the social networking options in SharePoint. Focus on picking the right tool(s) for you and your team. You can still be cool (and productive) using just a few. There are good and specific reasons for using discussion boards, blogs, and wikis, and even more reasons for using alerts, feeds, and tagging. And SharePoint even has a What’s Happening ...