SharePoint 2016 For Dummies

Chapter 16

Getting Social

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using the Ribbon to share and track sites

Talking on blogs, wikis, and discussion boards

Getting familiar with feeds

Subscribing and managing alerts

Using Skype for Business to reach out and connect

The folks at Microsoft got to thinking about 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, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, and so on (and on).

Some people use them all. We 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 and feeds. And SharePoint even has a What’s Happening feature similar to the on-the-fly updates of Twitter.

SharePoint offers other social networking features that all site visitors can use and some features (such as wikis and discussion boards) that a site owner must set up for a team to use. SharePoint also offers social networking features with Newsfeed (see Chapter 15).

In this chapter, we discuss social networking tools that let individuals and groups communicate, collaborate, share, ...