Chapter 10
Getting Social
IN THIS CHAPTER
Figuring out how to share and follow sites
Getting up to speed with team news and communications sites
Subscribing to and managing alerts
Adding comments to a SharePoint site
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, wikis, posts, 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, posts, news, and wikis, and even more reasons for using alerts, notifications, and feeds. And SharePoint even has a What’s Happening feature similar to the on-the-fly updates ...
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