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SharePoint 2010 is not designed to serve as a communication platform, but has more than its predecessors the capabilities of doing so. Every user can set up a personal blog or participate in workspace blogs. A blog is a set of related webparts which, besides the blog posts, includes blog content management (“blog tools”), a blog description (“about this blog”), categories, archives and links. When creating a blog post, users can assign the post to a category but the concept of categories cannot make up for the lack of tagging for individual blog posts. On the positive side SharePoint blogs have a tight Office 2007 integration which allows for easy content creation. Equally to blogs, forums can be added to any workspace. Due to the fact that they are based on SharePoints excellent list infrastructure, the layout of discussion threads can be extensively customized by creating different “views”. Furthermore users can comment by leaving a remark on a “note-board” which is attached to every newly created page. |
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Collaboration has always been at the core of SharePoint services and the SharePoint 2010 brings it to another level by surrounding collaboration processes with solid social software functionality. The customizable “site” templates of SharePoint 2010 make it easy to set up open and closed workspaces and allow setting fine grained access permissions for groups or individual users. Workspaces can be flexibly equipped with (document) lists as well as blogging, discussion and wiki-functionality. The new Office 2007 like Rich Text Editor allows users to easily create or edit content and the combination of basic workflow management with extensive office integration makes file based collaboration a pleasure. Notable in this respect is the new feature of online Word and Excel document preview which includes basic editing capabilities. Even if the social software functionality still does not feel very Web 2.0 like, it serves all basic requirements and the flexibility of the SharePoint workspaces allows customizing the platform to serve any collaboration or knowledge exchange scenario. |
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The networking capabilities of MOSS 2007 are very lightweight and have been significantly improved for SharePoint 2010. The standard profile features picture, contact information and free-text self description are now complemented by a user activity stream, a profile guestbook (“the board”), an organizational chart (reporting hierarchy) and user content references (“sharing center” linking to documents, pictures, blog). Other employees can be manually added to the colleagues list and assigned to specific groups or synchronized with Outlook. The SharePoint 2010 network activity stream is called “colleague tracker” and allows following the actions of co-workers in a configurable set of selected activities (e.g. updates of tags, blog posts, documents, status). Besides customizable visibility levels of profile information (everyone, colleagues, team, manager, me), the status updates feature is very useful because users can keep colleagues informed choosing one of three standard messages (in/out of office, at home) or type in their particular status by hand. |
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The capabilities for Personal Information Management have been enhanced significantly for SharePoint 2010, but they still lack proper organization and integration. MOSS 2007 already had personal workspaces (“my site”) but in Share Point 2010, users have more functionality especially concerning tagging. Within the personal space there is a “Recent Activities” page which roughly works as a dashboard, containing a network activity stream, quick links to and document (task) previews for workspaces, and a personal tag-cloud. It can be enriched with other webparts, for example to display RSS feeds or track tags and people. Moreover users can store (and share) documents, pictures and lists under “my site”. In SharePoint 2010 users can tag and comment on every page. Clicking “Share & Track” in the top navigation displays a ribbon menu with buttons for comments, tags, RSS (a feed for page changes) and alerts (Email or SMS). Though it is possible to tag external websites, proper bookmark organization is missing. Search is reported to be very good but could not yet be tested. |
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In comparison to other social software products, SharePoint is king in Project Management. Even if very advanced Project Management needs integration with Microsoft Project Server, SharePoint itself is exceeding standard (social software) requirements. The basic support SharePoint provides for Project Management are flexibly configurable workspaces and excellent document collaboration support. In addition, good workflow management, detailed task assignment (tracking) and basic calendaring functionality are available. Already advanced is the sites “Projects” template which creates a project tracking database and enables users to track multiple projects within one interface. The integration with Outlook is not particularly good, but at least task lists can be connected to the user’s local groupware client. |
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