Social and people focused collaboration features have been greatly improved in the new SharePoint 2010. People are now able to collaborate in ways that are most comfortable and natural to them, whether it be through blogs, wikis, status updates, team sites, or even social tagging.  In this presentation, Laura Rogers will not only discuss the new user experience, but will perform real-world demonstrations of the new features that are available.  Session attendees will learn about the new My Sites, Activity Feeds, Knowledge Mining, Social versus expertise tagging, and even the new Noteboard concept.  The new SharePoint 2010 is all about making people and content easy to find, so come learn how to get started!

My Sites

The user profile is where users define their own attributes.  The My Site is where this profile is exposed. 

• Status Updates and Activity Feeds – “What are you doing right now?”
• Knowledge Mining – each user defines their own subjects of expertise.
• Bookmarks – bookmarking is sharing favorite web sites with a community of users.
• Feedback – the ability to rate and give input on other users status updates and other items. 
• Note board – similar to a user’s “wall” in Facebook.
• The user profile

Social and Enterprise Tagging

• Managed Metadata
•  Social Tagging - Social tagging refers to content and adds metadata to content to describe what it is, what it contains, or what it does.
• Enterprise Tagging - Expertise tagging is related to a person and describes the person, such as what they do, which projects they work on, or what skills they have.
• Tag profiles

Share & Track

The new Share & Track tab allows familiar notification, sharing, and social feedback capabilities.

• Enhancements to the team site experience
• My SharePoint - Note board, Tags, I like it, To Do, Save for Later
• Notifications - RSS Feed, Manage my alerts
• Share - Email a link, Copy Link
• Mobile - Edit mobile page

Social Search

• People search has been enhanced in SharePoint 2010.
• The user experience
• Expertise search - Increase the impact of your organization’s knowledge and expertise
• Mining and discovering expertise

Blogs and Wikis

• New blog posts are listed in Activity Feed.
• New blog enhancements.
• Consistent rich text editor.
• Changes in the Wiki

Server Side

• Managing the metadata
• User profiles and properties
• Search setup

Next Offering: March 4, 2010, 2pm - 3:15pm EST