SharePoint adds social networking nous
SharePoint adds social networking nous
June 19, 2008: The company behind popular desktop and Web-based RSS reading software, NewsGator Technologies, has upgraded its social computing solution for SharePoint Server 2007.
Social Sites 2.0 has been released offering new social networking capabilities to SharePoint.
The 2.0 release has added new collaboration tools, enhanced tagging, RSS feed subscriptions and management, colleague tracking features and content mash-up capabilities.
“SharePoint Server 2007 provides businesses with a social computing solution that delivers positive business results today while establishing a platform that can be easily extended to meet future Enterprise 2.0 needs,” said Deb Bannon, senior product manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group.
“Social Sites and SharePoint Server 2007 facilitate collaboration and simplify information discovery by turning intranets and portals into social hubs. This not only makes it easier for workers to do their jobs, but gives businesses a huge competitive advantage by enabling them to become leaner, smarter and more efficient through collaboration.”
It provides for easy discovery of groups via customized recommendations, tag clouds, search, and lists of recently created and popular communities. A new discussion component includes rich e-mail integration, which allows users to participate in a community without ever logging in to the site.
Individual users are shown their strongest connections based on common content, interests, and intranet activity.