Chris and Dave's SharePoint And Tech Blog

  A strange title for a post but an apt one, I have been involved with SharePoint since 2001 and back in the early days it was very difficult to find any information about the product but now you are literally tripping over yourself with information and help on blogs worldwide (Including this one)

 But the thing I like most is the community atmosphere surrounding SharePoint in the USA you have SharePoint Saturdays and thanks to Mark Miller virtual Saturday events you have user groups everywhere even in Bournemouth thanks again to Ian Woodgate. Now I am no expert and I am sure someone will correct me but you do not seem to have the same social element to Windows Server, Exchange, ISA Server or any other big product from Microsoft. The SharePoint evolution conference is on in London in less than 2 weeks and so far a football tournament, A daily running event and of course the ubiquitous SharePint a very strange product is SharePoint which seems to bring people together but was that not the point of SharePoint? A collaboration platform!!

And long may it continue and I cannot wait for SharePint in London see you there and by the way mines a lager.

  I thought that through this post i would show you some of the new and improved social features in My Site. Below you will see an image of the my profile page one of the elements that go to make up the much improved my site in SharePoint 2010.

This page is really the heart of your social world in SharePoint 2010 as from this page you can manage your tags, Colleagues and files. The Organization tab gives you access to the silverlight organization chart, from this application you can navigate to others sites. All of this info is pulled from your active directory via the user profile import.

The content tab gives access to your files that you have uploaded to your shared or personal documents and also to your personal blog. Next is the tags and notes

From this tab you can see you activities across all the sites where you have tagged documents also the tag cloud is visible from here. Any tags that you have created can also be deleted from this tab.

The Colleagues tab is where not only can you add other members of the site but also delete and edit colleagues from this interface.

This has been a whirlwind tour of My site and in the future i will do a more in-depth posts including ratings and search.

Dave