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Chapter 1: Collaborating with SharePoint
Sharing ideas in SharePoint
In SharePoint 2007, you and your team members can share your ideas and
collaborate with one another using any of the following SharePoint 2007
features:
✓ Alerts: Set alerts on site lists and libraries to automatically inform any or
all of your team members by e-mail message of any changes you or other
team members make, including changes to the existing content or the
addition of new content.
✓ Document workspace: Set up a document workspace as a special place
for housing a particular document or set of documents that requires
collaborative input and editing.
✓ Meeting workspace: Set up a meeting workspace to inform team
members of upcoming meetings and to provide them a common space
for accessing any information pertinent to the meeting.
✓ Survey: Set up a survey to garner feedback from your team members
about a particular issue of interest to the team or project.
✓ Discussion board: Set up a discussion board to provide a forum for your
team members to discuss a particular issue using a threaded discussion
format.
✓ Wiki page: Set up a wiki page to provide a page of content where any of
your team members can freely edit the content and layout of the page as
they see fit.
✓ Blog site: Set up a blog site to provide a discussion blog where your
team members can post sequential responses to your thoughts or
comments on issues of interest to the team or project.
Exploring the SharePoint Home Page
Figure 1-1 shows the typical home page of a new SharePoint site (the very
one used in creating the book you’re reading). The home page is the main
page of any SharePoint site, the one that appears each time a team member
with permission to access the SharePoint site logs on to it.
As you can see in this figure, a home page is divided basically into two
unequal rows. The much narrower top row contains the basic global site nav-
igation, command, and search controls. The much thicker bottom row is then
divided into two sections. The section on the left contains a bank of controls
for navigating the current site — referred to as the Quick Launch group list
(Quick Launch, for short). The much larger section on the right side contains
a place for listed content. This section, in turn, is divided into a wider left
column that contains a place for new announcements and calendar events
and a narrower right column with the Windows SharePoint Services logo and
a place to add links to other Web sites that may be of interest to the team.