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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT 2010
functionality for versioning and content approval. Unfortunately, blogs and wikis were a late
addition to the 2007 product, so not all of the desired functionality made it into the fi nal release.
In the 2010 product, blogs and wikis are enhanced to add new capabilities to the core blog and wiki
functionality. Also, these applications can take better advantage of new 2010 capabilities, such as
content rating, tagging, and feeds. In addition, records management can now be applied to blogs
and wikis just like any other content in SharePoint so that you can have compliance and governance
on your blog and wiki content. Finally, SharePoint also introduces enterprise wikis, which combine
the content publishing and social features to provide a more robust wiki solution that has
capabilities such as ratings of wiki pages.
Social Tagging and Ratings
One phenomenon on the Internet is social tagging and content rating. If you have ever used Delicious
or Digg, then you ’ ve used a social tagging technology where you can search, sort, and fi lter by tag,
track what other people are tagging, and obtain feeds on your tags related to your areas of interest.
Combined with tagging, ratings help you understand the value of the content and can help fi lter out
poor content based on other people ’ s ratings. Both of these features are implemented in the 2010
release so that you can tag anything in SharePoint, whether it ’ s content or people. Plus, you can rate
all of your content, so if you want to fi nd all Word documents rated with four or more stars, you can
quickly search your site to fi nd this information. There is a blurring of the line between social and
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) areas, as you will see throughout this book. The two areas
are converging, with social being the bottom - up technology driven by users and ECM being the top -
down technology that helps with compliance in your social environment. Many of the features are
shared between the two technological areas, especially tagging, where the social tag infrastructure,
called folksonomies, are actually open term sets in a corporate taxonomy. Finally, as everyone
always asks about this in regard to 2007: yes, SharePoint 2010 does ship with a Tag Cloud web part.
Activity Feeds
If you have used Facebook or MySpace, then you know how powerful it is to have the ability to
track what your circle of friends is doing. In a corporate environment, understanding what is
happening in your social network is important so that if someone is working on a document that
you may be interested in and that information appears in your social feed, you can quickly view the
document. Another example is if there is a tag that you have been tracking as an interest area; you
may want to get an activity feed on that tag as people tag other content or people with it.
Social Bookmarking
Often, there are interesting web bookmarks that people want to share with other members of their
organizations. These bookmarks can be internal or external websites and can be rated, tagged, or
shared using the other social features included in SharePoint.
Organization Browser
In both large and small organizations, browsing through an organizational chart is a good way
to get an understanding of which people are in which groups and what they work on. While
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