Collaboration and Social Computing

SharePoint promotes easy authoring from the browser or from familiar applications such as Microsoft Word, helping you relate resources with tagging and ratings, and helping you find answers faster through news feeds and people search.

One of the primary places where you can take advantage of these capabilities is on your My Site. My Site is your own SharePoint site where you can share documents, links, and information about yourself in an online profile. This is a personal site that gives you a central location to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts. My Site serves as a point of contact for other users in your company to find information about you, your skills, and your interests. You can also blog about topics of interest or search for the information you need to do your job, introducing impressive Social Computing capabilities into your company ("Enterprise 2.0"). You decide what information you want to share and what information you want to keep private on your My Site. You can then tag links to information and find information that other people tag or share on their newsfeeds.

Two or more users can edit a Word document or PowerPoint presentation at the same time using "co-authoring". This new feature enables you to read and write portions of a file stored in SharePoint. For example, you can work on one paragraph in a Word document while a colleague works on another paragraph in the same document and at the same time.

SharePoint also enables participation anywhere by offering a rich SharePoint Workspace experience while online or disconnected from your network and freeing you to collaborate on the go.