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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints
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About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 4. Building an Engaging Community Site

Organizations today are looking for ways to increase collaboration and to provide more self-help resources through the use of tools like SharePoint. Thanks to the built-in Team Site template, it can be fairly easy to build a department-level collaboration site, but there is currently no template that is optimized for use as a true community collaboration site where the content is less structured, more conversational, and where the group will evolve over time, unlike your traditional department site.

This chapter will attempt to address the challenges of using a Team Site for community collaboration so that you can build a community site that can keep people engaged and incorporate the collaboration levels that everyone is looking for.

Community sites can be used to drive collaboration and self-help around a specific topic or system. Examples could include business topics like Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies, or for...