Five New and Improved Features

1. Improved Social Networking Tools

SharePoint 2010 should benefit from the addition of personal blogs, tagging and activity feeds within its social networking sites, called MySites. MySites will also integrate with Microsoft's BCS (Business Connectivity Services), which allows IT to link employees' MySites profiles to non-SharePoint data, such as information from a human resources system.

Wiki and blog integration in MOSS 2007 was criticized for not being user-friendly, but Forrester's Koplowitz writes that SharePoint 2010 improves on this dramatically.

"Wikis are now expressed as a pervasive content type that can be accessed in most content-generation scenarios, as opposed to a specific template type," he writes. "Blogs are tuned for internal and external audiences."

Community interaction within SharePoint has been given a boost, as MySites now have a user interface similar to FacebookFacebook profile pages. SharePoint 2010 has also added tagging (word labels that describe and help find content) through a centrally managed metadata service, with "tag clouds" that list common tag words so users can find content quicker. In addition, SharePoint 2010 is emulating TwitterTwitter by bringing microblogging and activity feeds into the fold. Alles zu Facebook auf CIO.de Alles zu Twitter auf CIO.de