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Community Input: SharePoint 2010

Posted by cgseo under Social Media

OK - this is all draft - nothing is final - everything below is a work-in-progress. I wanted to obtain feedback though... leave comments, thanks... Context Losing the battle but winning the war? Many organizations have invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 as strategic infrastructure for content management and collaboration. However, the market responded negatively to the social tools included within MOSS 2007. Thought-leadership was lost as competitors (e.g., IBM, Jive) delivered social platforms that were far superior to what was delivered out-of-the-box by Microsoft. Microsoft partners (e.g., Atlassian, NewsGator) whose products integrated into SharePoint in ways that alleviated some of the worst functionality (e.g., wikis and communities) filled gaps in social tooling.