Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 3/3-3/6 (Social Computing)
I spent all of my time attending the social computing sessions. I think Sharepoint is heading in the right direction when it comes to social computing but a lot of work remains to be done. The Community Kit for Sharepoint is helping fill up the gaps in the blogs and wiki space and I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of its features in future versions of Sharepoint. In my opinion, some of the stuff in the Community Kit is a way to get MOSS 2007 caught up to products like Wordpress, Movable Type, Confluence, and MediaWiki.
Sharepoint 2007 does have some cool things related to social profiles, presence, people search and networking activities however the reliance on Active Directory as the primary data source to populate those scenarios might be a hurdle for some IT shops.
With that said I think the Sharepoint product team gets it and wants to do alot more in this space. I think we need to keep on top of this space with the Community Kit and Sharepoint to see where things go.
If anyone has differing or similar opinions on this please comment away!
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