Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Implementing Applications for SharePoint to Enable Collaboration and Interaction in the Enterprise (Paperback)

Social computing is a fast-moving technology, and many of the concepts grow or change every year. Use this book as part of your research for how you will implement any of the social computing applications, but also use online research for keeping updated on new changes to this exciting area of software today. Although social computing applications can be written on any framework or even on their own, we have taken a unique approach to help you understand the landscape of social computing as it relates to SharePoint 2007.

Each chapter introduces you to the concept of the chapter, for example, the RSS chapter gives a brief overview of what RSS is and the history behind it. Then the chapter provides a section of how this is possible with SharePoint 2007. Finally, if there are any extensions that would make it easier to work with social computing and SharePoint, such as open source code or products you can buy, we briefly discuss these options so you are aware of them for your organization.

This book was written for anyone who is approaching social computing applications for an enterprise. This would include developers, managers, directors, and even C-level executives. This book is designed to help decision makers learn about the concepts and understand how they might implement them in their own company. Although this book does reach out to developers, most of the chapters give examples with either built-in options and configuration or show how to use code already installed on SharePoint.

Anyone interested in social computing and the topics covered in each chapter could read this book to get an understanding of what each concept has. The You Try It sections do require having SharePoint 2007 and some of the features installed to actually attempt them. If you are not an IT professional or developer, this is the perfect opportunity for you to start a discussion with your technology group to try out some of these wonderful tools.

The book is designed to allow the reader to start from not knowing about social computing to being able to have an understanding of the concepts and how he or she would use them in his or her company. To accomplish this, you can read the book from front cover to back, or you can pick the specific chapter that your organization is interested in. Because so many people want to know exactly what the topics are and what they are about, we have organized the book into chapters that work together, but stand alone and provide complete coverage of a topic. We have also used a very simple and direct naming of each chapter so you can quickly recognize what the chapter is about and what it covers.

This book covers the major concepts, applications, and implementations of social computing and shows how they are built with SharePoint 2007 today. As you noticed earlier, this is a fast-moving area of computing. Where SharePoint 2007 does not have the capability today, we made sure and explained how you could extend SharePoint 2007 with open source or products you can purchase. We did not cover every product on the market, but we gave you any idea of what you can look for when you are trying to extend SharePoint.

The first two chapters provide the introduction for people new to social computing and how people will have to manage a social computing project. The following chapters break out each concept into a chapter to make it easy to get up to speed and understand what the topic is about.

• Chapter 1 provides the introduction to what social computing is and the concepts behind social computing applications and discusses some of the technologies your organization might use to implement these concepts.

• Chapter 2 describes how to build a successful project around social computing. This chapter takes you through steps that can make your team more successful, discusses the adoption of the application, and points out pitfalls that may get in your way to avoid them.

• Chapter 3 discusses content tagging as one of the fundamental pieces of social computing. This chapter shows what content tagging is and how to use it to effectively build a solution with more visibility.

• Chapter 4 demonstrates how to use wikis to build solutions for your organization and gives you hands-on examples of what the wiki can do for your company.

• Chapter 5 covers the popular topic of blogs. This chapter shows you how to set up your own blog for your organization as well as discuss why you would even want a blog.

• Chapter 6 delves into RSS and shows you what the XML is all about. This chapter covers what RSS is and how to consume it in your organization to successfully increase communication.

• Chapter 7 gives an overview of social networking and SharePoint 2007 My Sites and what is required for social computing in a company.

• Chapter 8 demonstrates what podcasting is and how you might implement this concept in your organization. Podcasting is a fast-growing concept that many people are using for communication and entertainment. This chapter will show how to use SharePoint 2007 to enhance the communication in your organization.

• Chapter 9 explains what mashups are and how you might use them today. Mashups are still growing in organizations and still need some customizations to make them powerful, but you will understand the concepts and an overview of how to create these powerful applications.

• Chapter 10 covers presence and OCS/Windows Live as a central part of social computing. This chapter helps to understand how you might enhance your projects just by including a valuable part of social computing and being connected to other people.

• Chapter11 discusses some of the forward-looking technologies such as interactive media, video, and communication. These technologies are still being transformed from the general use applications to powerful implements that include pieces of many of the social computing concepts.

• Chapter 12 talks about social computing search and how to use search to find the information you are looking for. In social computing applications, finding data is critical to the success of the application, and this chapter introduces how to accomplish that with SharePoint 2007.

社交計算是一項快速發展的技術，其中許多概念每年都在成長或變化。使用本書作為您研究實施任何社交計算應用的一部分，同時也使用在線研究來保持對這個令人興奮的軟件領域的新變化的更新。雖然社交計算應用可以在任何框架上甚至獨立開發，但我們採取了一種獨特的方法，以幫助您了解與SharePoint 2007相關的社交計算領域的情況。

每個章節都介紹了該章節的概念，例如，RSS章節簡要介紹了RSS是什麼以及其背後的歷史。然後，該章節提供了如何在SharePoint 2007中實現這一概念的部分。最後，如果有任何擴展可以使社交計算和SharePoint更容易使用，例如開源代碼或可購買的產品，我們會簡要討論這些選項，以便您的組織了解它們。

本書是為那些面對企業社交計算應用的人而寫的。這包括開發人員、經理、主管，甚至高級執行官。本書旨在幫助決策者了解這些概念，並了解如何在自己的公司中實施它們。雖然本書也涉及開發人員，但大多數章節都提供了內置選項和配置的示例，或者展示了如何使用已安裝在SharePoint上的代碼。

任何對社交計算和每個章節涵蓋的主題感興趣的人都可以閱讀本書，以了解每個概念的內容。"您試試看"部分需要安裝SharePoint 2007和一些功能才能實際嘗試。如果您不是IT專業人士或開發人員，這是您與技術團隊開始討論並嘗試一些這些精彩工具的絕佳機會。

本書旨在讓讀者從對社交計算一無所知到能夠理解概念並在自己的公司中應用它們。為了實現這一目標，您可以從頭到尾閱讀本書，或者選擇您的組織感興趣的特定章節。由於許多人想確切了解主題是什麼以及涵蓋了什麼，我們將本書分為相互配合但獨立且完整涵蓋一個主題的章節。我們還使用了非常簡單和直接的章節命名，以便您可以快速識別章節的內容和涵蓋範圍。

本書涵蓋了社交計算的主要概念、應用和實現，並展示了如何在今天使用SharePoint 2007構建它們。正如您之前注意到的，這是一個快速發展的計算領域。在SharePoint 2007目前沒有這方面的功能時，我們確保並解釋了如何通過開源或可購買的產品擴展SharePoint 2007。我們沒有涵蓋市場上的每一個產品，但我們給出了您在試圖擴展SharePoint時可以尋找的一些想法。

前兩章為對社交計算新手和如何管理社交計算項目的人提供了介紹。接下來的章節將每個概念分解為一個章節，以便快速掌握並理解主題的內容。

第1章介紹了社交計算是什麼以及社交計算應用背後的概念，並討論了您的組織可能使用的一些技術。

第2章描述了如何圍繞社交計算建立一個成功的項目。本章將帶您進行一些可以使您的團隊更成功的步驟，討論應用的采用情況，並指出可能遇到的問題。