How to Get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft

The whitepaper discusses the value of social computing for business, citing 2 customer references of large scale enterprise deployments, and the technologies that enable successful results from social computing. The whitepaper also addresses the business and technical benefits from using SharePoint Products and Technologies and how the platform differentiates compared to other social computing vendors.

Managing Social Networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Learn about the importance of social networking in an organization and how to properly implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a social networking platform.

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Keynote Presentation - Amplify The Impact Of Your People With Enterprise 2.0 Technologies

Derek Burney, Microsoft's General Manager of SharePoint Platform & Tools, discusses advances in social computing, composite applications and mash-ups, and unified communications are creating value for enterprises by changing the way people collaborate, innovate, and communicate - not only internally but also with customers, partners and suppliers.

Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise with the 2007 Office System

This white paper explores how the 2007 Microsoft Office system allows enterprises to adopt Web 2.0 ideas and technologies to create high-value, user-driven applications for the Internet and intranet.

Using Blogs and Wikis in Business

This paper includes a discussion of the built-in wiki and blog support in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and includes examples of features that are relevant to business decision makers and technical managers.

Office Hours: Stir up your best ideas with a group SharePoint blog

Many good ideas were getting buried at the bottom of inboxes, or not getting to the right people. This article provides recommendations to make a group blog successful and easy to use, so we can connect, collaborate and share those ideas.

Wiki While You Work

This article on TechNet Magazine provides an overview of what a wiki is, how to build a wiki in SharePoint, and how to edit and track changes.

Community Kit for SharePoint

The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.