My Site Home

The virtual you

Social networks start with people. So, every person in the social network needs a home—a place where they can store personal content and information and control what they publish to the rest of the organization. My Site Home can contain Web Parts that show content such as RSS feeds, blog posts, and Microsoft Office Outlook^® Web Access components. Each user can customize My Home to make it more relevant to their interests and needs

My Site Profile

Say hello to everyone

My Site Profile, the public face of My Site, lets people discover each other’s interests and expertise. In addition to providing default information such as job title, department, and office location (which can be automatically populated from Microsoft Active Directory^®, another directory, or human resources service), users can share as much professional and personal information as they wish and define whom they want to share it with. Users can also create rich content like blogs and associate that content with their profiles. Information in My Site Profile can be searched using SharePoint's People Search capability, providing a fast and powerful way for people to find expertise and connect with colleagues  Users can stay up to date on what others are doing—for example, if a colleague changed teams or got a new job title. They can also find each other's work by browsing the documents and blogs stored on each My Site.

Role-based templates for Microsoft^® Office SharePoint^® Server 2007
Different jobs have different requirements. To make SharePoint My Sites more relevant and useful for certain common positions, Microsoft has developed free, role-based My Site templates for:

• Administrative assistants
• Controller-financial analysts
• Customer service managers
• HR managers
• IT managers
• Marketing managers
• Sales account managers