The
social media has become an inextricable part of modern lifestyle.
With millions of people using major social networking platforms like
Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin on a daily basis, the social media has
also become an effective medium of web-based communication and
information sharing. The social networking platforms have further
enabled companies to promote their products and services by targeting
customers residing in different regions.
At
the same time, many businesses also use social media to stay
connected with their existing customers and potentials, along with
gathering their suggestions, feedback and views. The huge popularity
of social media has further made it essential for each business to
choose a content management system that allows them boost public
relations by availing the benefits of social media. Unlike the
conventional file sharing softwares, the latest version of Microsoft
SharePoint offers a variety of functions related to social media and
collaboration.
In
addition to seamlessly sharing data among your distributed team
mambers, clients, vendors and other stakeholders, you can also use
SharePoint features to build a customized social media portal for
your business just like Facebook. The My Sites feature further
enables your employees to create and edit their individual profile
pages, and synchronize theire profile with the Active Directory. They
can further create public profile to make share both personal and
professional information with cowoekers and clients resding in other
countries. The social media feature of SharePoint 2013 has made it
easier for a business to avail the combined benefits of social media
and an innovative content management system. This
makes the search for “Top
companies in Sharepoint” rise to gigantic global numbers.
Singificant
Advantages of SharePoint Social Features
Centralized
Location to Store All Your Conten: Each user wants to store all
his files in a central location where the information can be accessed
easily by others. The My Sites features allow users to have a central
location for their personal and professional information. Microsoft
has further optimized the features to make it easier for users to
access the required information without putting any extra time and
effort.
You
also have options to use the default Team Template to see links for
Sites, Newsfeed and SkyDrive on the top of the page. These links will
make it easier for users to quickly navigate within the My Site. Once
you make these sites available on several templates, the members of
your distributed team can easily navigate from the content related to
a specific team or project. Also, they can easily collabaorate the
information with their personal account.
Easy
to Organize, Access and Share Your Data: Many users look for
easier options to organize their content, rather than linking the
content to their personal account. Share Point 2013 suuports a
concept knows as Follow. The feature enables users to easily and
quicky add links and references to specific files on their individual
My Sites. At the same time, you can use the features to easily follow
documents, people, tags and sites within SharePoint. Based on the
things you want to follow, you can see the icon directly that will
make it easier for you to access the content in future.
For
instance, if your project requires you to create and review new
documents, the Follow concept will make it easier for you to add
reference to the existing as well as new content. Also, you can
review the documents easily by seeing your newsfeed updated.
Simialarly, your suggestions and feedback can be viewed by other team
members through their newsfeed updates. So they can easily decide the
content that they have to rely on, instead of navigating through the
entire site.
Options
to Start and Continue Conversations: The SharePoint 2013 further
allows users to discuss the content by posting, and responding to
comments. When one opens his newsfeed, he can view the information on
different categories. The section will also see the things that you
follow under each catergory. Along with following the content, you
can use the feature to interact with other users directly from the
site. You can simply add the @ symbol before the name of the specific
post, and make it easier for others to find the global address. Also,
the mentioned users will get email notifications informing them about
the update.
Further,
when you create a new team site, it will by default contain a
newsfeed. The newsfeed can be used by your teammates to discuss the
content. As all your contents are located in a cental place, your
coworkers can easily iniatiate a conversation, and participate in
discussions. Your colleagues also have options to interact with each
other by sending emails. But the interactions through newsfeed will
complement the needs of all users. Also, the conversations will
remain more centralized within your team or project content.
If
you are new to building a social media sharing site using SharePoint
2013, it is advisable to gather instructions provided by Microsoft.
The whitepaper further explains how to customize your content
management system to avail the features and functionality offered by
major social networking platforms.
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