You should know by now that I like to take photos - I think I'm making up for the fact that I regret not taking pictures when I worked at the Opera Company of Boston, building sets and putting on operas. Oh, well...I captured the happy demo duo, Suzanne and Heidi. I hope to make it back there on Wednesday for more sessions and to check out the demo pavilion.
It was clear to me that Sharepoint wasn't exactly designed to be a social networking platform and the MS team had some trouble sticking to the topic. They showed some blogging in Word, which could be handy (we have something similar in the works in Symphony) but then they launched into a typical doc mgmt type scenario. It appeared to me that the blog and wiki were built out of SP Lists, but I couldn't be sure, since I don't really know that platform well. The team also showed My Sites, which was more of a personal portal (see K-station), which surfaces documents that you authored or are part of your team spaces. The other thing about Sharepoint is that you need to supplement it with either partner add-ons or the Community Kit for Blogs in order to add the social networking pieces, like tagging and ratings. I'm guessing that is a short-term strategy until they can add more features. Profiles seemed to be more integrated, but the demo-ers ended up showing endless config options and the crowd was getting restless.
Anyway, that was my impression!
Chris Reckling
Program Director, Lotus Software UX
Chris Reckling | 10 June 2008 01:54:42 PM ET | | Comments (7)
