This is the book that I would have written, likely in collaboration with Brendon and Matt, if I had had
just a bit more time this past year. What’s so exciting about SharePoint’s social-computing capabilities is
that they are an integral part of a robust and extensible platform that addresses a broad range of business
and IT problems. Organizations deploy SharePoint as the foundation of their business productivity
infrastructure. Given that social computing is a natural evolution and extension of collaborative computing,
it must not be viewed, managed, or used as a separate set of features. Blogs, wikis, and discussions
(often referred to as social media) complement the document sharing and management capabilities of a
SharePoint team site. User profiles and colleagues lists accommodate the humancentric nature of how
work actually gets done within an organization — that is, by way of people’s connections with others.