Collaboration
By using the following features in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can work more
efficiently and effectively with other people in your organization.
Use site templates to collaborate or manage meetings When you create
a new Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, you can start by selecting one of several
different kinds of site templates for collaborating with other people and managing
meetings. For example, the site templates in the Collaboration group are designed
to help teams within an organization work on projects, collaborate on documents.
For example, by using the Document Workspace site template, you can work with other
people on a document or a set of documents. The site templates in the Meetings group
are designed to help teams within an organization manage different kinds of meetings.
The templates in this group support everything from basic meetings to decision-focused
meetings or even social events.
Share documents, contacts, tasks, and calendars You can synchronize
your Office SharePoint Server 2007 calendar with Outlook. You can enter all-day
events, and specify more types of repeating, or recurring, events. You can track
team projects more effectively, with visual day and month views.
Brainstorm easily with wiki sites A wiki site enables you to brainstorm
ideas, collaborate on a team design, build an encyclopedia of knowledge, or just
gather routine information in a format that's easy to create and modify. Your team
members can contribute to wikis from their browser — they don't need a word processor
or special technical knowledge.
Share ideas with blogs A blog, sometimes known as a weblog, consists
of frequent short posts. The posts are displayed in order starting with the most
recent post. With Office SharePoint Server 2007, it just takes a few clicks to create
a blog, post to a blog, subscribe to updates to a blog, and customize a blog. You
can enable a blog to accept comments, or you can turn comments off. Some possible
uses include an executive's journal for sharing thoughts and vision, a community
for building customer relationships, or an informal site where teams can share news
and tips.
Receive updates to lists and libraries with RSS Lists and libraries
make use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology, so members of your workgroup
can automatically receive updates. RSS is a technology that enables people to receive
and view updates or feeds of news, blogs, and other items of interest in a consolidated
location.
Manage projects You can create a Project Tasks
list, which includes a Gantt chart. A Gantt chart is a type of visual overview of
project tasks that you can use to monitor the dates and progress of team tasks.
Get mobile access to content You can view portals, team sites,
and lists on a mobile device, which helps you stay current on team projects and
tasks when you are on the road. For example, lists appear on phones (or other telecommunications
devices that support international standards) in a simplified text format, with
a link to scroll through the content of each page. You can also receive alerts as
lists are updated.
Send e-mail to Office SharePoint Server 2007 You can use e-mail
to participate in discussions, meetings, and documents in a Office SharePoint Server
2007 site. Just as you send e-mail to your team to discuss tasks and projects, you
can also send e-mail to a Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, or a specific list
or library. You can also archive e-mail that's sent to a site or list, so that your
team members can easily follow a discussion on a site instead of having to find messages in their clogged Inboxes.
Manage documents and some types of lists offline You can take your
important work with you wherever you go. With some e-mail programs that are compatible
with Office SharePoint Server 2007, such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can
work offline on files in a library and items in the following types of lists: calendars,
contacts, tasks, and discussions. When you connect back online, you can update your
files on the server. List items are updated automatically.