![]() Site Hub, Memberships and Community Portal See Part 3 of this series on SharePoint 2013 Social Features for more about My Sites. This shows not only tasks across all my projects, but those in Exchange as well (and the two can be connected and kept in sync, as with SharePoint 2010). Tasks are now much more manageable, with an aggregated task view being a default page on My Sites. My Sites also have useful views of “Shared by me” and also “Shared with me”, which aggregates files that my colleagues have given me access to (the screenshot shows this and the new document preview pop-up). This makes much more sense than trying to sync through Outlook, as 20 did. There is SkyDrive, a Dropbox-like feature that is accessible within the desktop file explorer, and will synchronize edits made offline. My Site’s file sharing has been enhanced. Behind the scenes are more extensive look-and-feel options, thankfully well hidden as the design selection has a visual appeal matched only by looking at PowerPoint 1.0 slides with a migraine. They do, however, begin with a Get Started bar (see the screenshot at the start of this post), encouraging you to add tasks, lists and basic branding. Standard Team Sites are stripped back, with just documents, newsfeed and ‘Notebook’ (taking you to One Note online). The usual document libraries are still there and announcements are replaced with a more social project newsfeed area. The Project template adds in a project summary timeline at the top (see screenshot) that picks up task and calendar entries within the site. Between Team Sites, Projects Sites and Communities, the templates now have a much clearer sense of purpose. There is a useful new template, called Project. This is a good thing – they caused more confusion than help, and generally I think it is better to start with very few options and then help site owners tailor where needed. ![]() ![]() Remember all the site templates such as decision meeting workspace, social meeting workspace etc? Well they’re all going in 2013. Where 2013 really wins is the integration between social and more structured collaboration, but overall the user experience needs to do more to keep up (see forthcoming posts on Mobile and User Experience). 2013 consolidates these strengths and brings some refinements, such as SkyDrive and improved navigation, without any large innovations. See our summary webinar on Slideshare: Is SharePoint 2013 Worth Waiting For? Summaryĭocument-based collaboration has always been at the heart of what SharePoint is about and by 2010 most of the functionality was there. SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming).SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming).SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming).SharePoint 2013 for collaboration (this post).This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.
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