How SharePoint can function as a Web 2.0 platform.

1. SharePoint 2007 As a Web 2.0 Tool A High Level Overview of SharePoint 2007

3. Key Concept: Citizen Developer Gartner defines a citizen developer as a user operating outside of the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who creates new business applications for consumption by others either from scratch or by composition. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1212813 + Gartner sees up to 25% of IT solutions by 2015 produced in this way. As the “native digital” generation who grew up with the Internet become a bigger part of the work force they will seek to develop their own solutions and not make requests to IT. A Enterprise SharePoint deployment can provide the framework for devolving IT development from a central IT department more and more to the users who understand the business requirements. SharePoint can move you form a work force of Excel Spread sheets and Access database holding business logic on desktops, to a SharePoint knowledge store, by giving more tools to your citizen developers.

4. Collaboration can Drive Profits Collaboration, over strategy orientation, can have a major impact on your organisations efforts to reduce cost and increase profits. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/does-collaboration-really-impact-business-performance-009545.php

5. Creating a new site is easy Power users can create new sites easily for collaboration

6. From the UI you can create a web site With a little time learning a “citizen user” can create a rich Web Site or Portal without having to involve IT. A site like this can be created without any coding necessary

7. Created a Document Library SharePoint makes it easy to create document libraries to share Documents

8. Document libraries give you intuitive document control Example of a Document Library being used be the University of Tennessee Master Horse Owner Program http://masterhorseowner.utk.edu/AgentDownloads.html

10. Document Collaboration at workd

11. SharePoint also provides discussion forums

12. Participating in online discussions in very easy

14. CMS with version control and WYSIWYG

16. SharePoint 2007 offers a easy to use Wiki tool

21. One bad piece of news on MOSS 2007 Everything gets better with SharePoint 2010!