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Using personal and social features

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Using personal and social features

With every version of SharePoint, Microsoft has added more and more personal and social features, and by that I mean they are trying to bring into SharePoint the idea of sites like LinkedIn and Facebook and Twitter, for connecting people and keeping people updated. You'll basically find all of these options will be driven from the dropdown menu where your name is and you might find more or less options based on what your administrator has enabled or disabled. It's an interesting idea, because you'll actually see several different links. You'll see phrases like My Site, My Profile, My Settings, and in other contexts you'll see other links. But there are really only three places they are going to take you to. And I actually prefer the idea of the My Profile as the one that drives everything. If you're coming from the old SharePoint 2007 world, you might be used to My Site as being the most important thing, but I think My Profile in this version of SharePoint really is. So here's the My…

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