Great Eight Countdown -- #6!

Microsoft launches SharePoint 2010 on May 12. And NewsGator is counting down the weeks with a rundown of SharePoint's new features...plus the "great eight" ways that NewsGator Social Sites goes above and beyond SharePoint 2010 to make your organization truly social. (Truth be told, we've been making SharePoint organizations social for years. Ask 2.1 million NewsGator Social Sites users.)

Here's #6 (remember, we're counting backwards)

Expertise Discovery
SharePoint 2010 includes a cool “ask me about” feature.  A user's outgoing emails from Outlook 2010 are scanned, and the system suggests terms that the user might want to include in her profile.   SharePoint 2010’s People Search has been enhanced to take advantage of the richer social and profile data to improve users’ chances of discovering a valuable new teammate.

In NewsGator Social Sites 2010,  we are adding features to make finding experts even easier.  Social Sites collects user actions and reactions from other users from across SharePoint and uses them to build expertise scores around particular topics.  Social Sites will include Enterprise 2.0’s first Knowledge Explorer, a graphical interface that uses this data to intuitively cluster experts around content tags and will cluster topics around specific people.  Within Communities, experts can also be identified by their activity and community-specific titles.

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