- SharePoint 2013’s Community Reference in Terms of Social Computing
- Features and Practices of SharePoint Communities in Terms of Social Computing
- The Community Portal Template Versus the Community Site Template
- My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013
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Features and Practices of SharePoint Communities in Terms of Social Computing
This new Community Site feature in SharePoint 2013 enables users to further organize discussions as well as categorize feedback and knowledge and apply “metadata” or content types such as “lessons learned” and “best practices.” It also enables users to get feedback from other team members within the organization who may have come across the same issue that a current Community is discussing, and offer invaluable feedback to the Community users to solve a specific problem in a much faster manner.
Just as a SharePoint site or set of SharePoint sites should have a “power user” or “super user” assist in owning issues and championing the specific sites, communities need moderators to manage the community by enforcing the organization governance as well as reviewing and addressing posts for appropriate content.
There is also a new feature that allows each community to contain information about its member and content reputation that will help them earn “status” or the “gifted badges” type of recognition from the Community moderators when they do things such as posting discussions, promoting or liking content, or providing feedback by using the “marked as a best answer” feature in SharePoint 2013 communities.
A new SharePoint community can be created either at the site collection level or at the site level. The decision of where to create the sites, at which level, can be influenced by which features you would like to provide (that is, activate and so on) within a specific community or a greater set of community sites.