Well for my first research blog I decided to see what SharePoint had to offer the consumer. Since I had never used it before I figured this would be a good start. The one piece of information I found was an Excel spreadsheet listing the features of the different versions of SharePoint. It seems that the 2007 version is the best. They added new features and improved on just about all of the current features offered in the 2003 version. Just by reading through the descriptions it seems like this product would really help people in the business world. There are a lot of management tools that promote teamwork throughout any given project.
One of the new features I noticed was called a Wiki. They said that in their new version of SharePoint that this tool makes it easy for the user to create, edit, link, and restore individual websites. I feel that these wikis will be helpful to create new web pages for a newly created company, whether that be a troubleshooting site, or just one to feature new products coming off of the line. Another feature I thought was interesting was task coordination. It synced up with Gantt charts so that it is easier to edit them. I know when I make Gantt charts for class they are a pain to edit. Hopefully this will fix that.
This information would be useful when promoting the software. There is a ton of uses for SharePoint and I believe the consumer just needs to be informed of this. That is where the information in this spreadsheet would prove to be useful.
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These blogs should identify researched sources, as the examples we provided do.