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When you think about "sharing" things online today, you probably think of social networking services like Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, which let you broadcast information to some group of users--friends, family members, the whole world, whatever--in ways that have become increasingly familiar. Wouldn't it be cool if SharePoint provided this type of functionality, but tied into the incredible content management backend it already supplies, and aimed at the needs of a knowledge worker looking to collaborate with his coworkers?
more SharePoint's capabilities for managing and publishing publically-facing Internet web sites are less well-known than its intranet and extranet facilities. But even those who have explored this area in the past will find that SharePoint 2010 (and SharePoint Online, part of Office 365) has dramatically improved Internet web site capabilities, compared to previous versions.
more Available in both on-premise and hosted forms, SharePoint is a jack-of-all-trades solution which, like an old SNL skit, is both a dessert topping and a floor wax, a product so versatile and useful that it defies you to describe it quickly and simply. So I'm going to explore SharePoint over a series of several articles, starting today with this mile-high overview of the product.
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