Blogs within a SharePoint environment can serve multiple purposes and be targeted to various audiences. They can be informal, used in team sites for collaboration, or at the Enterprise level to disseminate information from leadership.

The features within SharePoint blogs contain far more than simple text posting capability. Blog posts can be quickly created in rich text or html and include tables, images, video, audio, links and documents. Building upon the SharePoint platform allows for a robust list structure with ease of use in creating and managing post, categories, comments and links. Further enhancements include discussion boards and surveys.

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The Enterprise Wiki component of SharePoint 2010 grants users the ability to easily create a structure to share knowledge, manage projects, and collaborate across an Enterprise.

With the options to enter information as rich text or html, users can create content ranging from simple text to leveraging html to create more substantial wiki pages. Links can easily be inserted to tie together other SharePoint pages or reference external content. The process of linking within a wiki is core to creating structure. Documents, tables, images, video and audio may also be added to enhance wiki pages.

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes six permission levels by default. You can customize the permissions available in these permission levels (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels), or you can create customized permission levels that contain only the specific permissions you need.

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Developing the site hierarchy is only one aspect of a successful implementation. Understanding the boundaries and limits of SharePoint 2010 is critical to ensuring scalability, performance, and manageability. This is especially important in the planning of Content Databases as they naturally align to the site hierarchy and impact performance and usability. A site hierarchy with poorly planned Content Databases creates a situation where costly remediation is necessary in order to scale the platform properly.

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Individual users in a SharePoint 2010 environment can create a My Site and begin the process of social networking across the Enterprise. Within this framework of social networking, a tangible business use can occur as users collaborate with other team members, locate individuals with skills required for projects, centrally organize their own information and share information with other users.

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There is a debate brewing in the world of SharePoint Enterprise Records Management (ERM) between whether a preferred approach is In-Place Records Management or the use of a Records Archive. While I weigh heavily towards an “Archivist” approach with a central Records Center (based on my security/usability viewpoints), there is a time and place for using In-Place Records.

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