Chapter 2. Building an Engaging Community Site

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This chapter is taken from SharePoint 2010 Business Application Development Blueprints (Chapter 4) by Mike Oryszak. At the time of publication, this chapter is taken from an exciting new Packt title which is yet to be published.

Organizations today are looking for ways to increase collaboration and to provide more self-help resources through the use of tools like SharePoint. While it can be fairly easy to build a department level collaboration site, it can be significantly harder to build a cross-functional community site not tied to one specific department. This chapter will attempt to highlight those challenges so that you can build a community site that can keep people engaged and bring the collaboration levels that everyone is looking for.

Community sites can be used to drive collaboration and self-help around a specific topic or system. Examples could include business topics like Lean, Six Sigma, or other Process Improvement methodologies...