Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for dummies - Vanessa L. Williams

Need to figure out SharePoint? Team up with this book to make it easy! SharePoint can be a little tough to get your mind around. It's all about collaboration, so get together with this friendly guide and watch SharePoint start making sense! This plain–English guide offers simple instructions and focused coverage of this powerful tool, covering using and customizing team sites, hosting a public–facing site, branding and designing your site, and using the search and business intelligence features. See what it does — explore how SharePoint helps you manage projects, enables employee networking, supports business intelligence, and lets you access applications Meet the gang — get acquainted with the set of Microsoft products that make up SharePoint Team up — get a handle on document sharing, managing calendars and tasks, creating custom lists, microblogging internally, and tracking changes in your team Documentary stuff — manage documents on your team site and add other content Meet the public — use SharePoint to host public–facing Web sites as well as internal information portals Dress it up — use themes, style sheets, and other techniques to make your SharePoint site sharp Seek and find — handle site directories, configure the search function, and use metadata and tags Open the book and find: Tips for sharing documents and lists How My Site can be used like Twitter and Facebook Types of sites you can create Advice on configuring settings for collaboration Tweaks for page templates How to make content searchable with metadata and tagging How to create custom style sheets Secrets of site security Learn to: Understand the complexities of SharePoint Use wikis and team sites for collaboration Create branded information portals Use tags, metadata, and search