SharePoint Server 2010 ships with Team Discussion Boards. This feature which adds to the same feature that was included with SharePoint Server 2007, delivers newsgroup capability to SharePoint. As a backgrounder, it is useful to reflect on the fact that newsgroups have provided a powerful collaboration feature to Internet users before the inception of the world wide web via the usenet protocol. With the advent of the world wide web, of course, participation in newsgroups proliferated.
Discussion boards provide forums for site participants to converse about topics. Most Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services site templates include the ability to create discussion boards, and many sites and workspace sites have a built-in discussion board called General Discussion.
Organizations that have implemented SharePoint Server 2010 with a commitment to driving user collaboration ought to look to the Team Discussion Board as a useful out of the box feature that can be successfully used for collaboration purposes. Team Discussion Boards empower registered users to initiate discussions and reply to them. Users with limited permissions can review stored discussions to obtain potentially useful information. Finally, team discussions constitute data lists in the overall SharePoint Server 2010 data repository; therefore users (including those providing governance for SharePoint) can search this data for information.
SharePoint users with contributor privileges can implement the Team Discussion Board feature. Rehmani Consulting Inc provides training content on Team Discussion Boards in video format on SharePoint-Videos. Our training video includes specific details about accessing discussions from the SharePoint ribbon and toggling between threaded and other types of views. Finally, we show users how to manage Team Discussion Boards as they would any other lists on a SharePoint sub site.
If your organization would like to empower users with the information they need to make more use of SharePoint, specifically in the area of group collaboration opportunities, then you will want to offer our video training content to sub site owners as well as the complete set of users with Contributor permissions for SharePoint. The Team Discussion Boards feature may be a perfect venue for enhanced team collaboration for your users. We offer a variety of subscription offers, from individual subscriptions to group and even enterprise subscriptions for this video content. We are confident that one of our subscription offers will be just the tickert for your requirement.
Sharepoint Discussion Board Views
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Sharepoint 2010 Discussion Board Features List
SharePoint 2010 can be a great collaboration tool. SharePoint 2010 and make the most of its collaboration features. From documents to calendars to lists to pictures to discussion boards. Discussion Board Plus provides a powerful alternative to SharePoint discussion boards. Supercharged forums. Cut through the chatter by elevating the most important topics to the top of the board with the Sticky option. Custom Icons make new, unanswered, sticky, private, and locked topics easy to see. Keep your boards organized by Moving topics to other Discussion Board Plus lists. When a discussion is first entered, it will display 'Started'. Any replies will show 'Posted' unless they are edited and then it will automatically update the bar to 'Edited'. All other settings in the Discussion Board are similar to other SharePoint Lists. For example, you can turn content approval on, versioning, set alerts, add workflows, etc. Between the SharePoint forum lists and real Discussion Boards services (like those available on the internet) is quite big, and include some very basic and critical missing features such as: There is no discussion board index that enables managing multiple discussion boards under.
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