May 11: The Wonder of Sharepoint

Most businesses today utilize a tool called Sharepoint. It really is a wonderful collaboration tool. Basically, it's a web-based platform that runs from a Microsoft server and it allows a user to create a site from which people can share documents, communicate via discussion boards, post announcements, etc. You can read a more technical definition here, if you like. To this point, I've been able to learn how to create my own site, set up different features and manage it. However, today, thanks to a colleague, I learned how to set up email alerts using the discussion boards so that if someone posts a question, answer or comment to the board, whoever I set up to receive alerts will get an email indicating that the post was made, among other information. Pretty simple task, but something I never knew how to do until now. You can also set up these alerts for Documents folders and other components of the Sharepoint site. This tutorial gives a pretty good demo of that scenario.