RSS and SharePoint 2007
In a recent blog about the Ugly in SharePoint 2007, Tom Johnson asked about RSS feeds in SharePoint, among other things, and I replied with a rather lengthy comment that said although I hadn’t used SharePoint 2007, what I seen so far, and my experience with SharePoint 2003 led me to believe that it wasn’t going to be much use to the average office worker.
But it got me thinking, so after that I went back and looked at the RSS feature again, and now I’m not sure I was right.
Especially after two workmates who looked at it with me—both fairly ambivalent about SharePoint to date—said they liked the default RSS option that came with the list.
They’re both spreadsheet people. Normally their first instinct with any list is to export it to a spreadsheet.
In this case, they saw the RSS feed simply as better way to display the list. While here I am, still thinking about traditional RSS feeds—gathering information from one location to display elsewhere.
So I was wrong about RSS feeds. It is my thinking that needs to turn a little to truly see the value of it.
The really good thing about SharePoint 2007, though, is that thre is enough improved functionality to make someone ambivalent about SharePoint 2003 sit up and take notice.
That’s a great selling point.
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I think SharePoint 2007 is significantly different from the previous version — it may be an imperative application for the enterprise. I watched a cool video on it yesterday from channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=208577
Besides being informational, it’s fun to see the people’s faces.
RSS in the enterprise may really take off when everyone has Outlook 2007, because Outlook 2007 has an RSS reader built-in. So people will be reading RSS feeds inside their email inboxes.
Tom Johnson / February 7th, 2007, 9:22 pm / #
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