SharePoint Server 2013 - Collaboration Features

Enterprise Social Networking and Collaboration

SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Social Features

With influences from Yammer, Facebook, Twitter, and other major Social networking players, Microsoft aims at the Enterprise Social Networking market with the welcomed improvements to the social story in SharePoint Server 2013. The platform makes finding people and content simple, while empowering them to share information and ideas.

Some powerful Social features in SharePoint Server 2013 include:

Facebook-esque news feeds, complete with a “Like” button and support for pictures and hyperlinks
Skydrive Pro replaces SharePoint Workspace for offline content sync with a deep Office 2013 integration

Threaded discussion boards let you reply to specific people using the (at)name format
Follow specific people and documents to aggregate relevant updates
Tag content with the hashtag (#)