Hi guys,
If you’re building a new community (of which there already are quite a few), then why choose to create a site which is NOT built in SharePoint? Sorry, but I really don’t get that. Especially with all the new social features in 2013 I would expect all community sites to adopt 2013 as soon as possible. But that’s just my humble opinion 🙂
Hey Joel – welcome on board – hope you do choose to hang around, we’d love to have you!
One thing that we are finding really cool (which personally took me by suprise) is the use of the real time chat. It’s proving to be very popular and a great way to learn, meet and share.
We hope to swap it out in a few days for a “Rolls-Royce” version, just sorting some teething problems.
Hi Jasper – thanks so much for trying. I guessed this would be a no.Â
There’s quite an outlay in cost. If it keeps growing at this rate we will be at 5000 within a year, (100 / week). Â That’s quite a lot of MySites and “Social” to accommodate. We all know how SharePoint likes it’s database and disk size.
Got to say – the guys at FPWeb.net were really accommodating, but they couldn’t stretch to a full fat version of SharePoint. SharePoint Foundation wouldn’t have given us 10% of what this does out of the box. This site actually took 1 day to set-up and most of that was styling and CSS work.Â
Anyway, Ning it is for now then. Ning has now released v3.0 – we are on v2.0. It looks REALLY good, so we will be migrating over to that in the Summer.Â
Received a reply from Microsoft. They were already in the process of discussing this, but a decision has not been made yet. It ‘s indeed a matter of budget and I could imagine some governance as well. Anyway, they promised to keep me posted so I’ll see what happens. When I haven’t seen any updates in a few months I’ll ping them again.
Thanks for the effort. We’d need to work out how to migrate the content from here, but, nice problem to have.
Let’s wait and see if MS are nice enough to give us a platform for a SharePoint social network on SP2013!
Sure, but I can’t imagine this would really hurt their budget with all the azure / 365 stuff going on. Anyways, mail has been sent and is on it’s way to a program manager. If there’s any official statement I’ll let you know.
