Paul Liebrand's Weblog

I would like to assume many people have heard of the SharePoint related site called SharePointMagazine.net, brought to us by Arno Nel (@arnonel). The SharePointMagazine.net site has a tremendous amount of great content from many guest authors and you should check it out of you have not already.

So why this blog post? Well Arno has done it again! Today he announced SPoint.me, The SharePoint Social Network. This social networking site takes a little bit of each of the social network sites we use today (Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, etc.) and combine them together into one with the focus being everything SharePoint.

Some of the features SPoint.me offer include:

• Blog hosting
• Groups
• Forums
• Twitter integration (Facebook soon!)

The only real downer I have found so far is the inability to connect my existing blog to my profile page. I am sure its in there and I am just overlooking but that is a minor detail. (UPDATE: This has been resolved – there is now a Social section under your profile where you can fill this information out)

I posted a comment today on SPoint.me about wanting an iPhone application and apparently one is coming soon (or at least an announcement) (within 1-2 weeks).

With it only launching today and having over 200 members already is a promising sign. I strongly encourage the SharePoint community to sign up for this social network and give it a whirl. Hopefully it stays strong and continues to grow with great new features.

Great job Arno (and anyone else that helped you bring this to fruition) and check out my SPoint.me profile page!

Tags: SharePoint, Social Networking