<p>Here's how to implement the new social networking features in the latest version of the Microsoft collaboration and content management platform.</p><p>Then Microsoft released SharePoint 2013 late last year, it became clear that social business is the new normal -- and SharePoint can be your organization's social hub.</p><p>Put aside the fact that Microsoft last year acquired enterprise social networking site Yammer for $1.2 billion and is on a path to tie it with SharePoint and Microsoft's other wares ranging from SkyDrive to Dynamics. SharePoint 2013 introduces Community Sites and My Sites, which provide a social interface for internal business collaboration, but are also designed to leverage the security and other business and enterprise management features of SharePoint. This is a natural extension of collaboration among workgroups and partners.</p><p>"[Chief Digital Officers] are looking at social in terms of being able to close the gap between strategy and execution, execution and measurement, and measurement and strategy," social business analyst R. "Ray" Wang told the MIT Sloan Management Review. Wang, who is CEO of Constellation Research Inc., believes CTOs understand that SharePoint can be the platform to integrate these technologies and bring innovation in-house -- provided there's a social business strategy and plan.</p><p><a href="http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/07/01/become-a-social-enterprise-with-sharepoint-2013.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>