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Best New User Features for SP 2013

After attending #SPC12 and playing in my sandbox, I have come up with a small list of the features I think will most benefit the end users. They are in no particular order. Social integration of Yammer features: This is huge! The ability to have a project-based conversations on the team site is really not a new thing. We had them before and they were called "Discussion Boards". The problem with discussion boards was...it required you to go TO that site to make a comment. Now you have the ability to comment on any of the discussions within your my site. You also have the ability to tag comments much like you do with Twitter. Targeting is another beautiful feature that allows for you to have certain people be notified in their activity stream. In a nutshell, this takes the way you live and use the internet away from the office, into the office. Many businesses will find this difficult as they want that separation of business and personal, but for the workers, this is a natur