The new version of SharePoint includes significant changes in full-text search, social networking, content, and metadata management along with more powerful end-user developer tools to help librarians create customized search and discovery solutions. This workshop covers both high-level strategic issues and nuts-and-bolts how-to information in SharePoint 2013. Knowledge managers and librarians will learn how to:

• Plan new social networking features for more effective expertise management.
• Implement new metadata management capabilities.
• Plan for effective search and discovery using new web parts, query transformations refinements, search result customization, and search analytics.
• Use the “app store” for building knowledge management applications.