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One of the most difficult obstacles encountered in the business world is the need to stay aware of changes and new information. With a subscription to SharePoint's alert feature, you can keep track of any changes made to documents, calendars and other parts of the site.

• Add alerts that notify you by email of any changes in the content of your Web site
• Create alerts for lists and libraries, as well as for individual items and any files in them
• Specify the kinds of changes that you want to track

Create lists to assign tasks to team members. You can specify priority and due date, and indicate status and progress. Users can view their individual tasks or view all team members'.

• Create and assign a task to a team member
• Share tasks on a project with internal and outside team members
• Keep everyone informed on the progress of a certain task and better control deadlines

Keep everyone informed 24/7. Use an announcements list to post news,status, and other short bits of information you want to share with your team members. With SharePoint's Announcement feature, you can immediately send updates and information to everybody involved in a project within SharePoint. You can also set an expiration date for an announcement.

• Post company news and monthly newsletter
• Announce new company objectives and accomplishments
• Announce special deadline changes or upcoming events

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 allows list managers to assign an email address to out-of-the-box lists. Moreover, you can choose to send an email to discussion boards, calendars, announcements and SharePoint contacts. This way everybody can easily stay up-to-date and react accordingly if needed.

The discussion boards provide a conversation forum for topics of interest to your team. For example, you could create a discussion board for team members to propose and discuss team activities. Each discussion board appears on a page that includes buttons for starting new discussions, sorting and filtering discussions, switching to a different view of the discussion board, and changing the design of the discussion board.

Managing projects is an important job. It involves detailed planning, timely execution of tasks, and team collaboration. Whatever the length or complexity of your project, sharing plans in a format that others can view, contribute to, and count on can save you a lot of trouble. SharePoint's calendar feature is a great tool to keep track of everything while allowing multiple users to access it from anywhere.

• Create a project calendar
• Share calendar with colleagues
• Add project tasks and deliverable to the calendar
• Set site permissions and notify your team
• Customize the design of the calendar

Browse task lists, blogs, and more from mobile devices. Stay on top of your assignments from wherever you are. With a Microsoft WindowsMobile, WAP, cHTML, or xHTML enabled mobile device, you can review or update your task list items, post to your blog, and even send photos from camera-equipped devices via e-mail using Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006.

With a Meeting Workspace site you can centralize on a website all the information and material for one or more meetings. Before the meeting, use a workspace site to publish the agenda, an attendees list, and the documents you plan to discuss. During or after the meeting, use the workspace site to publish meeting results and to track tasks. Use meeting requests to invite people to the meeting. In the meeting request, include a hyperlink that goes to the workspace site where invitees can learn the details and see the material.

The Contacts feature allows you to communicate with your coworkers. You can enter names and contact information (such as telephone number, email address, and street address) and make them available to everybody in your team. You can copy contact information from your address book to a contacts list (requires a Windows SharePoint Foundation-compatible address book program, such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later), and you can copy or link contacts from a contacts list to your address book.

• Keep detailed information on all your employees and customers
• Share important contact information with anybody you want
• Access and retrieve any contacts easily, no matter where you are in the world
• Synchronize your contact list with your outlook or mobile phone