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Personal Sites<br />

Chapter 23: Personalization Services in SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> 647<br />

A personal site, named My Site in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 user interface, is<br />

your personal starting point for accessing <strong>and</strong> contributing to your organization’s<br />

intranet through the portal site. A portal site has two natural entry points: the portal<br />

site home page <strong>and</strong> your personal site. The portal site home page shows information<br />

based on the viewpoint of your organization. Your personal site is about you: it<br />

contains information directed by you to reflect your information interests. It also<br />

contains information about you to help other users to find out more about you.<br />

Every personal site has a private storage area for personal content <strong>and</strong> work in<br />

progress, which provides personalized <strong>and</strong> customized information for you. On a<br />

Windows operating system, the My Documents folder fulfills a similar role, providing<br />

a private directory. The private storage area of My Site should be seen as a<br />

replacement for the My Documents folder.<br />

The personal site also contains a public storage area for easily sharing the<br />

projects <strong>and</strong> documents you are working on. The public storage area should be seen<br />

as a replacement for a personal file share. The public storage area enables you to<br />

customize the information you use or present to other people in your organization.<br />

Because the personal site includes some profile information from the Active Directory<br />

directory service, it also provides information to others about the role you play<br />

within a team or organization.<br />

Just as you share information with other people in your organization through<br />

the public view of your personal site, you can also find <strong>and</strong> connect with other people<br />

through the public views of their personal sites.<br />

When a user name appears in the portal site, you can click the name to view<br />

the public view of that person’s personal site. Everything that a person chooses to<br />

share is available for you to see. You can see a person’s shared links to sites, people,<br />

<strong>and</strong> documents that might help you to get your work done. You can also see what<br />

workspaces you have in common. The business card shows contact information,<br />

like a user’s cell phone. The About Me section contains a message written by a person.<br />

Also, by default, the personal site contains information about the organizational<br />

hierarchy related to that person.<br />

To create your personal site<br />

When you first click My Site on the navigation bar of the portal site, SharePoint<br />

Portal Server 2003 creates your personal site for you. Once your personal site is created,<br />

it appears every time you click My Site on the navigation bar of the portal site.<br />

Personal Site Views<br />

Your personal site consists of two views: a private view for personal information that<br />

only you can see, <strong>and</strong> a public view seen by everyone else. The private view is<br />

shown by default when you view your own personal site.

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