SharePoint Server 2010 software is used in many situations, mainly for online collaborations. SharePoint is most popular in the work place and for families, for hosting common documents that multiple people can view and work on. This technology can easily be used to benefit church groups, who can use SharePoint to work with their members and pass on information without using too much space and cost. The online collaboration of preaching and discussion can happen from almost anywhere at anytime.
All one needs to do is to have a computer and an Internet connection. The users of the group can be controlled and it is not necessary that all the members be present in the same location. In fact that is the major advantage of using SharePoint; the preacher can share his thoughts and preaching on a single document, which can then be viewed across a huge group. In addition to documents, audio and videos can also be shared with different users. This is an essentially private space and only authorized personnel can enter. Thus the church groups can host a site for its followers to visit regularly, express their opinions and discuss it with others.
Meeting times can be scheduled and users alerted by the computer. If the entire group is working on a project then the monitoring can become really easy and hassle free, since the progress can be viewed directly with the help of SharePoint. This software is especially useful when the process needs the intervention of many people. Different people can work on different parts of the project and the entire progress can be viewed on one platform. This also means decrease in duplication, reduction in loss of time for communicating and collaborating.
What ShraePoint does is reduce the need for storage space. Different people do not have to store the documents that they were working on at different places; all the “work in progress” documents can be stored at one computer, accessed, and worked upon from different terminals. Therefore, church groups have greater control, efficiency and monitoring at every aspect of the ongoing project.