Sharepoint is going to be a major force in Corporate blogging and participatory platforms.
Blogging in a SME is very different to blogging in a medium to large Enterprise where, for the most part, IT professionals primary role is PREVENTING employees access to the outside world. Under the guise of security, supportability and a dozen other "abilities" tons of tools that power participatory media don't stand a chance.
Sharepoint could be come a key enabling platform for driving participation on the web. Interesting to see the Newsgator announcement today - and that by Confluence.
NewsGator Social Sites enables easy discovery of the core element of collaboration within a business – seeing what colleagues within an organization are doing and making easy connections between people