This week, we started learning about the Collaboration Portals, that come with new portal page layouts (Search, News and Report Center). As it turns out, much of this is also available in the Publishing section, but there is so much extra in the Collaboration Portal. 

We learned all about the different terminology and the Portal site definitions, along with all the possibilities that came along with it, like the approval, and collecting signatures workflows.

It also comes with new navigation tools out of the box, like a Site Directory (page layout feature) and Table of Contents web part, in able to advertise the navigation to the users.

It’s starting to look very interesting.