Automatic project content suggestion

A method of automatically suggesting contact items for inclusion in a project workspace, comprising:

• providing the project workspace via a collaborative environment, wherein the project workspace includes a workspace membership and one or more data repositories;
• receiving one or more content items from the project workspace, the first content item including one of electronic documents, contact information, calendar items and task items;
• parsing the one or more content items from the project workspace for one or more links stored directly within the first content item, the one or more links citing to linked content items to be included in the project workspace, the linked content items including one or more of linked electronic documents, linked contact information, linked calendar items and linked task items;
• parsing the one or more content items from the project workspace for one or more keywords that are associated with one or more contact items;
• searching one or more data repositories for the one or more contact items associated with the one or more keywords and for additional content items to be suggested, for inclusion in the project workspace, the additional content items including one or more of additional electronic documents, additional contact information, additional calendar items and additional task items;
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• presenting the linked content items, the additional content items and the one or more contact items to a user via a computer-generated user interface for receiving user feedback on whether the presented linked content items, additional content items and the one or more contact items should be included in the project workspace.

A computer readable storage device having computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method of automatically suggesting content for inclusion in a project workspace, comprising:

• receiving an identification of the project workspace, and receiving an identification of one or more repositories from which content items are suggested for inclusion in the project workspace, wherein the project workspace includes a workspace membership and the one or more repositories including one or more of project descriptions, documents, electronic mail messages, contact items, proposed membership users, task items, calendar items;
• receiving a first content item for inclusion in the project workspace, the first content item including one of a document, a content item, a task item or a project description;
• parsing the first content item for one or more links stored directly within the first content item, the one or more links citing to linked content items to be suggested for inclusion in the project workspace, the one or more links including a uniform resource locator or an embedded application component, the linked content items including one or more of linked electronic documents, linked contact information, linked calendar items and linked task items;
• breaking the first content item into one or more keywords and associated metadata, and utilizing the one or more keywords and associated metadata for searching one or more repositories for additional content items to be included in the project workspace, the additional content items including one or more of additional electronic documents, additional contact information, additional calendar items and additional task items;
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• presenting suggested links to the linked content items and to the additional content items to the user via a computer-generated user interface component for acceptance by the user of one or more of the suggested links for inclusion in the project workspace.