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Many people have expressed excitement over the new Silverlight web part known as the Organization Browser in SharePoint Server 2010. The web part uses the Manager field from SharePoint’s User Profiles to build an organizational hierarchy. The organization browser is interactive, in that you can navigate up and down the hierarchy, as well as, left to right to see the colleagues that share your manager. The web part is natively displayed on each user’s My Profile site under the Organization tab. The screenshot below shows the Organization Browser as it exists out-of-the-box on My Profile: