SharePoint Social Features Webinar - by Atidan

SharePoint 2013 Social Features

Tom M. Daly

September 19, 2013

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Thomas M Daly

SharePoint Consultant

• Developer

• Branding

Focused on the UI side of things

Community Involvement

• Speaker

• NJ SP Princeton User Group

• SharePoint Saturday NYC organizer

• SharePoint Saturday NJ organizer

• My SharePoint Blog

• MSDN forums contributor

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Social Computing Overview

Communities

My Sites

Microblogging & Newsfeeds

Privacy

Following

Ratings / Liking

Tagging

Yammer

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All Team Sites are Wiki Sites

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Enterprise Site Collection template

Search-driven page that surfaces SharePoint sites in the farm that use the Community Site template

Relies on enterprise search for security trimming and displays only the Community Sites where users have at least read permissions

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Offers a forum experience

Promotes open communication and information exchange

Connect users who have knowledge or seek knowledge about subject areas.

Members gain points & achievements by participation

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Discussion Rollup w/ Filters

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Summary Top Contributors

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Categories

Ratings

• Likes or Stars

Achievement Points System

Achievement Levels

• 5 Level System

• Images or Text

Gifted Badges

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Ratings

• Likes

• Star Ratings

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Achievements

• Define Point Levels

• Display as Image or Text

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Create gifted badges

• Admins can grant these to contributors at will

• These override achievement image / text

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Admin can mark discussions as Featured

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Mark item as Best Reply (Answered)

• Admin or Author

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Newsfeeds

Profile

SkyDrive

Blog

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User’s social hub where he or she can see updates from the people, documents, sites, and tags that the user is following

Users can customize their newsfeeds by adding or removing colleagues they are interested in, specifying interests, and configuring the kind of activities they want to follow, such as when a colleague tags a shared interest

All activities are security trimmed

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News Feed

• Following

• Everyone

Microblogging

Mentions

Activities

Likes

Tagging

• Hashtags (#)

• People (@)

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Similar to 2010

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The user’s personal file storage and synchronization service for business use

Usually includes a private folder and a folder that is shared with everyone

Quotas

• On Premise – 100MB by default (customizable)

• Cloud – 7GB

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Standard SharePoint blog

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Basic info shared with everyone

Contact Info & Profile Details

Newsfeed can select what to share with others

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Things that you can follow: People, Documents, Sites, and #Tags

People

• See what people say, do and things that happen to them (birthday, location change)

Documents

• Get notified when a doc changes or when it’s shared

Sites

• Monitor all conversations that happen on a site’s newsfeed

#Tags

• Stay aware of anything tagged with a specific interest or topic

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Likes & Star Ratings available

Used in Discussion Boards, Newsfeeds, Lists Items

Need to enable on lists

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#Tags

• Always public

• Used in conversations, comments, tagging documents or libraries, search

Keywords

• Tags & Notes

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Tags & Notes - Keywords

• Populated via user contributions & admin of Managed Metadata

• Can also leverage #Tags

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Basic Integration Available Now

• Office 365

Option to enable Yammer in SharePoint Admin Center

Replaces “Newsfeeds” with “Yammer” tab

Redirects users to www.yammer.com

• On Premise – White Paper.

Hide Newsfeeds

Add Yammer.com App to Mysites

Available as App in SharePoint Store

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Coming Later this year (Fall)

• Single Sign-On (SSO)

• Seamless Navigation

• Rich document capabilities, integrating the Office Web Apps to add editing and co-editing of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents.

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Office 365 & Social Enhancements will happen ~90 days

• Enhancements will combine social, collaboration, email, instant messaging, voice, video, and line of business applications in new ways

On Premise

• They are working on ways to improve the integration to the Yammer network with SP on-premise

• Updates will not be every 90 days

• SSO, updated UX, seamless navigation, and Office Web App integration.

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What's new in social computing in SharePoint Server 2013

Overview of My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013

Overview of SkyDrive Pro in SharePoint Server 2013

Plan for social computing and collaboration in SharePoint Server 2013

Following in SharePoint 2013

Simplifying the Yammer and Office 365 integration

Yammer and SharePoint: Enterprise social roadmap update

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Thank You!

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