Social media Hub

A Magnolia 5 App that moves your content to social

networks and shows an aggregate view of your social

presence

Social Media Hub

Matteo Pelucco

September 18th, 2013

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Table of content

A brief introduction

Magnolia Social Hub at a glance

Social networks trends: 2013

Reasons

Features

Architecture

DEMO

Status of the project

Future improvements

#mgnl_social_hub

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Table of content




Reasons

Features

Architecture

DEMO


Future improvements

#mgnl_social_hub

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A brief introduction: Tinext

Who we are: Tinext

Swiss company (Lugano/CH & Gallarate/IT)

Founded in 2001

Enterprise oriented solutions

More than 500 projects

40 employees

Highlights

www.alarabiya.net

www.rsi.ch

www.lausanne.ch

www.lugano.ch

www.ticino.ch

www.royalcaribbean.it

www.tinext.com

http://www.alarabiya.net/

http://www.rsi.ch/

http://www.lausanne.ch/

http://www.rsi.ch/

http://www.rsi.ch/

http://www.ticino.ch/

http://www.royalcaribbean.it/

http://www.tinext.com/

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A brief introduction: Tinext and Magnolia

We started to use Magnolia in 2008

Version 3.5.8 (!!) + Magnolia OnAir (RSI, Radio and Television portal)

Strong community presence that year

Premium Magnolia partner since 2009

More than 60 Magnolia projects launched so far

4.3.x EE

4.4.x EE

More than 40 Magnolia modules already released for our customer:

Integration of external datasources, SAP, Funds solutions

Custom dashboards for managing content / activities / workflows

SVN browser, virtual URI, mirroring, Google Analytics spotlights..

Jumping on Magnolia 5 train by the end of September

We were waiting for EE!

Community

We are active in the Magnolia community (forum)

A simple module already on the Forge: Frisbee

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A brief introduction: Who am I?

Software engineer (senior?)

32 years old

I have been working for Tinext since 2007

What I like:

Opensource solutions

Java + Spring

Eclipse

Javascript and CSS, JSON

CMS ecosystem (not only Java!)

High availability websites

Leading technical teams

What I also like

Playing guitar

Swim and run

Power metal @matteopelucco

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Table of content




Reasons

Features

Architecture

DEMO


Future improvements

#mgnl_social_hub

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: reasons

We decided to share something with the community. Yes, it means CE

Ok. But what?

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Social Media Stats

Facebook

Daily active users: 665 M

M = MILLLLLLION: 665.000.000 users. Per day.

80% of the world’s internet population

Twitter

Is the fastes growing social network

44% is the growth from June 2012 to March

2013


Google +


Linkedin


But they are PRO.

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An existing working project

That is always a good starting point!

Al Arabiya team asked us to develop a Social Media Dashboard

Basic functionalities:

Share articles on Facebook, Twitter

Manual account configuration

Automatic hashtagging (simple)

Other customers start to require the same functionalities

Magnolia 5 has been released and the Conference was approaching..

Ok, it is enough. Let’s do it!

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Which platform to use?

We are still working on 4.3.x and 4.4.x branches, but we want to move to 5.x

Need to find a way to use the same code on different Magnolia versions

Magnolia 5 still supports old-but-gold Pages!

Ok. Let’s do a Page App!

Mgnl 4.3

Mgnl 4.4

Mgnl 5.0

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: what we need

Multiple social networks support

Facebook

Twitter

Linkedin

Google +

Content sharing

Manual

Automatic, during activation

Manual sharing of a text

Title, text and picture override

Multilanguage

URL shortening

Automatic hashtagging

History of what we shared in the past

Stats, of course! A lot of them..

Configuration (developers like to configure everything!)

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: roadmap

September ‘13: version 1.0 (CE)

Stable overall architecture

Ready for Magnolia Conference

Development of all functionalities

Availability on the Forge (yes, finally we did it!)

October ‘13: version 1.1 (CE)

Bug fixes, feedback from the community

Small improvements

November / December ‘13: version 2.0 (CE + EE)

Linkedin

Advanced stats (more and more stats)

Integration with activation workflow

Integrated url shortener

Native Magnolia 5 App

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: architecture

Maven module

Standard Magnolia Module

Pages

Config

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: architecture

Magnolia 5

Pages launched

by 3 apps

Magnolia 4.x

Pages launched by AdminCentral Menu items

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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: demo time!

Stop PPTing.. Let’s see it in action!

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Table of content




Reasons

Features

Architecture

DEMO


Future improvements

#mgnl_social_hub

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Time spent: 6 working days

Ready for production

Currently, developed against 5.0.1 CE

Should be easily ported to 5.1 EE and easily backported to 4.3.x or 4.4.x

Few small improvements to make, expecially for the UI

The module is on the Forge

http://git.magnolia-cms.com/gitweb/?p=forge/social-media-

hub.git;a=summary

Please, download!

Use it!

And tell us what you need more!

Wiki page

http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Social+Media+Hub

http://git.magnolia-cms.com/gitweb/?p=forge/social-media-hub.git;a=summary











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Table of content




Reasons

Features

Architecture

DEMO


Future improvements

#mgnl_social_hub

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Future improvements

Move from a JS solution to a Java solution

This allows automatic content sharing during activation

Issues with Twitter: sometimes, OAuth (1.1!!) token needs to be refreshed

(manual operation)

More advanced Facebook Insights

Export to PDF

Automatic daily/weekly mail reports

Other social networks support

Google +, LinkedIn

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Future improvements

Social network pluggability:

Part of the code needs to be rewritten

This will allow to inject other social networks «by-configuration» (IoC)

In-page stats / sharing toolbar

Code refactoring to have the same functionalities immediately available on

Magnolia 4.3 / 4.4

Now there is a branch, few Java classes to change..

Native Magnolia 5 App

BOT posting

automatically post/tweet from a list of text messages

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Q&A time

Do you have any doubt? Now it is time to ask!

Or during the coffee break / launch!

If you prefer, you can contact me later:

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: +39 347 4531281

Skype: tinext_matteo_pelucco

Thank you for your attention.

Tinext SA

Strada Regina 42

6943 Bioggio

Switzerland

+41 91 612 22 66

[email protected]

www.tinext.com

Tinext Italia Srl

Via Borghi 8

21013 Gallarate

Italy

+39 0331 667 747

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