Eric Charran Senior Consultant Microsoft Services Matthew McDermott Principal Consultant Catapult...

Social Networking and User Profiles for BusinessEric CharranSenior ConsultantMicrosoft Services

Matthew McDermottPrincipal ConsultantCatapult Systems

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What is social networking?Popular social networking sites

FacebookMySpaceLive Spaces

What features do they share?

Overview of social networking

A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of

people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and

activities of others.

Communities of common interest

Communities of common attributes

How social networking can impact businessSocial networking use cases for businessMOSS as a social networking platform

Making the business case

My sitesColleagues, Sites and In Common WithColleague change trackingOrganizational HierarchyPresence

Social Networking with MOSS

My Site Features

Colleague Tracking

People Search

Implement social networking on MOSSDefine User Profile in MOSSWhat do you have to do to prepare?

Technical overview

Contact Information Mining

Based on ranking algorithm review of instant messaging

and email conversations

Organizational Hierarchy

Based on User Profile and data sources (Active

Directory, BDC Sources)

Colleague Presentation Results of mining and org hierarchy review that

automatically includes recommendations

Human Resource Information System Data

Active Directory Data

Authoritative Manager Information

Authoritative Title InformationNon Authoritative Manager Information

Office SharePoint ServerUser Profile

Profile Field: Title

Profile Field: Manager

Office SharePoint ServerUser Profile

Human Resource Information System Data

Active Directory Data

Authoritative Manager Information

Authoritative Title Information

Profile Field: Title

Profile Field: Manager

User Profile Import

Human Resource Information System Data

Active Directory Data

Office SharePoint ServerUser Profile

Personnel Information

Heterogeneous Import

Active Directory Data

Office SharePoint ServerUser Profile

HRIS

Accounting IS

Legacy Groupware

Other System

Active Directory Data (with fields populated from

secondary systems)

Office SharePoint ServerUser Profile

HRIS

Accounting IS

Legacy Groupware

Other System

Base the user profile on authoritative sourcesIdentify & clean user profile data sourcesManage user profile data sourcesStreamline information into MOSS

Authoritative data sources

Targeting contentEliminate e-mail distribution listsPersonalize the presentation of content

User Profiles

Personalization

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demo

My Site Customization

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Resources

My Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew 

Social Networking with MOSS: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/488d329d-306a-436d-a9fa-4b1e4037c8a61033.mspx

Blogs and Wikis in business: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400751.aspx

CKS:EBE & EWE Wiki: http://www.codeplex.com/cks

Social Computing for SharePoint http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/social.mspx

Resources

SharePoint Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

Mike Gannotti’s blog: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/default.aspx

News Gator: http://www.newsgator.com/

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