October 9 th , 2013

Meeting #106http://sharepointmn.com

Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User GroupOctober 9th, 2013

SharePoint, A Social Platform

Donald Donais and Steve Nguyen

Donald Donais


Agenda• What is Enterprise Social?• Why do Enterprise Social?• History of Social in SharePoint• What is SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Social?• NewsGator – Augmented Social in SharePoint• Implementing SharePoint 2013 Enterprise SocialBreak• Upgrade Cycle• Demo• Post Upgrade• Resources


User Group Goal / Objectives

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies• Transfer knowledge within the community• Communicate best practices• Introduce new products / solutions


MNSPUG Sponsors

Wrox Press (www.wrox.com)

O’Reilly (www.oreilly.com)

Dedicated Sponsors

Avtex (www.avtex.com)

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

Annual SponsorBenchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com)

SharePoint User Group Support

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http://www.oreilly.com/

http://www.avtex.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/

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http://www.softwareone.com/EN-US/Pages/Default.aspx


Today’s Lunch SponsorProducts Include: Social Sites for SharePoint• Expertise Discovery• Communities• Integration Across Multiple Platforms• Employee Engagement

Session begins around 11:50 and runs about one hour.

There will be a giveaways at the end of the presentation.


MN SharePoint Users Group Website• SharePoint Resource Documents• SharePoint Resource links• RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule• Past User Group Presentations• Past User Group Recordings• Sponsorship Information

• http://sharepointmn.com• Email: [email protected]

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Social Networking• Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings…

Post Job Posting on the Jobs Discussion page http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792

• Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG• Yammer – Minnesota SharePoint Users Group

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Upcoming Schedule• Next Meeting

October 9th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Client-Side Rendering for an Improved User Experience Vendor Sponsored Lunch – Kwiz.com Microsoft Technology Center Check www.SharePointMN.com for updates!

• Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft Technical Center - Edina

http://www.sharepointmn.com/


Local and Online EventsMicrosoft Webcast Calendar of Eventshttp://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx#filter

SharePoint ShopTalk (Online) – Every Thursday @ 11:30 AMhttp://sharepointshoptalk.com/

SharePoint Legal Users Group – 3rd Thursday @ 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. – This time will be Tuesday the 15th @ Greene Espelhttp://sharepointmnlegal.com

SharePoSH – Online Virtual Eventhttp://www.shareposh.com/Pages/default.aspx

SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities – October 12th, 2013 Normandale Community College, Bloomingtonhttp://www.spstc.com/

Benchmark Learning’s MindSurf– October 15th, 2013 Minneapolis Convention Centerhttp://www.benchmarklearning.com/Event/MindSurf/Overview.aspx

SharePoint Saturday Chicago – November 2nd, 2013 Hard Rock Hotel, Chicago, ILhttp://www.sharepointsaturdaychicago.com/

SharePoint Conference 2014 – March 3-6th 2014 , The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevadahttp://sharepointconference.com/

Anything Else?

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

http://sharepointshoptalk.com/

http://sharepointshoptalk.com/

http://sharepointmnlegal.com/

http://www.shareposh.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.spstc.com/

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Event/MindSurf/Overview.aspx

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Event/MindSurf/Overview.aspx

http://www.sharepointsaturdaychicago.com/

http://sharepointconference.com/


Evaluations & Giveaways!


Presenters


Donald Donais• SharePoint Consultant• Father & Drummer • @dondonais• http://talesfromitside.wordpress.com

Introductions

http://talesfromitside.wordpress.com/


Steve Nguyen• Yammer Customer Success Manager• Husband, Father, Ohio State fan

• “On a mission to change the way that people work.”

Introductions


Before We Begin

Let’s Ask a Couple of Questions!


WHAT IS ENTERPRISE SOCIAL?


Enterprise Social Is . . .

Focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among

people who share business interests and/or activities

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_social_networking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_social_networking


Enterprise Social Questions

What Social Media sites can be used by organizations?


Enterprise Social Question

What features do these sites bring to your organization?


WHY DO ENTERPRISE SOCIAL?


Knowledge Management• Engage and find experts, which help to generate new ideas• Engage better with colleagues across distances

61% of employees*• Employees would rather work in a company that uses internal

social media 58% of employees*

• Capture and Share Tacit Knowledge (deter the PowerBall affect)• Helps in the capture of Folksonomy and finding hidden organization

knowledge

* Study published by APCO Worldwide and Gagen MacDonald


Corporate Morale• Be able to SharePoint tips• Convey ideas in helping to improve the organization• Helps the organization with product adoption• Helps with employee engagement


InformationWeek Survey• November of 2010 InformationWeek survey on Enterprise 2.0 Applications• Included Enterprise Social around wiki’s, document sharing, and even community

knowledge spaces

Among IT Professionals – Social Networking was #1 Business Need!

68% of those surveyed had already adopted one or more applications around Enterprise Social


HISTORY OF SHAREPOINT SOCIAL


SharePoint 2007 Social• Introduction of Social Media• Available only in Standard and Enterprise Licenses• Focus was around My Sites and the User Profile• User Profile import from:

Active Directory (AD) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Business Data Connection (BDC)


SharePoint 2007 Social Features• My Sites• Colleagues Web Part• Colleague Tracker• SharePoint Sites, Links and Membership web parts• In Common Web Part• Presence Integration using Office Communication Server (OCS)• People Search• Blog Sites• Wiki Pages• Personal Document Storage


SharePoint 2007 My Site


SharePoint 2010 Social• Overall Improvements from SharePoint 2007• Available within Standard and Enterprise Licenses• Nicer looking User Interface for My Sites and My Profile• User Profile Import changed

Introduced Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) for Import Took away straight Import from AD


SharePoint 2010 Social Features• Many of same features as SharePoint 2007 PLUS• Organization Chart (Silverlight and HTML based)• My Newsfeed• Activity Feed• Suggestions• Tagging – I Like and Folksonomy• Bookmark• Note Board• Content Rating


SharePoint 2010 My Site


SharePoint 2013• SharePoint Social receive major facelift• User Profile Imports

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) AD Direct Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

• Many More Features!• And Soon!


WHAT IS SHAREPOINT 2013 ENTERPRISE SOCIAL?


SharePoint 2013 My Site• Newsfeed• About Me• Activity Feed• Following• SkyDrive• Tasks Ask

questions

Post updates to let your colleagues know what you're working on

Follow people, documents, sites and tags


Newsfeed• Social

Interaction Summary

• Microblogs and Community

• Uses #Hashtags and @Mentions


Manage your To Do List• Task

Aggregation• Manage

Personal Tasks SharePoint Project Server MS Outlook

• Requirements Exchange

2013 Outlook 2013 Project Server

2013


Take Content Offline• Sync Libraries or Personal Documents• Local Access to Libraries• Accessible Offline• Integrated with Office Document

Center• Replaces SharePoint Workspace


Get Recommendations • Suggestions

People Documents Sites

• All based on User’s Behavior Patterns


Following and Trending• Following

People Documents Sites


People Search• Find People Faster

Query Suggestions Find Experts - Documents Fuzzy Name Search Social Connections Search Anywhere

• Relevance• Crawl and Content

Drive from User Profile• Admin

Site Managed by “Search Site” Admin


Communities• Content

Includes: Active

Discussions What’s

Happening Top

Contributors• Gamefication

Within Community Site Reputations Badges

New tools to manage ratings and reputation

Post replies and track discussions

Categorize discussion topics


SharePoint 2013 Social Infrastructure

Activity GeneratorsMicroblog Features

Document EditsDocument Sharing

BirthdaysCommunity Posts

FeedsFollowing

Like NewsfeedActivities NewsfeedEveryone NewsfeedMentions Newsfeed

Site Feeds

Distributed CacheFeeds Cache

Recent User ActivitiesRecent Doc ActivitiesRecent Site ActivitiesRecent Tag ActivitiesLast Modified Time

CacheLast Modified Time of

Activities

My Sites Content DBAll Users Activities

Sites Content DBAll Site Activities


Activity Is Generated

My Sites DatabaseUser or Site Activity

Team Sites Database

Site Feed Activity Distributed Cache

Feeds

ActivityGenerators


Activity Displayed in Newsfeed

Last Modified Time Cache

Query

FeedsRequested Feed

Returned


Demo• Walk Through SharePoint 2013 My Site• SharePoint Communities


NEWSGATOR – AUGMENTED SOCIAL WITHIN SHAREPOINT


NewsGator• Add-In Tool within

SharePoint 2017, 2010 and 2013

• Newer Version can be Accessed via PCs, Tablets and Mobile Devices

• Social Sites include: Activity Feeds Discovery Experts Badges Communities


IMPLEMENTING SHAREPOINT 2013 ENTERPRISE SOCIAL


Governance• Helps to Give Direction to SharePoint

Organization Should Do Needs Assessment• Should be Considered a Sub-Set of Document/Content Management• What is the Intended Purpose of My Sites within Organization• Use Site Quota’s• User Profile Content

Active Directory and/or Line of Business Import or Export User Profile Pictures – Who Owns This?

• Rolling Out Social Features My Site Profiles AND/OR My Site Content Areas


Continued• Need Executive/Organizational By In

Talk an Executive into Blogging• What are the Security Implications

Private vs. Shared Documents What Internal Policies Need to Be Considered


Resources• Best Practices for Implementing an Enterprise Social Intranet

http://bit.ly/YNJoMk• Using Social Media to Increase Productivity in the Enterprise

(Christian Buckley) http://bit.ly/19C6lDV

• Plan for Social Computing and Collaboration in SharePoint Server 2013 (TechNet) http://bit.ly/15UoKjc

http://bit.ly/YNJoMk

http://bit.ly/YNJoMk

http://bit.ly/19C6lDV

http://bit.ly/19C6lDV

http://bit.ly/15UoKjc


Break


Last But Not Least• Please Fill Out Evaluations• Drawings for Giveaways• Today’s Presenter:

Donald DonaisSteve Nguyen

Thanks for coming!