MICROSOFT AND THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Salman Ghani (MCPD SharePoint 2010, MCTS MOSS)16th July 2012

Agenda

Today - Social Features on the Microsoft platform SharePoint Out of the box

My Sites Tagging Content People / Skills

SharePoint Add-ons Newsgator Spigit

Outlook

Future - Microsoft as a platform for the social enterprise Yammer SharePoint 15 Feeds integration with Windows 8

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TODAY: SOCIAL FEATURES ON THE MICROSOFT PLATFORM

SharePoint Out of the box

SharePoint 2010 provides a number of social features:

My sites Tagging of Content Bookmarks Rate Content Note Board Activity Feed

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My Sites (SharePoint 2010)

Central point for a user to store and access to information. Status, Feeds, Colleagues Organisation Browser – a Silverlight based control for

showing a users position within an organisation Share interests, projects, business relationships, and

content Overview displays Ask Me About , Recent Activities, Note

Board, In Common with You Privacy options for personal information Memberships

Displays the user’s memberships in distribution lists (DLs) and SharePoint sites.

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My Sites

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Social Tagging

SharePoint Server 2010 contains the following social tagging features.

Social tags Enable users to save items of interest, organize all information for

a project, and connect to others who share their interests The Note Board

Enables users to add comments about Web pages, documents, and library items to be tracked in a central location.

Ratings Assess the value of content against a scale, for example, one

through five stars. Bookmarklets

Enable users to add tags and notes to pages that are outside a SharePoint environment.

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Social Tagging

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People Search

New user interface for search results Results include including photo, brief

contact information, and areas of expertise

RSS feeds and alerts for search results Customisable using XSLT Browse in organisation chart See documents and articles by user

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People Search

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SHAREPOINT ADD-ONS

Newsgator

Communities Microblogging Activity Streams Spheres Social Profiles Questions and Answers Lync Integration Desktop & Email Clients

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Newsgator

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Spigit

Social Innovation Platform Based on already adopted SharePoint platform. System of Record for Innovation Intellectual

Property Experience the traceability Benefits of SpigitEngage

EASILY IDENTIFY GREAT IDEAS EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE GREAT INNOVATORS OBJECTIVELY SELECT WHICH IDEAS TO PURSUE STRATEGICALLY MONITOR PROGRESS AND MAKE

ADJUSTMENTS

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Spigit (SharePoint)

BET / WIN (NEW GAME) SPIGIT STORE EXPERT PARTICIPATION MODERATOR OVERSIGHT INTEGRATED SEARCH MY SITE INTEGRATION SMART WEB PARTS INTEGRATED DISCUSSION THREADS AUDITING

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Spigit for SharePoint

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OUTLOOK

Outlook (Social Features

Outlook Social Connector Brings social views of your colleagues and friends right into the

inbox Includes Communication history, Meetings , Attachments

Activities Download and see real-time activity for your colleagues from

business and social networks. Get friendly

Request someone as a colleague or friend with one click. SharePoint 2010

Connect to the new MySite social networking experience Extensible

A public SDK allows anyone to build a connection to business or consumer social networks.

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Outlook

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Outlook (Social Features)

Activity feeds The OSC makes Outlook 2010 a social

networking tool by connecting to the new social experiences in SharePoint 2010.

Know who you’re meeting with. Use the OSC’s Gallery View to see all of the

people you’ll be interacting with in an upcoming meeting:

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Outlook (Social Features)

Open Connectivity

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OSC for LinkedIn

Outlook has partnered with LinkedIn

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OSC for Other Social Networks Current available providers include Facebook, LinkedIn, Windows Live Messenger, Viadeo, XING

See profiles and updates and add new connections without leaving your Inbox.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/outlook-social-connector-partner-listing-FX102317540.aspx

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FUTURE: MICROSOFT AS A PLATFORM FOR THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

What to expect in future...

Major redesign around My Sites / My Profiles

Better suited for cloud environments

New SharePoint app marketplace Interfaces suited for social

networking Improved mobile support Improvements on Wikis and Blogs

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Microsoft purchase of Yammer

Microsoft’s social product for enterprise a social product for the enterprise that has already been

validated by the marketplace. More than 200,000+ companies worldwide are already using Yammer, proof that it solves a real need.

Natural product to integrate Yammer complements the Office suite of products. By adding a

social element to Outlook and SharePoint (and maybe even SkyDrive), Microsoft will make its already ubiquitous corporate products much more powerful and collaborative.

Simple features as compare to SharePoint Alternative to SharePoint social capabilities

There are rumours that social capabilities of SharePoint 15 are not very great. Now the purchase of Yammer is suggesting the same point.

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Yammer

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Windows 8 (Feed Integration)

Feeds from Bing search engine Over 100 feeds in various categories Display any individual source to desktop New apps for Sports, News, and Travel Deep Integration With Facebook, LinkedIn,

Twitter, Google

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Windows 8

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References

SharePoint Social Computing http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uksharepoint/archive/2010/01/11/sha

repoint-2010-new-social-computing-features.aspx

Newsgator for SharePoint http://www.newsgator.com/products/social-sites-for-sharepoint

-2010.aspx/

Spigit for SharePoint http://www.spigit.com/solutions/products/spigitengage/sharep

oint

Outlook Social Connectors http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/outlook-2010-feature

s-and-benefits-HA101810016.aspx http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2009/11/18

/announcing-the-outlook-social-connector.aspx

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