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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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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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Categories
Ratings
• Likes or Stars
Achievement Points System
Achievement Levels
• 5 Level System
• Images or Text
Gifted Badges
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Create gifted badges
• Admins can grant these to contributors at will
• These override achievement image / text
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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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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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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