1. One Newsfeed to Rule Them All Jeff C. Kelly Practice Area Lead, Intranets & Business Productivity non~linear creations

2. 2 Jeff C. Kelly Practice Lead, Intranets & Business Productivity jkelly@nonlinear.ca 647-776-2556 www.nonlinearcreations.com www.nonlinearcreations.com/blog www.jeffkelly.com

3. NLC Executive Summary Microsoft Gold Partner NLC has been a Microsoft partner for more than 5 years. We help our clients effectively deliver their technology solutions and tap into the power of technologies to generate value for their businesses. Sitecore Worldwide Partner Sitecore has, developed content management systems which allow companies in a simple and manageable fashion to control the content of their websites and intranets while integrating with external IT systems. Microsoft FAST Certified Partner FAST, A Microsoft Subsidiary, is the leading global provider of best-in-class enterprise search technologies for the most demanding applications. Founded in 1995 75+ full-time specialists Toronto, Ottawa, Regina, Calgary and Vancouver New York, NY Florianopolis, Brazil

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5. About me Consultant, writer, blogger, speaker since the 20 th century ECM, DM, KM, Enterprise Social Computing, Forms/Workflow/Portals/EAI, Enterprise Search … Former web developer (1995-2000) Grey backgrounds, tag, rainbow horizontal dividers, “Under Construction” animated GIFs, etc. Former SharePoint developer (2000-2007-ish) Former SharePoint solutions architect (2005-ish-2010-ish) Current challenge: managing and growing a SharePoint consulting/ implementation practice across three countries 5

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7. Activities, activities everywhere Twitter LinkedIn Yammer SharePoint 2010 Events Status Updates Facebook Activities Status Updates Blogs/RSS Bacn email 7

8. The SharePoint Activity Feed 8

9. What did he just say? “Microsoft: SharePoint 2013 Will Suck at Social – Get Something Else!” http://blog.furuknap.net/microsoft-sharepoint-2013-will-suck- at-social-get-something-else “I would say as a customer don’t wait for Wave15, unless you’ve got a really slow social media strategy or unless you want to use some really baseline features … I would start going ahead with our platform and Newsgator on top.” --Johnathan Barrett, Microsoft Australia 9

10. Two classes of “followable” activities Job Title change Phone number Skills, Projects, Interests, About Me, etc. Profile Updates Comment on document, post, list item, etc. “Like” Social Activities 10

11. Make sure newsfeeds are enabled Activity Feed Timer Job must be enabled and scheduled New in Service Pack 1: Activity Feeds must be enabled in User Profile Service Application  Set up My Sites 11

12. Two feeds per person My private feed The things my colleagues (people I ‘followed’) are doing “Consolidated” My actions that get broadcast to my colleagues (who followed me) “Published” 12

13. Why not web parts or Tweetdeck/Hootsuite ?? Lots of HTTP traffic back and forth to those public feeds URLs may be blocked by usage policies So then why is it okay to retrieve items separately and deliver them to users? Approved list of sites/feeds (LinkedIn, not Facebook – or maybe Facebook) Depends on the reason for the policy – if it’s a bandwidth thing, our approach is great Asynchronous approach – separate server retrieves items in batches – users are reading data from your SP database, not the Web Don’t have to install/support/worry about desktop apps 13

14. Anatomy of a Feed ActivityApplication ActivityTemplateActivityTypeActivityEvent 14 Has a collection ofIs an instance of ActivityManager

15. Extending SharePoint’s Feeds 15

16. Steps to inject our own Activities Register a custom ActivityApplication using a Farm-scoped Feature Register INTO this ActivityApplication a new ActivityType (‘update’ or ‘tweet’) Register users’ credentials (per user/external app) in Secure Store Deploy a Timer Job that will collect and inject Activities into users’ newsfeeds The Timer Job will call into a custom Gatherer object 16

17. How can we “gather” from multiple sites … … when they all have different schemas? 17

18. THIS APPROACH ASSUMES: We are not tracking any activity other than “said” (status updates, ‘tweets’) In a non-generic (tailored connection) approach, we can specify the activity (e.g., “Shannon Ryan created a new team site.” No matter the source (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), we are only grabbing three fields and mapping them to our generic ones: Display name or handle of the updater URL to the updater’s profile page (e.g., twitter.com/shannonryan) Body of the update or tweet 18

19. THIS APPROACH ASSUMES (cont’d): Any status update is called a ‘tweet’ for the purposes of this presentation 19

20. Steps to create a multi-source hub InfoPath/aspnet registration form for employees Collect form-based credentials and store them in Secure Store (“Individual”) For oAuth or other ticket/secret-based authentication – user must authenticate and provide the secret for you to store in SSS 20

21. You can’t spell ‘Demons’ without ‘Demo’ 21

22. Resources http://weshackett.com/2011/0 6/extending-the-activity-feed- with-enterprise-content/ http://archive.msdn.microsoft. com/activityfeedsconsole 22

23. Questions? 23