1. http://www.sharepointmn.com Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 10 th, 2010 Social Networking with SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Wes Preston, Erik Mau Meeting #64

2. Session Agenda Introductions Social Networking Intro Social Features in SharePoint 2007 Break Social Features in SharePoint 2010 (continued) Demo Q&A http://www.sharepointmn.com

3. 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com)www.inetium.com Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com)www.benchmarklearning.com Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)www.microsoft.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations info@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

6. Social Networking Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… – http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 Facebook group – http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG http://www.sharepointmn.com

7. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting April 14 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: Process Management: Digital Forms and Workflow Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates!www.sharepointmn.com Ongoing Schedule 2 nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com

8. Local Events AIIM Happy Hour - SharePoint Smackdown – March 11, 2010 3:30 – 5:30 PM *FREE* http://www.aiim.org/chapters/chaptereventview.aspx?EventID=4640 Majors Restaurant – Bloomington, MN http://www.aiim.org/chapters/chaptereventview.aspx?EventID=4640 SharePoint Saturday – March 20, 2010 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM *FREE* http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspx University of Minnesota – East Bank, Twin Cities Campus http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspx Online Events Microsoft SharePoint MVP Expert Chat – March 15, 2010 *FREE* http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=336965717244 http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspxhttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=336965717244

9. http://www.sharepointmn.com Conferences SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo – March 16-19, 2010 http://www.sharepointprosummit.com Las Vegas, NV http://www.sharepointprosummit.com The SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo is THE essential conference for details on the release of SharePoint 2010 and includes in-depth technical training on solution development and customization of Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

10. http://www.sharepointmn.com Conferences SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo – March 16-19, 2010 http://www.sharepointprosummit.com Las Vegas, NV http://www.sharepointprosummit.com Related Pre-Conference Workshop: Building Composite Applications using SharePoint Designer 2010 and the BCS

11. Announcements SharePoint 2010 RTM and Launch announced! – Announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint- 2010-office-2010-launch.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint- 2010-office-2010-launch.aspx – Launch event: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010- launch-events.aspx#fbid=2rTi4OD1abMhttp://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010- launch-events.aspx#fbid=2rTi4OD1abM – May 12 th – same day as MNSPUG Update Center – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx Good, Better, Best Document for SharePoint 2010 available – http://download.microsoft.com/DOWNLOAD/2/A/A/2AA0D302-86A6-4AA2-A0A4- 4F15FA7DBF5C/BUSINESS%20PRODUCTIVITY%20AT%20ITS%20BEST_WHITEPAPER.PDF http://download.microsoft.com/DOWNLOAD/2/A/A/2AA0D302-86A6-4AA2-A0A4- 4F15FA7DBF5C/BUSINESS%20PRODUCTIVITY%20AT%20ITS%20BEST_WHITEPAPER.PDF http://www.sharepointmn.com

12. Quick Intro Wes Preston – SharePoint Senior Consultant – MVP – SharePoint Server – MCTS – WSS and MOSS Configuration

13. Quick Intro Erik Mau – IW Practice Architect at Inetium – Interested in… Custom development on SharePoint Extending the platform Search, ECM, Social Features within SharePoint

14. Social Networking SharePoint Overview

15. A virtual gathering place A web of contacts A bulletin board A scrapbook A knowledgebase Statuses and messaging What is Social Networking? Examples Linked In Facebook MySpace Twitter Classmates.com Reunion.com Yammer Forums Distribution Lists Blogs, RSS feeds Many more…

16. What is Social Networking? Add that big image…

17. What about Enterprise Social Networking? Drive collaboration & social interaction Capture & share tacit knowledge Discover content in new ways Capture the “wisdom of the masses” via social feedback Build a sense of connection to the company New workers expect social tools in the workplace

18. Social Networking SharePoint 2007 Upgrade Overview

19. Feature20072010 WSS / Foundation Blogs and WikisOK MOSS / SharePoint Server People SearchGood Profile Page / My SiteGood Tagging, Rating, NotesN/A More… SharePoint Social Feature Highlights

20. Communication – Using blogs and RSS feeds to internally broadcast information Company announcements rather than e-mail broadcasting Strategy and quarterly updates, Executive team blogs Promotions, staffing changes, etc… – Use external blogs to share relevant information with clients Press Releases for stakeholders and the public Technical / Product information and updates for clients and partners Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking

21. Communication – Blogs (out of the box) Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking

22. Retain and more effectively utilize intellectual property – Use knowledge bases to capture critical information and make it available to those that need it, when they need it Wikis can be used to capture critical information and allow it to evolve quickly as needed by as many people as needed. Blogs can be used as internal ‘journals’ to track research, work and progress Discussion boards can be used as places to capture and track conversation threads and have benefits over e-mail – Train new employees Use the knowledge captured in the containers listed above to identify ‘required reading’ for new team members. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking

23. Knowledge – Wiki sites and Libraries Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking

24. ‘Communities of interest’ – Aligning employees in different departments that have similar roles so they can benefit from each others’ experiences – Internal User Groups – Cross-Department Collaboration – Center of Excellence sites Finding the right resources, when you need them – People Search or advanced search can be used to find people based on many attributes – based on the Profile Database – Immediate needs: Finding the right resource for the current issue, fast – Ongoing needs: Building a project or organizational team Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking

25. People Search Employee Search web part Profile Pages My Sites – Special web parts Audiences SSP Profile Management Search Management SharePoint MOSS Feature Reference

26. SharePoint Social Networking – People Search

27. SharePoint Social Networking – Profile Page

28. SharePoint Social Networking – My Site

29. Unified Communications What is presence and how does it impact collaboration and social computing in SharePoint? Know before you attempt to reach out Presence is the “center ring” of Unified Communications

30. Extending SharePoint 2007 SharePoint Architecture

31. Custom My Sites Customizing the person.aspx page Configuring User Profile Imports Adding new User Profile Properties – Customizing Privacy Policies (who can see what properties) Business Data Catalog Configuring Audiences Custom Search Results – Configurable XSLT to display relevant User Profile Properties Custom Search Properties Customization Opportunities

32. Possible Customizations: – Custom Web Parts that display relevant User Profile Properties – Import additional User Profile Properties without leveraging the BDC – Create a Vista Gadget that surfaces SharePoint data: Person browser/phonebook? Portal Customizations: – Yammer web part – Twitter web part – Employee blog web part – SPC09 page Development Opportunities

33. Portal Customizations – Web Parts

34. CodePlex!! – Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition – Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Newsgator 3 rd Party Offerings

35. Don’t just update SharePoint – keep Active Directory up to date – Information also available in Outlook / other tools Sync with other systems – PeopleSoft, etc… Development processes for User Profile/Import Changes Database and server topology planning is required before rolling out company-wide My Site deployments (100s or 1000s of sites) Finally – Engage your users and encourage them to participate! Thoughts on Governance

36. Get AD cleaned up… It usually needs some work before making everything public Get your users used to a My Site – the 2010 functionality is a leap forward… coming up next… My Sites will migrate to 2010 Start with Social Now!

37. Break

38. Social Networking SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Architecture

39. *Disclaimer* All of the information gathered and presented today is based on versions of the software prior to final release. Features and functionality *may still change* before the RTM versions are available. Reminder: RTM coming in April with Launch in May!! http://www.sharepointmn.com

40. Ribbon UI SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Mobile Office Client Office Web App Integration Standards Support Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings Social Bookmarking Blogs and Wikis My Sites Activity Feeds Profiles and Expertise Org Browser Enterprise Content Types Metadata and Navigation Document Sets Multi-stage Disposition Audio and Video Content Types Remote Blob Storage List Enhancements Social Relevance Phonetic Search Navigation FAST Integration Enhanced Pipeline PerformancePoint Services Excel Services Chart Web Part Visio Services Web Analytics SQL Server Integration PowerPivot Business Connectivity Services InfoPath Form Services External Lists Workflow SharePoint Designer Visual Studio API Enhancements REST/ATOM/RSS http://www.sharepointmn.com SharePoint Server 2010

41. Feature20072010 WSS / Foundation Blogs and WikisOKBetter MOSS / SharePoint Server People SearchGoodBetter Profile Page / My SiteGoodBetter Tagging, Rating, NotesN/AExciting! More… SharePoint Social Feature Highlights

42. Improvements and new features – Enhanced wikis and blogs – Social Tagging – Rating, Notes and feedback – Social search: more data, better results Expertise mining and discovery Finding people: phonetic name search, name variations and wildcard – My Sites: status, aggregation and activity monitoring SharePoint 2010

43. SharePoint Communities Participation Anywhere Social Connections Informal Knowledge

44. Blog Sites

46. Personal Blogs on My Site Blogs can exist “anywhere” Flexible Categories Rich Editing Experience Leverage the tagging and note infrastructure Blog Sites: General

47. Blog Sites: Management

48. Wikis

49. Add web parts – anywhere Linking to lists with intellisense Rich Editing Experience Wikis: General

50. Wikis

51. Tagging

52. Ubiquitous What can be tagged? – Items / Documents (i.e. Blog Posts) – Pages – Any URL (internal / external) Tagging

53. Aggregation Post \ View Notes related to Tag View Taggers View Tag Followers Tagging: Profile Page

54. My Site (Tags and Notes tab) Aggregation of user-defined Tags Easily navigate tagged content Tagging: Tag Cloud

55. Taxonomy or Folksonomy Managed as a “Service Application ” Tagging: Term Store

56. Notes

57. Same UX as Tagging What can have notes? – Items / Documents – Pages – Any URL – Tag Profiles – My Sites Extensibility – Notes Web Part Demo Notes

58. Aggregated in My Site (Tags and Notes tab) Open to “Public” Notes: Aggregation

59. Ratings

60. Social Ratings Documents / List Items Wiki Pages Ratings “calculated” by Timer job Extensibility – Ratings on Publishing Pages

61. Demo: Tags, Notes and Ratings

62. Social Search

63. Improves connecting people Social behavior improves search Search indexes user profiles, tags, and notes Extensibility – Ratings in Search Results Social Search

64. Phonetic and nickname matching Improved result layout and hit- highlighting Recently authored content Refine by query type, and many other pivots Sort by relevance, name or social distance Vanity search

65. Social Search: Social Definitions

66. Demo: Social Search

67. My Sites

69. What’s New Activity Feed – Colleagues – People I’m tracking My Sites – My Network

70. Shows My Site Content Dedicated SharePoint Site Hosts Personal Blog My Sites – My Content

71. “Public” View Profile Information My Activities Tabbed Views – Overview My Sites – My Profile

72. “Public” View Profile Information My Activities Tabbed Views – Overview – Organization Silverlight UI My Sites – My Profile

73. “Public” View Profile Information My Activities Tabbed Views – Overview – Organization – Content Public Documents Blog Posts My Sites – My Profile

74. “Public” View Profile Information My Activities Tabbed Views – Overview – Organization – Content – Tags / Notes Tag Cloud Activity Feed My Sites – My Profile

75. “Public” View Profile Information My Activities Tabbed Views – Overview – Organization – Content – Tags / Notes – Colleagues Peers Who I’m Following My Sites – My Profile

76. Activity Feeds

77. Aggregation of user “activities” and system- generated “activities” Activity Feeds

78. Generated by – Tags – Notes – Page Ratings – User Profile Changes – Configurable – Extensible Activity Feeds

79. Aggregated in My Site (Tags and Notes tab) Activity Feeds: Aggregation

80. My Activities and Colleague Activities Facebook “Wall-style” UX Extensibility – Custom Feeds Activity Feeds: Aggregation

81. Demo: My Sites

82. Q & A Questions & Answers

83. References (2007) Social Computing with SharePoint http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/social.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/social.mspx White Paper on Social Networking http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98123&clcid=0x409http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98123&clcid=0x409 SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9- 41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9- 41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

84. References (2007) That cool Social Web graphic – from Mirna Bard: http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/02/15-categories-of-social-media/ http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/02/15-categories-of-social-media/ SharePoint Social feature comparison 2007/2010: http://www.nonlinearcreations.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/18/enterprise- social-computing-features-comparison-moss-2007-vs-sharepoint-2010/ http://www.nonlinearcreations.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/18/enterprise- social-computing-features-comparison-moss-2007-vs-sharepoint-2010/ Codeplex Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5134 http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5134 Tag Cloud (SharePoint Designer) http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=41 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=41

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