This document summarizes a Tech Ed Africa collaboration session from April 2013. It provides an overview of sessions on Windows Azure, getting started with Yammer, and driving adoption through gamification. The Windows Azure session covered IAAS, PAAS architectures and the "Fabric" platform. The Yammer session highlighted how it can be used for collaboration and its top 5 features. The gamification session defined the concept, discussed how games motivate people, and provided examples of gamification in SharePoint to increase engagement.

1. Tech Ed Africa / #TechEdZA
Collaboration Sessions
April 2013

2. Intro
 Ridwan Sassman
 Manager Collaboration

3. Agenda
 Tech-Ed Africa Overview
 Sessions Attended
 Windows Azure
 Get Ready to Yammer
 Driving Adoption with
Gamification

4. Tech Ed Africa Collaboration Overview
Big focus on Azure
Cloud 2.0

5. Agenda
 Tech-Ed Africa Overview
 Sessions Attended
 Windows Azure
 Get Ready to Yammer
 Driving Adoption with
Gamification

6. Sessions Attended
Windows Azure - IAAS - PAAS
• The Journey
• IASS, PAAS & SAAS
• Fabric
• Azure More Info
Get Ready to Yammer
• Technology is evolving
• Sounds familiar
• that's where yammer fits in
• top 5 yammer features
Driving Adoption with Gamification
• What is gamification
• Why do I need it
• How do I use it
• Where is it going
SharePoint and Office Authentication
SharePoint 2013 - Top 10 Health and Risk
assessment failures
REST Assured - Best Practices with the
SharePoint 2013 Data Services
…and a few more ….

7. Agenda
 Tech-Ed Africa Overview
 Sessions Attended
 Windows Azure
 Get Ready to Yammer
 Driving Adoption with
Gamification

8. The Journey"This is the bet for the
company, … for the cloud,
we're all in.“
-Steve Ballmer
SDK 1.3 Released
VM Role and Azure
Connect Beta
SDK 1.6 Released
Field and Services Engineering
partner to migrate
MSDN/TechNet
Field Engineering
releases offerings to
assist in moving to
PaaS
Field Engineering begins
supporting IaaS customer
previews
Field and Services Engineering begin
working on MSDN/TechNet migration
to IaaS
Windows Azure
IaaS Era Begins

9. IAAS, PAAS & SAAS
(on-premise)
storage
servers
networking
os
middleware
virtualization
data
applications
runtime
youmanage
iaas
storage
servers
networking
os
middleware
virtualization
data
applications
runtime
operatormanages
youmanage
paas
operatormanages
youmanage
storage
servers
networking
os
middleware
virtualization
applications
runtime
data
saas
operatormanages
storage
servers
networking
os
middleware
virtualization
applications
runtime
data

10. ‘Fabric’ is the core for paas
| 10
fabric
time
demand

11. all is hidden…
0
1
2
security
patches
software
patches
service
patches
service
packs
backup
instance
management
load
balancer
1
sla
99.95%
uptime

12. What you can do…

13. your free trial contains

14. IT is ‘Cool’ thanks to Azure!

15. SP and Azure - More Info
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24398

16. SP and Azure - More Info
http://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=38428

17. Agenda
 Tech-Ed Africa Overview
 Sessions Attended
 Windows Azure
 Get Ready to Yammer
 Driving Adoption with
Gamification

18. Technology is evolving…
Communication is the same

19. The Communications Technology
Revolution
Line chart showing
Social > Email
SOCIAL NETWORKING
EMAIL
#users
2009
Fueled by mobile technology, more people are now using social networking websites than
email or web portals.
› 800 million Facebook users with over 100 billion connections
› 300 million Twitter users with 1 billion tweets every 4 days
› 488 million mobile devices v 417 million PCs shipped in 2011
Line chart showing
Social > Email
time
Timespentonline
PORTALS
SOCIAL NETWORKING
2011time

20. Sound familiar?
Who can help me
with this project?
What are
common
objections from
prospects?
Does anyone
have experience
with….
Who’s going
to the
conference?
I’m new to the
company. Where
can I find…?
Where can I find
the latest travel
policy
information?
Anyone know a
good tax
lawyer?
What’s our
protocol for
engaging
with…
The
competition’s
up to this. What
do we do?
Who’s
handling this
account?

22. That’s where Yammer fits in!
Yammer is the private and secure enterprise social network through
which a companys employees connect, collaborate and coordinate.

23. Yammer helps you to…
› Ask questions and find answers faster
› Save time by sharing great projects and preventing
duplicate work
› Meet co-workers with similar interests and relevant
expertise
› Share news and announcements with the people who need
to know
› Discuss major decisions and prepare for change
› Gather opinions and ideas from across the company
› And much much more…..

24. Understand My Feed
• My Feed integrated and accessible directly within SharePoint lets you connect
with the most relevant content in your network
Top Conversations
surfaces content
relevant to you based on
your activity
Followed Conversations
shows you content from
People, and Groups that
you follow
Trending Content shows
you the most popular
content right now

25. Top 5 Yammer Features

26. 1 Start Conversations…
• Use @mentioning and + Add people to notify to loop-in the right people
Start a Conversation
@mention to notify
specific people about a
conversation or to ask
for their input
+Add people to notify
as an FYI

27. 2 …And Join Conversations
• Reply, Share and Like conversations to join in
Reply to a specific
person within a
Conversation thread
Like if you like it, to
acknowledge it, or to
say Thank You!
YAMMER TIP:
Shy in getting started?
Observe and “Like”
first!
Share a Conversation
with another group or
in a Private Message

28. 3 Collaborate with Files and Pages
• Add Related Content and in-line Comments
View fullscreen,
email or
download files
Add and Reply to
in-line comments
Add Related Files
and Pages from
other groups

29. 4 Send a Private Message
• Communicate with one or a few colleagues using Private Messages via your
Inbox
Manage Unread Conversations and
reply to Private Message through
your Inbox

30. 5 Start Conversations with Online Now
• Online Now lets you quickly start private discussions with other employees who
are online now
Connects to your
Private Messages,
making it easy to add
additional
participants
Green tells you which
of your coworkers is
Online Now
Search for coworkers
to see if they are
Online Now

31. Agenda
 Tech-Ed Africa Overview
 Sessions Attended
 Windows Azure
 Get Ready to Yammer
 Driving Adoption with
Gamification

32. Turning Mundane assignments into
FUN tasks!

33. Definition
Gamification is the use of game
mechanics…
…to drive engagement in non-game
business scenarios…
…to change behaviours in a target
audience.

34. Who Plays Games
• 99% of boys and 94% of girls under 18 play 13 and 8
hours a day
• 92% of 2 year olds play games
• One out of four gamers is over the age of fifty.

35. What Defines a game
• The Goal
• The Rules
• The Feedback system
• Voluntary participation
• Compared with reality, games are too easy
…take golf for example…

36. Motivating People
• Extrinsic Rewards
• Things
• Intrinsic Rewards
• Satisfying work
• Success
• Social Connection
• Meaning

37. Behaviours to motivate
Post Status Message
Close a support ticket
Close a deal
Approve Expenses
Edit a Wiki

38. Failure is an option
• In reality, if we fail there are consequences and permanent
outcomes
• In gaming, we can fail repeatedly
• We are not afraid to try different approaches
• ..until we find the best approach

39. Examples and Impact
• The World's Deepest Bin – during one day 72kg collected
(31kg avg)
• Piano Staircase – 66% more people than normal chose
stairs over escalator
• Foursquare – Badges for places travelled to
• Opower: Your neighbours are doing better than you.

40. Gamification in SharePoint
• Raising Awareness for use in Collaboration environment
• Generating ROI for clients
• Look at creating Successful Strategies around current
Collaboration technology

41. Questions

42. Connect with Me
 http://red1s.wordpress.com/
 https://twitter.com/reiqwan
 SharePoint Saturday

43. Tech Ed Africa / #TechEdZA
Collaboration Sessions
April 2013