Polkadot JAM Slides - Token2049 - By Dr. Gavin Wood
News gator socialsites_features
1. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
NewsGator Social Networking Web Parts
Web Part Name Description Sample
Micro-Blogging, Provides integrated
Activity Stream, and micro-blogging and
Commenting commenting. Displays
SharePoint activities
from colleagues, joined
communities, and self.
Includes updates from
3rd party social
networking sites
including Twitter,
Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Mini Pop-Up Profiles Provides a quick view of
any user in the system
including their recent
activity, tags, posts,
subscriptions, clippings,
and contact
information.
Social Network Graph Displays a person’s
colleagues and depicts
their social distance
from each colleague.
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2. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Conversations Provides a rollup of all
microblogging activity in
the system.
Conversation Tags Provides a tag cloud of
all hashtags used in the
microblogging activity.
Conversation Search Enables users to search
all microblogging
activity.
Conversation Filter Enables users to filter
microblogging activity
by community.
Clippings Displays a list of the
user’s most recent
personal and group
clippings. Community
bookmarks are treated
as group clippings.
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3. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
NewsGator Community Discovery & Creation Web Parts
Web Part Name Description Sample
Find Communities Displays a tag cloud and
search field that helps
you discover public
communities.
Most Popular Displays a list of public
Communities communities that have
the most members.
My Communities Displays an alphabetical
list of communities that
you have joined.
Recently Created Displays a list of public
Communities communities that have
been recently created.
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4. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Recommended Displays a list of public
Communities communities that have
common members, tags,
or news that you might
find interesting to join.
Create Community Enables creation of a
community site as a sub-
site of the location on
which the button sits.
NewsGator Community Web Parts
Web Part Name Description Sample
Recent Community Tracks the recent
Activity activity that has
happened on a
community.
Community Members Displays all members
that are part of a
community.
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5. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Community Tags Allows for addition and
removal of tags for
community discovery
and population of
content.
Community Tagged Displays all articles in
News the NGES database that
match the tag
associated with that
community.
Related Communities Shows other
communities that relate
to the current one you
are visiting.
Social Bookmarks Displays bookmarked
articles or web sites
with your annotations.
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6. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
NewsGator Content & People Discovery Web Parts
Web Part Name Description Sample
SharePoint Feed Allows you to subscribe
Manager to the current site, and
opens NewsGator’s
SharePoint Feed
Manager.
SharePoint Feeds Lists feeds from this
SharePoint Site.
Tag Cloud Displays your tags,
publisher tags or
categories that can be
used to filter articles or
SharePoint lists.
Community Search Returns communities
Results associated with the
keywords/terms used in
a SharePoint search.
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7. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Tags Search Results Returns tagged content
and people associated
with the
keywords/terms used in
a SharePoint search.
NGES Terms Search Returns feeds
Results associated with the
keywords/terms used in
a SharePoint search.
Knowledge Explorer Allows users to visually
navigate people and
concepts to discover
expertise and artifacts
in your organization.
Requires Silverlight 3.0.
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8. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
NewsGator Content Display
Web Part Name Description Sample
Discussion Forums Enables discussions,
threads and posts
from this SharePoint
site.
Top Rated Posts Displays the top
rated content in the
system or on any
site.
Feed Trends Displays the top or
bottom moving feeds
based on rankings in
NewsGator Enterprise
Server.
Latest Posts Displays the latest
posts from
SharePoint, the
internet or a
configurable URL
scope.
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9. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
NewsGator List Displays an AJAX
View view of a SharePoint
list based on its RSS
feed using read state
and metadata.
Reading List Tag Displays your tags,
Cloud publisher tags or
categories from feeds
in the site’s reading
list.
Relevant to You Displays relevant
articles to you, based
on the attention data
from NewsGator
Enterprise Server.
Site Reader Displays the Site
(Similar Reading List Feeds
functionality is (aggregated external
provided by the feeds), and can be
Feed Web Part, used as an optional
NewsGator List reading pane.
View, & NewsGator
Headlines web
parts)
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10. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Site Reading List Displays this site’s
Feeds Reading List and Site
Reader and allows
you to navigate and
manage feeds.
Personal News Aggregates recent
Reader top stories from a
user's subscriptions.
My Site Tabbed Displays a user’s RSS
Reader articles in a tabbed
format on the My Site
or elsewhere in
SharePoint.
Action Controls Displays the
NewsGator Controls
(mark read, clip post,
create discussion,
add tag, rating) on
any SharePoint
publishing page.
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11. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Group Clippings Displays Group
Clippings or
community
bookmarks and
enables users to
read, clip, tag or rate
the articles, as well
as use the
information as the
seed for a community
discussion thread.
NewsGator My Site & My Home Enhancement Web Parts
Web Part Name Description Sample
My Status Allows you to enter and
share your status among
your colleagues.
Colleagues’ Status List Displays your
colleagues’ status as
entered through
NewsGator Social Sites.
Social Profile Displays tags that
people use to describe
themselves and a link to
the Profile Builder
Wizard.
What I Publish Allows people to add
external feeds (from
blogs, Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn,
etc.) and include posts
from those feeds in
their Activity Stream.
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12. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Profile Builder Wizard Helps people associate
tags with themselves
and find relevant people
and communities.
Upcoming Birthdays Displays a list of
upcoming colleagues’
birthdays.
Recommended Recommends colleagues
Colleagues based on common tag,
RSS feed subscription,
and communities.
Relevant to You Displays relevant
articles to you, based
on the attention data
from NewsGator
Enterprise Server.
My Tags Displays the tags that
you have used in
SharePoint or
NewsGator Enterprise
Server. Clicking on a
tag will retrieve all of
the articles and
documents you have
tagged with that term.
Recently posted Displays items that you
have recently added to
SharePoint.
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13. NewsGator Social Sites Web Parts Overview
Web Part Name Description Sample
Favorite feeds Displays the feeds you
pay most attention to.
Organizational Displays the
Hierarchy organizational hierarchy
as defined in the My
Site.
Recent Activity Displays recent activity
that you have
performed (e.g., joined
community, tagged
community).
Following Me Displays the colleagues
that are following a
person.
My Ideas Displays a person’s
submitted ideas and the
number of votes
associated with each
idea.
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