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2. • Different from Personal social networking
- Need to ask “Is this good for the company?”
• Realize the potential of social networking concepts in your workplace,
with your partners and with your clients.
• The same standard business questions apply:
– What is the return on investment?
– Where are the efficiencies?
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3. Drive collaboration & Capture & share tacit Discover content in
social interaction knowledge new ways
Capture the “wisdom Build a sense of New workers already
of the masses” via connection to expect social tools in
social feedback the company the workplace
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5. Feature 2007 2010 2013
Blogs and Wikis
People Search
Profile Page / My Site
Tagging, Rating, Notes -
Interactive Feed -
Community Site -
Follow People -
Follow Sites -
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6. • 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)
• Configuring Audiences
• Custom Search Results
– Configurable XSLT to display relevant User Profile Properties
• Custom Search Properties

7. • Possible Customizations:
– Custom Web Parts that display relevant User Profile Properties
– Import additional User Profile Properties without leveraging the BDC
• Portal Customizations:
– Yammer web part
– Twitter web part
– Employee blog web part

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10. Feature 2007 2010 2013
Blogs and Wikis
People Search
Profile Page / My Site
Tagging, Rating, Notes -
Follow People - -
Interactive Feed - -
Community Site - -
Follow Sites - -
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11. • 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

12. 2010
2007

13. • Personal Blogs on
My Site
• Blogs can exist
“anywhere”
• Flexible Categories
• Rich Editing
Experience
• Leverage the
tagging and note
infrastructure

14. • Add web parts – anywhere 2007
• Linking to lists with
intellisense
• Rich Editing Experience
2010

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

16. • Aggregation
• Post View Notes
related to Tag
• View Taggers
• View Tag Followers

17. • My Site (Tags and Notes tab)
• Aggregation of user-defined Tags
• Easily navigate tagged content

18. • Taxonomy or Folksonomy
• Managed as a “Service Application”

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

20. • Aggregated in My Site (Tags and Notes tab)
• Open to “Public”

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

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

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

24. 2007
Includes:
-Network
-Profile
-Activity Feeds
2010

25. • What’s New
• Activity Feed
◦ Colleagues
◦ People I’m tracking

26. • Shows My Site
Content
• Dedicated
SharePoint Site
• Hosts Personal
Blog

27. 2007
• “Public” View
• Profile Information
• My Activities
• Tabbed Views
◦ Overview
◦ Organization 2010
 Silverlight UI
◦ Content
 Public Documents, Blog
Posts
◦ Tags/Notes
 Tag Cloud, Activity Fee
◦ Colleagues
 Peers, Who I’m Following

28. • Aggregation of user “activities” and system-
generated “activities”

29. • Generated by
– Tags
– Notes
– Page Ratings
– User Profile Changes
– Configurable
– Extensible

30. • Aggregated in My Site (Tags and Notes tab)

31. • My Activities and
Colleague Activities
• Facebook “Wall-style” UX
• Extensibility – Custom
Feeds

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33. Feature 2007 2010 2013
Blogs and Wikis
People Search
Profile Page / My Site
Tagging, Rating, Notes -
Follow People - -
Interactive Feed - -
Community Site - -
Follow Sites - -
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34. User
Generated

35. • We cache the latest activities from
across SharePoint in-memory, so
users can always see the latest
activities when they go to their
consolidated feed in real time.
– That applies to both user activities like
microblogging posts and system activities
like doc modifications
• What is not retrieved from the
cache
– “User’s Activities” in the Person.aspx page
– Everything.. If the cache is empty

36. • User activities and system activities get written in the Microfeed
list* and in the Windows Server AppFabric Cache
• Cache doesn’t however get updates in real time… always
• Some System activities are on an activity gatherer that runs and
update the cache every 10 minutes:
– Status Message (About me)
– Note Board post
– Tagging content (tagging posts is real-time)
– Job title change
– Workplace anniversary
– Now following person
– Birthday
• Important: any posting activity happens in real-time

37. • Every time a user likes a post:
– An entry gets created in the user’s
Microfeed list
• This show the “user liked a post” entry
– The original post gets updated in the
Microfeed list of the user that created the
post itself
• This keep tracks of all the likes on the post
– An entry gets also created in the Social
list of the user who did the “like” action
• This keeps track of the user “like” activities
• Used in the “Likes” view

38. • Mentions give the ability to refer to a
person in a microblogging post
• it works independently from
following
– if a person gets mentioned that post will
show in his or her mentions feed.
• People can mention
– People who are in the “Followed People” list
– People in the Profile DB
• User who gets mentioned receives a
notification email
• Newsfeed page also provides a visual
notification of number of mentions

39. • Company feed is a My Site feeds view of all users generated
activities.
– Introduces a new level of discovery of new people and topics to the
feed system,
– Helps on ramping new users to the feed system and its usage patterns
in their company
– It is a great way to start following people you think are interesting
• User generated activities are displayed without specifically
following people
– Only user generated activities are showed, not system generated
activities (e.g. user x is following site y)
– Group conversations are not shown in the Company feeds

41. Navigation
Title
Posts and replies
Description

42. • At any time people can go to the Members list to see
all members and rank them by various metrics
• People can also see their status and what is needed to
move to the next level of reputation:

43. • Allow any members to report any
post (reply or discussion) as an
abuse of the Community
– Reports with comments are stored in an
hidden list
• Members are notified real time for
their reporting activity
• Moderators can then decide to
delete the post, edit the post or
remove the Report

44. • Gives information about all of the
things that user is following
– number of people,
– Documents*,
– Sites*
– Tags
• Can easily identify all of the things
that powers a user’s newsfeed
• Allows the user to access all of those
things within a single click from the
newsfeed

45. • Users have the ability from My Site to access and control the
list of followed sites
– You can stop follow sites or reach sites directly.
• When you follow a site, any microblogs that happen on that
site will show up in your newsfeed
• This information get pulled directly from the
/Social/FollowedSites folder in user personal site

46. • Following Documents gives the ability to users to
keep track and get informed on changes and
activities that are happening within a document
• Every time a document content or its properties
change a new system feed gets posted for that
document
– People who are following the document get then notified
• Important: following a document is not a
replacement for SharePoint Alerts

47. • On top of the 2010 content tagging in 15 there’s also the ability to tag
microblogging posts
• It uses the profile DB to store the tags an individual user is following
– Users can control if broadcast this information in the news feed
• People use the “#tagName” syntax to tag a specific Microblogging post,
or reply
– In start typing the system takes a look at the MMS Keywords and shows it in
the post itself
• Note: tagging something does not imply that the user has started
to follow that tag.
– You could use the tag #Ignite, but not necessarily be following #Ignite.
• People can follow tags from the feed where it has been user, or by
adding it to the “Interests” attribute

48. • Once a tag is followed the user gets notified every
time the specific tag is used on content or
microblogging posts
– For Microfeed posts, no security trimming is applied
– For tagging content however, security trimming is applied.
• Search is used to retrieve an aggregated view of all the
content used by a specific tag
• Tagging microblogging posts is not an integrated experience
with the “Tag Cloud” page
– Tag Cloud keeps showing all the content has been tagged by a specific user
– It doesn’t report if a tag has been used in a microblogging post

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