Session #ID229
Make Your Microsoft Stack
Social with IBM Connections
Dan Harris | Development Manager | IBM
Mac Guidera | Product Manager | IBM
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Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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Social Everywhere
Extending Social Software to Applications IBM
ECM
The value of social software increases
exponentially when people can connect
to their social networks at anytime and
from anywhere
IBM is making social and smarter
collaboration more pervasive across a
wide range of devices and applications
so that businesses can connect people
with relevant information at anytime and
from anywhere
The most complete set of social software
services, which enables rich integration
with IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Lotus
Notes® , IBM Sametime, and other
applications, such as Microsoft Office®
and Microsoft SharePoint®
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Lead the industry with open standards
Enabling the next generation of socially-enabled solutions on customers'
existing investments and heterogeneous platforms
Focus on open standards and “loosely coupled” web-centric architectures
A commitment to drive and leverage open standards
Maximize choice, flexibility, and ease of integration
Drive enterprise innovation and leverage rapid innovation on the public web
Minimize incremental cost of targeting additional desktop and mobile platforms
Leverage dominant skillsets based around web technologies
HTML5 ARIA Atom
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IBM Connections API
Simple and Easy to Learn
REST-style HTTP based API with XML, JavaScript and HTML formatted output
Standard Web 2.0 web development methodology
Atom style is “follow the links”
Open
Access for all users to all functionality, regardless of client or platform
Based on Open standards: XML, HTTP, JavaScript, Atom feeds and publishing
Comprehensive
Leverages open standards extensibility (XML, HTTP, Atom feeds, etc…)
Used internally and partners to build plug-ins and mashups
All IBM Connections services provide an Atom API
which is fully documented
and all IBM plug-ins use this API
Additionally, IBM Connections provides a CMIS API for the Files component
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Add Social to Microsoft Offerings
Microsoft SharePoint® Microsoft Office®
Business Card Upload Files to Activities
Profiles Search Search Profiles
Tag cloud web part Add to your blog
Community integration Create Activity To Dos
Check out from Libraries
Home page Profiles Communities Blogs Files Activities Wikis Bookmarks Forums
Microsoft Outlook® Microsoft Windows®
Business Card Work with Shared Files
Search services Add file to Activity
OSC feed Create new Activities
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Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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IBM Connections Communities
Widget for Microsoft SharePoint
New widget available for
Connections Communities
Access Microsoft SharePoint files
Open and add files to Microsoft
SharePoint from within a Connections
Community
Easily add documents form
SharePoint Sites to your
Communities
Add the new widget for Community
owners to setup and customize
Free download from the Solutions
Catalog
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?
action=editDocument&documentId=07E4F669B2C58CEB852577B6005A2042
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Microsoft SharePoint Demo
Community Integration
Upload file
Check out and actions
Options available
SharePoint Server
Biz Card
Tag cloud
Profiles search
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SharePoint Integration
Federate SharePoint in
Search Results
Push SharePoint events
into the Connections
Activity Stream
Embedded Experience
for SharePoint events
The Recent Posts tab extended to include ShareP
Planned for a
future release
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Designs are for illustrative purposes only

Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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IBM Connections
Plug-in for Microsoft Office
From Microsoft Office Quick access to buttons vs. toolbar dropdown Connections ribbon
you can...
View and interact with
IBM Connections Profiles,
Activities, Blogs and Wikis
From Microsoft Word® you can
Add a document to an Activity, Blog or Wiki
Create a To-Do item in an Activity
Create a Bookmark from a URL embedded in a document
Insert a Bookmark or a Profile into a document
From Microsoft PowerPoint® and Microsoft Excel®
Attach a presentation or a spreadsheet to an Activity.
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Microsoft Office Demo
Ribbon support
Search Profiles
Add Bookmarks
Author a wiki
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Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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IBM Connections
Plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook
View and interact with
IBM Connections Profiles and Activities
Show the Connections Business Card for colleagues that
send you email
Add an email message to a Connections Activity as an
email or as a to-do.
Populate the TO, CC & BCC in an email, from Connections
Profiles
Use the Outlook Social Connector
To federate your social network contacts into Outlook
IBM Connections
Facebook®
LinkedIn®
Others
To view your contacts' IBM Connections recent contributions
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IBM Connections
and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector
Look up people data
from IBM
Connections
Profiles
Access content
available through
activity feed
Automatically syncs
Social Network
directory data to
Outlook Contacts
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Microsoft Outlook Demo
Outook Social Connector
Add email to Activity
Business Card integration
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Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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IBM Connections Activities integration with
Windows Explorer
Upload files to Activities
Provide detailed descriptions and tags
Create new Activities as needed
Fill out dialog - select activity and add tags
Right click to access IBM Connections menu
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Windows Explorer extension for Files
Personal Files
Share Any File in the Context of your Work
Reflect personal files web experience
in Windows Explorer
Facilitate ease of sharing of any file on
the desktop
Round trip editing available in context of
Windows Explorer
Planned for a future rel
Community Files and Media Gallery
Communities that have a files component can be added to the Windows Explorer view
“My Communities” are discovered by search and via a picker.
Public Communities are discovered by search with type ahead
Media Gallery files will be shown mixed in with the Community files view
Previews can be shown only for those media files that are in the media gallery
Will use the fact that a preview file is attached to the document to indicate that the file is
in the media gallery.
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Designs are for illustrative purposes only

Microsoft Explorer Demo
Files integration
Browse and edit files in-context, drag and drop new
files
Right click to share
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Agenda
IBM Connections - Social Everywhere
IBM Connections APIs
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Explorer Integration
Resources
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Summary
What we covered
Social Everywhere - smarter collaboration more pervasive across a
wide range of devices and applications
APIs – Simple, Open, and Comprehensive
What we demo'd
SharePoint
Community integration
Site integration
Office
Connections Ribbon
Posting to Wikis
Outook
Outlook Social Connector
Business Card integration
Explorer
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Where To Get Additional Information
IBM Social Business http://www.ibm.com/socia
IBM Connections
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
IBM Connections Team Blog http://synch.rono.u
Collaboration Soapbox http://www.thecollaborationsoap
Solutions Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com
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Where To Get Additional Information
Whitepapers
Measuring the impact of Social Collaboration
http://bit.ly/cS2rgx
Total Economic Impact Study: IBM Social Collaboration
http://bit.ly/EconomicImpact
IDC™ Whitepaper – Becoming a Social Business – the IBM Story
http://bit.ly/TheIBMStory
Videos on YouTube™
Connections 3.0.1 demo
http://bit.ly/Connections301Demo
Social Software has real business value
http://bit.ly/BizValueConnections
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