The document discusses the social features in SharePoint 2013. It provides an overview of new and improved social features such as My Sites, SkyDrive Pro, following, ratings, tagging, and communities. It also discusses the integration between SharePoint 2013 and Yammer, including the current basic integration and planned improvements for single sign-on and seamless navigation between the platforms.

1. SharePoint 2013
Social Features
Tom M. Daly
September 19, 2013

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 Thomas M Daly
 SharePoint Consultant
• Developer
• Branding
 Focused on the UI side of things
 Community Involvement
• Speaker
• NJ SP Princeton User Group
• SharePoint Saturday NYC organizer
• SharePoint Saturday NJ organizer
• My SharePoint Blog
• MSDN forums contributor

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 Social Computing Overview
 Communities
 My Sites
 Microblogging & Newsfeeds
 Privacy
 Following
 Ratings / Liking
 Tagging
 Yammer

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 All Team Sites are Wiki Sites

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 Enterprise Site Collection template
 Search-driven page that surfaces SharePoint sites in
the farm that use the Community Site template
 Relies on enterprise search for security trimming and
displays only the Community Sites where users have at
least read permissions

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 Offers a forum experience
 Promotes open communication and information
exchange
 Connect users who have knowledge or seek
knowledge about subject areas.
 Members gain points & achievements by
participation

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 Discussion Rollup w/ Filters

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 Summary  Top Contributors

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 Categories
 Ratings
• Likes or Stars
 Achievement Points System
 Achievement Levels
• 5 Level System
• Images or Text
 Gifted Badges

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 Ratings
• Likes
• Star Ratings

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 Achievements
• Define Point Levels
• Display as Image or Text

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 Create gifted badges
• Admins can grant these to contributors at will
• These override achievement image / text

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 Admin can mark discussions as Featured

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 Mark item as Best Reply (Answered)
• Admin or Author

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 Newsfeeds
 Profile
 SkyDrive
 Blog

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 User’s social hub where he or she can see updates
from the people, documents, sites, and tags that
the user is following
 Users can customize their newsfeeds by adding or
removing colleagues they are interested in,
specifying interests, and configuring the kind of
activities they want to follow, such as when a
colleague tags a shared interest
 All activities are security trimmed

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 News Feed
• Following
• Everyone
 Microblogging
 Mentions
 Activities
 Likes
 Tagging
• Hashtags (#)
• People (@)

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 Similar to 2010

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 The user’s personal file storage and synchronization
service for business use
 Usually includes a private folder and a folder that is
shared with everyone
 Quotas
• On Premise – 100MB by default (customizable)
• Cloud – 7GB

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 Standard SharePoint blog

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 Basic info
shared with
everyone
 Contact Info
& Profile
Details
 Newsfeed can
select what to
share with
others

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 Things that you can
follow: People, Documents, Sites, and #Tags
 People
• See what people say, do and things that happen to
them (birthday, location change)
 Documents
• Get notified when a doc changes or when it’s shared
 Sites
• Monitor all conversations that happen on a site’s
newsfeed
 #Tags
• Stay aware of anything tagged with a specific
interest or topic

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 Likes & Star Ratings available
 Used in Discussion Boards, Newsfeeds, Lists Items
 Need to enable on lists

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 #Tags
• Always public
• Used in conversations, comments, tagging
documents or libraries, search
 Keywords
• Tags & Notes

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 Tags & Notes - Keywords
• Populated via user contributions & admin of
Managed Metadata
• Can also leverage #Tags

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 Basic Integration Available Now
• Office 365
 Option to enable Yammer in SharePoint Admin Center
 Replaces “Newsfeeds” with “Yammer” tab
 Redirects users to www.yammer.com
• On Premise – White Paper.
 Hide Newsfeeds
 Add Yammer.com App to Mysites
 Available as App in SharePoint Store

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 Coming Later this year (Fall)
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Seamless Navigation
• Rich document capabilities, integrating the Office
Web Apps to add editing and co-editing of Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel documents.

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 Office 365 & Social Enhancements will happen
~90 days
• Enhancements will combine social, collaboration,
email, instant messaging, voice, video, and line of
business applications in new ways
 On Premise
• They are working on ways to improve the integration
to the Yammer network with SP on-premise
• Updates will not be every 90 days
• SSO, updated UX, seamless navigation, and Office
Web App integration.

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 What's new in social computing in SharePoint
Server 2013
 Overview of My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013
 Overview of SkyDrive Pro in SharePoint Server
2013
 Plan for social computing and collaboration in
SharePoint Server 2013
 Following in SharePoint 2013
 Simplifying the Yammer and Office 365
integration
 Yammer and SharePoint: Enterprise social
roadmap update

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 Thank You!
 Additional questions: tom.daly@Atidan.com
 SharePoint@Atidan.com
 1-215-825-5045