1. Make a better social
collaboration platform with
SharePoint 2013Thuan Nguyen
SharePoint MVP
thuan@availys.com
@nnthuan

2. About Me
 Microsoft SharePoint MVP (2011, 2012)
 SharePoint Consultant at Availys LLC
 Author, Writer, Trainer & Public Speaker
 Founder & Editor in Chief of SharePointVN
Publisher
 SharePoint Saturday Vietnam board
member
 Founder of Vietnam SharePoint User Group

3. Availys
 Global SharePoint Solutions Provider
 6 years experience delivering Enterprise
SharePoint Solutions.
 Fortune 500 client base
 Close association with many of the Global
SharePoint thought leaders
 Strong ties with the Geographic power bases of
SharePoint USA, UK, EU, ASPAC
 True open partnering philosophy – supporting
Microsoft partners throughout the World.
 Success in adoption and maturity in delivering
SharePoint based change programs

4. Our Approach
Breaking Geo Boundaries.
Our Employees are based in
offices in the
USA, UK, Vietnam, Czech
republic, Portugal, India, Russia.
Our directly employed teams
have World Class skills that can
service local regions.
Smaller teams tuned to local
Geography
Joel is working with Availys to
deliver a new pipeline of
SharePoint Applications to take
SharePoint 2013 to the next level.

5. Agenda
 Why Social Collaboration for your organization?
 New Social features in SharePoint 2013
 Demo Tour
 Q & A

6. Solving a
problem means
finding the
person who
knows the
answer.

7. Only this guy can
answer your
question but…

8. …he has retired.

9. Different office
locations

10. …as if we’re in
the same
place
Southeas
t Asia
USA

14. WHY in a nutshell?
 Knowledge Asset Management
 Solid collaboration through social
 Improve user adoption through GAMIFICATION
 Build sustainable corporate culture

15. Ford’s
Story“SharePoint Social Features gave Ford’s 160,000 worldwide
employees an open, accessible, companywide social networking
platform for connecting with colleagues, sharing information,
teaching, and collaborating..

16. EA’s Story
50 % of all EA employees have
completed profiles on the company’s
internal social site and 85 % use it to
search for colleagues and find skill
sets.

17. SharePoint
2013

18. Social Productivity
Pillars
Fundamentals
identity, privacy, managing connections
seamless, delightful, complete experiences
Conversations
make
connections
People are
always
available
Context
enriches
interactions
You always
know what’s
happening

19. Let me get
you around
SharePoint

20.  Community Home Page
 Reputation Point
 Categories
 Rating
 Badges
 Member
 Following
 Micro-blogging

21. Some *pains*:
 You can’t share micro-blog post like
Facebook, Twitter.
 There is no bulk notification like
Facebook although you get notified
through email.
 Limited number of people tagging
 Can’t track fully activity of someone if
you aren’t following him
 About me (Email, landing page…)
Must-read > http://www.jeremythake.com/2013/01/the-
current-state-of-sharepoint-2013-social-
collaboration/

22. Yammer +
SharePoint A combination of Yammer &
SharePoint On-Premises is a
huge *pain*.
 There are some duplicates:
activity, newsfeeds, community,
following…
 Make end-user more confuse in
company’s strategy

24. Must-read!!!
 Yammer and SharePoint: Enterprise social
roadmap update (http://bit.ly/15bs4lr)
 SharePoint focus of social networking plans
(http://bit.ly/VT6i3Q)
 Why we picked SP 2013 social over Yammer
social for right now (http://bit.ly/13ctKtn)
 10 Great Social Features For Microsoft
SharePoint 2013 (http://bit.ly/QTFxJI)
 Is SharePoint 2013 good enough to be your
enterprise social network?
(http://bit.ly/Ppv0Yb)
 SharePoint 2013 Social vs. Yammer, What do
we choose right now? (http://bit.ly/15bE5Hi)
… and many more.

26. Thanks for
joining