1. Customizing My Sites By Michael Doyle

2. About Me Michael Doyle SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Email: mdoyle@waggeneredstrom.com or doyle@techelixir.com Twitter: @SharePointNinja Blog: www.sharepointninja.com Or aiimcommunities.org/sharepoint

3. The My Site Dilemma 3 I installed My Sites but nobody uses them. Now what?

5. Integrate My Site training into new hire training

6. Add custom properties that make sense for your organization

7. Make People Search easy to get to

8. Integrate operationally critical pages into My Sites with personalization pages.

10. Make My Sites a one-click on home page

11. Make the My Site the user’s home page

13. My Profile

14. My Settings

15. Sign in as Different User

17. Navigation Levels Top Level Sub Level

22. Consider the redundancy of organization chart

23. Value of memberships (shows SharePoint site memberships and Outlook distribution lists)

26. Click on New Item

27. Add link to site

29. Manager’s Page

30. New Hire Page

33. Controlling visibility is often seen as unnecessary complications and may inhibit My Site adoption.

36. Now stored in central area (http://<my site host>/User Photos).

38. Users can change what is tracked.

41. Shows up in three places within My Sites and once on People Search.

43. Adding a note also sends an email.

44. Tags and Notes can quickly add up. Doesn’t take much space but the number of items can increase crawl time.

47. Overview (default) – person.aspx

48. Organization – Organization.aspx

49. Content – personcontent.aspx

50. _layouts directory (file system)

51. Document – viewlsts.aspx

52. Tags and Notes – thoughts.aspx

53. Colleagues – MyContactLinks.aspx

55. Other files can be opened as individual files with other tools but don’t appear as part of the site.

57. Everything in the Mysite.master (or master page chosen).

58. The top level menu

59. The sub level menu

62. Each site can have it’s own theme (theme does not inherit) and potentially it’s own master page

63. User’s can potentially delete their own sites (yes, I have seen this happen)

65. Easy to apply.

66. PowerPoint has the best and easiest to use theme editor.

67. Limited.

70. Web Services

72. User Profile data accessible via adding<SPSWC:ProfilePropertyLoader id="m_objLoader" LoadFullProfileOfCurrentUser="true" runat="server"/>

74. Useful for getting a list of users.

75. UserProfileService.asmx

76. Provides profile information based upon an individual user.

77. SocialDataService.asmx

79. Users who are added individually or have visited the site collection.

80. Provides data for the drop down for people list.

82. To add them back edit one of the pages (such as person.aspx) and put the Quick Links control on there.

84. Twitter Example

86. Can be found by going to the View tab on Outlook and clicking on People Pane and going to Account settings.

88. Facebook

89. My Space

90. Linked In

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