1. SharePoint 2013
Social Features
Tom M. Daly
August 15, 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

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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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 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

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