Introduction to enterprise social and how to be social with My Sites in SharePoint 2013

1. How to be social with
My Sites in SharePoint 2013
John Calvert – Chief Architect, Software Craft Inc.

2. Agenda
Intro
What is Social in the Enterprise?
Strategy and Choices
Demo Focused: Common Work Loads
Q&A

3. Overview
Learn about the social features in SharePoint
2013 My Sites:
 Follow people, sites and documents, and tags
 Micro-blogging with mentions and tags
 People search; and more
Audience: Business Manager - Information
Architect/Business Analyst - IT Management
Level: Introductory, designed for SharePoint
newcomers and beginners.
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4. Thank You to my Sponsor
http://www.cloudshare.com/

5. Who am I?
John Calvert
 .NET / SharePoint solution architect
 Over 18 years experience developing business
solutions for private industry & government
 Recent clients include Justice Canada, National
Research Council, Medical Council of Canada
 Specialize in Microsoft technologies
 Speaker at user groups and conferences

6. Who are you?
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2013

7. What is Social in
the Enterprise?

8. What is Social in the Enterprise?
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9. What is Social in the Enterprise?
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10. Business Value of Enterprise Social
No single one-size-fits-all answer
Some examples
 Employee Engagement
 Team Collaboration
 Cross-Functional Collaboration
 Business Agility
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11. Obstacles to Being Social
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12. Tools for being Social
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13. Vision and
Strategy
For Enterprise Social

14. Governance / Plan
Vision and Goals
Goals (Sample)
 Employee Engagement
 Team Collaboration
 Business Agility
Strategy
Adoption and Roll-Out Plans

15. Strategy for Enterprise Social
Several choices to make:
 On premises vs cloud services
 Newsfeed vs Yammer feed web part
 OOTB vs 3rd Party features

16. Choices – OOTB Social
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17. Choices - Yammer
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18. Choices – 3rd Parties
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19. Choices – Pros & Cons
On-Premises
 Integrated with rest of SharePoint today
 Basic capability with gaps; end-of-life
Yammer
 Rich capabilities; evolving
 Not yet fully integrated with rest of SharePoint
3rd Party
 Rich capabilities; evolving
 Additional cost and 3rd party components
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20. Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Roadmap
Microsoft says
 Go Yammer!
 Investment in social will focus on Yammer and
Office 365
 Committed to another on-premises release of
SharePoint Server [probably in 2015]
 Will maintain its social capabilities
 Not planning on adding new social features
Are you ready and able to go cloud?
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21. SharePoint On-Premises Lifecycle
Microsoft says
 Support SharePoint on-premises a minimum of
10 years
 Mainstream support for at least 5 years
 Extended support for at least 5 years
 Until at least end of 2022 (SP2013) and 2025
(SP2015?)
Is that long enough for your needs?
Can you even predict your needs 5 years out?
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22. Government of Canada Cloud-First Strategy
Minister of Treasury Board of Canada says that
government departments / public organizations:
 “will be directed to consider cloud options during
the IT procurement process”
 “must have considered and evaluated potential
cloud solutions before they consider any other
option”
Does this influence your strategy?
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23. Adoption Plan – Some Elements
Define the business case (vision and goals)
Establish executive support
Recruit enthusiastic early adopter
Target leaders and events to gain visibility
Identify and resolve adoption blockers
Train and support (or not, if adoption goes viral)
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24. Common
Work Loads

25. Common Work Loads
Asking/Answering Questions
Working with Documents
Finding Out More about People
Managing Multiple Projects
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26. Common Work Loads
Demos
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27. Wrap Up

28. Conclusion
Choose between On-Premises vs Cloud
Choose between OOTB vs 3rd-Party
Plan, Sponsor, Champions, Measure, Adjust
Get Social!!
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29. Related Sessions on Social
6.3 Showcase your employees with a complete
enterprise directory built on SharePoint 2013
(Tue 8:30 AM)
13.1 Real-life business value with O365 and
Yammer (Wed 11:30 AM)
14.2 How to become a Yammer power user in
75 minutes (Wed 1:45 PM)
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30. Links
An Overview of the Personalized SharePoint
2013 Social Experience (SPC187 2012)
Microsoft's roadmap for Enterprise Social
(SPC282 2014)
Current State Of SharePoint 2013 Social
Collaboration (Jeremy Thake, blog Jan 2013)
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31. Contact Me
John Calvert
 Chief Architect, Software Craft, Inc.
 johnmcalvert (at) hotmail (dot) ca
 softwarecraft (dot) ca
 johnmcalvert
 softwarecraft99

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