SharePoint 2013 offers many upgrades and advances in the areas of social networking. However, in order for organizations to maximize value from the implementation, there are many guidelines and best practices that must be followed. In this presentation, we will discuss the SharePoint 2013 social networking capabilities, use cases for implementation, conceptual design and strategies for best results, where Yammer fits in, and much more.
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Enterprise Social Networking: Strategy and Implementation with SharePoint 2013
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3. Welcome & Introduction …
Jesus Salazar is a Principal with Credera’s Microsoft Solutions Practice and held
a seat on the Office 14 Developer Advisory Council
Jesus J Salazar, Principal with Credera
• 13 years of experience with Microsoft-based technologies
• Experience delivering IT solutions to medium and large businesses
• Strong focus on SharePoint since 2003
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Member of the Office 14 Developer Advisory Council where he helped shape
the features and architecture of the next generation of Microsoft Office and
SharePoint
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4. Welcome & Introduction …
Will Stokes is an Architect with Credera’s SharePoint Practice and has been
developing SharePoint solutions for over 15 years
Will Stokes, Architect with Credera
• 15 years of experience with Portals and Microsoft-based technologies
• Experience delivering SharePoint solutions to Fortune 500 Companies
• Strong focus on SharePoint since 2007
• Microsoft Certified Professional
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6. Agenda …
Thank you for coming – we hope you find our discussion insightful and walk
away with a couple of things your organization has not yet thought of
• Social Networking Overview
• SharePoint Social Features
• Demo
• Implementation Best Practices
• Conclusion
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7. Social Networking Overview
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8. Social Networking Overview … Definition …
Enterprise Social Networking enriches an organizations ability to generate and
share content in a much more rapid and dynamic fashion
Enterprise Social Networking focuses on
the use of online social networks or social
relations among people who share business
interests and/or activities
… Effective social networking can help users develop new
relationships, maintain existing ones, and share their ideas in real-
time, which allows for rapid feedback and collaboration.
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9. Social Networking Overview … Famous Quotes …
The paradigm of taking people out of processes for efficiency has been replaced
by putting them back in order to drive innovation and accelerate change
“The only irreplaceable capital an organization
possesses is the knowledge and abilities of its
people. The productivity of that capital depends on
how effectively people share their competence with
those who can use it.”
- Andrew Carnegie
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted
into another mind than the one where they
sprang up. “
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Intellectual property has the shelf
life of a banana.”
- Bill Gates
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10. Social Networking Overview … History…
In an effort to scale to the amount of data we consume, the creation and sharing
of information has shifted from institutionally controlled to consumer controlled
Old Way New Way
... publish
Distributed
Centralized Mediation
Mediation
Institutional Consumer
Control Shift Control
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11. Social Networking Overview … The Value of Social Networking …
Enterprise Social Networking allows users to intuitively provide, gather, and
organize context across an organization
People
Decisions and
Tips & Tricks
Reasoning
Pitfalls
Knowledge Innovation
Base
Tacit
Knowledge
CONTEXT
Feedback
Problem Solving
scheduling, resource management, record keeping …
Enriched
Technology Address Gaps Flexibility Content Process
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12. Social Networking Overview … Information Safety Net …
Enterprise Social captures lost wisdom by acting like a safety net to ensure tacit
information is gathered and shared with those who would benefit from it
People
Technology Process
Enterprise Social Networking
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13. Social Networking Overview … Myths and Misconceptions …
Myth #1: Social Networking in the workplace is a distraction that will decrease
productivity and waste time
• A majority of organizations we
talk to have major concerns
about implementing Social
features
• Sometimes social features are
thought of as a distraction and
will decrease productivity
• Informal social networking
interactions actually help
improve company culture and
overall employee enjoyment
• If accountability is there to do
ones job, social just becomes a
tool to help an employee do it
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14. Social Networking Overview … Myths and Misconceptions …
Myth #2: Nothing beats picking up the phone or meeting face to face – Social
Networking will give our employees an excuse to completely avoid each other
Probability of communicating at The goal of Social is to “Normalize”
If people are too
least once a week distance and help knowledge
Face to Face time often results in
disconnected, siloed thinking occurs
sharing occur at a more optimal
Groupthink or stifles innovation
Face to Face and innovation is stifled again
level
0.30
0.25
0.20
0.15
0.10
Siloed Workers
0.05
0.00
0 30 60 90 ... Separation
distance in feet
Tom Allen, MIT, 1977
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15. Social Networking Overview … Myths and Misconceptions …
Myth #2: Nothing beats picking up the phone or meeting face to face – Social
Networking will give our employees a way to completely avoid each other
Didn’t know
that, great
Funny, I’ve got
idea!
the same idea.
I’ve got an
idea!
Did you
know?
Ref: “The Strength of Weak Ties”, Granovetter, 1973
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16. Social Networking Overview … Myths and Misconceptions …
Social Networking blurs the lines of proximity and the strength of ties and puts
all teams on an optimized playing field where these things don’t matter as much
Apart Time-Space Collaboration Matrix
Bulletin Board Email, Intranet
Not Enough
Scalability Collaboration
Time
Together
Phone, SMS, Conference
Face to Face
Line, IM
Groupthink Knowledge Capture
Together Apart
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17. Social Networking Overview … Myths and Misconceptions …
Social Networking blurs the lines of proximity and the strength of ties and puts
all teams on an optimized playing field where these things don’t matter as much
Connected Enterprise = Business Agility
Not Enough
Scalability Collaboration
Groupthink Knowledge Capture
Ref: Mark Stone, Microsoft
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18. SharePoint 2013 Social Features
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19. SharePoint 2013 Social Features ...
SharePoint 2013 brings best of breed social capabilities in a single solution to
be coupled with its industry leading collaboration platform
Our Favorite Social Features
Communities Profiles
• Points, Badges, Best Reply's, Likes • Topics
• OneNote • Activity feed
• Task Management • Notifications
• Configurable Profile UI
• Documents in SkyDrive
Search Social
• People search • Follow
• Community Search • Mentions
• Preview of Best • Hashtags
• Related Tags
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20. SharePoint 2013 Social Features ... Yammer …
Last year Microsoft signaled how serious they are taking Enterprise Social by
acquiring Yammer and starting along a very exciting roadmap
Today Tomorrow Future
“Yammer is our big bet for enterprise social, and we're committed to making it
the underlying social layer for all of our products” – Jared Spataro, MOD
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21. Demo
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22. Demo … Scenario
The best way to showcase SharePoint 2013 Social features is by walking you
through the day of an average employee
Nancy Smith was just hired by Contoso to
work within their Finance department. She
doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t have a feel
for how things are done, and has already
been given an assignment
Her assignment is to choose a new accounting system. She has been
told that their Tokyo office is currently updating their expense reporting
system so she should reach out to them and see if they have any tips or
tricks for her.
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24. Implementation Best Practices … Tactical vs Strategic …
There are two kinds of projects, Tactical and Strategic social initiatives – The
approach you take depends on overall goals and the resources you have
Tactical Strategic
General Project Duration
Project
Budget
Management
Scope
Executive Sponsorship
ROI
Technology Scope
Business
Impact Cultural Shift
Highest Order Benefit
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25. Implementation Best Practices … Strategic Success Factors …
For a Strategic social Initiative, you need to have support on many fronts in
order to have a successful implementation
Success Factors for Strategic Social
Successful
Strategic Social
Implementation
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26. Implementation Best Practices … Social Solution Evolution …
Since user adoption and critical mass is so important, how do you know when
you have achieved a sustainable state?
• How do I know that I have turned the corner on my social communities
and that I am in the clear?
• Here are some classifications that will help you to determine where you
are at
Social Solution Evolutionary Path
At Risk Sustained Evolving Integrated
• Inconsistent • Ongoing Use • Broadening • Mission Critical
usage • Some risk of Scope • High Ratio of
• Poor relapse • Little to no contributors and
response/partici • Dependent on dependency on observers
pation one person Originator
According to Gartner, “Sustained” means that you have roughly a
usage ratio of
1 : 9 : 90 (initiating : participating : observing) for your solution
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27. Implementation Best Practices … What to Expect …
What can you expect when rolling out a Strategic “Social” initiative?
• Initially you employees will seek “Instant Gratification” and start exploring
• At the 6 month mark, ideally you will see teams forming and collaborating
on their own using social technologies
• Once your employees learn to collaborate internally using social
technologies, the demand for collaborating externally will steadily grow
Expected Strategic Social Timeline
Opportunistic Typified Externalized
• Twitter Style • Communities Forming • Externalized
Bursts • Strong Project Collaboration Social
• People reaching • Various “Monitored” channels Collaboration
out of their Silos • Mission Critical
on Many Fronts
0-2 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Ref: Gartner
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28. Implementation Best Practices … Key Ideas …
A social initiative has some dynamics that are different from other types of
projects
• There are a few things to keep in mind when planning your social initiative
1. Social technologies are OPTIONAL
2. User Adoption must be at a critical mass for ANY social
solution…maintain sustainable adoption
3. Social requires a little bit of Top-Down information flow to help steer
conversations and to “Prime the Pump”
4. Know what your “affinity” for social is as an organization
5. Strategic Social as an IT run initiative is not a great idea… If you must
do this, start with a small pilot and expand naturally from there
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29. Implementation Best Practices … Key Ideas …
A social initiative has some dynamics that are different from other types of
projects
• There are a few things to keep in mind when planning your social initiative
6. Know what goals you want to accomplish by leveraging social…
Identify solutions, not features!
7. Taking benchmarks then measuring deltas and communicating
success stories will be key in continuing to “Market” your initiative
8. Although the features in 2013 are sound…significant effort will be
spent on the coaching, organizational management, and governance of
social
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30. Implementation Best Practices … Governance …
Even though information flows more freely throughout your organization,
governance is key to minimize liabilities for your organization
• Some organizations worry that they are asking for a lawsuit by
documenting micro-information on an ongoing basis
• Although transparency is a goal, if users are being exposed to
information they shouldn’t…you are doing it wrong!
• Governance and community management is key!
Social Governance Principles
Less
Measure based Set the
Keep it simple! control/More
on your goals appropriate tone
Leadership
Enterprise Social Governance
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31. Conclusion
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32. Conclusion …
Moving towards Enterprise Social will feel a lot like you are giving up control but
remember, Enterprise Social = Business Agility
• Similar to when Agile development came about, there was a lot of angst and
sometimes despair with letting go of control
• Now the benefits of self organization, cross-functional teams, and adaptive
planning are undisputed and widely adopted
Trust in the process, Trust in your employees, and have fun!!!
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Notas do Editor
Go through Definition…focus on “Effective Social Networking”Connects people through naturally forming communities and captures and mediates information in real-time
For the past decade (and even beyond if you count industrial revolution) we have been focused on taking people out of process through technology and standardization as a way to decrease costs and drive efficiency.Those days are gone! We have that part down for the most part… paper based processes are becoming far and few between.So how do we differentiate and get the upper hand? By putting people back to focus on innovating, and adapting faster than software can. Have you ever had to refactor your brain?Here are a few of my favorite quotes…The Bill Gates one is a little bit more abstract but is at least funny
The amount of data that we are able to produce and consume has increased by 30 times since 1999 and doubles every 2.5 years according to gartnerBusinesses are starting to reach the point where, it cannot be digested… and the OLD WAY is resulting in missed opportunities slipping through the cracksThat is why you see this shift from Institutional control to Consumer control
So what are some of the benefits of consumer control that ESN allows?Most business problems are addressed by applying a combination of People, Process, or Technology to them… where any combination of these intersect you have some institutional controlled deliverables right?People and Technology – manuals, training, etc.People and Process – SOPS, Best Practices, etc.Technology is supporting a process of some kind – Scheduling, resource managementWhat ESN does is help drive and capture those things that are hard to maintain on an ongoing basisWhat are those things that are hard to maintain and capture called?.... CONTEXT
This is just another way to look at it… ESN acts like a safety net catching all of that tribal and tacit knowledge in a self organizing fashion so that it can re-used and re-applied
So lets talk about a couple of the primary myths around ESN
Another common myth is that the last thing companies need is yet another way to allow people to completely avoid direct interactionThere is a long standing study out there by a guy named Tom Allen, prof at MIT who did a study that holds true today.It said that if you are seated more than 50 ft away from somebody, your probability of communicating weekly drops tremendously unless there is something very tangible keeping you communicating (a project)…. The problem is that this results in siloed thinking and stale ideasHowever being too close has its disadvantages too… something called groupthink
Although Face to face time if better than siloed thinking. It has some major drawbacks. Something called “Groupthink”Do you ever feel like you and your team ever “run out of good ideas”There is a concept of “Weak ties” that states, if you can keep the collaboration of focused teams but steadily introduce new ideas or lines of thinking without the disruption of disassembling original teams… this is the sweet spot for innovation and agility
Ok so you have this whole “space” or “Distance” thing worked out. How about in this day and age…the concept of Time.With remote teams, the blurring of the 9-5 work day, time has become an issue as well.I like this graphic because it shows the challenges a team will likely face in each scenarioEven with newer technologies like Lync and Video, the Space issue is addressed but not necessarily TimeEnterprise Social Networking adds value to each of these scenarios by…
Making each one less impactful. Now you can have multiple teams that may fit in each of those four categories collaborating through a consistent medium…alleviating the challenges across all
I’m not going to drill on Social features of SharePoint 2013 in detail because Will is going to show you these as part of his demo. I’ll just touch briefly on themCommunities - Replace Distribution Lists (and therefore LOTS of email)Key to user engagement are these new “incentives” that award people by contributingCommunities are very task, timeline, and goal orientedEvery time you build a community… you get a OneNote notebook to start freely capturing notes and documentation collectively…One thing that people do not know here is that you need Office Web Apps and a separate server for this to work!Profiles are straight out of Facebook. Wow! Will is going to show you this but the one thing I will say is “How many of you have tried to customize profile pages in 2007 or 2010?” What a hassle!SkyDrive… not really SkyDrive but they called it that to confuse people…or unconfuse people. How many of you are confused?Search, lightweight FAST but some really cool social convenience features (Community search and previews)Social – All of the cool things from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ all rolled into oneKey here is that the big thing that was missing from 2010 was the ability to nudge people into your world and establishing “connections”Follow more things: Sites, People, Documents, and ???Bring them into a conversation by mentioning themEstablish informal or fleeting groups around topics… previously this was sort of done with “Tags” but you couldn’t embed them the same way you can now
Ok we would be remissed if we didn’t talk about YammerTomorrow – ResearchFuture –
Ok, so when you are introducing something new to your workforce, like a lot of other things, there are two ways to do it. Small and opportunistic ways. And Big bang comprehensive initiatives. We will call them Tactical and StrategicHere are a couple of attributes that generally speaking will help you to understand the difference between the two.Each one is appropriate depending on what your overall goals and expected outcomes are. Like most things as well, you get what you put into it.We will be focusing on Strategic implementation from this point forward in this presentation… this is because small and tactical implementations are simpler to rollout and can be thought of as just a small IT initiative
Ok, so you want to roll out a strategic initiative… do you. The logical next question is…Do you want it to be successful?... Ok probably goes without saying.According to some of best and brightest out there when it comes to Social here are the necessary ingredients to refactor your companyNetwork Architecture – Access Anywhere
Ok so I’ve done everything you said, I have all of these communities and people contributing…some more than others. How do I know when I can stop worrying about certain ones and focus on other areasNow one thing to keep in mind, sustainability is different than posting a question and getting an answer. You can do all that easily today with SharePoint 2010. There is still value here. We are talking about ongoing innovation and collaboration.
Ok so you are going through your Strategic social initiative… what can you expect. Here is a high level timeline of what is “typical”.
1. “its my company, If I want it, it will happen”. 2. User adoption is the life blood of a social solution… number of users… anybody get on facebook before any of your friends did? This is why social solutions and communities require a certain threshold of users to be considered “sustainable”. Otherwise, you are probably more of a simple collaborative platform…which may be fitting too.3. anybody get on facebook before any of your friends did?4. What is your company like?... Oil and Gas, lookout. This is an interesting dichotomy because companies like this many times have the most to gain5. Do you have an executive Champion?... Can you get one? If not, unless your CIO,CTO is the #2 person in the company, this is going to be hard.
6. Roll out solutions…7. Solutions surrounding workforce efficiency and effectiveness are always hard because they are not directly tied to revenue. They lead to innovation, transformation, and ultimately not only revenue but an overall better company. Taking benchmarks is still possible. This is fairly general but there are lots of things you can benchmark and measure if you know what outcomes you are seeking (Help desk calls, employee satisfaction surveys)8. The features are great and are not what will kill your initiative…forgetting the “people” element will