2. Objectives
By the end of this lesson you will be able
to:
Build a social network in Necto
View and add comments
Initiate and participate in discussions
Define your friends
Subscribe to other users’ work
3. Agenda
Social Network Overview
Comments
Discussions
The Social Ribbon
Friends
Subscriptions
4. Social Network Objectives
Add a layer of personal knowledge and
collaborative analysis to the database
Enable users to learn from each other
Examples:
Sales dropped because of natural disaster
Special Sale increased revenue
Personal Knowledge
Necto Database
5. Case Study
I need to understand the sales
figures from the previous
quarter. Maybe Laura, from
Marketing, has additional
knowledge…
Laura Brady, David Smith,
Category Marketing Manager Sales Manager,
for the Drinks segment. Drinks Dept.
10. Editing and Saving Comments
Remember to
save you
comments
Editing options
To add
comments, you
must have write
permissions to the
workboard
Write text here
11. Exercise 1– Working with Comments
Locate comments on workboard
Change comment display mode
Add a comment
Remember to save your work!
13. What are Discussions
Related to specific:
People
Workboard
Cell in workboard
The people that
Edit name of participate in the
discussion discussion
Click to edit or
delete
14. Creating a New Discussion – by
Dragging
Drag a user to a cell to
create a discussion
Discussion is created.
User is a member.
Cell value is copied to
thread.
15. Creating a New Discussion – Clicking
Create New Discussion
Click to
create new
discussion
Edit
discussion
name
Write your
input
16. Adding Members to a Discussion
Drag users to add to
discussion
Click arrow to see more
participants
All members will get
notification of additions to
the discussion
17. Actions on Discussion Members
Start a new
discussion
Open user’s shared
workboards
Remove from discussion.
Available only to
discussion creator
Click name to view
picture and
perform actions
18. Discussion Indication
Number of new
discussions or
new content.
Preview of user’s
discussions.
19. Exercise 2 – Discussions
View indication of a discussion addressed
to you
Participate in an existing discussion
Examine different methods of starting a
discussion
21. The Social Ribbon
Displays users that have viewed this workboard
Appear in the following order:
Subscribed users
Workboard creator
Uses that have saved the workboard
Users that have viewed the workboard
22. Social Ribbon States
Users that have viewed Click to view only Subscription Friend
this workboard your friends indication indication
23. Actions on Users
Click user to
perform actions
Open / close Remove / add Remove / add Start discussion
user’s shared friend subscription
Workboard
24. Additional Method for Defining Friends
1. Click on your name
to edit properties
2. Go to Friends tab
3. Drag a name to
add it to friends
4. Click OK or Apply
to save your changes
26. What are Subscriptions? Workbook
changes made by
users that you are
subscribed to
Select Select
timeframe user
27. Subscribing to Users – From Social
Ribbon
Subscription
indication
Add / remove
subscription
28. Subscribing to a User’s Activity – From
Properties
1. Click on your name
to edit properties
2. Go to Subscribed
Users tab
3. Drag a name to
add it to subscribed
users
4. Click OK or Apply
to save your changes
31. Starting a Private Session
I don’t want other
users to follow my
work. What can I do?
Click to start a private
session, hiding your
actions from other users.
33. Exercise 3 – The Social
Ribbon, Managing Friends and
Subscriptions
Manage friends
Manage subscriptions
Use the social ribbon
34. Additional Exercises
Add Comments
Manage your Friends and subscriptions
Create and Participate in Discussions
Accessing discussions and subscriptions
on the Necto home page
35. Summary
In this lesson you have learned to:
View and add comments
Initiate and participate in discussions
Define your friends
Subscribe to other user’s work