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1. Welcome to the Iowa SharePoint User Group April 1st, 2009 SharePoint and Social Networking Corey Erkes http://www.sharepointia.com
2. Agenda Introductions Social Networking Break Unified Communications Customization & Development 3rd Party Offerings Governance Drawings !! http://www.sharepointia.com
3. User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions http://www.sharepointia.com
4. Introductions – IASPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com) Technology consulting company NSI Partner Status (National Systems Integrator) Practice area focused on SharePoint Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) http://www.sharepointia.com
5. www.sharepointia.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations www.sharepointia.com http://www.sharepointia.com
6. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting June 3rd 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Topic: TBD Check www.sharepointia.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 1st Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am TBD http://www.sharepointia.com
7. Posts & News Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/10/introducing-the-microsoft-certified-master-and-certified-architect-for-sharepoint.aspx First Look: Office 14 for the WebAnnounced at PDC 2008http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/First-Look-Office-14-for-Web/ Microsoft Tech Ed 2009 http://www.msteched.com/teched/default.aspx http://www.sharepointia.com
8. Social Networking Social Networking
9. What is Social Networking?
10. What is Social Networking? A virtual gathering place A web of contacts A bulletin board A scrapbook A knowledgebase Examples Linked In Facebook MySpace Twitter Classmates.com Reunion.com Forums Distribution Lists Blogs, RSS feeds Many more… Social Networking
11. One user example… Participate in LinkedIn as a career networking tool Keep track of previous co-workers, networking contacts, etc Participate on facebook with friends, family and some work and community contacts Get a little more personal by sharing photos and comments with friends Control access to different groups Follow statuses and updates Forums Keep track of a few hobby-related lists to keep up on the latest news and info. Contribute from time to time Blogs Technical or work topical blog Read a list of blogs using Google Reader or some other RSS aggregator Social Networking
12. What is Enterprise Social Networking? Employing the same concepts used in other social networking solutions, but done while asking: “Is this good for the company?” Realize the potential of social networking concepts in your workplace, with your partners and with your clients. The same standard business questions apply: What is the return on investment? Where are the efficiencies? But in one slide… WHY? Social Networking
13. Why Enterprise Social Networking? Drive collaboration & social interaction Discover content in new ways Capture & share tacit knowledge Capture the “wisdom of the masses” via social feedback Build a sense of connection to the company Social Networking
14. SharePoint Social Networking – Key Features Profile Database – The database containing information about SharePoint users, imported from Active Directory and other potential sources. People Search – A search scope and result page configured specifically for finding people, based on data crawled from the Profile database. My Profile Page – One method of displaying the Profile database information, using web parts designed for that purpose and available only on the Profile page Social Networking
15. SharePoint Social Networking – People Search Social Networking
16. SharePoint Social Networking – Profile Page Social Networking
17. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Finding the right resources, when you need them People Search or advanced search can be used to find people based on many attributes – based on the Profile Database Immediate needs: Finding the right resource for the current issue, fast Ongoing needs: Building a project or organizational team Social Networking
18. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Accessing the organization chart Succession planning Finding co-workers, colleaguesand managers Social Networking
19. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Communication Using blogs and RSS feeds to internally broadcast information Company announcements rather than e-mail broadcasting Strategy and quarterly updates Promotions, staffing changes, etc… Use external blogs to share relevant information with clients Press Releases for stakeholders and the public Technical / Product information and updates for clients and partners Social Networking
20. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Communication – Blogs (out of the box) Social Networking
21. Demo
22. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Communication – Blogs continued Codeplex Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5134 Tag Cloud (SharePoint Designer) http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=41 Social Networking
23. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking Retain and more effectively utilize intellectual property Use knowledge bases to capture critical information and make it available to those that need it, when they need it Wikis can be used to capture critical information and allow it to evolve quickly as needed by as many people as needed. Blogs can be used as internal ‘journals’ to track research, work and progress Discussion boards can be used as places to capture and track conversation threads and have benefits over e-mail Train new employees Use the knowledge captured in the containers listed above to identify ‘required reading’ for new team members. Social Networking
24. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking ‘Communities of interest’ Aligning employees in different departments that have similar roles so they can benefit from each others’ experiences Internal User Groups Cross-Department Collaboration Social Networking
25. SharePoint – Version Recap WSS – Windows SharePoint Services. The ‘no additional charge’ version of SharePoint that includes all the core functionality. MOSS Standard – Some considerable enhancements on top of the core platform – My Sites, People search, Employee Lookup web part, etc… MOSS Enterprise – Doesn’t offer a lot of functionality for social networking, but does include the BDC, which may allow for richer data Social Networking
26. SharePoint MOSS Feature Reference My Sites Special web parts You could do the facebook status with a Discussion list – configure a web part on the home page to only show the latest entry, have alerts, allow others to comment on it… People Search Employee Search web part Audiences SSP Profile Management Search Management Social Networking
27. Break 5 – 10 minutes
28. Unified Communications Unified Communications
29. What is presence and how does it impact collaboration and social computing in SharePoint?
30. What is Presence? This is presence... Know before you attempt to reach out Presence is the “center ring” of Unified Communications
31. What is Unified Communications? A COLLECTION of technologies – not a silver bullet “Game-Changer” “Disruptor” “Equalizer” THE GOAL OF UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS IS TO REDUCE THE HUMAN LATENCY IN BUSINESS PROCESSES “ The collection of communication technologies, applications and processes to enhance communication and business between you, your customers, partners and employees “
32. Microsoft Unified Communications Product Alignment Unified Communications Collaboration, Portals, and Search E-mail and Calendaring Unified Messaging Software-Powered VoIP IM andPresence On-premise and Hosted Conferencing
33. Demo
34. UC by definition is Social Computing I’m working in the proposal… I’m looking at the Dashboard and have a question about… I need to speak to you regarding… I need to talk to you about… I need to find someone who… I found this document but have a question… And Social Computing is UC
35. “Communications Enabled Business Processes” OPPORTUNITY…
36. Customization & Development Customization & Development
37. Customization Opportunities Custom My Sites Customizing the person.aspx page Customization & Development
38. Customization Opportunities Configuring User Profile Imports Adding new User Profile Properties Customizing Privacy Policies (who can see what properties) Business Data Catalog Configuring Audiences Customization & Development
39. Customization Opportunities Custom Search Results Configurable XSLT to display relevant User Profile Properties Custom Search Properties Customization & Development
40. Development Opportunities Working with User Profiles Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles User Profile Web Service UserProfileManager UserProfile Customization & Development
41. Development Opportunities Working with User Profiles Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles User Profile Web Service User Profile Change Web Service (_vti_bin/UserProfileChangeService.asmx) User Profile Web Service Customization & Development
42. Development Opportunities Possible Customizations: Custom Web Parts that display relevant User Profile Properties Import additional User Profile Properties without leveraging the BDC Create a Vista Gadget that surfaces SharePoint data: Person browser/phonebook? Customization & Development
43. 3rd Party Offerings 3rd Party Offerings
44. 3rd Party Offerings 3rd Party Offerings
45. 3rd Party Offerings CodePlex!! Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition Podcasting Kit for SharePoint 3rd Party Offerings
46. Governance Governance
47. Thoughts on Governance Don’t just update SharePoint – keep Active Directory up to date Information also available in Outlook / other tools Sync with other systems – PeopleSoft, etc… Development processes for User Profile/Import Changes Database and server topology planning is required before rolling out company-wide My Site deployments (100s or 1000s of sites) Governance
48. References Social Computing with SharePoint http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/social.mspx White Paper on Social Networkinghttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98123&clcid=0x409 SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kithttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en MySite Customizations Blog Post http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/22/customizing-moss-2007-my-sites-within-the-enterprise.aspx http://www.sharepointia.com
49. References Our Blogs http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs This slideshow! http://www.sharepointia.com http://www.sharepointia.com
50. Q & A / Drawings http://www.sharepointmn.com
51. Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com