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1. Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 10th, 2010 Social Networking with SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Wes Preston, Erik Mau • Meeting #64 http://www.sharepointmn.com

2. Session Agenda • Introductions • Social Networking Intro • Social Features in SharePoint 2007 • Break • Social Features in SharePoint 2010 (continued) • Demo • Q&A http://www.sharepointmn.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.sharepointmn.com

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com) Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com) Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations info@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

6. Social Networking Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG http://www.sharepointmn.com

7. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting April 14th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: Process Management: Digital Forms and Workflow Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com

8. Local Events AIIM Happy Hour - SharePoint Smackdown – March 11, 2010 3:30 – 5:30 PM *FREE*http://www.aiim.org/chapters/chaptereventview.aspx?EventID=4640Majors Restaurant – Bloomington, MN SharePoint Saturday – March 20, 2010 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM *FREE*http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspxUniversity of Minnesota – East Bank, Twin Cities Campus Online Events Microsoft SharePoint MVP Expert Chat – March 15, 2010 *FREE*http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspxFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=336965717244 http://www.sharepointmn.com

9. Conferences • SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo– March 16-19, 2010http://www.sharepointprosummit.comLas Vegas, NV • The SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo is THE essential conference for details on the release of SharePoint 2010 and includes in-depth technical training on solution development and customization of Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. http://www.sharepointmn.com

10. Conferences • SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo– March 16-19, 2010http://www.sharepointprosummit.comLas Vegas, NV • Related Pre-Conference Workshop: • Building Composite Applications using SharePoint Designer 2010 • and the BCS http://www.sharepointmn.com

11. Announcements SharePoint 2010 RTM and Launch announced! Announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx Launch event: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=2rTi4OD1abM May 12th – same day as MNSPUG Update Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx Good, Better, Best Document for SharePoint 2010 available http://download.microsoft.com/DOWNLOAD/2/A/A/2AA0D302-86A6-4AA2-A0A4-4F15FA7DBF5C/BUSINESS%20PRODUCTIVITY%20AT%20ITS%20BEST_WHITEPAPER.PDF http://www.sharepointmn.com

12. Quick Intro • Wes Preston • SharePoint Senior Consultant • MVP – SharePoint Server • MCTS – WSS and MOSS Configuration

13. Quick Intro • Erik Mau • IW Practice Architect at Inetium • Interested in… • Custom development on SharePoint • Extending the platform • Search, ECM, Social Features within SharePoint

14. Social Networking SharePoint Overview

15. What is Social Networking? • A virtual gathering place • A web of contacts • A bulletin board • A scrapbook • A knowledgebase • Statuses and messaging Examples • Linked In • Facebook • MySpace • Twitter • Classmates.com • Reunion.com • Yammer • Forums • Distribution Lists • Blogs, RSS feeds • Many more…

16. What is Social Networking? • Add that big image…

17. Drive collaboration & social interaction • Discover content in new ways • Capture & share tacit knowledge What about Enterprise Social Networking? • Capture the “wisdom of the masses” via social feedback • Build a sense of connection to the company • New workers expect social tools in the workplace

18. Social Networking SharePoint 2007 Upgrade Overview

19. SharePoint Social Feature Highlights

20. 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, Executive team blogs • 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

21. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking • Communication – Blogs (out of the box)

22. 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.

23. Scenarios for Enterprise Social Networking • Knowledge – Wiki sites and Libraries

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 • Center of Excellence sites • 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

25. SharePoint MOSS Feature Reference • People Search • Employee Search web part • Profile Pages • My Sites • Special web parts • Audiences SSP • Profile Management • Search Management

26. SharePoint Social Networking – People Search

27. SharePoint Social Networking – Profile Page

28. SharePoint Social Networking – My Site

29. Unified Communications • What is presence and how does it impact collaboration and social computing in SharePoint? • Know before you attempt to reach out • Presence is the “center ring” of Unified Communications

30. Extending SharePoint 2007 SharePoint Architecture

31. Customization Opportunities • Custom My Sites • Customizing the person.aspx page • Configuring User Profile Imports • Adding new User Profile Properties • Customizing Privacy Policies (who can see what properties) • Business Data Catalog • Configuring Audiences • Custom Search Results • Configurable XSLT to display relevant User Profile Properties • Custom Search Properties

32. 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? • Portal Customizations: • Yammer web part • Twitter web part • Employee blog web part • SPC09 page

33. Portal Customizations – Web Parts

34. 3rd Party Offerings • CodePlex!! • Community Kit for SharePoint • Enhanced Blog Edition • Podcasting Kit for SharePoint • Newsgator

35. 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) • Finally – Engage your users and encourage them to participate!

36. Start with Social Now! • Get AD cleaned up… It usually needs some work before making everything public • Get your users used to a My Site – the 2010 functionality is a leap forward… coming up next… • My Sites will migrate to 2010

37. Break Break

38. Social Networking SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Architecture

39. *Disclaimer* All of the information gathered and presented today is based on versions of the software prior to final release. Features and functionality *may still change* before the RTM versions are available. Reminder: RTM coming in April with Launch in May!! http://www.sharepointmn.com

40. SharePoint Server 2010 Ribbon UI SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Mobile Office Client Office Web App Integration Standards Support Business Connectivity Services InfoPath Form Services External Lists Workflow SharePoint Designer Visual Studio API Enhancements REST/ATOM/RSS Sites Composites Communities Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings Social Bookmarking Blogs and Wikis My Sites Activity Feeds Profiles and Expertise Org Browser PerformancePoint Services Excel Services Chart Web Part Visio Services Web Analytics SQL Server Integration PowerPivot Insights Content Enterprise Content Types Metadata and Navigation Document Sets Multi-stage Disposition Audio and Video Content Types Remote Blob Storage List Enhancements Search Social Relevance Phonetic Search Navigation FAST Integration Enhanced Pipeline http://www.sharepointmn.com

41. SharePoint Social Feature Highlights

42. SharePoint 2010 • Improvements and new features • Enhanced wikis and blogs • Social Tagging • Rating, Notes and feedback • Social search: more data, better results • Expertise mining and discovery • Finding people: phonetic name search, name variations and wildcard • My Sites: status, aggregation and activity monitoring

43. SharePoint Communities Promote sharing with easy social authoring Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging Find better answers faster via user feedback Informal Knowledge Social Connections Connecting users through enhanced profiles Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise Participation Anywhere Work with peers whether online or offline Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI Enrich existing applications with social context

44. Blog Sites

46. Blog Sites: General • Personal Blogs on My Site • Blogs can exist “anywhere” • Flexible Categories • Rich Editing Experience • Leverage the tagging and note infrastructure

47. Blog Sites: Management

48. Wikis

49. Wikis: General • Add web parts – anywhere • Linking to lists with intellisense • Rich Editing Experience

50. Wikis