18. Enterprise Social Tool:
Components for Success Capabilities
Tools Interface /
Ease of Use
Intelligence & Expand Use &
Business Needs Increase ROI
Encouraging
Sociality Use
Social Comfort
27. Do your SharePoint developers
know all they need to deploy an
optimal social intranet solution?
28. Do they have depth
understanding social
interaction, or are they
social tool “clickspert”
29. SharePoint Social
Developer Needs
• Deep SharePoint knowledge
• Interaction design strength
• Depth in complicated and complex
social interactions
• Social interaction design
30. Scaling and Functionality
D A - Personal Use
B - Serendipity
C
People Participating
C - Mature Social
Tool
B D - Complex Social
System
A
Actions
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31. Social Interaction Design
• Simple communication patterns and
progressions
• Different design patterns to optimize use for
social activity types
• Optimizing for use (how to get unstuck with
long term benefits)
• Understanding when it is the tool, interface,
and/or sociality (or culture) and how to
think through it to solve
41. General Advantages
• Advantages:
• Quick up and running social tools
• Optimizing more difficult elements is done
• Continual iterations and improvements
42. Built On Top of SP 2010
• Advantages:
•Data (metadata) integrated tightly with
SharePoint (bonus for search)
•Tight integration with SharePoint strengths
•One common platform
43. Built On Top of SP 2010
• Disadvantages:
• Can be limited to data and interface
options (5 star ratings)
• Waiting for improvements on top of
SharePoint
• 3rd party software focussed administrator /
developer needed
45. SharePoint Plug-ins
• Advantages:
•Iterations and innovations at its own pace
•Quick cycle to get up and running
•Getting best tools to fit your problems and
culture
•Heavy focus on social interactions
•Often many years developing and iterating
•Often embracing complicated and complex
needs
46. SharePoint Plug-ins
• Disadvantages:
• Lack of perfect integration with SharePoint
• Need additional admin or developer skills
• Data / metadata stored outside SharePoint
(search and aggregation implications)
• Can be lag time to update when MS
iterates SharePoint
47. SP 2010 Plug-in
• Jive
• Socialtext
• Traction
• Socialcast (activity stream and
communication platform)
• Many more...