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Social Sites My Site Enhancements

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Sample NewsGator My Site



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SharePoint Out-of-the-Box My Site Features

Web Part Name Description

Profile Picture Displays an image of the person.

Profile Details Displays details about the person including title, job description, etc.

Presence Indicates presence of the person.

Contact Details Displays contact details for the person pulled from Active Directory.

Organizational Hierarchy

Details the person’s managers and direct reports.

Documents & Sites Provides quick access to the person’s documents and sites.

Colleagues Allows the person to view and manage their colleagues.

Links Displays the person’s SharePoint bookmarks.

RSS Viewer Displays a link to one RSS feed.

Alerts Allows users to view and manage alerts and alert results.

Calendar Enables users to maintain a calendar.

SharePoint Lists Allows users to create document and picture libraries, calendars, surveys, tasks, and other SharePoint lists.

Email In Box Allows users to view their Email In Box.

Memberships Compares the user’s memberships (distribution lists and SharePoint sites) with that of the person the user is viewing.

Public/Private Provides public and private views of each user’s My Site.

Customization Provides users with the ability to add and remove Web Parts and change the layout and appearance of Web Parts on the private view of their personal site.

NewsGator My Site Home Enhancements Web Part Name Description Sample

Micro-Blogging, Activity Stream, and Commenting

Provides integrated micro-blogging and commenting. Displays SharePoint activities from colleagues, joined communities, and self. Includes updates from 3rd party social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.



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Web Part Name Description Sample

Widget Display Allows you to display any widget on your My Site.

My Status Allows you to enter and share your status among your colleagues.

Colleagues’ Status List Displays your colleagues’ status as entered through NewsGator Social Sites.

Social Profile Displays tags that you can use to describe yourself and contains a link to the Profile Builder Wizard.

What I Publish Allows you to add external feeds (from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) and include posts from those feeds in your Activity Stream.

Profile Builder Wizard Helps you associate tags with yourself and find relevant people and communities.



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Upcoming Birthdays Displays a list of upcoming colleagues’ birthdays.

Recommended Colleagues

Recommends colleagues based on common tags, RSS feed subscriptions, and communities.

Relevant to You Displays relevant articles to you, based on the attention data from NewsGator Enterprise Server.

My Tags Displays the tags that you have used in SharePoint or NewsGator Enterprise Server. Clicking on a tag will retrieve all of the articles and documents you have tagged with that term.

My Communities Displays a list of communities that you have joined.



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Recommended Communities

Displays a list of public communities that have common members, tags, or news that you might find interesting to join.

Recently Posted Displays items that you have recently added to SharePoint.

Favorite Feeds Displays the feeds you pay most attention to.

Organizational Hierarchy

Displays the organizational hierarchy as defined in the My Site.

Recent Activity Displays recent activity that you have performed (e.g., joined community, tagged community).



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Social Network Graph Displays your colleagues and depicts your social distance from each colleague.

Following Me Displays the colleagues that are following you.

My Ideas Displays your submitted ideas and the number of votes associated with each idea.

My Site Tabbed Reader

Displays your RSS articles in a tabbed format on the My Site or elsewhere in SharePoint. (Other Reader viewing formats also available).



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Personal News Reader Aggregates recent top stories from a user's subscriptions.

Tag Cloud Displays your tags, publisher tags or categories that can be used to filter articles or SharePoint lists.

Mini Pop-Up Profiles Provides a quick view of any user in the system including their recent activity, tags, posts, subscriptions, clippings, and contact information.

My Site Creation & Customization

Allows administrators to decide upon which web parts and skin are displayed on each user’s My Site.

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