social media hub
TRANSCRIPT
A Magnolia 5 App that moves your content to social
networks and shows an aggregate view of your social
presence
Social Media Hub
Matteo Pelucco
September 18th, 2013
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Table of content
A brief introduction
Magnolia Social Hub at a glance
Social networks trends: 2013
Reasons
Features
Architecture
DEMO
Status of the project
Future improvements
#mgnl_social_hub
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Table of content
A brief introduction
Magnolia Social Hub at a glance
Social networks trends: 2013
Reasons
Features
Architecture
DEMO
Status of the project
Future improvements
#mgnl_social_hub
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A brief introduction: Tinext
Who we are: Tinext
Swiss company (Lugano/CH & Gallarate/IT)
Founded in 2001
Enterprise oriented solutions
More than 500 projects
40 employees
Highlights
www.alarabiya.net
www.rsi.ch
www.lausanne.ch
www.lugano.ch
www.ticino.ch
www.royalcaribbean.it
www.tinext.com
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A brief introduction: Tinext and Magnolia
We started to use Magnolia in 2008
Version 3.5.8 (!!) + Magnolia OnAir (RSI, Radio and Television portal)
Strong community presence that year
Premium Magnolia partner since 2009
More than 60 Magnolia projects launched so far
4.3.x EE
4.4.x EE
More than 40 Magnolia modules already released for our customer:
Integration of external datasources, SAP, Funds solutions
Custom dashboards for managing content / activities / workflows
SVN browser, virtual URI, mirroring, Google Analytics spotlights..
Jumping on Magnolia 5 train by the end of September
We were waiting for EE!
Community
We are active in the Magnolia community (forum)
A simple module already on the Forge: Frisbee
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A brief introduction: Who am I?
Software engineer (senior?)
32 years old
I have been working for Tinext since 2007
What I like:
Opensource solutions
Java + Spring
Eclipse
Javascript and CSS, JSON
CMS ecosystem (not only Java!)
High availability websites
Leading technical teams
What I also like
Playing guitar
Swim and run
Power metal @matteopelucco
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Table of content
A brief introduction
Magnolia Social Hub at a glance
Social networks trends: 2013
Reasons
Features
Architecture
DEMO
Status of the project
Future improvements
#mgnl_social_hub
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: reasons
We decided to share something with the community. Yes, it means CE
Ok. But what?
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Social Media Stats
Daily active users: 665 M
M = MILLLLLLION: 665.000.000 users. Per day.
80% of the world’s internet population
Is the fastes growing social network
44% is the growth from June 2012 to March
2013
21% of the world’s internet population
Google +
26% of the world’s internet population
15% of the world’s internet population
But they are PRO.
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: reasons
An existing working project
That is always a good starting point!
Al Arabiya team asked us to develop a Social Media Dashboard
Basic functionalities:
Share articles on Facebook, Twitter
Manual account configuration
Automatic hashtagging (simple)
Other customers start to require the same functionalities
Magnolia 5 has been released and the Conference was approaching..
Ok, it is enough. Let’s do it!
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: reasons
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: reasons
Which platform to use?
We are still working on 4.3.x and 4.4.x branches, but we want to move to 5.x
Need to find a way to use the same code on different Magnolia versions
Magnolia 5 still supports old-but-gold Pages!
Ok. Let’s do a Page App!
Mgnl 4.3
Mgnl 4.4
Mgnl 5.0
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: what we need
Multiple social networks support
Google +
Content sharing
Manual
Automatic, during activation
Manual sharing of a text
Title, text and picture override
Multilanguage
URL shortening
Automatic hashtagging
History of what we shared in the past
Stats, of course! A lot of them..
Configuration (developers like to configure everything!)
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: roadmap
September ‘13: version 1.0 (CE)
Stable overall architecture
Ready for Magnolia Conference
Development of all functionalities
Availability on the Forge (yes, finally we did it!)
October ‘13: version 1.1 (CE)
Bug fixes, feedback from the community
Small improvements
November / December ‘13: version 2.0 (CE + EE)
Advanced stats (more and more stats)
Integration with activation workflow
Integrated url shortener
Native Magnolia 5 App
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: architecture
Maven module
Standard Magnolia Module
Pages
Config
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: architecture
Magnolia 5
Pages launched
by 3 apps
Magnolia 4.x
Pages launched by AdminCentral Menu items
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Magnolia Social Hub at a glance: demo time!
Stop PPTing.. Let’s see it in action!
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Table of content
A brief introduction
Magnolia Social Hub at a glance
Social networks trends: 2013
Reasons
Features
Architecture
DEMO
Status of the project
Future improvements
#mgnl_social_hub
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Status of the project
Time spent: 6 working days
Ready for production
Currently, developed against 5.0.1 CE
Should be easily ported to 5.1 EE and easily backported to 4.3.x or 4.4.x
Few small improvements to make, expecially for the UI
The module is on the Forge
http://git.magnolia-cms.com/gitweb/?p=forge/social-media-
hub.git;a=summary
Please, download!
Use it!
And tell us what you need more!
Wiki page
http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Social+Media+Hub
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Table of content
A brief introduction
Magnolia Social Hub at a glance
Social networks trends: 2013
Reasons
Features
Architecture
DEMO
Status of the project
Future improvements
#mgnl_social_hub
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Future improvements
Move from a JS solution to a Java solution
This allows automatic content sharing during activation
Issues with Twitter: sometimes, OAuth (1.1!!) token needs to be refreshed
(manual operation)
More advanced Facebook Insights
Export to PDF
Automatic daily/weekly mail reports
Other social networks support
Google +, LinkedIn
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Future improvements
Social network pluggability:
Part of the code needs to be rewritten
This will allow to inject other social networks «by-configuration» (IoC)
In-page stats / sharing toolbar
Code refactoring to have the same functionalities immediately available on
Magnolia 4.3 / 4.4
Now there is a branch, few Java classes to change..
Native Magnolia 5 App
BOT posting
automatically post/tweet from a list of text messages
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Q&A time
Do you have any doubt? Now it is time to ask!
Or during the coffee break / launch!
If you prefer, you can contact me later:
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +39 347 4531281
Skype: tinext_matteo_pelucco
Thank you for your attention.
Tinext SA
Strada Regina 42
6943 Bioggio
Switzerland
+41 91 612 22 66
www.tinext.com
Tinext Italia Srl
Via Borghi 8
21013 Gallarate
Italy
+39 0331 667 747