Make Your Microsoft Stack Social With IBM Connections
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The document discusses IBM Connections and how it can integrate with Microsoft products like SharePoint, Office, Outlook and Windows Explorer to enable social capabilities. It provides an overview of IBM Connections APIs and demos how IBM Connections can extend social features to these Microsoft products by allowing activities and profiles to be accessed from within the applications and files to be shared via the social network. Resources for learning more about IBM Connections and its integrations are also listed.
Make Your Microsoft Stack Social With IBM Connections
- 1. Session #ID229 Make Your Microsoft Stack Social with IBM Connections Dan Harris | Development Manager | IBM Mac Guidera | Product Manager | IBM © 2012 IBM Corporation
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- 3. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 3 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 4. Social Everywhere Extending Social Software to Applications IBM ECM The value of social software increases exponentially when people can connect to their social networks at anytime and from anywhere IBM is making social and smarter collaboration more pervasive across a wide range of devices and applications so that businesses can connect people with relevant information at anytime and from anywhere The most complete set of social software services, which enables rich integration with IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Lotus Notes® , IBM Sametime, and other applications, such as Microsoft Office® and Microsoft SharePoint® 4 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 5. Lead the industry with open standards Enabling the next generation of socially-enabled solutions on customers' existing investments and heterogeneous platforms Focus on open standards and “loosely coupled” web-centric architectures A commitment to drive and leverage open standards Maximize choice, flexibility, and ease of integration Drive enterprise innovation and leverage rapid innovation on the public web Minimize incremental cost of targeting additional desktop and mobile platforms Leverage dominant skillsets based around web technologies HTML5 ARIA Atom 5 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 6. IBM Connections API Simple and Easy to Learn REST-style HTTP based API with XML, JavaScript and HTML formatted output Standard Web 2.0 web development methodology Atom style is “follow the links” Open Access for all users to all functionality, regardless of client or platform Based on Open standards: XML, HTTP, JavaScript, Atom feeds and publishing Comprehensive Leverages open standards extensibility (XML, HTTP, Atom feeds, etc…) Used internally and partners to build plug-ins and mashups All IBM Connections services provide an Atom API which is fully documented and all IBM plug-ins use this API Additionally, IBM Connections provides a CMIS API for the Files component | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 7. Add Social to Microsoft Offerings Microsoft SharePoint® Microsoft Office® Business Card Upload Files to Activities Profiles Search Search Profiles Tag cloud web part Add to your blog Community integration Create Activity To Dos Check out from Libraries Home page Profiles Communities Blogs Files Activities Wikis Bookmarks Forums Microsoft Outlook® Microsoft Windows® Business Card Work with Shared Files Search services Add file to Activity OSC feed Create new Activities 7 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 8. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 8 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 9. IBM Connections Communities Widget for Microsoft SharePoint New widget available for Connections Communities Access Microsoft SharePoint files Open and add files to Microsoft SharePoint from within a Connections Community Easily add documents form SharePoint Sites to your Communities Add the new widget for Community owners to setup and customize Free download from the Solutions Catalog https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp? action=editDocument&documentId=07E4F669B2C58CEB852577B6005A2042 9 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 10. Microsoft SharePoint Demo Community Integration Upload file Check out and actions Options available SharePoint Server Biz Card Tag cloud Profiles search © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 11. SharePoint Integration Federate SharePoint in Search Results Push SharePoint events into the Connections Activity Stream Embedded Experience for SharePoint events The Recent Posts tab extended to include ShareP Planned for a future release 11 © 2012 IBM Corporation | Designs are for illustrative purposes only
- 12. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 12 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 13. IBM Connections Plug-in for Microsoft Office From Microsoft Office Quick access to buttons vs. toolbar dropdown Connections ribbon you can... View and interact with IBM Connections Profiles, Activities, Blogs and Wikis From Microsoft Word® you can Add a document to an Activity, Blog or Wiki Create a To-Do item in an Activity Create a Bookmark from a URL embedded in a document Insert a Bookmark or a Profile into a document From Microsoft PowerPoint® and Microsoft Excel® Attach a presentation or a spreadsheet to an Activity. | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 14. Microsoft Office Demo Ribbon support Search Profiles Add Bookmarks Author a wiki © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 15. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 15 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 16. IBM Connections Plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook View and interact with IBM Connections Profiles and Activities Show the Connections Business Card for colleagues that send you email Add an email message to a Connections Activity as an email or as a to-do. Populate the TO, CC & BCC in an email, from Connections Profiles Use the Outlook Social Connector To federate your social network contacts into Outlook IBM Connections Facebook® LinkedIn® Others To view your contacts' IBM Connections recent contributions in Outlook | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 17. IBM Connections and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Look up people data from IBM Connections Profiles Access content available through activity feed Automatically syncs Social Network directory data to Outlook Contacts 17 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 18. Microsoft Outlook Demo Outook Social Connector Add email to Activity Business Card integration © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 19. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 19 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 20. IBM Connections Activities integration with Windows Explorer Upload files to Activities Provide detailed descriptions and tags Create new Activities as needed Fill out dialog - select activity and add tags Right click to access IBM Connections menu | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 21. Windows Explorer extension for Files Personal Files Share Any File in the Context of your Work Reflect personal files web experience in Windows Explorer Facilitate ease of sharing of any file on the desktop Round trip editing available in context of Windows Explorer Planned for a future rel Community Files and Media Gallery Communities that have a files component can be added to the Windows Explorer view “My Communities” are discovered by search and via a picker. Public Communities are discovered by search with type ahead Media Gallery files will be shown mixed in with the Community files view Previews can be shown only for those media files that are in the media gallery Will use the fact that a preview file is attached to the document to indicate that the file is in the media gallery. Round trip editing available in context of Windows Explorer | © 2012 IBM Corporation Designs are for illustrative purposes only
- 22. Microsoft Explorer Demo Files integration Browse and edit files in-context, drag and drop new files Right click to share © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 23. Agenda IBM Connections - Social Everywhere IBM Connections APIs Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Explorer Integration Resources 23 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 24. Summary What we covered Social Everywhere - smarter collaboration more pervasive across a wide range of devices and applications APIs – Simple, Open, and Comprehensive What we demo'd SharePoint Community integration Site integration Office Connections Ribbon Posting to Wikis Outook Outlook Social Connector Business Card integration Explorer Share from your Windows Desktop 24 © 2012 IBM Corporation |
- 25. Where To Get Additional Information IBM Social Business http://www.ibm.com/socia IBM Connections http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections IBM Connections Team Blog http://synch.rono.u Collaboration Soapbox http://www.thecollaborationsoap Solutions Catalog http://catalog.lotus.com | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 26. Where To Get Additional Information Whitepapers Measuring the impact of Social Collaboration http://bit.ly/cS2rgx Total Economic Impact Study: IBM Social Collaboration http://bit.ly/EconomicImpact IDC™ Whitepaper – Becoming a Social Business – the IBM Story http://bit.ly/TheIBMStory Videos on YouTube™ Connections 3.0.1 demo http://bit.ly/Connections301Demo Social Software has real business value http://bit.ly/BizValueConnections | © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 27. Legal Disclaimer © IBM Corporation 2011. All Rights Reserved. The information contained in this publication is provided for informational purposes only. While efforts were made to verify the completeness and a References in this presentation to IBM products, programs, or services do not imply that they will be available in all countries in which IBM operate INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION PROVIDES ALL SAMPLE CODE ″AS IS″ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EIT All customer examples described are presented as illustrations of how those customers have used IBM products and the results they m IBM, the IBM logo, Lotus, Lotus Notes, Notes, Domino, Quickr, Sametime, WebSphere, UC2, PartnerWorld and Lotusphere are trade Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.: Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. All references to Renovations Inc refer to a fictitious company and are used for illustration purposes only. | © 2012 IBM Corporation
Editor's Notes
- #7: The Lotus Connections API is a RESTful Web Service. Representational state transfer ( REST ) is a style of application architecture. It is meant to be used in a client to server environment that supports hypermedia. The technology behind the API is very open and easy to learn. The Connections UI demonstrates many of its features as the services uses it’s own API. This architecture does not require any specific client requirements. The calling client only needs to be able to transport over HTTP. This makes extending Connections possible in the simplest web application or available to complex service oriented architected platforms.
- #21: Add a file to an activity to share it with other activity users. Adding a file to an activity from Windows Explorer is a great shortcut for sharing documents that you have created and stored locally. Open Windows Explorer. Right-click the file you want to add to an activity and choose Lotus Connections > Add to Activity. The name for the activity posting is filled in by default with the file name. You can edit this name if you wish. Add a description for the posting. Add tags. Tags are keywords you assign to describe your posting. Tags must be entered as a single word, separated by commas or spaces. Payroll, human-resources, and event_planing are examples of valid tag formats. Do one of the following: Select an existing activity. Create a new activity. Assign a name and optionally fill out the Descriptions and Activity Tags field for the activity. Click OK to save the file to the selected activity. When you open the activity, your file will be available as a posting.