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SUGUK 1st March 2012
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsSo last night saw the return of the London SUGUK. Matt Taylor has stepped down as co-coordinator for London and I want to thank Matt for all his efforts and establishing such a great user group. So Steve Smith started proceedings with some ITPro and... -
SharePoint Saturday 2011
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsSaturday 12th November saw the 2011 SharePoint Saturday at Nottingham’s Conference Centre. Another great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. I presented a session on Social Intranet and the slides can be seen below. I hope everyone found the session... -
Ratings and SharePoint Search better together
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 17 CommentsSharePoint 2010 introduces a new feature to allow a user to rate content within the sites. Depicted by five stars the user can rate content and these ratings are collated to provide the average rating for the item. Displaying content based on ratings can assist users determining the quality of content easily. Ratings will also help content authors understand which content is considered to be higher quality by the readers. -
A status by any other name would still smell as sweet
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsExplore how the native social status update works and where the data is stored. -
Activity Feed Item Templates
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn this post we examine what the native Activity Feed templates are and where they are stored. -
Extending the activity feed with enterprise content
Posted on June 16, 2011 | 31 CommentsAmongst the most anticipated new features of SharePoint 2010 were the social activity feed features which bring colleague activity as a feed to an individual. Natively the activity feed displays user profile changes, tagging and notes activity. Microsoft provides an API to extend the activity feed system with your own content. With this extensibility API it is possible to extend this to include enterprise content activity, such as activity around documents. Bringing ECM data into the activity feed gives a full 360 degree picture of activity within the SharePoint system. This article describes key areas of the logic and elements required to achieve this.
