Introduction:
Microsoft
has introduced a new social feature called “Micro blogging” in
SharePoint 2013 to enhance the social networking and collaboration features.
This
powerful feature is added as an OOTB web part to SharePoint 2013 and ready to
useJ
So, what is micro blogging?
It
is a type of blog which allows users to share their updates. This updates are
called micro posts and the use of this services is called micro blogging.
Ref:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/microblog.html
Micro blogging in
SharePoint 2013
The
SharePoint Micro Blogging feature is like Facebook and Twitter which allows the
users to communicate with others easily, by posting some questions, responding,
comments and etc.
Following
are the list of features:
Ø Update picture and links in
the posts and replies
Ø Participate in a conversation by posting comments (with rich media and
Links in the post) and
replied
Ø Use mentions (@) to tag a user in a post and in the replies
Ø Use tags (#) to define
keywords so that the users can follow and search for the same topic easily
Ø Like a post, follow
people, documents, sites and tags
Also,
the author’s (one who posts an update or comment or reply for a post)
presence
(online, off-line, busy, in a meeting) are also displayed.
Add the Site Feed web part to the page:
Edit
the page -> Insert -> Web part -> Social Collaboration -> Site Feed
Once added, you will see a dialogue to post your feeds as shown below:
Add a new Post in the Micro blog:
You can add a post by typing your post in the text box and hit post to update your post
Add Rich Media & Links, Delete a Post:
In the Post you can add Rich media such as Image, Video, Links, etc.. Also, you have options of deleting the post.
Like, Reply, Copy Link to conversation, Follow up, Lock
Conversation:
Like other social networking as I mentioned earlier in this post you have options of Like, Reply, Copy Link to Conversation, Follow up and Lock a Conversation :)
Also, there is an option "Show More Posts" to view the old posts.
Tagging a User and Topic
The options of Tagging a user by "@" allows the other user to specifically tag a post to a user and also Tagging a topic by "#" allows the posts to be categorized and also it helps in searching the posts easier.
This micro feed are based upon the User Profile Service in SharePoint. This feeds are stored in a list called Micro Feed by default where you will see all the details stored.
Navigate to the following path to view the Micro Feeds:
Check for the Micro Feed List
Clicking on the List, you will see a List with different columns which stores the feeds.
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hi Maruthachalam, thanks for such a straight forward and to the point post. I would like to know how to add custom post/conversation to site Feeds i.e. to MicroFeed list. I am surely Not talking about Mysite NewsFeed but Site Feed. Thanks in advance
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. I think this article should answer your question http://www.techbubbles.com/sharepoint/social-features-in-sharepoint-2013-part2/
DeleteCan we do this in coding?, like creating a custom microblog in Sharepoint?
ReplyDeleteYes, creating custom micro blog is possible. It needs more technical efforts to implement it. You can use SharePoint as front end and SQL server as a DB to store the posts. The JQuery and web services can interact in between to add/update/delete the posts.
DeleteI have enabled Alert on MicroFeed list. I would like to exclude some fields (ContentData;RefRoot;) from email. Can we do this?
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