Richard Willis' presentation on My Sites at the Learning Gateway Conference.

1. My Sites - How to use or not Richard Willis

2. About the Speaker…. Richard Willis Working in education integration for 6 years Managing Director SalamanderSoft Ltd Project Coordinator SharePoint Learning Kit Project Coordinator Microsoft Learning Gateway http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk richardw@salamandersoft.co.uk Twitter - rpwillis

3. Contentsa or Content Slide Audience Survey What are My Sites Basic Usage Out of the Box Personalization Site Links Customization Barriers To Adoption Best Practises

4. Audience Survey Which version of SharePoint? 2003 MOSS 2007 WSS 2007 Have you implemented My Sites?

5. What are My Sites A central location for you to view and manage all of your personal information A way for other users to learn about you An information hub

6. Basic Usage Storage Personal Documents Shared Documents Tasks Lists Calendar Links

7. Basic Usage Personal Page Colleagues Personalised web parts Weather RSS feeds Profile Information Picture About me Skills etc.

8. Out of the Box By default, your My Site includes two pages My Home Personal site Private My Profile Public Look and feel determined by Administrator

9. Personalization Site Links Problem they solve What is the “Holy Grail” solution What they are How to implement

10. Questions they answer How many sites do you go to do your job? How do you keep track of those sites? What happens when you change roles and need to find where the new information is located?

11. Scattered Information Local storage of links Bookmarks Links in emails Links in documents Multiple Devices Desktops, Laptops, Mobiles Access from other computers Away from your desk Shared or colleagues’computers

12. Holy Grail One Place To Go To Do My Job A view of everything you need to do your job Personal Views of aggregated links, web parts, dashboards, etc. Automatically displayed Role Based sites Turn My Sites into Information Hub My Virtual Workplace

13. What are Personalization Site Links? Accessed via SharePoint Central Administration Shared Service Administration site Creates additional tabs on My Site Appear between “My Home” and “My Profile” tabs Linkto existing sites Shownbased on audience membership

14. Place Demo Title Here Create Personalization link

15. Customization My profile page can be customized by an Administrator My home can be modified by the user

16. Customization – My Home My home generic changes Do not change the site definitions – site will be in an unsupported state Feature stapling Only for new My Sites MySiteCreate - Community Kit for SharePoint http://www.codeplex.com/CKS Change master page Add, delete, modify web parts

17. Barriers To Adoption Internal training resources not available No retention policy for content Privacy/Data Protection Lack of Control Pupils are site owners

18. Best Practices Decide what you want My Sites for Start with pilot group Promote certain features and get feedback Include link in email signature Organisational Leaders to blog Consider to be mini-collaboration site Plan storage before rolling out

19. Best Practices Profiles can be used without personal sites Personalization Site Links can be exposed without personal sites

20. Personalization Services Permissions Accessed via SharePoint Central Administration Shared Service Administration site Specify who can get personal sites Can allow users to manage profile data WITHOUT having a personal site

21. Any Questions

22. Thank you for attending! http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk