This document discusses the Social Enabler project from OpenNTF, which aims to provide social functionality for XPages applications using the IBM Social Business Toolkit. It outlines goals like providing ready-to-use components, APIs, and scenarios. Key technologies discussed include HTML5, REST, JSON, OAuth, Activity Streams, and OpenSocial. Current functionality demonstrated includes reading from and writing to activity streams, displaying XPages in embedded experiences, and writing custom REST services.

1. Social Enabler
for XPages
http://socialenabler.openntf.org
Philippe Riand, Niklas Heidloff
05/02/11
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2. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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3. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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4. Introduction
 People are connected more than ever blurring the line between business
and private life
 Information is scattered more than ever, within enterprises and in public
social networks, within on premise systems and on the cloud
 As a result there are new requirements for technologies to integrate and
interoperate between heterogenous systems
 This deck shows ideas how to address these new requirements using
XPages and the IBM Social Business Toolkit based on industry standards
 This deck as well as the OpenNTF project Social Enabler are work in
progress at this time
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5. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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6. Goals of the OpenNTF Project
 Get feedback from the community
 Identify XPages requirements for new social functionality
 Show strategic direction
 Provide some of the new functionality as open source to receive early
feedback from developers
 Disclaimer
 The IBM® Social Business Toolkit is only available as test version on Greenhouse. It is not
part of any IBM product yet.
 The code on OpenNTF is not production ready, not officially supported by IBM and it will
change.
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7. Goals of the OpenNTF Project
 XPages controls
 Ready to use components
– Community members, activity lists...
– Access to external networks (Facebook like...)
 XPages gadgets
 Projecting existing XPages as OpenSocial gadgets
 Support for the embedded experience
 Easy to use APIs
 Java and JavaScript bindings to the Social Business Toolkit APIs
– Creating new entries in the activity stream
– Accessing Profiles, Communities, Activities...
 New data sources dealing with REST services, with pre-built capability for Connections and
external services
– Pluggable authentication mechanisms including OAuth, SSO...
 Simple actions
– Creating a new Community, Activity...
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8. Goals of the OpenNTF Project
 Social APIs
 Seamless access to user Profiles coming from multiple sources
– IBM Connections®, Facebook...
– Single, unique API for the application developer
– Automatic data caching for better performance
 Social APIs with identity mapping
 Framework for creating custom REST services
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9. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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10. Technologies based on Standards
 HTML5
 REST
 JSON
 OAuth
 Activity Streams
 OpenSocial
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11. OAuth
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12. Activity Streams
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13. OpenSocial
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14. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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15. IBM Social Business Toolkit
 The IBM Social Business Toolkit is a new cross-product
integration with the Lotus Social Business portfolio and
extensibility toolkit for developers.
 Initially, the IBM Social Business Toolkit delivers a set of
tools that enable developers to publish and retrieve
events to the activity stream.
 The toolkit further enables cloud deployability, open
standards-based APIs to consume, produce, and use
events, a configurable adapter framework for consuming
existing external content, filtering capabilities, and
enhanced administrative features for better security.
 In the future, the toolkit will expand to include
extensibility areas such as share box, embedded
experiences, and more.
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16. IBM Social Business Toolkit
Applications
OpenSocial Other OpenSocial
APIs REST APIs Gadgets Public APIs
REST
Specific APIs IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs
IBM Core Modules, IBM & Partners Value-added Modules
X Y Z Business
modules
X Y Z
Internal APIs
Platform specific
APIs APIs APIs APIs
APIs
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17. API Test Application
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/vulcan/shindig/client/testAPI.jsp
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18. Embedded Experience
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/activitystream/ 18

19. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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20. OAuth
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21. Read from Activity Stream
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22. Write to Activity Stream (synch or asynch)
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23. Display XPage in Embedded Experience
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24. Write custom REST Services
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25. Content
 Introduction
 Goals of the OpenNTF project
 Technologies
 IBM® Social Business Toolkit
 Current functionality of Social Enabler project
 Scenarios
 References
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26. Scenarios
 Lead manager application
 Utilizes SBT, Connections, LotusLive
 Hiring workflow
 Utilizes Twitter, Facebook, SBT, Connections
 Personal website
 Utilizes Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
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27. Lead Manager Application
 This is a sample application for the fictional ZetaBank company's CRM
application
 It had been initially developed as a 'classic' Notes/Domino application, and
then moved to XPages
 The XPages application is out since 2009
 It doesn't use the XPages extension library
 It aggregates data from multiple sources
 The base version is available freely on OpenNTF:
http://www.openntf.org/p/Lead%20Manager%20X
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28. Work in Context with other People
 Create a community per customer
 Add the people interested by a particular customer
 Share documents, resources... related to a customer
 Create activities per deal
 Track the actions and resources associated with a deal
 Create this activity as part of the customer community
Start or use a community/activity
right from the application
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29. Share Resources With a Customer
 Share documents with the customer
 Technical information on the deal
 Proposals
 ...
 Use the file API to share resources on the cloud
 Use LotusLive APIs
 Easily retrieve track information in the LeadManager UI
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30. Notify a User When an Event Happens
 Publish events happening in the application to the Activity Stream
 Synchronously, when the event happens
 Asynchronously, from an agent, when an action has to be taken
 Let a user choose the events he is interested by
 Filter on companies
 Filter on events: customer changes, lead changed...
 Display the event in context using the embedded experience
 Display an XPages gadget in the activity stream showing either the customer or the event
 Send an email
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31. Find Information on People
 For internal members - employees
 Display the people business card when a user is displayed
 Go to the member profile
 Look for profiles working on similar leads
– Search similar leads and the access the people in the community
 For external members – customer contacts
 Find related information on the public network
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32. Communicate with People
 Start instant messaging conversation
 Add presence awareness to the user names
 Add Sametime chat capability using the ST proxy
 Send an email within the context of a company/lead
 Create the email with some data pre-added
 Setup meetings on the fly, with the interested people
 Send calendar invitations using the Social Mail Gadget
 Create the Sametime meeting room, if needed
 Allow instant meeting and screen sharing
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33. Collaborative Editing Experience
 Collaborative editing experience
 Work on a contract with other people
 Leverage LotusLive Symphony for concurrent editing
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34. Hiring Worklow
 A classic hiring workflow can be improved by using social techniques
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35. Hiring Workflow
 Post job opening to company pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
 Vice versa consolidate comments to the postings back in the workflow
system UI
 Twitter regularly/on scheduled basis about open jobs
 Vice versa consolidate replies to the postings back in the workflow system
UI
 Agent collects a summary of information found in the internet (e.g.
Facebook, blogs, etc) about candidates
 Create a Connections activity to define collaboratively the job description
and/or to discuss which candidate to take
 Via Connections profiles find similar jobs within the organisation, check
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36. Personal Website
 Allow Facebook comments and likes
 Share blogs and websites
 Manually
 Automatic/background
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37. Personal Website
 Upload to and embed pictures from Flickr
 Upload to and embed videos from YouTube
 Upload to and embed slides from SlideShare
 Embed widgets (e.g. latest entries) from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
on the personal website
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38. Personal Website
 Visitors can rate any page
 Visitors can like any page
 Visitors can comment on any page
 There are views/sitemaps to filter pages by these criteria
 Website provides widgets with updates from this website
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39. References
 OpenNTF project: http://socialenabler.openntf.org
 IBM Social Business Toolkit wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/
appdevwiki.nsf
 API Test Application: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/vulcan/shindig/client/
testAPI.jsp
 Embedded Experience: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/activitystream/
 Oauth: http://oauth.net
 OpenSocial: http://opensocial.org
 Activity Streams: http://activitystrea.ms
 Niklas Heidloff's blog: http://heidloff.net
 Lead manager base application: http://www.openntf.org/p/Lead%
20Manager%20X
 Lead manager article: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/
lead_manager_x_overview.htm
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