Download to read offline
Uploaded byMatteo Pelucco
Social media Hub
This document describes a Magnolia 5 app called the Social Media Hub that allows sharing content to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It provides an overview of key social media trends, the reasons for developing the app, its main features and architecture. The app is currently in version 1.0 and available on the Magnolia Forge, with future improvements planned to add more networks, advanced analytics and better integration with Magnolia workflows.
Social media Hub
- 1. A Magnolia 5App that moves your content to social networks and shows an aggregate view of your social presence Social Media Hub Matteo Pelucco September 18th, 2013
- 2. 2 Table of content A brief introduction Magnolia Social Hub at a glance Social networks trends: 2013 Reasons Features Architecture DEMO Status of the project Future improvements #mgnl_social_hub
- 3. 3 Table of content A brief introduction Magnolia Social Hub at a glance Social networks trends: 2013 Reasons Features Architecture DEMO Status of the project Future improvements #mgnl_social_hub
- 4. 4 A brief introduction:Tinext Who we are: Tinext Swiss company (Lugano/CH & Gallarate/IT) Founded in 2001 Enterprise oriented solutions More than 500 projects 40 employees Highlights www.alarabiya.net www.rsi.ch www.lausanne.ch www.lugano.ch www.ticino.ch www.royalcaribbean.it www.tinext.com
- 5. 5 A brief introduction:Tinext and Magnolia We started to use Magnolia in 2008 Version 3.5.8 (!!) + Magnolia OnAir (RSI, Radio and Television portal) Strong community presence that year Premium Magnolia partner since 2009 More than 60 Magnolia projects launched so far 4.3.x EE 4.4.x EE More than 40 Magnolia modules already released for our customer: Integration of external datasources, SAP, Funds solutions Custom dashboards for managing content / activities / workflows SVN browser, virtual URI, mirroring, Google Analytics spotlights.. Jumping on Magnolia 5 train by the end of September We were waiting for EE! Community We are active in the Magnolia community (forum) A simple module already on the Forge: Frisbee
- 6. 6 A brief introduction:Who am I? Software engineer (senior?) 32 years old I have been working for Tinext since 2007 What I like: Opensource solutions Java + Spring Eclipse Javascript and CSS, JSON CMS ecosystem (not only Java!) High availability websites Leading technical teams What I also like Playing guitar Swim and run Power metal @matteopelucco
- 7. 7 Table of content A brief introduction Magnolia Social Hub at a glance Social networks trends: 2013 Reasons Features Architecture DEMO Status of the project Future improvements #mgnl_social_hub
- 8. 8 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: reasons We decided to share something with the community. Yes, it means CE Ok. But what?
- 9. 9 Social Media Stats Facebook Daily active users: 665 M M = MILLLLLLION: 665.000.000 users. Per day. 80% of the world’s internet population Twitter Is the fastes growing social network 44% is the growth from June 2012 to March 2013 21% of the world’s internet population Google + 26% of the world’s internet population Linkedin 15% of the world’s internet population But they are PRO.
- 10. 10 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: reasons An existing working project That is always a good starting point! Al Arabiya team asked us to develop a Social Media Dashboard Basic functionalities: Share articles on Facebook, Twitter Manual account configuration Automatic hashtagging (simple) Other customers start to require the same functionalities Magnolia 5 has been released and the Conference was approaching.. Ok, it is enough. Let’s do it!
- 11. 11 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: reasons
- 12. 12 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: reasons Which platform to use? We are still working on 4.3.x and 4.4.x branches, but we want to move to 5.x Need to find a way to use the same code on different Magnolia versions Magnolia 5 still supports old-but-gold Pages! Ok. Let’s do a Page App! Mgnl 4.3 Mgnl 4.4 Mgnl 5.0
- 13. 13 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: what we need Multiple social networks support Facebook Twitter Linkedin Google + Content sharing Manual Automatic, during activation Manual sharing of a text Title, text and picture override Multilanguage URL shortening Automatic hashtagging History of what we shared in the past Stats, of course! A lot of them.. Configuration (developers like to configure everything!)
- 14. 14 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: roadmap September ‘13: version 1.0 (CE) Stable overall architecture Ready for Magnolia Conference Development of all functionalities Availability on the Forge (yes, finally we did it!) October ‘13: version 1.1 (CE) Bug fixes, feedback from the community Small improvements November / December ‘13: version 2.0 (CE + EE) Linkedin Advanced stats (more and more stats) Integration with activation workflow Integrated url shortener Native Magnolia 5 App
- 15. 15 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: architecture Maven module Standard Magnolia Module Pages Config
- 16. 16 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: architecture Magnolia 5 Pages launched by 3 apps Magnolia 4.x Pages launched by AdminCentral Menu items
- 17. 17 Magnolia Social Hubat a glance: demo time! Stop PPTing.. Let’s see it in action!
- 18. 18 Table of content A brief introduction Magnolia Social Hub at a glance Social networks trends: 2013 Reasons Features Architecture DEMO Status of the project Future improvements #mgnl_social_hub
- 19. 19 Status of theproject Time spent: 6 working days Ready for production Currently, developed against 5.0.1 CE Should be easily ported to 5.1 EE and easily backported to 4.3.x or 4.4.x Few small improvements to make, expecially for the UI The module is on the Forge http://git.magnolia-cms.com/gitweb/?p=forge/social-media- hub.git;a=summary Please, download! Use it! And tell us what you need more! Wiki page http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Social+Media+Hub
- 20. 20 Table of content A brief introduction Magnolia Social Hub at a glance Social networks trends: 2013 Reasons Features Architecture DEMO Status of the project Future improvements #mgnl_social_hub
- 21. 21 Future improvements Movefrom a JS solution to a Java solution This allows automatic content sharing during activation Issues with Twitter: sometimes, OAuth (1.1!!) token needs to be refreshed (manual operation) More advanced Facebook Insights Export to PDF Automatic daily/weekly mail reports Other social networks support Google +, LinkedIn
- 22. 22 Future improvements Socialnetwork pluggability: Part of the code needs to be rewritten This will allow to inject other social networks «by-configuration» (IoC) In-page stats / sharing toolbar Code refactoring to have the same functionalities immediately available on Magnolia 4.3 / 4.4 Now there is a branch, few Java classes to change.. Native Magnolia 5 App BOT posting automatically post/tweet from a list of text messages
- 23. 23 Q&A time Doyou have any doubt? Now it is time to ask! Or during the coffee break / launch! If you prefer, you can contact me later: Email: matteo.pelucco@tinext.com Mobile: +39 347 4531281 Skype: tinext_matteo_pelucco
- 24. Thank you foryour attention. Tinext SA Strada Regina 42 6943 Bioggio Switzerland +41 91 612 22 66 info@tinext.com www.tinext.com Tinext Italia Srl Via Borghi 8 21013 Gallarate Italy +39 0331 667 747