Social Office references

[Niclas Lillman, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Might be the wrong place to ask this, but I'm giving it a try...

Are there any good references on sites using Social Office? Preferably from a "social networking perspective" - where focus is on adding/following friends and so on (Facebook style...). I've read about it, but I have yet not seen any implementation of this.

Regards,
/Niclas

[Olaf Kock, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Social office is geared towards intranet use - e.g. for department- or project-communication and collaboration. As it's preconfigured to do "just" that, naturally use of it is typically not visible from outside. This also limits the amount of "sites to point to". Sadly, I'm not aware that we have any case study available for Social Office. I'll try to find out if there's something in preparation (or if it's available and I just missed it)

[Hitoshi Ozawa, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Olaf,

Can you tell me the advantage of Social Office over Portal? Is it mostly the price difference with the Enterprise version?

[Niclas Lillman, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Thanks for your answers/comments!

I'd like to see a comparison between Social Office and the other major players in the "social" area, such as IBM (Connections), Jive, Yammer and so on. I'm also interested in learning how much "out-of-the-box" that the Social Office product is, and/or if one has to spend a lot of time making it work within an enterprise.

[Olaf Kock, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

If you want to try it yourself, just contact [e-mail] for a demo - I can also bring an installed version to the Stockholm community meeting.

In general I can say that the current version of Social Office is meant to provide an "out-of-the-box" experience: It's not meant to be modified a lot, but provide a preconfigured product: Install & use. Plans are to make the next versions a lot more configurable. Currently Social Office deliberately removes some of the underlying features of Liferay Portal in order to provide the experience for the usecase that Social Office is meant to cover.

However, you can do the same (with some work) by configuring Liferay to do the same. Naturally, this involves some work on your side - the work that has already been done in Social Office.

[Niclas Lillman, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Ok. Can you or someone else at Liferay provide me with some more written info about this matter? Maybe some kind of whitepaper?

We have installed and tested (only very superficially) Social Office within our company, but I guess that we have yet not succeeded.

Hope that we can meet up in Stockholm. Maybe I'll get the chance to see SO there.

[Bryan Cheung, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi Niclas,

For Social Networking Facebook-style check out http://teambeachbody.com/, built on Liferay Portal. Also http://developer.cisco.com.

In general, for external social networking / collaboration you are better off with customizing Liferay Portal.