One Ring to Rule Them All – Unify SharePoint Social and Public Social with New Social Hub App

If you’re a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, then you’re familiar with the quote, “one ring to rule them all.” But how does this phrase apply to SharePoint and social?

SharePoint 2013 brings a full bag of social goodies, such as micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, following, likes and reputations. These are features that users have been craving and are accustomed to within various social and collaboration tools external to SharePoint.

However, one feature that is still missing out of the box is the ability to easily integrate content from external social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and RSS feeds. Wouldn’t it be great to bring all this content and collaboration into SharePoint and have one interface to view it all? Have you ever wanted to pull social content into your SharePoint site, but didn’t have a tool or the development ability to do so? Perhaps you wanted to integrate media or industry news from Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn into your site, but there was no easy to way do it?

Thanks to an awesome new SharePoint app from Quest Software (now part of Dell) called Social Hub, you will be able to do this with style and ease. Finally, one social dashboard to rule them all – and it’s inside SharePoint!

About Social Hub

Social Hub integrates external social media content within SharePoint, enabling users to view and respond to multiple social media sources from within a single SharePoint interface. With Social Hub users can aggregate and filter content in relevant and meaningful ways, and post to multiple social networks at once to make social collaboration fast and easy. The rich UI makes the experience not only valuable but enjoyable as well. Everyone likes a delightful user experience right? When users experience something valuable and enjoyable together, you have the necessary ingredients for increased usage and adoption.

Check out the alpha version of the Social Hub app now available in the Office store.

We want your feedback!
Let us know what you think of the app and how you plan on using social content within SharePoint. Feedback can be provided via Twitter at @qSocialHub.

Here are some screenshots of Social Hub app in action.

Social Hub App

Social Hub App

Social Hub App

Here are some screenshots of Social Hub app in action.

Quest Software, now part of Dell were signed up as Platinum Sponsors for the European SharePoint Conference 2013. Contact aoife@sharepointeurope.com or call + 353 91 514 501 for more information.

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