This post serves to also announce the release of version 0.5 of my Facebook Kit for SharePoint. This new version contains a great new feature titled "Embedded Sharing with the Facebook Kit for SharePoint". The feature allows for all content within a site collection to be easily shared between employees and friends who are members of the Facebook community and users on a given SharePoint site.

How it works is custom actions are deployed throughout the site(s) in convenient places, and a user can click the action and share that content with their friends. When they click an action, they can either share the content with a select group of friends, or they can publish the content on their public profile for optional consumption. This will provide excellent business value to your organization and SharePoint sites because it will help generate more sharing of content, more collaboration, and easier/quicker access to content that is important. On a security note, any security concerns are mitigated because SharePoint will still prompt the user to log in when/if the user clicks the link back to the content.

Here are the screen shots for what a user sees when they click an action (loads in modal dialog):

Post to profile:

Share with specific friends:

Final result:

As you can imagine, this sort of "sharing" of content can greatly make your SharePoint sites more "Social". I see a lot of collaboration potential since more and more corporations are leveraging Facebook to connect their employees to one another, and now those businesses can use it to help make their employees more efficient. I also see a unique opportunity to communicate with clients and customers. Facebook is a very non-intimidating way to communicate, and this content sharing feature provides a nice way to "Push" content to clients on Facebook. In the end, I hope this sharing will provide a lot more fluidity for corporations to get their employees collaborating more effectively.

MORE SCREEN SHOTS

Share a Site

Share a List or Document Library

Share a Document or List Item

Neat huh?

Phil