Monday, January 26, 2009
Add Twitter to your SharePoint Site
Adding a Twitter feed to your SharePoint 2007 My Site or entrance dashboard is a quick and easy way to keep your co-workers updated regarding what you are working on.
Quick Twitter updates allow virtual team members to feel more a part of a group, while providing updates on the work being produced, avoiding potential duplication. This becomes increasingly important for virtual team environments, as it has been shown that virtual team members prefer to know what other members of the team are working on.
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- Add Twitter to your SharePoint Site
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- Add a YouTube Video to SharePoint 2007
- Jazz Up SharePoint Announcements with Windows Live Writer 2009
- SharePoint 2007 Mobile Views and Microsoft Tag Beta
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Good information. However, what about a way to view other people’s twits and add your own twits from inside SharePoint? Something like the “BeTwittered” app?
I like your idea, Chris. I’m not aware of anything in the marketplace currently that would provide that functionality. Sounds like something that needs to be written by someone out there. I bet it would be popular!
This is great but wouldn’t it be more useful to display this information on the MyProfile page? I can’t figure out how to let a user put the widget on that page
Hi Michael,
My Sites are a little strange in that two pages presented work differently from one another. One is modifiable and allows the user to place web parts on it, the other is a ‘global’ page that offers the same information for everyone. The ‘global’ page can be modified by someone familiar with .NET to provide the same information to all visitors (although, it can be personalized to the person’s site you are visiting). This is also the reason that you are unable to add a tab (global navigation) to the My Site through the UI interface, even though you are a site admin on your own My Site.
Lee
I have solution for SharePoint and Twitter using XML Web Part.
Is there a way to feed twitter directly from sharepoint, like when a list is upated or alerts?
Please correct me but how is this an easy way to keep your co-workers updated regarding what you are working on if you have placed the webpart on your my home page? Co-workers that go to your mysite would only see your My profile page they do not see your my home page.
I’m having the same issue: a twitter feed on my personal site is pretty useless if nobody can see it. I’d like to share my twitter message with my colleagues, but unfortunately that’s obviously not possible…
Nicole, the example that I created for this video was showing how to place the Twitter code on my MySite page. You can place the content editor on any SharePoint Web Part page and follow the same instructions I outline in the video to do so. Place the content editor on a team site page, paste the code in and people will be able to see your tweets.
Yes sure and that works fine. I didn’t wanna say that your video is useless! Actually I was complaining about the fact that users can’t personalize their profile pages as this is what they can share with their colleagues. Not even talking about the lack of possibilities to customize My Sites in general…
Works great. The Twitter site has changed its naming convention from Apps to Goodies, etc., but I found my way around and copied the appropriate script. Thanks for the tip. Ray