My Newsfeed
The newsfeed is akin to those seen on
Facebook and Twitter and shows a feed of current activity of my
colleagues and me. Activities on the newsfeed consist of a list of
SharePoint tracked events, configured in each personal profile.
Clicking the name of any of my colleagues in the newsfeed takes me to
that colleague’s Profile page, which includes a newsfeed filtered to
that person’s activities.
After SharePoint finished completing provisioning of My Site, the About Me page for my profile shows my newsfeed, as in Figure 6.
Since I have not yet interacted with SharePoint socially, you do not
see any activities in my feed. As I begin interacting with other users
and adding content to My Site, my newsfeed will start to show
activities.
SharePoint tracks many social networking
activities across the farm. By default, your newsfeed will show
everything you do, but you might want to change the sorts of events
that appear on your newsfeed. You can change which activities and
events show in your newsfeed from your Edit User Profile page, as
follows:
- From your About Me page, click the Edit link to edit your user profile.
- Click the ellipses.
- Click the Newsfeed Settings tab.
- SharePoint displays a page like that in Figure 7.
The Newsfeed Settings page allows fine-grained
control over activities you wish to share in your newsfeed, the e-mail
notifications you receive, people you follow, and topics of
interest—hash tags.
You can also access your newsfeed at
any time by clicking the Newsfeed link at the top right of any
SharePoint page. The Newsfeed page differs from the About Me page in
that it shows just your newsfeed and no personal demographic
information like that on the About Me page.
