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status.net is activitystreams enabled !
is now 
enabled !
Thanks to Olof Tjerngren who wrote the extension !
We already using this version for our Communtiy Equity implementation
You can try it out on the CeQ demo site .
Also here is an example on how we calculate the top contributors and top notices using Community Equity
Here is the instruction how to configure the status.net activitystrea.ms extension
The merge request is number #2217
http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/merge_requests/2217
Configuration:
To activate (the only required setting):
$config[‘activitystream’][‘enabled’]=true;
Changing the value used for person id:
$config[‘activitystream’][‘id_field’] = ‘email’ | ‘profileurl’ | ‘nickname’ | ‘tag’.
Change default number of entries to include (default 50):
$config[‘activitystream’][‘pagesize’]=<num entries>
Switch to querying all tables - pretty useless:
$config[‘activitystream’][‘method’]=’query’;
The stream is on /activitystream/all and takes a few alternate parameter:
?pagesize=x
Number of entries to include
?datetime=Y-m-d
Entries on this date or newer.
?days=x
Number of days to include
Posted at 08:06AM Nov 26, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[3]
Live Community Equity widgets in a blog post
To demonstrate the capabilities of Community Equity I embedded some live CEQ widgets into this blog post.
How does it work ?
The Community Equity service consumes the site feed from blogs.sun.com and calculates the value of the blog posts and the authors. The result is shown in three widgets
- Tag Cloud: Shows the related tags ordered by Tag Equity ( if you do a mouse-over on a tag - its shows the Usage Count and Tag Equity of a tag)
- Latest Blog Posts: It shows the latest blog posts of the site. When you click on the little Equity icon to the right it shows you the social activities of the blog post.
- Top Bloggers: This widget shows the top 10 Bloggers ranked by the Contribution Equity of the authors.
Tag Cloud of Sun Blog posts
Latest blog posts
Hint! When you select a tag in the tag cloud - the Latest Blog posts and Top Bloggers widgets shows the related blog posts and the ranked blog authors.
Top Bloggers
Posted at 03:39PM Nov 25, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Community Equity meets activitystrea.ms
With the latest Milestone 1.2. release Community Equity supports activitystrea.ms . 
Architecture
Supported Verbs
- create: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- update_content http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- update_meta_data: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- update UserGroup: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- update Community : http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- update Person: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- delete information (type of),group,community,user: http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/delete
- deleteUserGroup: http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/delete
- delete Community http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/delete
- delete Person http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/delete
- share information: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/share
- favorite: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/favorite
- unfavorite: http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/unfavorite
- view/download: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/play
- comment information: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
- view/download information: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/play
- tag information http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/tag
- join group: http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/join
- leave group: http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/delete
Currently the activitystrea.ms standard does not support "negative" actions like delete, unfavorite etc.. , so we decided to use our own name space
http://community-equity.org/schema/1.0/verb .
Supported information types
- Attachments ( documents ,video,photos)
- Wiki Page
- Forum
- Issue
- Bookmark
- Web Page
- Microblog
- Notice
- Blog Post
Site connect
We have tested the implementation with following activitystrea.ms enabled sites
- Facebook using the CeQ site connect widget
- Cliqset
- status.net software with an activitystream.ms extension implemented by Olof Tjerngren
Posted at 05:00AM Nov 25, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Communtiy Equity milestone 1.2 released
I am very happy to announce the availability of the milestone 1.2 of the Community Equity open source project.
Milestone 1.2 release description
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activitystrea.ms support - read and process activitystrea.ms enabled sites and feeds
- Facebook connect - integrate Facebook status updates
- status.net connect - integrate status.net software (this is based on an activitystrea.ms extension for status.net from Olof Tjerngren.
- Cliqset.com connect - integrate with cliqset activitystrea.ms feed
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Glassfish WebSpace Server 10 and Liferay Portal integration
- plugin to capture all social events
- supports web pages, blogs, bookmarks, wiki , forum, attachments , polls content types
- all Ceq widgets integrated as portlets
- CeQ administration integration
- Single Sign on
- Tagging and rating events
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Bug fixes and improvements
- Performance improvement
- Application management
- Bug Fixes
James Falkner - for the activitystrea.ms reader implementation Olof Tjerngren - for the activitystrea.ms implementation for status.net
Just watch enclosed video to get a quick overview about Community Equity and the new functionality.
Posted at 05:16AM Nov 17, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[1]
Community Equity Overview paper published
Enjoy 
Posted at 05:07AM Nov 04, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
How to build vibrant communities - a summary
I am asked by several people and organizations to provide a summary description about our work around Community Equity and SunSpace. Instead publishing individual responses I thought its more efficient to write a blog post. So here we go ..
Over the last 8 years our team @ Sun has been tasked to build vibrant technical communities.
During this time - the name of the organization changed from Knowledge Management to Intellectual Capital management to Community Enablement.
It does not really matter would you call it - the most important lesson we learned is
It's all about people - adoption - value
This does not mean that architecture, tools and technologies are not important. But you can build the coolest (social) site and community platform and tools - but what if the users don't use it ?We spent a lot of time to learn and research what people motivates to contribute and participate in communities and developed a simple but efficient model on
How to build vibrant communities
Value System -What is in it for me
Behavior of people are highly influenced by the perceived value. Each vibrant community has its specific value system.
Example: A manager has two people reporting to him - a sales rep and a technical engineer.
He ask both the question: " Next calendar year - you can choose between a.) to get 5% more salary or b.) working an a cool project."
Guess what the sales rep will pick versus the technical engineer .
Based on this findings we created a Method and System for tracking Social Capital (Community Equity). Community Equity has been deployed as part of Sun's internal Social Community platform called SunSpace and is in production since July 2008. In July 2009 Sun open sourced Community Equity under the BSD license.
In SunSpace we implemented various Tips and Tricks on how to show the values to the users
- myEquity widget showing the values and ranking of a person on their myProfile (Facebook like component of SunSpace)
- all contributions of a person are automatically aggregated on a users myProfile
- Top Contributors widgets
- Specific "honored" community roles displayed on their MyProfile page
- Recognition programs
- etc....
Example of the Community Equity widgets can be found here
Methodology - Adoption
Communities don' t just work. The creation and sustaining of communities needs active facilitation.
As part of the SunSpace deployment we created a Community cookbook which covers following topics 
- Community overview (CoP,project teams, social networks ...)
- Community build (roles,responsibilities,measures, getting started)
- Active Community management (facilitation tips & tricks, health check )
- Scalability (community driver model, self supporting communities)
- etc.
A good example of best practices can be found on the Onestop blog .
Architecture - Federated Services
From an Enterprise 2.0 perspective a secure and federated services architecture should be designed to allows to deploy and consume (any) internal or external services.
ohh - and don't forget to enable the architecture for all the emerging Mashup's .
An explanation about the SunSpace architecture can be found here
so - where is the proof of the pudding?
The implementation of SunSpace has been proven to be successful . Since we launched SunSpace in July 2008 we have
- > 25'000 users
- 10 time growth within six month
- > 500 communities
- > 130'000 content objects (wiki pages, attachments etc.)
- > 5.5 million social activities
- consolidation of 3 existing knowledge management tools (aka shutdown these sites )
Posted at 03:43PM Sep 28, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Community Equity -Innovation at Sun -Podcast live
Happy listening
More information can be found on http://blogs.sun.com/innovation/entry/community_equity
Posted at 08:54AM Sep 23, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Tracking Social Capital Patent published
The Patent METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING SOCIAL CAPITAL (pdf version) has been published by United States Patent & Trademark office.
This patent was filled in Feburary 2008 as part of the Community Equity project.
Happy reading
Posted at 05:42AM Sep 21, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[1]
Enterprise 2.0: Social Software on Intranets
The Nielsen Norman Group has just released a new report called
Enterprise 2.0: Social Software on Intranets
This report collects best practices for how to design social features for intranets, including:- Blogs
- Microblogging (intranet equivalents of Twitter)
- News feeds (RSS)
- Wikis
- Social networks (intranet equivalents of Facebook)
- Tagging and social bookmarking
- integration of these features with the overall intranet
- adapting Web 2.0 to a company's culture
- community management
- governance issues
Read Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox about the report
Sun actively participated in the report and following topics will be covered
SunSpace - Sun's social community platform for customer engineering
Sweet - Sun's internal microblogging pilot
Community Equity - Sun's innovative value system for Online communities
Onestop - Sun's most valuable technical community
SLX - Sun's online video sharing platform
This is an excellent and valuable report and will help you to turn our old fashioned Intranet into vibrant communities
Posted at 01:00AM Aug 16, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[2]
Community Equity - Kenai and Netbeans 6.7 - cool -
Do you want to load the Community Equity project from Kenai to Netbeans with a few clicks ?
Now you can and it is sooo easy !
You just need to download Netbeans version 6.7
Steps:
1. Login / Register on Kenai
2. Request for a membership in the Project Communit Equity by "bookmark" the project.
3. In Netbeans, login to Kenai (Menu Team > Kenai > Login)
4. Get the Community Equity (Open Source) code from Kenai, use /trunk to get the latest version
5. Open the 6 downloaded projects. After opening, you may be need to correct the JDK plattform version (to 1.6) in all project properties to a version you have available.
6. Build & Run the project ceq
(Thanks to Max Wegmueller for providing the description)
That's it ...
...and btw Kenai und Netbeans support chat rooms as well - join the Community Equity chat room if you have questions or if you want to meet the Community Equity Community members.
Joining a chat room is easy. Download your favorite jabber client (Pidgin, Adium, etc...) and use the following settings:
Protocol: xmpp or jabber
Username: your kenai username
Password: your kenai password
Domain: kenai.com
Chat room name: community-equity
Posted at 04:37AM Jun 07, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Community Equity Open Source
On June 1st 2009 @ CommunityOne in San Francisco, we announced the availability of Community Equity as an Open Source Community project !
Feature Summary
- BSD license
- Scalable Java EJB foundation
- Restful Web Services
- Widgets
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- My Community Equity
- Top Information, People, Country, Communities
- Tag Cloud
- Information Listing
- inter-widget communication
- internationalization
- Equity Administration
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- Value administration
- Blacklist administration
- Activity administration
- ATOM and RSS feed reader
- OpenSSO integration
- Plugin API
Installation
- Download Binary Code
- Install/Run (Instructions)
- Join the Kenai Community
- Following http://twitter.com/communityequity for real time updates
View the slideshare presentation for more details
A big thanks to the team for their hard work - Guys we did it !
- MaxWegmueller - Software lead
- Simone Habegger - Web design
- Josef Holy - Social interaction design
- Dmitry Ryashchentsev - Math Guru
- Raphael Juchli - Web service developer
- Thomas Bruhin - Widget developer
- Dr. Paul Schoebi - Planning lead
- Andre Naef - EJB foundation developer
- James Falkner -WebSynergy lead architect
and to Hal Stern for his executive support and guidance.
Screenshots
Posted at 06:55PM Jun 01, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Community Equity news ...
Will you be at CommunityOne next Monday ?
Then you should join our session
ID#: S304174
Title: Community Equity: A Social Value System for Social Networks
Track: Social and Collaborative Platforms
Date: 01-JUN-09
Time: 01:40 PM - 02:30 PM
Room: North Hall 124
and following - http://www.twitter.com/communityequity for real time updates
Why ? You will hear some interesting news about Community Equity .... stay tuned
Posted at 01:47AM May 30, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Community Equity Widgets explained
How do we visualize Community Equity ?
This blog post explains the various widgets we have implemented as part of our SunSpace project.
Feedback is highly appreciated !
Personalized Widgets
This are set of widgets which are personalized for a specific user
My Community Equity
Use Case: Show the overall Contribution and Participation Equity across all communities of a user
Objective: Motivate a user to improve her/his overall ranking
Remark :
- Data Privacy laws (in our implementation only the user can see this widget)
- Show % of ranking can be misleading when you have only 5-10% of very active users
(Personal Note)
I don't really like this widget. I would like see more and eBay like model with stars,diamond etc..
any feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated
(End Personal Note)
My Contribution Tag Cloud
Use Case: Show all Contribution Tags of a user ordered by Tag Equity (Social value of a tag)
Objective: Show a users expertise based on her/his overall contribution
Remark :
- need a clear tagging policy.
- Skills (tags) should be suggested during content creation
- can be combined with Contribution Listing widget via inter-widget communication
My Contribution Listing
Use Case: Show all Contributions from user ordered by Information Equity (Social value of an information)
Objective: Show a users contributions with the highest social value
Remark :
- can be combined with Contribution Tag Cloud widget via inter-widget communication
Community Widgets
This are set of widgets which are related to all or to a specific community
Top Communities
Use Case: Show the top xx communities
Objective: Motivate communities to get into the top ranking of all communities
Top Contributors - Top Countries
Use Case: Show the top xx contributors or countries of all or a specific community
Objective: Motivate people to get into the top ranking of a community
Remark :
- if a user is not in the top x ranking but is part of the community her/his ranking is shown at the bottom of the widget
Top Content
Use Case: Show the top xx content of all or a specific community
Objective: Show the most valued content of a community
Remark :
- if a user looking at this widget - own content she/he has authored is shown in bold
We can use the tag cloud or listing widget to show the most valued content of a community
or a specific widget to show the top content. Furthermore there is an activity widget which shows the details per content (URL)
Expert Calculation
Use Case: Show the top xx experts for tag x
Objective: Automatically calculate expertise of users (our countries with expertise) based on the social feedback they receive on their contributions
Remark :
This is probably the coolest expert location model today as it calculates experts based on contributions of a user and the
social feedback of the entire community
What's next ?
We are tuning the mathematical model and history service to provide time bound Equity.
As example we want to show to most valued person,content or community during a specific time period.
Posted at 02:35PM Feb 16, 2009 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[4]
Salzburg New Media Lab: How to build vibrant communities
Today I had the opportunity to present at the 5 year anniversary event of Salzburg New Media Lab Competence Center.
See the presentation (find out the changes from the last version I posted )
Posted at 01:27PM Oct 02, 2008 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[0]
Interview with Shel Israel about Community Value System
Shel Israel's summary:
"As the chief architect of Sun's Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a psychologist, and a carnival ringleader. An attempt to mesh Web 2.0 technologies with corporate communities, he hopes to inject fun and serendipity into information exchange.
In one of the more exciting technologies I've seen, CE2.0 is equal parts Facebook, corporate intranet, and community forum. The ability to aggregate and display community participation, and to profile the individual on a community equity model is incredibly innovative"
Many thanks to Shel Israel (interviewer) and Robert Scoble (camera man)
It was a lot of fun
Technorati Tags: CE 2.0, Enterprise2.0, Mashup, scoble, Semantic Web, Social Capital, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web 3.0
Posted at 06:17PM Mar 19, 2008 by Peter Reiser in Community Equity | Comments[2]