Yesterday, May 4th 2016, Microsoft hosted “The Future of SharePoint” event in San Fransisco, USA. The host was Jeff Teper, corporate vice president for OneDrive and SharePoint, and along with other Microsoft presenters, Teper showcased the road-map for the SharePoint platform – both on-prem and in the cloud.
Along with announcing the general availability for SharePoint 2016, Microsoft highlighted new SharePoint features and functionality. You can read all about the event and the announcements on the Microsoft Office Blogs post. I will in the days and weeks ahead, cover the new functionality with real-world examples.
Before the event, Microsoft used the Twitter hashtag #FutureOfSharePoint to promote the event. Whenever I attend events, I use Twitter as a way to interact with the speakers and other attendees. For this event, I followed the Twitter hashtag and setup a ‘column' within Tweetdeck to show all tweets for the event. For this event though, I did something new to track the social interaction 
during the event. Microsoft released Microsoft Flow, an online product that allows anyone to “create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more.”
I setup a flow to capture all tweets containing the hashtag #FutureOfSharePoint and saved them to a list on my SharePoint Online site.
It worked really well and I started looking at the data to see if I could see any trends. The first thing I checked was who sent the most tweets during the event – this included tweets the users had written and RTs they posted. There was a clear winner:
One person rose above all & tweeted the most during the #FutureofSharePoint event today: @jennifermason. #Analytics pic.twitter.com/jYYzFZljuO
— Daniel Glenn (@DanielGlenn) May 5, 2016
Jennifer Mason posted a total of 103 tweets during the time I was capturing. Her explanation for sending so many:
@DanielGlenn @vladcatrinescu @SharePoint I was so excited! I had a lot to share 😀
— jennifermason (@jennifermason) May 5, 2016
Jennifer wasn't alone, we were all really excited and it does show throughout all the tweets. The Twitter activity over the course of the event was great to see and I will keep looking into the data.
The #FutureOfSharePoint word cloud the day after with the dust settled. I think that @jeffteper won the day.. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/6kF9JoWiBz
— John White (@diverdown1964) May 5, 2016
John White (@diverdown1964) shared a link to a Power BI report that he created, presumably with help from Jason Himmelstein (@sharepointlhorn) and Dave Feldman (@bostonmusicdave).
To see social media stats 4 #FutureOfSharePoint – https://t.co/AqGRI0vtxf. Props to @sharepointlhorn @bostonmusicdave #PowerBI
— John White (@diverdown1964) May 3, 2016
You can get access to the web report by clicking here. Make sure the FutureofSharePoint hashtag is selected at the top right of the report.
I am really excited for what SharePoint 2016 will bring & you can learn more at SharePoint Saturday Nashville on May 14th, 2016! It is the first chance after the Future Of SharePoint event that you will get to meet and speak with a large group of platform MVPs and industry experts at a local SPS event. Register now!