Managing social equity in a portal platform

摘要

An administrator can use a portal platform to manage social equity for social collaboration features of the web sites. A goal is to encourage users to contribute to an on-line community's social activities such as its blogs, message boards, and wiki pages. The portal platform supports social equity features, where users can earn points for their participation. The administrator can specify a counter period, where the points accumulated during the last period are reset. This feature can be used to encourage continual participation by the users.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a portal server executing portal software that allows an administrator to build at least one web site for users, wherein the portal software comprises a library of portlets; allowing the administrator to build a portal web page for the web site, managed by the portal server, by selecting at least a first portlet and a second portlet, wherein the first portlet comprises social collaboration tools; associating the first portlet and the second portlet to the portal web page, wherein the first portlet and second portlet are accessible to users accessing the portal web page; using the first portlet, retrieving a listing of social activity, wherein the listing comprises a plurality of actions, each action corresponding to an asset, a type of social equity, and a number of points; using the first portlet, extracting a plurality of assets on the portal web page, wherein each of the plurality of assets correspond to the second portlet executing on the portal web page; using the first portlet, based on the listing of social activity, associating with each asset of the plurality of assets a type of social equity and a number of points; tracking the plurality of assets corresponding to the second portlet on the portal web page; using the first portlet, detecting a first action by a first user with a first asset on the portal web page; and using the first portlet, incrementing in a social equity points database for the first user, a first number of points with a first type.