Outlook® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

10. Social Connector

In This Chapter

• Meeting the Social Connector

• Configuring social networks

• Using the People pane

• Understanding Social Connector Security

Outlook’s Social Connector does a little of everything. It displays a person’s recent activities, including email, appointments, and attachments, in a pane at the bottom of an email message or contact. If you have a Facebook or LinkedIn account and have Outlook signed into the accounts, you’ll also see updates the person posts to these social networks.

Meet the Social Connector

When you first open Outlook, the Social Connector is empty, displaying only email to or from the sender or recipients of the selected email messages. If you look at a contact, the Social Connector shows messages ...