BBC: New social network aimed at improving education (IBM Connections)
This is terrific - a BBC Click article discussing how IBM is help local education institutions to evaluate the use of social platforms and analytics to assist students to learn: IT company IBM and Brockenhurst College in the UK have created a private soci ...
The Oatmeal: My email is a monster
The Oatmeal nails it... You need to read the whole cartoon...
Establishing and maintaining a social identity: four to follow, four to avoid!
Here are my four standards for creating and maintaining a positive identity or brand online... Be yourself. Be original. Be authentic. Demonstrate integrity. That's not in any way meant to suggest that I get it right all the time - ...
Dropbox announces mobile Office app support
We've partnered with Microsoft Office to help you do more on your phone or tablet. Now you can edit Office files from the Dropbox app and access your Dropbox directly from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for iPhone and iPad. When you're inside the ...
POODLE fixed within IBM Connections
A few weeks back I had blogged about the POODLE bug which had hit IBM Connections quite hard. IBM delivered a fix today ! Thank you for that IBM as we really needed this for our customers. The IBM technote for this can be found here If you need help jus ...
Use and Adoption of IBM Connections – State of the Market 4Q2014
Michael Sampson has just published the results of this year's IBM Connections usage survey: A couple of months ago I kicked off a global survey on the use and adoption of IBM Connections. The survey garnered 58 valid responses, and the results are finall ...
IBM FileNet (CCM) and soccnx
Last 2 days (13 & 14 November) the most important User Group for the IBM Connections world has been held in Stockholm in Sweden called "Social Connections". I attended this event and it was a perfectly organized event once again ! On this event I meet ...
Stop sending me attachments! Part 3: but how?
So after exploring the reasons why users still send e-mail (part 1) and trying to analyse the reasons why people have not changed their ways and how products have not helped the people either (part 2). In this third and last part of the essay present six ...
Stop sending me attachments!! Part 2: the analysis…
So there are many reasons why people have their habits (part 1), not least in the product they use in their daily work life. So in part 2 I will explore the technology angle and look for causes why tools are the way they are and why a seamless integrated ...
Stop sending me attachments!!
Introduction Before I begin, let's first introduce myself. My name is Robert van den Breemen. I am working as an Enterprise IT Architect for over 15 years in a large Dutch government department. I am passionate about technology and the effect it has on th ...
An update on IBM Connections and the POODLE vulnerability
*** UPDATE: 10:53GMT, 3 November 2014 *** As reader Oliver Regelmann has commented below, these fixes are sadly not for the POODLE issue at all, but to fix an altogether different vulnerability in Connections, caused by a issue in Apache Commons FileUplo ...
POODLE bug hits IBM Connections hard
Last Monday there is again found a big hole in the SSL Version 3 (SSLv3) technology. We call this bug POODLE which stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. So with this bug found and you as admin for your IBM Connections your first react ...
Big news for security in IBM Connections
IBM Connections has a strong representation in the market of collaboration. As IBM Notes & IBM Domino have a long history in the collaboration market you can also imagine that lots of customers who are already using IBM Notes and/or IBM Domino also ha ...
IBM Connections Mobile app for android
One of the best parts of IBM Connections is the fabulous mobile application for android and iOS. But as all software in the world out there has bugs also this one consists of bugs. Last week with close working with IBM Support we have eliminated one more. ...
Introduction of Sjaak Ursinus
Hi to all of you. I have been asked to blog here on ibmconnections.com by Stuart McIntyre. So first lets do an introduction of myself here. My name is Sjaak Ursinus and I live in the Netherlands. I am working in the ICS market (IBM Collaboration Solution ...
Using IBM Connections? Please complete this research survey!
My good friend and esteemed analyst and author, Michael Sampson, is asking for feedback on your usage of IBM Connections: I am running a research survey on how organizations are using IBM Connections. The survey has 17 questions, spread across four pages: ...
My Social Connections VI session: ‘Social Business: The unstoppable force to overcome immovable objections’
As you may have heard by now, we took the significant step of recording every single session at Social Connections VI back in June. As the videos have been processed and uploaded, the team have been publishing them on our Vimeo channel as well as highlig ...
Transforming traditional Intranets ‐ three places to focus
A really useful new whitepaper from Jive, authored by the always insightful Gia Lyons: Many of today’s intranets are frustrating: Frustrating for employees to use, for content owners to govern, for IT to integrate, maintain and support. It’s time to mode ...
Ovum Research publishes ‘SWOT Assessment: IBM Connections Version 5.0 and IBM SmartCloud Connections’
Ovum Research 'create tangible business advantage for our customers by providing actionable intelligence that can be relied upon in evaluating opportunities, benchmarking performance, and making better business-critical decisions.' In short, they researc ...
The Top 25 Global Social Business Leaders
Social business is about much more than social media. A social business is an organisation whose culture and practices encourage networks of people—employees, partners, customers and others—to create business value, and, ultimately, increase revenue and p ...
IBM Connections 4.5 CR5 is now available
When IBM Connections was first released, all patches to the on-premises code were released as iFixes - individual fix packages that could be installed and deinstalled individually. This was really flexible and allowed issues to be patched very quickly but ...
Experiences with IBM Connections 5
I just wanted to quickly recommend a couple of posts from Julius Schwarzweller at German IBM business partner, GIS AG. He was quick to get hold of the new IBM Connections 5.0 release and has been working with it for the past few weeks. He's been kind eno ...
Apache Struts security issues ‐ time to patch your IBM Connections install
I've just come across an IBM technote from May 2014 that has been updated over the last few days, listing details of a number of vulnerabilities in Apache Struts: Several security vulnerabilities have been reported against Apache Struts through April 201 ...
Ephox EditLive for IBM Connections updated
The powerful enhanced rich text editor for IBM Connections, Ephox EditLive, has just been updated to version 2.5.2.45 and is available from IBM FixCentral: 1. interim fix: EditLive-for-IBM-Connections-4.5 Ephox EditLive 2.5.2.45 for IBM Connections 4. ...
IBM Connections QuickSearch for Chrome updated
I first blogged about the IBM Connections QuickSearch plugin for Google Chrome three weeks ago. Back then it was at version 1.8. Remarkably since then the author, Romain Lienard, has released four updated versions: V.2.2: - New group feature !!! - Can ...