IBM Sanity Validation Tool for IBM Connections 4.5
A new and very neat IBM tool has been added to the IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog in the last week or so: The Sanity Validation Tool for IBM Connections 4.5 release was developed to help developers, system administrators, support engineers and eventu ...
TemboSocial Ideas for IBM Connections
I've long felt that ideation is a prime use case for IBM Connections and other social collaboration platforms. Others clearly feel the same way, and whilst standalone tools such as Yambla, BrightIdea and even Elguji's IdeaJam have been very successful, i ...
Watch out for quotes!
Just a reminder to be watchful of non-standard characters in IBM Connections user names, and also to thoroughly review your IBM Connections TDI logs on a regular basis. This is a current APAR (IBM ID required): LO81076: USERS WHO ARE REGISTED WITH QUOTA ...
Greenhouse now running IBM Connections 5.0
This was a pleasant surprise this morning: Yes, the IBM Greenhouse has been upgraded to IBM Connections 5.0.0.0. New features including External Collaboration (which isn't strictly relevant to the Greenhouse), improvements to Files and file-sync (usin ...
Innovate + Impact + Pulse = ?
Last week I ruminated on the future of IBM Connect, and mentioned that a number of the IBM software conferences had been consolidated for 2015... IBM seems to be consolidating its software conferences across brands. We have seen Impact (the Websphere con ...
The future of IBM Connect
Disclaimer - I have no insider knowledge on this topic, these are just my personal thoughts There has been a fair bit of discussion regarding what might happen to IBM Connect (the conference previously known as 'Lotusphere') in the near future... IB ...
Communication patterns around the world
Taken from Richard D Lewis' excellent book, 'When Cultures Collide' (originally published in 1996, updated in 2005), this insightful graphic summarises the author's understanding of how different nationalities and cultures might communicate during a sales ...
Social Business App Dev Workshop: access IBM Connections development course materials at no cost
On occasion, IBM runs an excellent two day Social Business Application Development workshop, which takes users through the Social Business Toolkit SDK, and how it can be used to create applications that leverage IBM Connections content. Sadly these works ...
Everything Connections: Australian IBM Connections user group pilot
Really pleased to hear that Adam Brown and the ISW team are kicking off a local IBM Connections user group in Australia: Is your organisation a social business, running on IBM Connections? Want to learn from your peers in other businesses about how the ...
Open Business: A new manifesto of trust in the workplace
As those who know me well would vouch, I've never been in this business for the technology. Yes I love my gadgets and shiny objects of desire as much as the next person, but neither they nor speeds'n'feeds nor software feature lists get me out of bed in ...
IBM Connections QuickSearch plugin for Google Chrome
Terrific find by Mat Newman this morning... Every now and again one comes across an awesome plugin that demonstrates some fantastic integration between day-to-day applications and IBM's Connections collaboration platform. This one is a Connections search ...
IBM Connections 5.0 has shipped! Here’s what you need to download…
As promised by Luis Benitez at Social Connections VI in Prague, IBM Connections 5.0 shipped on Thursday 26th June 2014. Congratulations to all the team for getting it out of the door on schedule! On that day, it became available for download from Passpo ...
IBM Connections 5.0 documentation now online
With the upgrade to Connections 5.0, IBM has switched from the Wiki style of documentation repository to the 'Knowledge Center', which is a much improved form of the old Infocenter format. I really like this shift - whilst it was initially great to be ...
IBM Connections 5.0 Reviewer’s Guide published
To aid understanding of the features and abilities of the Connections product, IBM offers a Reviewer's Guide - a document that details all the new features available in the latest release plus a comprehensive review of all the existing features. Compiled ...
Good Design is Good Business
I'm an art director in NYC at Ogilvy for IBM. I'm also a design nerd and into the importance of archiving. This is a little spot where I'm saving some beautiful IBM work I come across in the form of hi-res posters. More >
IBM extends championship run in Enterprise Social Software
News from IBM today: Armonk, NY - 24 Apr 2014: IBM today announced that for the fifth consecutive year, IDC ranked the company number one in worldwide market share for enterprise social software. According to IDC's analysis of 2013 revenue, the worldwide ...
Around the world in 31 coffees
Fascinating (and very useful) infographic from the folks at CheapFlights.co.uk: How many have you tried, and what's your favourite?
Introducing Kudos Thanks, peer to peer recognition for IBM Connections
Taking a look at the latest release of Kudos Badges from ISW – the premier reward and recognition product for IBM Connections.
The community now has a hashtag for IBM Connections
Niklas Heidloff and the team at OpenNTF recently raised the question of which hashtag should be used for IBM Connections development-related posts and tweets. It's a very fair question, after all having an agreed common hashtag that is used on relevant p ...
The rise of the Community Manager and the Collaboration Garden: an IBM Social Business Briefing
For our third IBM Social Business Briefing (aka Wicked Wednesdays) on 25th April at Royal Exchange in London, we felt the time was right to move the discourse from thought leadership and education to a more practical footing. Of course, we still leverage ...
Collaboration Matters awarded IBM Platinum Achievement Award
Collaboration Matters were delighted and incredibly honoured to be publicly recognised by IBM last week at the Software Partner Marketing College at IBM South Bank in London. The 'IBM Software Platinum Achievement Award - Outstanding Marketing Achievem ...
Warning for IBM Connections admins – change that Plugin keyfile password!
If you are running IBM Connections (any version) and have configured your SSL connect between the HTTP Server and WAS by importing the WAS SSL certificate into the Plugin keyfile (versus creating your own keyfile) and haven't changed the default password, ...
Social Connections III – Registration is open, session abstracts invited!
Social Connections (the IBM Connections user group) is back, returning for its third event. Scheduled for Friday 22nd June 2012 at the IBM Labs in Dublin, this is the best chance you'll have this year to hear directly from IBM Connections customers, co ...
Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows now available
The IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins Microsoft Windows is intended for Microsoft Windows users, adding social networking features and functionality from IBM Connections services, including Activities, Communities, Files, and Profiles. The IBM Connections ...