IBM Connections Cloud: Rakin’ in the 💙s
Now you can put your heart into it when you like something in Connections Cloud. The new heart icon has universally replaced the word “Like” or, in some places, the happy face icon.
Tag: IBM Connections
T’was ten years ago… (Lotus Connections & Quickr)
Unfortunately I’ve just missed the actual anniversary, but I thought it worth celebrating that this week marks a decade since the announcement (on 22nd January 2007) of two products that have had an immense impact on my working life, Lotus IBM Connections and Lotus Quickr.
CGATE – an easy-to-use front end for IBM Connections
Interesting release from Swedish ISV, EGBS: CGATE is a delightful and easy to use front end for IBM Connections. It will be customized to your organization and your employees – no need to adapt your processes to the tool, or for your employees to learn a new vocabulary. The users will get started in no […]
Beautiful European capital city? Check. Great social program? Check. Awesome Social Business conference agenda? Bingo!
Social Connections is back, this time for our sixth major European conference: Social Connections is headed for the beautiful and historic city of Prague in the Czech Republic! What’s more, we’ll be bigger and better than ever… It will be our first ever two-day event, starting at 12pm on Monday 16th June and concluding our formal agenda at […]
Avoiding CSS cache issues in IBM Connections 4.5
Many IBM Connections 4.5 admins may have seen this kind of thing in the past: Users see the page structure in their browser but with formatting badly mangled. Often clearing cache and refreshing page, or else just waiting a few minutes and trying again, appears to resolve it. The issue is browser- and platform-independent, and […]
IBM Connections and WordPress
As a strong advocate of IBM Connections and a heavy WordPress user (8 sites and counting), I’m really really pleased to see this new integration from the expert folks at AppFusions: Features include: Post to Connections Activity Stream when a blog post is published Display Connections Community Card as a WordPress widget WordPress gravatar/profile pic […]
IBM Connections Activities: too many nodes
Hit this issue the other day with a customer (and yes, it was a mammoth Activity!)… Here’s the IBM technote (emphasis mine): In IBM Connections, what is maximum number of entries that can be added to an Activity? Question In IBM Connections, it is possible to add content to an activity either in the form […]
The new IBM Sametime widgets for IBM Connections are now available
I posted last week that new Sametime integration had been announced for IBM Connections, in the form of Meetings and Chat Room widgets. However, at the time they had not yet been released. Well, good news! They are now available for download from the IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog: IBM Sametime Meeting Rooms Widget for IBM […]
One of the new features in IBM Connections 4.5 CR3: ‘community re-parenting’
As you may be aware by now, IBM Connections 4.5 Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3) shipped yesterday. Amongst the detail of that fixpack, is a description of the new functions contained within it: 1. Reparenting communities This function allows an administrator to modify a top-level community to become a subcommunity of another community or modify […]
IBM Connections 4.5 CR3 released
After a couple of false starts, IBM Connections 4.5 Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3) has been released on FixCentral for download. 4.5.0.0-IC-Multi-CR03-LO77120 is 742 MB in size and is available for all server platforms. It is a fairly major update, and therefore requires database schema changes. If CCM is installed then there is a requirement to […]
IBM Connections Touchpoint: on-boarding for new users
A new project from the IBM Labs – IBM Connections Touchpoint… The IBM Connections Touchpoint provides an interactive user experience that can be used for a wide variety of end user touchpoint scenarios, such as new user profile creation, community and network contact recommendations, organization polling and more, driving user engagement and increasing the business […]
IBM Sametime 9 Hot Fix 1 enables additional Connections integration
A couple of great new features shipped in IBM Sametime 9.0 Hot Fix 1 last week: What’s New in Hot Fix 1 In Hot Fix 1, the following features were added to Sametime 9 Communicate, Conference, and Complete offerings: The Chat Rooms widget displays a list of Sametime chat rooms and allows a user to enter a […]
Michael Sampson launches ‘Insights on Connections’
Helping organizations with making collaboration work is the focus of what I do. Earlier this year I wrote and published Doing Business with IBM Connections (2013), a book that explores how IBM Connections can be used to help people in their day-to-day collaborative work. I have been pondering how to keep the ideas flowing with […]
IBM ‘Social Business Online’ app now available
IBM Connect is just around the corner (I travel on Friday, so better crack on with the packing!), and thoughts turn to sessions, schedules and social events. After a few false starts this year, IBM has settled on the Social Business Online tool as the official means to view sessions, create a personal schedule and […]
Make your mind up… (Community platforms)
I appreciate the willingness of so many IBMers to be social and collaborate with those outside the organisation. I love the way that they will go beyond the call of duty and step in to help with issues or discussions. I adore that so many are willing to find information and share it privately or […]
Advertising Social Business
Seen in New York City today: And the ad itself? Whatever you think of the idea of destroying your own office (I’m not too sure about the details of the ad myself), wouldn’t it have been encouraging to see IBM Connections (and IBM Social Business as a whole) being advertised in this very public and […]
IBM introduces the IBM Connections Suite
At the Social Business event in the Netherlands today, IBM announced the new IBM Connections Suite. The Convergence of Social, Unified Communications, and Content Management Including IBM Connections, IBM Connections Community document libraries, IBM Sametime Advanced and IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite, this new solution is designed to provide an organisation will all the tools to offer its users […]
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, go do so now! As this IBM technote states, the default password expires on […]
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, consultants, partners, advocates and developers. Yes, developers too! By the kind invitation of […]
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 Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows provides the following features from Windows Explorer: Upload files for personal use or to share with others Upload […]
IBM Connections Extension option (for Notes/Domino entitlements) now available
When IBM (or rather, I*) announced the entitlements for Notes/Domino 8.5.3 licenses to use Connections Profiles and Files earlier this month, it was clearly stated that there would be an option available for those customers to uplift their entitlements to the full release of IBM Connections. This is now available: The new Connections Extension […]
The compelling returns from IBM Connections in support of social business – five stories
I blogged about this a while ago on the Connections Blog but came across it again today. It’s still a really interesting whitepaper and doesn’t seem to have been widely circulated: A social business transforms itself by activating networks of people. Whether through online communities and meetings, team spaces, blogs, wikis, profiles or other social […]
Join today’s webinar – Lotus Connections 3.0 Overview
Heard about Social Collaboration or Enterprise 2.0 tools and how they can revolutionise your organisation? Want to know what all the fuss is about? Join our Winter 2010/2011 Webinar Series to find out more. Join us today at 4pm UK/11am ET for the second webinar in our Winter 2010/11 series (registration is required): Date/Time Description […]
Want to know more about Social Collaboration? Join our webinar series…
Heard about Social Collaboration or Enterprise 2.0 tools and how they can revolutionise your organisation? Want to know what all the fuss is about? Join our Winter 2010/2011 Webinar Series to find out more. Starting on Tuesday 7th December 2010, Collaboration Matters will be hosting weekly sessions working through a succession of topics aimed at […]
Lotus Connections 3.0: a Technical View on What’s New
A couple of months ago, I delivered a session to the NLLUG 2010 conference on what’s new in Lotus Connections 3.0, covering both the new features in the release and the technical details an admin would need to know in order to plan for their deployment or upgrade. At that time, much of the content […]