Let's Connect – The worldwide independent HCL Connections user group

OUR GOAL

Bring users, customers, business partners, analysts and vendor together, virtually and physically to discuss, learn and build relationships.

Expand the community around HCL Connections and provide a place for all of us to meet and get to know each other.

CONTENT

Our physical and virtual conferences and meetups are all about HCL Connections, the primary business tool for Community building in and around your Company.

Adoption, use cases, implementation, tech, roadmaps and so much more. We offer a great mix of business and power user content and technical content

TARGET AUDIENCE

Everyone interested in community building, breaking down silos. Are you a decision maker, power user or technical specialist, you will find what you need at our event. Sessions, networking and some fun in the evening.

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Join our webinar with an HCL Keynote, a glimpse of Connections v8 and the business value of Connections

20/09/2021 News by Maria Nordin

We’ll go straight to the point: The agenda for our 2 half day September event is published!

We have for example several interesting sessions from HCL Offering Management scheduled. For example “Connections v8” and “Business Value of Connections”. And more!

We hope this intrigues you as much as it does to us, so head on over to our website to take a look and register! (Scroll down for some highlights.)

Join us on 28 – 29 September 2021 at 3 pm CET to hear news from HCL and the Let’sConnect team.

HCL Keynote: The State of Collaboration in 2021 and Beyond

As the past year has proven, enabling employees to keep the organization running and meet their professional and personal objectives while working remotely has become a mission-critical requirement.

HCL Connections has always been in the forefront in providing an open platform that fosters engagement, communication, and collaboration. In this session, Senior Vice President Richard Jefts and Vice President Andrew Manby will share their perspective on the state of collaboration today and the role that Connections is playing in driving it forward into the future.

Enterprise Collaboration: A Zoo of Tools – Current Strategies behind Enterprise Collaboration Platforms

Join this session and hear about the different approaches used by user organisations to develop their software portfolio for Enterprise Collaboration.

We are going to discuss the complex collaborative technology landscape in order to understand the evolving portfolios of collaboration software currently in use in organizations. This will include the examination of different areas of collaboration activity that these tools support and the areas of overlapping and redundant functionality. We will present findings from a study of 23 user organisations in which we identified three dominant strategies. In this session, you will learn how the companies in our sample are addressing the zoo of software tools to shape their Enterprise Collaboration Platform.

The Connections Roadmap: A First Glimpse at v8.0

We have shared our plans for HCL Connections 8 in the past so you have probably heard about or even seen the new designs by now. But let us give you a refresher on what the development teams are working on.

Let’sConnect 2021 Update

28/08/2021 News by Maria Nordin

We have news for you! Our September conference which was planned to take part in Madrid, will instead be a virtual one.

As much as we had hoped to gather the community this fall, we have taken the decision to postpone a face to face event to later. Even though the world is gradually openening up, there are still hurdles we feel will be too big at this stage.

In the meantime we want to make sure that the waiting is worthwhile! We are inviting you to a 2 half day online event taking place on the 28-29 September 2021.

We already have several interesting sessions from HCL Offerings Management scheduled, on the future of Connections. And more!.

We now invite you to participate with a session if you feel you have a topic you think might interest the Connections community. If you would like to submit an abstract, please email us at team@letsconnect.world

We have already opened up the registration for the event here.

Agenda and more information will be published in the next coming days.

Let’sConnect soon!

Join our webinar and learn how to kickstart with HCL Connections Engagement Center

21/06/2021 News by Maria Nordin

Summer holidays are getting closer for many of us, and for some winter is coming. Regardless times are changing and we look forward to a hopefully more open world where we can finally gather the community live!

In the meantime we welcome you to our bi-monthly webinar!

Join us on June 29, 2021 at 3 pm CEST to hear news from HCL and the Let’sConnect team.

Agenda snippets below:

HCL Connections news

At our last online event we collected the latest and greatest news all about HCL Connections and presented it to our attendees. We got good feedback on this, so we will of course repeat this news section!

Kickstart with the HCL Connections Engagement Centre

Join this session to learn how to kickstart HCL Connections Engagement Center. Roger will take you through the steps of creating a base intranet page brining content in from HCL Connections and other sources. In 45 minutes you can have a simple intranet. Roger will also show you how to create a separate intranet page for visitors so you don’t expose internal data to them.

Roger Zirn: As a Senior Software Engineer at Belsoft Collaboration AG, Roger gathered his HCL Connections experiences during installations, troubleshooting, administering and customizing tasks for several on-prem as well as for ThreeThirds cloud customers. He started to work in the collaboration area as an HCL Notes and Domino developer 30 years ago (actually, at this time it was called Lotus Notes developer). You can still find him coding @Formulas and LotusScript… sometimes.

Please register for the event in order to receive the webinar link. The event is free!

We are looking forward to see you soon.

Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Martin and Jan

Thank you for joining Let’sConnect Connect Virtual May 2021

19/05/2021 News 2021, connections, hcl, letsconnect, may, virtual by Maria Nordin

Hello!

We are so happy to have held yet another virtual conference in this year of 2021. As much as we wish we could see you all in person we are over the moon of the response we have from the Connections Community. We were a full house again!

This time we had two very interesting topics alongside our popular “Connections News” collected and given by the Let’sConnect team:

HCL Connections News by Wannes Rams from the Let’sConnect team

Upcoming Webinar on Driving Digital Transformation

HCL Connections & Microsoft 365 webinar recording

DS Academy – Upgrading from Connections 6.5 to 7

HCL Connections Roadmap by Adam Gartenberg, Director, Product Management, HCL

With the most recent release of HCL Connections out the door, we are working hard on the next release. In this session we will share a preview of how the next Connections release creates a new experience that will let users enjoy fluid collaboration within Connections and beyond.
Link to Adam’s presentation here
Link to Adam’s session here (Youtube)

Fine-tune HCL Connections to your needs by Jan Valdman, Whitesoft

Once you finish installation of HCL Connections, there are dozens of features you can enable or disable in so called post-installation steps. In this session we will walk through most of the features and advice how to make Connections users engaged and happy.
Link to Jan’s presentation here
Link to Jan’s session here (Youtube)

After the sessions we had a really interesting Q&A session with lots of good questions and answers on the coming versions of Connections and HCL’s plan ahead.

Now we immediately start planning our next conference which will take place on June 29, 2021!

If you are interested to participate in any way (for example speaking in a session), please email us at team@letsconnect.world. Any topic is interesting, and particularly of course upgrading experiences.

Until we meet again,

So long!

The Let’sConnect Team

Join our May webinar to get most of your Connections Deployment and see the Connections Roadmap

05/05/2021 News by Maria Nordin

Hi,

our next webinar is about to happen NEXT week on May 11 3pm CET! Let us connect together again to learn how to get most of your Connections deployment. We have prepared two sessions for you:

HCL Connections news

Fine-tune HCL Connections to your needs

Once you finish installation of HCL Connections, there are dozens of features you can enable or disable in so called post-installation steps. Unfortunately many of the useful features are not enabled by default and therefore missed by many admins to the detriment of users. In this session we will walk through most of the features and advice how to make Connections users engaged and happy.

Jan Valdman works as a business development manager and consultant in Whitesoft, a Czech-Belgian IT company. Jan is a Connections-addict IT evangelist who has log time experience with IBM/HCL technology. He is also an assistant professor on Enterprise IT management and Knowledge management at University of West Bohemia. Jan has been recognized as IBM champion for collaboration solutions 2014-2019 and HCL Ambassador since 2019.

HCL Connections Roadmap presented by HCL

Adam Gartenberg is Director of Product Management at HCL

Please register for the event in order to receive the webinar link. The event is free!

We are looking forward to see you soon.

Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Martin and Jan

Thank you for joining Let’sConnects Virtual March 2021

23/03/2021 News adam, banatwala, bill, conference, connections, gartenberg, jack, miki, odonnell, rams, virtual, wannes, wannes rams, wimer by Maria Nordin

March 2021! Think, a year ago we could not believe we would be living our work lives online and that several office desks are now collecting dust instead of coffee cups. It is already a cliché saying all this, but as strange the world is, it is worth repeating.

Luckily, we have the tools to get the job done. HCL Connections is the meeting point and the central hub where colleagues meet, work, document, collects, learn. A tool which breaks down silos, creates visibility and lets people do their job.

That’s why we in the Let’sConnect team keep on doing our job. Gather people that wants to share knowledge, network and help others. At either physical conferences or as now, virtual.

Last week we had our second virtual conference: Let’sConnect Connects!

Registrations were flowing in and the team was really happy by the numbers!

The reason was of course the topics for the conference:

HCL Connections News by Wannes Rams from the Let’sConnect team
(why upgrade to Connections 7, Install Automations, Connections Sizing Guide)

HCL Connections Client Advocacy by John Immerman, HCL
(join the Client Advocacy and take part in the vibrant Connections Communtity.)
Link to John’s presentation here

Take your Communities to the next level by Fabio Gervasoni, Design Lead HCL
(create engaging and attractive Communities by customizing the homepage layout
of your community, and new capabilities made possible by new Connections templates.)
Link to Fabio’s presentation here
Link to Fabio’s session here (Youtube)

After the sessions we had a really interesting Q&A session where we had a fantastic group of people from HCL helping out answering questions and talking to people from the community:

Adam Gartenberg, Director, Product Management HCL
Miki Banatwala, Senior Software Engineer at HCL
Bill Wimer, Director Of Engineering HCL

And last but not least we got introduced to Jack O’Donnell, the new Director of Development for HCL Connections. We are really excited that he joined us, and we look forward to hearing from him again!

Now we immediately start planning our next conference which will take place on May 11, 2021!

Until we meet again,

So long!

The Let’sConnect Team