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16/062022

Let’s Connect interviews at SUTOL

News by Jan Valdman

Our series of interviews with HCL executives continued a week later during Czech Lotus user group gathering in Prague. This time I had an opportunity to talk to Richard Jefts regarding HCL Digital Solutions strategy and innovation and to Luis Guirigay regarding the upcoming product education and certifications. You can watch the interviews on the following links:

  • LetsConnect Interviews at Sutol Richard Jefts, Senior Vice President & General Manager HCL Software – Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies
  • LetsConnect Interviews at Sutol – Luis Guirigay, Senior Global Director at HCL Software

Please check also our other videos on our Youtube channel.

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04/032021

Join our March webinar and take your communities to the next level

News by Jan Valdman

Hi,

today we are happy to bring you some details regarding our first online event in this year – which will take place on March 16 3pm CET! Let us connect together to hear some news regarding WHAT from HCL. We are thrilled to learn more about the next release of Connections later in this year and how it will meet your expectations.

Our main speaker will be Fabio Gervasoni from HCL design team, who will show us how to create attracting and engaging communities.

Take your Communities to the next level

Connections 7 offers new ways of tweaking and customizing the homepage layout of your community and new capabilities made possible by new Connections templates. In this session, Fabio Gervasoni, head of the HCL Connections Design team, will share design tips and best practices on developing Communities that are suited to your needs, attractive and engaging for your specific audiences.

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Fabio Gervasoni joined the HCL Digital Solutions team in January 2020. An experienced graphic designer, Fabio covered different roles ranging from traditional print design and art direction to UX and UI for web and mobile, both agency and in-house. In his current role at HCL he is leading the Connections and Sametime design teams, refining the user experience and look and feel of these key tools in the HCL’s product portfolio.

The second speaker will be John Immerman who will tell us all about the Connections Advocacy Program

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Last but not least, the event is open for all members of the community so if you have something to tell, give us a shout – we can arrange a short timeslot for you. We would also like to discuss our plans for the September conference in Madrid – do you still remember that we have got an amazing venue, huh? We need your feedback regarding your expectations and possibility of international travel.

Please register for the event HERE 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

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17/122019

HCL Ambassador Class for 2020

News by Jan Valdman
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17/092019

Social Connections turned into Let’s Connect

News by Jan Valdman

Yes, you are on the right website – The worldwide Social Connections user group “for IBM Connections and social business” decided to change its name. We are now LET’S CONNECT – we have a new logo, new twitter handle @_lets_connect and a new hashtag #LetsConnect but we are still the same group of people and a great community all around the world.

The announcement was made during the OGS of Social Connections 15 and we will gradually rebrand this site. Later we will also rebrand all social media accordingly.

Thank you for your never-ending support and we are looking forward for the next 15 conferences 😉

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05/092019

We are almost sold out!

News by Jan Valdman

Many thanks to everybody who registered to speak, sponsor or attend our 15th event! We are happy (and also proud) to announce that we reached the planned capacity for the event yesterday. It is great to be part of the “new” HCL Digital Solutions community and to see such huge interest in Connections. We hope you will enjoy the event and hear great news from HCL as well as from all other valued sponsors.

At the moment, we have a few more available tickets only and then we have to put all new registrations on a waiting list. If you are seriously interested to join us in Munich, then you have the last chance to register… hurry up!

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04/092019

Sponsor highlight: Belsoft

News by Jan Valdman

We are happy to welcome Belsoft again as our returning gold sponsor.

Belsoft is situated in the middle of great mountains of Switzerland and therefore they can post on Twitter beautiful views from their office and thus make other business partners jealous. Besides that, they are known as active members of the ICS community and true believers in HCL Connections.

Belsoft provides a variety of solutions in HCL Digital Solutions including platforms to increase your productivity, integration with third party systems, software engineering for individual applications, software licensing and management, training and security.

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17/072019

Social Connections Interviews: Rene Schimmer

News socialconnections interviews ! by Jan Valdman

Several days passed since the deal was closed so HCL can share what they are cooking in their Connections lab. This time we had a chance to interview Rene Schimmer, a long time product manager for Connections, who recently moved from IBM to HCL.

The interview was taken few days ago and you can watch here:

UPDATE: Today I am at HCL Digital Solutions HQ in Chelmsford, MA where I could see some fresh slides on the future of Connections. Stay tuned to learn more in this blog and don’t forget to register for our event in Munich – satisfaction guaranteed 😉.

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25/062019

Sponsor highlight: TIMETOACT GROUP

News gold, sponsor by Jan Valdman

TIMETOACT GROUP is a large German business partner who used to sponsor Social Connections as long as I can remember. Then developed “XCC – Web Content Extension for IBM Connections” which was later acquired by IBM and renamed to “ICEC – IBM Connections Engagement Center”.

TIMETOACT GROUP consists of several companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that cover multiple vendor and open source platforms for collaboration. In the IBM space, and especially regarding IBM Connections, TIMETOACT GROUP  offers three main solutions:

  • XCC/ICEC web content and custom apps solutions
  • CAT – Connections Administration Toolkit
  • UAT – User Administration Tool

In the last year they also added a lot of new integrations for Connections and specially for ICEC: Box.com, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint and more.

We are happy to welcome TIMETOACT Group again among our Gold sponsors.

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02/102018

Sponsor highlight: TIMETOACT GROUP

News sponsor, timetoact by Jan Valdman

TIMETOACT GROUP is a large German business partner who used to sponsor Social Connections as long as I can remember – until their flagship “XCC – Web Content Extension for IBM Connections” has been acquired by IBM and renamed to “ICEC – IBM Connections Engagement Center”. Then we haven’t heard of them for a while – until now.

TIMETOACT GROUP consists of several companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that cover multiple vendor and open source platforms for collaboration. In the ICS space, and especially regarding IBM Connections, TIMETOACT GROUP  offers three main solutions:

  • XCC/ICEC web content and custom apps solutions
  • CAT – Connections Administration Toolkit
  • UAT – User Administration Tool

We are happy to welcome TIMETOACT Group again among our Gold sponsors.

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28/092018

Sponsor highlight: Tiny

News ephox, sponsor tiny by Jan Valdman

A company called Tiny seems to be a new player in IBM Collaboration Solutions  – until you realize that their previous name was Ephox. Tiny has led the market in the development of online rich text editors for almost 20 years and claims to power about 40 % of websites in the world. If you’ve ever created content on the Internet, the chances are you’ve already used one of their products.

Nowadays their leading product is called TinyMCE but you might know also texbox.io or EditLive! which are available for IBM Connections and WebSphrere Portal/WCM. TinyMCE editor is now available also in cloud.

We welcome Tiny as our Gold level sponsor.

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