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21/102019

Welcome to Let’sConnect 28-29 September 2020

It seems like we only just turned the lights out and closed the shutters when winter arrives and it’s all systems go for planning the next Let’sConnect!

Inspired by the successful event in Munich in September we are very happy to announce the dates for our next event.

Save the dates 28-29 September 2020 for the conference in your calendar. Workshops will be held on 30 September.

Location is not yet set, but it will be in Europe and we aim to reveal the city within the next few weeks.

Keep an eye out on this blog or sign up to our newsletter here

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06/092019

Social dinner with lots of networking

News by Maria Nordin

Grüss Gott in München!

Welcome to Munich and Bavaria.

For the people of Munich and visitors alike, the beergardens of the city are a kind of paradise on earth. This is where people sit with friends at long wooden tables under the shade of mighty chestnut trees enjoying a “Mass Bier” (a liter mug of beer!) .

Therefore it is not a surprise that we invite all our attendees of Social Connections to an evening at the largest beergarden in Bavaria; Königlicher Hirschgarten. Chronicle says it used to be a hunting lodge for the electors, until it changed 1791 to the restaurant.

So welcome to Social Connections Social Dinner!

You must have a valid ticket to the Social Connections conference to get in.

Monday 16 September 2019 19:30

Königlicher Hirschgarten
Hirschgarten 1
Munich

05/082019

Social Connections Interviews : Fadil Channer

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Listen to Social Connections interviewing Fadil Channer, Senior Designer at HCL Technologies.

Learn more how the journey from not knowing anything about Domino or Connections 8 months ago to be a full blast designer of Domino templates.

Edit: Fadil mentions “Domino App Store”. The new name for that is “HCL App Store”.

24/072019

Social Connections Interviews : Danielle Baptiste

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Listen to Social Connections interviewing Danielle Baptiste, Associate Vice President, Product Management at HCL Technologies: HCL Software Division.
Learn more about the first 2 weeks at HCL, which task on the todo list that is on top of the list, the future of Connections and who Danielle Baptiste really is!

11/072019

Session highlight: Enterprise Social Network – why it is important for you! By Lee Bryant

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This session we will present now we are very excited about. It’s all about your workplace, right? And how you as an employee are an important piece of a large cake being your organisation, and what can be done to continuously improve the employee experience.

Learn from Lee Bryant, Postshift, how a mature Enterprise Social Network (ESN) can be a powerful force for organisation change and improvement, and not just a better platform for communication and workplace coordination.

Using the ESN as a connected platform for continuous improvement of the organisation and its processes and practices is a very practical use case that can help engage people who do not yet see the value in sharing their work in the open, and can help foster a culture of emergent leadership, where everybody is encouraged to fix problems getting in the way of new and better ways of working. This talk will share some ideas about how to do this, and how to engage leaders to win their support.

Why so little focus on employee experience?
An agile approach to the continuous improvement of employee experience
Capability and service mapping using your ESN
Identifying and fixing broken processes
Identifying potential for automation
The role of leaders – how to get them on board

Join us in Munich for this and more about ESN, Connections and Working out Loud.

01/072019

Call for abstract extended! Portal added to the agenda

News by Maria Nordin

What a weekend! If the rest of the team just as me had push notifications turned on on their phones, they also noticed the “ding” each time a new abstract came in. We are very happy that so many of you took time off the weekend and submitted your abstract!

But you know us, we always want to do more. Therefore we have decided to extend our call for abstract 1 week. New, and very last, deadline is Sunday 7 July, midnight CET. We do this for 2 reasons:

We have been approached by some of our speakers asking for an extension. We know how it is! Work is overwhelming, the project took longer time etc. Yes, now is you chance!
New topic on the agenda! Times are achanging and we always want to evolve our conference to the better. Therefore we are adding sessions about “HCL Digital Experience” to our agenda. So if you, or if you know somebody who would like to do a session about that, submit your abstract now!

Connections will sooner than later be in the hands of HCL and we all look forward to that! Especially since Social Connections is a key part of HCL’s communication strategy for Connections.

Social Connections – the place to learn, attend, speak, network about Connections!

Submit your abstract here

04/032019

We welcome you to submit your abstract for Social Connections Munich 16-17 September 2019

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We have opened our call for abstract and speakers for our fall conference in Munich.

Submit your abstract here

As always we are looking for speakers who are passionate about collaboration solutions. It can be deep-dive technical sessions, best practices, use cases, success stores, catastrophe stories. Or something unique, that just you thought of. For inspiration, see below.

Do you have any questions? We are here for you: info@socialconnections.info

We are inviting sessions in the following tracks:

Administration – sessions relating to administering collaboration platforms. It could be the design and build of infrastructure, upgrading, managing users, migrating to the cloud, integration with other services or platforms etc. Sessions relating to cloud, hybrid or on-premises infrastructures are welcome!
Case Study – We love case studies! Sessions focused on telling the story of existing collaboration projects. And the more honest the better! Ideally these sessions should feature at least one speaker from the company that uses the platform, but they could be accompanied by a vendor or partner.
Development – how and why to develop for these services. We’d love you to share your tips, techniques and experience of developing solutions or applications, where you might hit issues, and how you overcome them.
Future of Work – sessions in this track should explore topics around the area of improving the productivity of individuals and organisations through the use of collaboration platforms.
Management and Adoption – sessions that take a higher-level view of the issues, challenges and opportunities that surface when deploying collaboration platforms.
Spotlight – this track is designed to give new (or experienced) speakers the chance to present a short session on a topic of their choice. Think of it as being akin to TED talks, but within the framework of Social Connections. You can choose to use a presentation deck or not, to prepare earnestly or to speak from the heart, the choice is yours. What we’re after is insight, interest and passion – the rest is up to you!
New Technology – We also want to reach out to new things, if you feel you have an interesting session on a new technology, please submit in this track.
Sponsor – for those organisations that are sponsoring the event at Gold level or above, there is the option to submit a Sponsor session for the conference.
Workshop – For hands on training. Please supply all information needed on what you need to be able to run it.
Academic – For faculty, IT staff or even students of any academic institution who want to share what they have achieved with collaboration platforms and how they see the future of collaboration.

22/022019

Announcing location of Social Connections 15 – we are going south

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After a period of long thoughts, pondering, discussions, interviews we have decided the next location for our fantastic collaboration and networking conference known as Social Connections.

For the first time ever we stay in the same country as our previous conference, Germany. The reason for that is simply that the community asked us. And who are we to say no. At least for this time only. 😉

So buckle up, we are going south to the beautiful Bavaria and the city of Munich! The home of Lederhosen, Dirndl, Beer and Cars. All with a fantastic mountain backdrop.

We welcome you all to submit your session abstract and register for the conference as soon as we open our systems which should be during the next coming days.

See you in Munich, 16-17 September 2019 for Social Connections 15!

08/022019

Connections User Group – The start of a new Era

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The times they are a-changin! And we are super excited!

As you probably know by now HCL has signed an agreement with intent to acquire Connections along with many other products in the IBM Collaboration portfolio. It’s a huge step and very interesting times for all of us using IBM Collaboration Solutions.

For us in the Social Connections team it is great news and we are very positive about the future of IBM Connections. We saw the velocity with Domino being worked on by HCL and look forward to the dedication and execution of HCL on Connections.

We firmly believe Connections is in good hands!

Therefore, we can’t hold back the enthusiasm when we now announce our next Connections conference. The one-stop place for networking, knowledge sharing and hearing the latest news about Connections.

So join us 16-17 September 2019 for Social Connections 15 in EUROPE!

Platinum sponsor:

Keynote speakers:

Richard Jefts
Vice President & General Manager Collaborative Workflow Platforms

Andre Hagemeier
Director Of Engineering at HCL Technologies

11/102018

Vamos a la playa – join us for some evening fun in Berlin!

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The moment you all have been waiting for has arrived! And trust us, we have been waiting for it too!

Long we thought there was not going to be an evening event this, the 14th edition of our conference. We just couldn’t see how. It actually was a terrible feeling as we know that the evening event where we round off day 1 of the conference, is one of those things that our attendees value the most. To relax after a day of conferencing, have dinner and some fun with that person you tried to chase all day to have a moment to talk to. To make new friends, catch up with dear old ones, and to tie those so important business knots.

Then a series of unforeseen events occurred which made it all possible! Happy faces all around. So what should we cook up this time? Those of you that have visited our conferences before know that we always want to do something more for you all. Good meal and drinks, yes. But also that extra quirky thing, like a special venue, some crazy activity or just something that make you smile.

For example, we have had our events at a playground with go-carts and climbing wall in Stuttgart, a table tennis bar in Chicago, Hockey hall of Fame (!) in Toronto, a Photography Museum in Stockholm or a Science Museum with dinosaurs in Boston.

So, therefore, it’s totally natural for us to invite you to a beach party in Berlin! Yes, you heard right. Beach party.

Welcome to Beach Mitte which is an indoor and outdoor venue with good food and fun games, and an outdoor beach! Enjoy archery at the outdoor bonfire station or challenge your colleague on table football, XXL Jenga or table tennis.

The address is as below and it takes approximately 30 minutes by public transport from the conference venue.

BeachMitte
Caroline-Michaelis-Str. 8
10115 Berlin

We start at 19:30 and continue into the night.