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03/072019

Meet Danielle Baptiste

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The Queen is dead, long live the Queen !

We want to introduce you to Danielle Baptiste, Vice President Product Management Connections Portfolio HCL Digital Solutions. In short the lead of product management for HCL Connections. Brand new at HCL since this week, experienced in the product for a long time. Limited by the vacuum around the closing of the deal, she can now finally unleash her full powers on the future of Connections. The future is indeed bright!!

Danielle and her team will be presenting their vision on the future of HCL Connections at Social Connections in Munich. Our event will be key in the HCL communications strategy for HCL Connections. You better register fast as seats are likely to run out fast.

Danielle’s first public communication is live on HCL’s Youtube channel and she is sending a strong message.

03/072019

Workshops September 18

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On the morning after the Social Connections conference, September 18 we will be hosting 2 or 3 workshops. The content of the third one is work in progress but HCL wants you to join their workshops.

When you are booking your flights or other transport and you want to take participate, please take this into account. Goal is to finish the workshop around midday.

No location is known yet for these workshops, but we will update you in the beginning of July on location, timing and content. We will have a separate registration for these workshops and the only requirement is a valid ticket for the Social Connections conference.

28/062019

Social Connections Interviews ! series launched

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Social Connections launches a series of interviews leading up to our next event. We start with an interview with Matteo Bisi, newcomer on the Social Connections team. He shares some insights on his first months on the team.

You can find our Youtube channel here but to follow this series it might be better to bookmark the playlist link

Next Episode is coming soon

26/062019

Meet our platinum sponsor HCL

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We are very proud to present HCL to you, our platinum sponsor for Social Connections Munich. We are extremely pleased that HCL has become our strategic partner for this conference, and working together with them to deliver content is refreshing, agile and forward thinking. They get things done!

HCL will be delivering a keynote featuring Richard Jefts, General Manager for HCL’s Digital Solutions division, and many other sessions. He will be joined by Danielle Baptiste (Lead Offering Manager for Connections), Andre Hagemeier (Lead Developer Connections) and many more to deliver all the news on the future of our beloved software.

HCL will also be holding a workshop the day after the conference on September 18 in the morning. Topic of this workshop will be “LetsConnect: Defining ‘roles’ in collaboration” where Connections Offering management will take you for a deep dive into roles & permissions in Connections. Find more info about it here. We will have a separate registration process for this workshop

13/062019

Join us to listen to customers talking about their experience with Connections. Announcing the first customer sessions

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We are very pleased to announce our first 2 customer sessions today. Join us in Munich to listen to thyssenkrup AG and Evonik.

Dr. Eric Marzo-Wilhelm from thyssenkrup AG will speak with Florian Schwade from the University of Koblenz and share teir unique insight on collaboration and Social Collaboration Analytics. They will share the story of how we.connect (IBM Connections) emerged as a platform for global collaboration at thyssenkrupp AG.

Rainer Gimbel from Evonik will be joined by panagenda’s Luis Suarez to learn about the impact of professional community management to the overall success of ESNs and the possibilities to measure and evaluate their health and maturity.

Both these sessions are an excellent reason to visit Social Connections in Munich on September 16 & 17. You can register here

Got inspired and want to submit a sessions as well, Abstracts are open until end of this month. Don’t be shy, go for it.

17/042019

LetsConnect Vienna with Social Connections

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The Social Connections team is very proud to announce they will assist IBM to host another #LetsConnect episode in the already successful series of events. The previous events have been a blast and the feedback to IBM on the future of the product has already been amazing. But we need more, we need more voices, more feedback, more direction and bright new ideas. And we need them from you!! The actual users of the platform!!!

The session will be hosted in Vienna at the IBM building and will be held on Thursday May 16. So put on your creative hat and see below for practical details.

Picture from Zurich event, courtesy of Dani Luginbuehl

If you want to participate, please register here.
Don’t wait too long as spaces are limited and will fill up very fast.

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19/032019

#LetsConnect

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IBM is running a series of jams to define the future of Connections. These interactive workshops will take place physically and virtually to iterate on the next version of Connections. Business leaders, Community managers, stakeholders, … come and help define the future of the product

Workshops will be held in the following locations:

Belgium, Brussels (May 13)
France, Paris (April 5)
Germany, Frankfurt (April 1)
UK, London (April 10)
US, Charlotte NC (April 30)
Switzerland, Zurich (April 3)
Asia Pacific (2H 2019)

20/022019

The Social Connections team went to IBM Think in San Francisco we are bringing back all the news about Connections to you

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We are super excited about the announcements and vibe around Connections at IBM Think

To start off with, just days before the conference, IBM released CR4 for IBM Connections 6. You can find a full description of what is new in that release here, but we wanted to share some highlights.

#New Community Catalog Page
The new design is following the Orient Me experience, with a large quick filtering bar on the top and a nice community list, that allows you to have a quick glance at what the communities are about and of course a link to enter them.

#Customizer light
It is now possible to install Connections Customizer without installing the rest of the component pack. This should make it lighter and easier to get started.

#File sharing via link
You can now easily share a file via a link that gets generated, to give read access to personal and community files

IBM has also announced CR5 to become available next quarter. We have seen a recent ramp up in pace in the release cycle that makes us very happy and grows confidence about the future of this great product.

Danielle Baptiste (Director, Offering Management, IBM Collaboration Solutions) also mentioned in her session that they now have over 4,500 ideas in the ideation system for Connections. If you don’t know how to access the ideation system, please check out the following link. Offering Management of Connections is listening to you, the customers. So go in and submit your ideas!

But probably the most exciting news for Connections was the announcement for the Jams. Following the successful pattern of Domino Jams, the Connections Offering Management team is announcing Jams for Connections in April and May. Please check this link to register.

There will be Jams in the following locations early this year:

Brussels (May date to be confirmed)
Stockholm (date to be confirmed)
Paris (April 5)
Frankfurt (April 1)
London (May date to be confirmed)
Charlotte (May date to be confirmed)
Asia Pacific (locations and 2H2019 dates to be confirmed)

But they will continue on later in the year as well. We are looking to add one to our next Social Connections event on September 16 and 17 and we are working to host one in Stockholm in April or May.

Last but not least we want to list some interesting content for you from the conference. Check out the following links to learn more about the bright future for Connections.

Connections: The Future Looks Bright
The Connections keynote with Danielle Baptiste
Think-ing from far away Part 4 – It’s all Connections
Listen to this podcast on all the news on Connections from Think. One of the participants on the podcast is one of Social Connections board members Wannes Rams
Prentation about Connections Customizer from Wannes Rams

03/102018

Sponsor highlight: ISW / Kudos

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Our next Gold sponsor you might know as the Aussies (new: now also with a Swede), a k a ISW and the app suite Kudos Apps. One thing is certain though, Kudos Apps constantly evolves to meet the users’ needs.

Not only is many of the apps available for both On Premise and Cloud, they have also added on some fantastic things in the blockbuster Kudos Boards. Users who previously were working with the very popular Kanban view of their task can now also reach a whole new level of task management with 2 new ways on looking at the tasks. First we have the Timeline view which lets the user to see a calendar with all tasks clearly visible on the specific dates. Second we have a Mindmap view which lets you have a great overview over the whole project. And of course as earlier, drag and drop tasks in between lists and dates.

Your projects has never been more easy to manage and keep track on.

So come to our booth were you can take a closer look on these new major updates on Kudos Boards and see our other apps such as Kudos Ideas, Kudos Buzzy, Kudos Badges, Kudos Awards and Kudos Analytics.

26/092018

Join our workshop on Monday October 15! Learn all about Domino 10 and beyond

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Our Platinum sponsor HCL is organising a workshop on the Monday before Social Connections. Absolutely free for people with a valid ticket to the Social Connections conference!

Now that Domino 10 is out in the wild; come and join us to define the future of Domino 11 and beyond. The workshop is held by Jason Gary and is 2 hours.

Spaces are limited, we only have 20 spots and they will go out on a first come first serve basis. The only prerequisite is that you have a valid ticket to the Social Connections conference!