HCL has released the new HCL Connections 7 at the end of December 2020, now the developers are collecting info to improve the future releases.
You could try the user feedback survey here https://hclsw.co/connections-survey
it’s a 5-10 minutes survey to help HCL to build a better Connections, please keep your time and send your response !
There are lots of initiatives to connect people who work with HCL Connections. But none targeted directly to super users of HCL Connections within organisations. Heitkamp & Thumann is using HCL Connections as their collaboration platform, and they have for a while been running a ‘guide’ (super user) program with good results.
From their experience with running this initiative we would like to explore what options there are to bring together their guides with guides, champions, super users from other programs. Maybe to just have someone sit in on one of their (virtual) meetings to have some exchange of thoughts or to talk about the challenges they run into when trying to get their colleagues to expand their usage of the platform and maybe just to exchange some tips & tricks. All ideas are open and welcome.
While most other initiatives might connect those at the top, the admins, organizers, community managers, architects, this initiative focuses directly on the people who uses HCL Connections most. There are so many more who use the product and never go to conferences, virtual events etc. Not because they can’t, but because they think it’s not for them or too technical or just not in their job role. But many of them, and especially those that act as champions, super users, ambassadors or guides would really benefit from hearing how others are doing things.
So if you are a guide, internal HCL Connections champion, super user, ambassador for HCL Connections within your company (named as such or just because you do it) or run an adoption program and have them, or would simply like to start one; join us for the session where we try to come up with ways to set this up. The session is in English and open to all.
Date: 21st of January at 4pm CET
Meeting id is: https://ht-group.zoom.us/j/96572564480
Hi all and a happy New Year from the Let’sConnect team,
We sincerely wish you all the best for 2021 and we hope that this can be the year the world goes back to normal ( if it ever was).
We have some exciting announcements to make so let’s get started:
The goal is to have a mix of content. Adoption, Use cases, technical sessions, HCL sessions, ….. We are looking for content and speakers. So please contact us if you have an interesting topic to discuss. Reach out to your favorite Let’sConnect team member, mail us ( team@letsconnect.world), tweet @_lets_connect, ….
Let’s make it a great year together!!!!
Let’sConnect Virtual 2020 is over! The event was a real success and we are very happy for all the good feedback we have received from the attendees and speakers. It feels great that the community showed up, took part, asked questions and participated in polls from the speakers.
A real good feeling to see so many familiar names in the attendee list, and also so many new ones!
We are also pleased with the content that our speakers provided, we know it can be tough. Especially now in these times!
We have been working fast to get all presentations and replay videos published. Please also see our other blog posts where we share poll results, and the Q&A from the sessions.
Regarding the videos, please see the link to our Youtube channel below! And we are more than happy if you would share them amongst your colleagues and friends.
Keep the community vibrant, welcoming and alive! We look forward until we all can meet again.
The Let’sConnect Team
As we promise during the event we have published the slides on our Speaker Deck page and we have also embedded it inside the Virtual Event agenda.
Enjoy !
A Let’sConnect event without our dear friends and sponsors in the community would not be a Let’sConnect! We always think they bring that extra thing to our events. So much knowledge, know-how, experience and smart solutions. And a nice vibe to our showcase floor!
And we miss to see them all so dearly. So we have offered the sponsors from our latest event in Munich to join us this time, all for free!
Check them all out and what they can offer you in order to have a good, stable, uptodate environment with all bells and whistles!
We hope to see you in real life soon!
Click below to have a look!
HCL has just opened the pre-registration for a preview of HCL Connections 7.0 !
This preview will be hosted and managed by HCL with the following targets:
You’ll be able to try out the new tailored experience Community features, integration with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and more. You will also have a chance to provide feedback to the development team and get your questions answered.
This is the registration form : https://hclsw.co/cxn-7-pre
We encourage all Connections and Let’s Connect community members to register for this preview , enjoy it and give feedback to HCL to help everybody to have the best HCL Connections version ever !
Dear friends,
We hope that you all are safe and healthy.
As you all know, planning can at the moment be a bit tricky. So today we have some news for you. Good news! You will not only get one, but two Let’sConnect events!
First news is that we are downsizing our September event to focus on the latest updates from HCL. The new Product Manager Andrew Manby and his team will talk about the current Connections version and give you a sneak peak into the Connections 7 preview. We also have some customers lined up sharing their stories on how they use Connections.
Join us for our 2 day event on September 29 and 30 from 3 pm CEST until 5 pm CEST ( 9 am EST until 11 AM EST). This timing should alow for viewers to join from around the world.
It is a great pleasure to announce an additional virtual Let’sConnect event that will take place in February 2021. Having this just after the Connections 7 release allows all of our speakers to cook up new content on usage, installation, business value and configuration of the new version. Stay tuned for updates on the exact date for this event.
We hope you have all received the survey from the HCL product team on Connections. If not or if you have not yet had the time to take the survey, it will only take 5 minutes of your time. HCL is inquiring how your organization is using HCL Connections, this feedback will help them understand your use cases and will help guide future roadmap decisions.
Don’t miss your opportunity to co-create the future of HCL Connections with us!
And of course a reminder of our previous announcement that we have moved our physical event to 2021 in Madrid on September 27 and 28. We are super excited to see all of you in person again.
We hope to see you all soon!
If you want to reach us, contact us at team@letsconnect.world Or sign up to our newsletter
Bye for now!
The Let’sConnect team (Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Jan and Martin)
As you know we and everybody else needs to adapt to the current situation in the world. I can be easy or it can be tough. But no challenge is too tricky to solve for an agile bunch of people like us! We and you work in a collaboration community driven by change, and most of us are used to evolving work situations and new ways of working. So when the world is constantly changing, we find ways.
All of us testifies that we now see an increase in the use of collaboration software within companies. Digital workplaces, chat tools, meeting rooms. All of it. So we feel it is more important than ever to arrange meeting places were we can discuss these needs.
We have updates for you!
Our original plan was to have the conference 28-29 September, so we are sticking to those days, but extending them to the whole week. 28 September – 2 October 2020.
The reason is that we will spread out the sessions during the days to make it easier for you to follow along. You do not now have to book a whole day in front of your computer. You can now pin point the sessions that intrigues you and attend those.
The event will be held to match several time zones. We welcome attendees from all over the world.
One session we are sure will intrigue you is the keynote with Danielle Baptiste, Associate Vice President, Product Management at HCL Technologies. She will update us on the latest on HCL Connections.
We will also fill the week with deep dive technical sessions, customer stories on using HCL Connections sessions, best practices sessions and more.
You will also have the possibilities to network with the community and ask experts in our virtual interest rooms.
Do you want to do a session on the virtual event? Submit your abstract here: https://letsconnect.world/submit-abstract/
More information will follow.
Questions? Contact us at team@letsconnect.world
We of course look to the future. LetsConnect 2021 will take place in Madrid. One year later than planned, but hey. Let’s look forward to see the vibrant community and eat that tapas plate a little longer.
Book your calendar for 27-28 September 2021!
More information about this conference will follow. But most important, put it in your calendar.
For early sponsoring opportunities, speaker opportunities or questions in general, contact us at team@letsconnect.world
Or sign up to our newsletter
Dear Let’sConnect speakers, sponsors, visitors,
First of all we would like to wish you good health for you and your loved ones.
As the world is currently changing in a way and at a pace none of us could have imagined until a couple of weeks ago, we as a user group organizer need to adapt, adapt to the unknown. Not an easy task as we don’t know what is ahead and when.
Therefore we have decided that given the fact that we have already published a date and have a venue, that for now the conference is ON. We yet have to decide whether it will be a physical event as planned initially, a virtual event or a combination of the 2 as we might end up in a situation were a part of the world is able to travel and part is not.
We would like to open our call for abstracts as everyone has time on their hands sitting at home unable to go out, there is no better time to write a couple of good abstracts and submit them to us. Please note that we now welcome sessions on HCL DX as well as that product will be an integral part of our conference.
For now we will not open call for sponsors and registration, we will do so once we know what type of event we will have.
Keep in mind that if we do a virtual event, you will not be travelling to Madrid, so please do not book any travel at this moment. Don’t be afraid to submit even if you are not sure you will be able to make it to Madrid, we will find a way to make it work all together as a community.
Please submit your abstracts here
The Let’sConnect team (Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Jan and Martin) wish you all the best for the next couple of weeks. Follow your governments guidelines, use commons sense when you go out, wash your hands and DO NOT BUY MORE TOILETPAPER THAN YOU NEED!!!
The Let’sConnect Team
Connections has found a new home at HCL. Alongside the transition, the Product Management team has worked hard to release a new version of Connections (Connections 6.5) with new features and has announced a bigger release, version 7.
Digital Experience has followed the same pattern with the 9.5 release in 2019 and a big new release in 2020 with version 10.
The LetsConnect team (formerly Social Connections) has followed the journey with interest and we are very happy we now can reveal the city and venue for our next conference, all about Connections and Digital Experience!
We know many Connections customers have been waiting patiently to hear from HCL on how Connections will evolve and continue to be the go-to place to find the company’s collective knowledge and skills.
The team has been working hard to find a place where we can gather all of you, customers, business partners, product management, researchers and the developers for our next LetsConnect conference. HCL will have a natural place in the spotlight as they will share news, plans and facts about Connections and Digital Experience.
So without further ado we would like to say:
Welcome to Madrid and Truss Madrid in WiZink Center!
HCL has announced a huge event for 4th of December 2019 live from Tokio: Domino, Notes and Sametime V11 will be launched together with Connections V 6.5 !
The event will be live streamed and recorded, and you can save your place here to not miss this unforgettable event.
This will be the agenda (time table translated to London time ) :
2–2:15 p.m.: Live from Tokyo Keynote: A Major HCL Milestone.
Presenter: Richard Jefts, General Manger, HCL Digital Solutions
2:15–2:30 p.m.: Domino V11: Why Modernizing Beats Migrating.
Presenter: Andrew Manby, Vice President of Product Management, HCL Domino
2:30–2:45 p.m.: Domino V11 Demo: One Vendor, One Solution, One Stack. The Only Stack You Need.
Presenter: Andrew Manby, Vice President of Product Management, HCL Domino
2:45–3 p.m.: We Hear You: HCL Connections 6.5 = More Value from Your Investment.
Presenter: Danielle Baptiste, Vice President of Product Management, HCL Connections
3–3:15 p.m.: Boost Engagement with HCL Connections 6.5: We’ll Show You How.
Presenter: Danielle Baptiste, Vice President of Product Management, HCL Connections
3:15–3:30 p.m.: Get Started with Domino V11 and Connections 6.5 Today.
Presenter: François Nasser, Global Sales Leader, HCL Digital Solutions
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
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 😉
We will try to live stream tomorrow’s keynotes. Let’s hope the technology gods are with us. periscope.tv/soccnx#Letsconnect#soccnx
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!) .
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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
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!
We are happy to welcome Belsoft again as our returning gold sponsor.
Social Connections 15 is approaching rapidly and step by step Social Connections team is defining last things to prepare a great conference !
Today it’s time to announce our new mobile app ( preview available here) , developed by Mr. Paul Harrison ( Eight Dot Three ) that’s works perfectly on iPhone, Ipad and Android devices !
Using the app you will be able to build your personal agenda , read info about sponsors and speakers , follow the event on social and much more !
To install the app you could use the qrcode below or search for “Social Connections” directly on your app store .
See you soon !
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”.
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!
And another batch of Customer sessions arrives. We are now at a whopping 8 customers telling us about what they do with Connections.
In this session Stefanie Preisinger from Continental AG will dive into importance of their Enterprise Social Network ConNext.
Learn how Luther Lawfirm replaced their intranet with HCL Connections and ICEC from Andreas Gäbisch
https://socialconnections.info/sessions/how-to-motivate-counsels-to-use-an-internal-social-intranet/
Listen to Social Connections interviewing Richard Jefts, Vice President & General Manager Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies. Learn more about the deal close, HCL investments, more details on the recent cloud announcements and HCL’s take on User Groups.
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 😉.
Hello everyone, after a hard selection work we have published our conference Agenda for Social Connections 15.
This year we will have a good number of use case sessions in addiction to the Admin, Dev and Management sessions so everyone could find a reason to attend the conference!
A considerable number of speakers from HCL will be on stage together with a huge number of HCL Masters.
In case you need more motivation boost, HCL will be there with us to unveil the future of Connections! We invite you all to participate in our great event! 2 days of networking, learning and fun.
Note: this are busy days and part of our team is following HCL Factory tour 3. If you were selected as speaker you will receive a confirmation mail with a registration code during next hours.
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.
Join us in Munich for this and more about ESN, Connections and Working out Loud.
And we are back for some more customer sessions at Social Connections Munich. We are very proud to host 3 more customers share their story in the case study track.
Come and listen to Regina Schumacher from ista International GmbH, she will take about engaging your users with ICEC.
We also have Eurapco’s Marta Alvarez De La Campa presenting their Customizer project and how that dramatically . reduced the amount of user clicks.
Last but not least is Bernd Gewehr from Vössing Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH. Bernd will present his companies use case on smart notifications.
