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 !
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!
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/
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
