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23/032021

Thank you for joining Let’sConnects Virtual March 2021

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March 2021! Think, a year ago we could not believe we would be living our work lives online and that several office desks are now collecting dust instead of coffee cups. It is already a cliché saying all this, but as strange the world is, it is worth repeating.

Luckily, we have the tools to get the job done. HCL Connections is the meeting point and the central hub where colleagues meet, work, document, collects, learn. A tool which breaks down silos, creates visibility and lets people do their job.

That’s why we in the Let’sConnect team keep on doing our job. Gather people that wants to share knowledge, network and help others. At either physical conferences or as now, virtual.

Last week we had our second virtual conference: Let’sConnect Connects!

Registrations were flowing in and the team was really happy by the numbers!

The reason was of course the topics for the conference:

HCL Connections News by Wannes Rams from the Let’sConnect team
(why upgrade to Connections 7, Install Automations, Connections Sizing Guide)

HCL Connections Client Advocacy by John Immerman, HCL
(join the Client Advocacy and take part in the vibrant Connections Communtity.)
Link to John’s presentation here

Take your Communities to the next level by Fabio Gervasoni, Design Lead HCL
(create engaging and attractive Communities by customizing the homepage layout
of your community, and new capabilities made possible by new Connections templates.)
Link to Fabio’s presentation here
Link to Fabio’s session here (Youtube)

After the sessions we had a really interesting Q&A session where we had a fantastic group of people from HCL helping out answering questions and talking to people from the community:

Adam Gartenberg, Director, Product Management HCL
Miki Banatwala, Senior Software Engineer at HCL
Bill Wimer, Director Of Engineering HCL

And last but not least we got introduced to Jack O’Donnell, the new Director of Development for HCL Connections. We are really excited that he joined us, and we look forward to hearing from him again!

Now we immediately start planning our next conference which will take place on May 11, 2021!

If you are interested to participate in any way (for example speaking in a session), please email us at team@letsconnect.world. Any topic is interesting, and particularly of course upgrading experiences.

Until we meet again,

So long!

The Let’sConnect Team

21/012021

HCL Connections User Feedback Survey

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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 !

17/022020

LetsConnect 28-29 September – Bienvenido a Madrid!

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Join us to hear about the future of HCL Connections and HCL Digital Experience

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!

We believe that Madrid will be the perfect meeting place for the Community! Mark your calendar 28-29 September 2020.

Stay tuned for opening of registration, call for abstract and sponsorship opportunities.

Do you want to get in touch with us? Email us at team@letsconnect.world

22/072019

Customer sessions part 3: Save the best for last

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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.

https://socialconnections.info/sessions/the-value-and-relevance-of-enterprise-social-network-at-continental-in-the-establishment-of-a-new-work-style-with-the-power-of-networks/

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/

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.

10/072019

Customer sessions part 2: Case study time!

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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.

https://socialconnections.info/sessions/how-icec-can-help-to-make-it-easy-for-users-engaging-with-ibm-connections/

We also have Eurapco’s Marta Alvarez De La Campa presenting their Customizer project and how that dramatically . reduced the amount of user clicks.

https://socialconnections.info/sessions/its-all-about-the-user-experience-how-we-decreased-from-over-100-clicks-to-15/

Last but not least is Bernd Gewehr from Vössing Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH. Bernd will present his companies use case on smart notifications.

https://socialconnections.info/sessions/one-stream-to-rule-them-all-avoid-emails-with-smart-notifications/

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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