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19/052021

Thank you for joining Let’sConnect Connect Virtual May 2021

News 2021, connections, hcl, letsconnect, may, virtual by Maria Nordin

Hello!

We are so happy to have held yet another virtual conference in this year of 2021. As much as we wish we could see you all in person we are over the moon of the response we have from the Connections Community. We were a full house again!

This time we had two very interesting topics alongside our popular “Connections News” collected and given by the Let’sConnect team:

HCL Connections News by Wannes Rams from the Let’sConnect team

Upcoming Webinar on Driving Digital Transformation

HCL Connections & Microsoft 365 webinar recording

DS Academy – Upgrading from Connections 6.5 to 7

HCL Connections Roadmap by Adam Gartenberg, Director, Product Management, HCL

With the most recent release of HCL Connections out the door, we are working hard on the next release. In this session we will share a preview of how the next Connections release creates a new experience that will let users enjoy fluid collaboration within Connections and beyond.
Link to Adam’s presentation here
Link to Adam’s session here (Youtube)

Fine-tune HCL Connections to your needs by Jan Valdman, Whitesoft

Once you finish installation of HCL Connections, there are dozens of features you can enable or disable in so called post-installation steps. In this session we will walk through most of the features and advice how to make Connections users engaged and happy.
Link to Jan’s presentation here
Link to Jan’s session here (Youtube)

After the sessions we had a really interesting Q&A session with lots of good questions and answers on the coming versions of Connections and HCL’s plan ahead.

Now we immediately start planning our next conference which will take place on June 29, 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

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

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.

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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.

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

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

News 15, conference, connections, germany, hcl, ibm, munchen, munich by Maria Nordin

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

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!