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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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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

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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

News 2019, collaboration, connections, europe, hcl, ibm, september, socialconnections by Maria Nordin

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

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.

09/072018

Social Connections extends call for abstracts until Thursday! Hurry up and get yours in!

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Hello!

We know. The sun is shining and it’s summer (or winter, depending on where you are). There is a lot to do and to plan and sometimes time just disappear like a cold glass of prosecco on a hot summer day.

But your friends in the Social Connections team has of course thought of that. Therefore we extend our call for abstract a couple of days so you now calmly and finally can sit down and put together that abstract you have had in you head for a while.

You know, that awesome code you wrote to solve that super tricky problem, or that customer who jumped up and down with joy when you executed that project with 5 star class, or maybe that trick you learned how to work better, faster, more efficient and fun!

Or, most likely, that fantastic thing that is in your head only. Yes, exactly that. We want to hear about that. And so does our audience of developers, administrators, managers, project managers, community managers, evangelists etc.

So please submit your abstract for Social Connections, 16-17 October 2018 in Berlin HERE

And before midnight end of Thursday!

Should you need a short refreshment on what we are interested in, take a look below

Social connections have always prided itself in being a very open conference that offers a podium to both the best of the best of experiences and well known speakers as well as to anyone that can contribute from a wealth of day to day experience. Be it customers, business partners or IBM.

Administration – sessions relating to administering collaboration platforms.
Case Study – sessions focused on telling the story of existing projects. We love case studies!
Development – share your tips, techniques and experience of developing solutions or applications.
Future of Work – sessions about improving the productivity of individuals and organisations.
Management and adoption – sessions that take a higher-level view.
Spotlight – think of it as being akin to TED talks, but within the framework of Social Connections.
Watson Work Services – New way of working in teams.
New Technologies – Anything new and exciting you think could be a fit.
Academic – Faculty, IT staff or Student of academic institutions.

So if you feel you have something to contribute, a story to tell, a lesson learned that could help others in a similar situation then please don’t hesitate and submit a session.

We would love to hear from you!

Ciao

13/042018

IBM ICS Collaboration strategy for the Future of Work

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Come to Social Connections, and more specifically to the keynote of IBM’s Vice President, Offering Management and Design, Watson Talent and Collaboration, Aarti Borkar to learn about the strategic vision from IBM on the Future of work.

Learn how IBM will combine the different parts of the portfolio to create a unified toolset to take on the challenges companies face today and tomorrow.

30/032018

Our agenda is out! Better than ever. Time to buy your ticket to the event!

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The day has come. We now know who will be a speaker and what they will speak about at Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia on April 26-27, 2018.

We have an agenda!

We in the team always love this task. Extracting all the great abstracts from the database, compiling them in an Excel file and choose! But it is also one of our hardest tasks. Always. Because, with no exceptions, we always have a large amount of fantastic abstracts to go through. The range, the quality, the ingenuity. We never stop to be amazed.

Each conference is different to the other. News trends, new technique and solutions. Our speakers never cease to impress us. In the end we always aim to end up with a good mix of both technical and non technical sessions.

A developer, an administrator, a manager, an adoption consultant. All of them should be able to find something they like.

So please have a look at the 2018 spring edition of Social Connections!

We invite you all to participate in our great event! 2 days of networking, learning and fun.

See the agenda here

Time to buy your ticket!

20/092017

IBM Connections Customizer Contest

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IBM and OpenCode4Connections.org are running an event to jump start IBM Connections Customizer. The Pilot Program is running so you can start experimenting today. Check out OpenCode4Connections.org for more information about the contest. It will run from September 14 (so hurry up, you are lagging behind) until October 12.

Winner will be announced at Social Connections in Vienna on October 17 during the Closing

Session of our conference. Also check out Martin Donnelly’s blog post about it and make sure to visit his session. First price of the contest is an iPad mini so time to dust of the coding skills and ask your grandmother what colours fir best together !!!!

Happy coding!!!

15/052017

Party time! Time to reveal the location of Social Connections fabulous Gala evening!

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We know that a perfect way to end the first day our conference is a fabulous Gala evening together with old and new friends! Other ingredients should include good food, refreshing beverages and something extra fun. And this is the Chicago edition!

Welcome to a fun and playful evening at the table tennis club Ace Bounce – the home of PING PONG.

Ace Bounce offers an immense subterranean playground. Filled with ping pong tables each with their own party going. All kept in perpetual motion by DJs. And topped off with generous servings of food and beverages by award winning chefs & mixologists. Perfect for our conference!

We are sure you will enjoy a night with a game of table tennis and a bite to eat with your customer, your IBMer or that other business partner!

Register for Social Connections here and then check your email for the registration link to this evening event! Make sure you secure your spot to our fabulous gala night! 1 ticket per attendee.

So come and play with us! The Social Connections team is in hard training! 🙂