Do you know how much validity your passport has to have in order to get in to the USA? i.e. How long it has left before it expires. No, I didn't either. Last night I was woken from an otherwise res ...
Build your Collective Corporate Intelligence with Social Business #socbiz #ibmsocialbiz #e20
Sun, May 26th 2013 4:14p Alan Hamilton Collective Corporate Intelligence
There are two types of knowledge: explicit and implicit. Explicit knowledge is held in data in physical and electronic form. To access it you need systems which can sort, search and sift the data. More recently this process has been improved so that the data turns more into information. For example, turning raw “likes” of a Facebook page (which is data) into trends and habits of individuals gives you something you can work with, i.e. information. Exp [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The (Social) Network Is Your Company
Fri, May 17th 2013 3:13p Alan Hamilton John Gage, the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems coined the now famous phrase:
“The Network is the Computer”
which became a prominent feature on the Sun Microsystems’ logo and motto. More than that it became part of their philosophy before the large scale adoption of the internet. They realised that the combined power of computers, interconnected, is the real computer – able to carry out more complex tasks than would otherwise be possible by the boxes we sit in front of today.
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How I saved eight minutes today by doing nothing
Mon, Apr 29th 2013 3:16p Alan Hamilton This is a short example of something that landed in my inbox today which, I confess, I was so impressed with I just had to share it. In the nearly twenty years I have been working with Notes I have become accustomed to receiving emails with DocLinks, and more recently URLs to databases or other applications which a user wants me to interact with.
A DocLink, for the uninitiated, is basically like a URL but specifically for a Notes document in a database somewhere. This predates URLs by about [read] Keywords: connections
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Turning Blue
Fri, Mar 15th 2013 12:11p Alan Hamilton I am pleased to announce that from Monday 18th March I will have joined IBM to further my career in Social Business.
I am joining the world-wide ICS SWAT/Tiger team as a Social Business Consultant, focused on the UK, Ireland and Nordics.
I am really looking forward to some new challenges and perspectives having spent nearly 20 years in the IBM Business Partner community, so I hope you continue to follow my blog. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Using Activities to Restructure and Manage a Project
Mon, Mar 11th 2013 9:12a Alan Hamilton Earlier today I was preparing a project for handover to a colleague. Although we have a documented process we follow for the work, it is in the form of a Word document and can be difficult to track which steps you’ve completed and which are still to be done. So that my colleague and his manager can work through the steps to be performed in a set order I went about using one of my favourite applications within IBM Connections – Activities.
Activities is like a simple to-do list manager wh [read] Keywords: connections
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Integrate LibreOffice with IBM SmartCloud and IBM Connections
Sat, Mar 9th 2013 8:13a Alan Hamilton In a previous blog post I expounded the virtues of using the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin for Windows to make working with IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and also your own IBM Connections environment more seamless. In this post I am going to describe how to use a popular alternative to OpenOffice, LibreOffice, to access the same services from any platform using IBM’s CMIS integration services.
Content Management Interoperability Services is a standard used amongst enterprise conte [read] Keywords: connections
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How can we create Predictive Knowledge?
Fri, Feb 22nd 2013 3:10p Alan Hamilton Lew Platt, HP. “If only HP knew what HP knows, we’d be three times more productive.”
Much is discussed these days about Big Data and the role of Predictive Analytics to help create better business decisions and provide information from data. How would it be, however if we could apply Predictive Analytics to knowledge?
What I am getting at here is the role that Predictive Analytics can play in recommending information to you, suggesting next steps for you in a business process, co [read] Keywords: connections
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Social File Sharing with IBM Connections Desktop Plugin
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 2:10p Alan Hamilton An often overlooked aspect of the IBM Connections social business platform is its ability to integrate itself with many different parts of the working environment. If you’re a Lotus Notes user you may be aware that there is an Activities sidebar. Did you know, though, that from the Greenhouse catalog you can also install the Files and Status updates sidebar to make dragging and dropping files in and out of emails much easier?
Even if you’re not a Lotus Notes user, you still have [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Color-coding diary appointments is not just for Outlook any more
Wed, Feb 6th 2013 2:10p Alan Hamilton In a recent migration from Exchange to Domino one of our customers complained that they thought Outlook was a much better tool because – and this was apparently the only reason – they could color-code diary appointments depending on the category they chose for the appointment.
Well, the good news is that IBM Notes Social Edition does that too!, behold:
You can set up the colors for the categories in a new tab in the Preferences, right next to the color-coding of emails you’ve [read] Keywords: domino
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