Hot News: HootSuite integrates with IBM Connections!
Thu, Dec 5th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen HootSuite Social Media Dashboard for IBM Connections
Great news from HootSuite today: They now integrate their social tool for Twitter with the worlds leading platform for enterprise social collaboration, IBM Connections!
Thousands of companies and organisations around the world have chosen IBM Connections as their platform to collaborate socially both internally and with their partners and customers. But to manage their social presence on the open social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Fac [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Did you miss IBM Smarter Business 2013 in Oslo? Enjoy the replay!
Wed, Dec 4th 2013 5:15a Arne S. Nielsen Did you not join the IBM Smarter Business 2013 in Oslo, Norway? Well, here is a video showing some of the fun you missed – and remember to make sure you do not miss it the next time. Oh, you were there? Then enjoy the replay, then and start looking forward to next time!
Here is the video:
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How to save buckets of money on Microsoft licenses!
Sun, Dec 1st 2013 5:17a Arne S. Nielsen Want to save bulks of money on Microsoft licenses? Make sure you have the skills and the right attitude. Do not believe anything you hear from the sales reps, and be sure you know what you need and what you do not need.
Follow these twitter advises from Niels J. Hansen and you will be better off next time you negotiate your licenses with you Microsoft sales rep.
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Quitting Facebook: As easy as stop smoking!
Thu, Nov 21st 2013 5:13a Arne S. Nielsen Yes, I have finally left Facebook. And this time it is forever!
Many, many years ago I stopped smoking. From one day to the next day I went from 40 daily Marlboro’s to none. I even stopped smoking cigars. And it was much easier than I have feared.
At my first non-smoking day I did not say “I have stopped smoking” like most people do and that way keep one fort in the history of having been a smoker. What I responded when people offered me a cigarette was:
- No thank you. I don&# [read] Keywords: facebook
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My TEDx talk: How to do less and get more done!
Mon, Nov 4th 2013 10:11p Arne S. Nielsen Is it really possible to get more done by doing less? In my opinion, yes! But to succeed you have to focus, focus and focus!
It is not a question about time management. No one has ever seen nor touched time! So how can you manage something you can’t see or touch? No, it is all about what you do. It’s all about activities and what you prioritize.
Earlier this fall I had the pleasure of talking at TEDx Trondheim and here is the video of my speech.
As you will see, the remote control di [read] Keywords: facebook
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The Pebble is back!
Wed, Oct 23rd 2013 12:14a Arne S. Nielsen My Pebble is back on my left hands wrist. After giving it a quite low score in an earlier blogpost I have now changed my mind and use my black Pebbe as my daily watch.
So, what did happen? They simply improved the stability of the watch by numerous uprades to the software. The watch now connects automatically when I come back into the room where I have left my iPhone. There are more apps on my iPhone that connects to the Pebble. And those are useful apps.
I have stopped using the email function. [read] Keywords: applications
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Cloud solution helps save children’s lives!
Fri, Oct 4th 2013 6:11a Arne S. Nielsen Every year, nearly 7 million children under age 5 die from illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria despite the availability of life-saving medical solutions.
In partnership with IBM, Boston Children’s Hospital recently launched OPENPediatrics, a social learning platform that equips medical personnel to more effectively engage, share knowledge, tap expertise and make better decisions when treating children in life threatening situations. In its early stages of use, there are over [read] Keywords: ibm
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Gartner: IBM a leader of horizontal portals for 11 years!
Tue, Oct 1st 2013 6:13a Arne S. Nielsen Wow! For eleven consecutive years IBM has been named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals!
Gartner names many reasons for the excellent ranking in the quadrant. Here are some of them:
WebSphere’s long leadership in the enterprise portal market has brought it a feature set unmatched by any other portal product. IBM WebSphere Portal customers benefit from a platform capable of accommodating any portal need.
Customers value WebSphere Portal for its reliability, perform [read] Keywords: ibm
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Surveys now a part of IBM Connections
Tue, Oct 1st 2013 6:13a Arne S. Nielsen Ever wished you had a possibility to make surveys directly on your intranet? Well, if you got IBM Connections 4.5 IFR1 you already have that possibility.
This new release of the world leading social intranet for enterprise, four years in a row, (according to IDC) adds Surveys and Polls for communities at no additional cost for the customers.
With community polls and surveys, you can:
Create and conduct surveys and polls among the members of an IBM Connections community
Use the built-in surve [read] Keywords: connections
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TEDx Trondheim: How to do less and get more done!
Tue, Oct 1st 2013 6:13a Arne S. Nielsen How to do less and get more done! That was the theme for my key note at TEDx in Trondheim, Norway last saturday.
This is the first time I have presented at a TED event and it was a great adventure to me. The day after the presentation I also did a workshop with a group of the participants. As soon as the video from the presentation is published through TED’s YouTube channel I will embed it in a blog post. Stay tuned!
More pictures here!
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Video: Energizing Life’s Work with a cloud-based social platform. A matter of life or death for your company.
Wed, Sep 18th 2013 7:12a Arne S. Nielsen The way we work is changing. Actually – it has already changed. You work differently than you did before. But maybe you dont’ go all the way like your competitors. And that even if research shows that those companies working with the new social collaboration tools are outperforming their competitors by up to 57 percent.
So that means life or death to many companies. Is your company one of those who still work in the old fashioned way. Is your company one that does not want to change? [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Gartner: Microsoft (and customers) should probably start thinking about getting rid of SharePoint!
Wed, Sep 18th 2013 6:12a Arne S. Nielsen - Apparently SharePoint is on its way out and Microsoft should probably start thinking about doing away with it!
This is according to Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann, who also suggests that companies who rely heavily on SharePoint ought to start start preparing for a cloud-based future.
Mann, who was speaking at the 2013 Gartner Symposium said that about 28 % of companies who use SharePoint use it across their entire workforce. If you only count those companies using it for half their workforce t [read] Keywords: facebook
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City of Munich gives Linux Ubuntu to their citizens
Tue, Sep 17th 2013 12:11p Arne S. Nielsen The city of Munich, Germany, has decided to distribute Linux Ubuntu for free to their citizens. The reason? Because Windows XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft from april 2014!
Windows XP have been the most popular operative systems from Microsoft, only beaten by Windows 7 by the end of 2012. As late as august 2013 the 12-year-old operating system had a market share of 33,66 percent, according to Net Applications.
But soon the party is over and there will not be any more security updates [read] Keywords: administration
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Video: Get instant access to Notes databases over the air
Tue, Sep 17th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Would you like to get access to your Notes databases from you iPhone, easily? Then have a look at this video published by Inexika!
The video demo demonstrates a prototype of Inexia’s new personal tool for iPhone and Android mobile devices for over-the-air instant access to IBM Notes databases. With this tool setting up a connection from mobile phone to Notes databases becomes as easy as scanning a QR code.
You can see more details in this video!
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Video: See how Bosch improved their processes using social tools instead of mail!
Mon, Sep 16th 2013 8:12a Arne S. Nielsen Would you like to reduce a business process from four weeks to six days? That is what Bosch did by implementing a new way to collaborate internally. They went from email to social business tools. They named it Bosch Connect!
Here is a video showing how Bosch did it. I will not name the technology they used, but I happen to use it myself – every day!
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The way you work is changing and you’ll better adapt to it…
Sat, Sep 14th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen I’m not saying email is dead but it is no longer the most effective way to communicate and collaborate with co-workers. Email today has become a glorified chat messaging program and we all stare at our in-boxes. If you don’t reply to an email within a few hours people get mad at you, when did this become the norm? New collaborative technologies make it easier to collaborate, share, find, communicate, and engage with people and information. There’s no excuse for getting 200 emails a [read] Keywords: email
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IBM Connect 2014: Early Bird registration open now!
Fri, Sep 13th 2013 6:12a Arne S. Nielsen The wellspring of all business success is energized employees. This year at IBM Connect 2014, IBM are excited to feature the solutions that are “Energizing Life’s Work,” empowering employees and clients, and driving real business results.
IBM Connect 2014 will be the biggest and best Connect event yet, with the Lotusphere Technical Program, the Kenexa World Conference, and a host of insights to help IT, HR, Marketing, and business leaders from around the world transform how t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Byword keeps my text editing simple
Fri, Sep 6th 2013 12:12a Arne S. Nielsen I have fallen in love with Byword – a no nonsense text editor that let you concentrate on the context of what you are writing and trying to communicate, not on fancy functions and formatting tools.
In a way it reminds me of the editing tools I used when I was a journalist using professional editing system for editorial production. No graphing, no fancy stuff, just concentrating on the words.
There are no disturbing menus and typos, just a clean white space, or a totally black screen that o [read] Keywords: apple
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1500 global networkers chose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business!
Thu, Sep 5th 2013 11:12p Arne S. Nielsen Remember the danish company Langhoff Promotions that threw out Microsoft Office 365 and started using IBM SmartCloud for Social Business? Now their success has spread around the world!
Langhoff Promotions is part of a global network organisation, IPPAG (International Partnership for Premiums and Gifts) which has existed since 1965, operates across 25 countries and has more than 1500 partner employees. Their head quarter is situated in Switzerland.
After the successful implementation and adoption [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Email addiction: Swedish company train people in how to stop using email
Wed, Sep 4th 2013 7:15a Arne S. Nielsen Fed up of all emails going in and out of your mailbox? There is a cure for that. Take a training course with the Swedish company EGBS. They are holding public courses for companies and private persons trying to get out of their email addiction.
- Most people who tried stop using email know that is has nothing to do with physical pain. It is more a feeling that something is missing in ones life, says Magnus Fast at EGBS.
- The feeling of missing something may result in such great frustrations th [read] Keywords: email
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IBM brings File Sync to their SmartCloud for Social Business
Wed, Sep 4th 2013 12:15a Arne S. Nielsen These days IBM is upgrading their cloud solution for collaboration, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. And there are a lot of new functionalities coming up! Here are some of them!
One of the new functionalities are File Sync. With File Sync ensures that all your files are automatically sync’ed to your mobile device and that you always have the latest and greatest version of that very important presentation with you wherever you go.
Here is the latest presentation from IBM’s Social [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Nokia and Microsoft has reinvented the Microphone!
Tue, Sep 3rd 2013 8:11a Arne S. Nielsen Can two losers really win? That is the question the Norwegian news web Digi.no asks in a comment after it become known that Microsoft has bought Nokia’s mobile division.
The transaction is said to make Nokia investors pop the champagne corks as they now got rid of their biggest headache for the last decade. The stocks climbed immediately up the value ladder after the news spread.
According to digi.no Microsoft had no alternative. They had to my the mobile division or let their mobile busin [read] Keywords: apple
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Social Business gains acceptance
Tue, Sep 3rd 2013 6:11a Arne S. Nielsen Social business initiatives have gained acceptance as a key driver in business innovation. Since 2010, organizations have experimented and successfully deployed social business initiatives across a variety of business processes.
In a recent 2013 survey, made by Constellation Research, of 237 social business adopters, more than a majority (57.8 percent) of the market leaders and fast follower respondents had moved from experimentation to scaling social business initiatives to match demand. This t [read] Keywords: facebook
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Overworked: Is killing email the solution?
Sun, Aug 18th 2013 6:14a Arne S. Nielsen Are you one of those who have thousands or hundreds of emails waiting to be dealt with when coming home from vacation? I guess the answer is yes, if you are not one of those who read your work mail also when having time off.
Some of us use the out-of-office function in our mail client from time to time, saying things like “I am out of office until x-date and will not be able to deal with your email until I am back”.
This automated message tells the sender that nothing will happen unt [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes one of the 10 Most Influential Software Programs Ever
Sun, Aug 18th 2013 6:14a Arne S. Nielsen Lotus Notes (IBM, 1989). Social media before its time, this client-server package included chat, blogging, micro-blogging, and forums as well as email, calendars, to-do lists, and lots more that we’d nowadays recognize as lifehacking. Not the sexiest pick for this list perhaps, but we couldn’t imagine computers without all the things Lotus Notes did.
The US Library of Congress annually compile a list of the most influential films and music and publish them in National Film Registry and Nati [read] Keywords: ibm
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Microsoft Windows Phone: When will the funeral take place?
Sun, Aug 18th 2013 6:14a Arne S. Nielsen - When will Nokia hold a funeral for Microsoft Windows Phone?
This is the question the Norwegian social media and mobile analyst, Hans-Petter Nygård-Hansen, is asking on his blog hanspetter.info. And he adds: – It is just a question about time before Nokia goes for Android – to survive!
- It is quite ironic to think of the fact that Microsoft actually saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1997. 10 years later, when Apple launched iPhone, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer did not believe Appl [read] Keywords: apple
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Gartner: IBM is the leader he Mobile Enterprise Application Platform
Tue, Aug 13th 2013 7:14a Arne S. Nielsen The IT industry analyst company Gartner says IBM is a leader among the “MEAP” (mobile enterprise application platform) solutions available in todays market.
Gartner specifically highlights the application lifecycle components – IBM’s integration of tools such as Worklight itself as the platform, Tealeaf CX Mobile for user experience optimization, Rational Test Workbench for test automation, Cast Iron for data integration, and Endpoint Manager for mobile device management.
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Danish car dealer gets social business on the road
Tue, Aug 6th 2013 7:18a Arne S. Nielsen When the danish car dealer Semler Group reorganized their business, they found that a social business solution would get them up to speed. They chose IBM Connections to get on the road!
Semler Group is Denmark’s leading importer of Audi, SEAT, SKODA, Volkswagen and Porsche vehicles. Based in Copenhagen, it employs 1,500 people, operates 17 car dealerships, and works with a network of 130 other independent dealerships across the country.
A complex corporate reorganization exercise led Semler Gr [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to engage your employees by doing social polling
Tue, Aug 6th 2013 6:19a Arne S. Nielsen Having trouble engaging your employees? There is a fix for that!
People always have opinions on whatever it is. Not only regarding politics, religion, culture, music or anything else. They also have their opinions on what is going on at work, what strategy to follow, what methods to use, what products to focus and so on. So why don’t you use that opinion energy that your employees have to the best of the company?
One way to engage your employees is to do surveys and polls where they may ai [read] Keywords: connections
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How to motivate employees using IBM Connections and The Hive
Tue, Aug 6th 2013 6:19a Arne S. Nielsen Let’s say your company decided to implement social collaboration tools to increase productivity and improve skills and knowledge sharing. That means your employees has to change the way they work. But how do you motivate them?
Change is always difficult. It never happens without persistence and conflict. Changing habits moves people out of their comfort zone and create fear. That is why I always say that technology is only 20 percent of the job when implementing a social and sharing way of [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New interesting add-ons to IBM Connections
Tue, Aug 6th 2013 6:19a Arne S. Nielsen Social Business is getting hotter every day. And new apps appear mostly every day based on the world leading social business platform, IBM Connections.
Last year TemboSocial introduced an peer-to-peer recognition add-on for IBM Connections. Now they have made further integrations which also includes polling capabilities even on the IBM Connections mobile app.
Here is a couple of screenshots showing how this looks like on an iPad:
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Email should be actionable items
Tue, Aug 6th 2013 6:19a Arne S. Nielsen …you can’t have a great task management system withour a great email app to go with it that makes email messages “actionable” items.
- Michael Sliwinski, founder of the task management system Nozbee
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Video: See how to work smart in the cloud
Mon, Aug 5th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Ever had problems getting control of the progress in your projects?
As long as you are the only person involved in the project a simple to-do list will often do the trick. But when a number of people are involved you need something more!
Watch this video to learn how SmartCloud for Social Business can help streamline projects across organizational lines with easy-to-use integrated social collaboration capabilities.
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New amazing video on IBM Connections for iPad
Fri, Aug 2nd 2013 6:25a Arne S. Nielsen There seem to be no end of amazing stuff you can do with the IBM Connections app for iPad! Just see for yourself!
This new amazing video shows a demo of the IBM Connections Mobile app on the iPad and specifically focuses on the new features that were added on the Spring 2012 release. You may dowload the app from AppStore. There is no cost. But, off course, you need a IBM Connections server to connect to.
Filed under: News, Social Business, Videos Tagged: IBM Connections, iPad [read] Keywords: connections
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Here it is: The Anti Creativity Checklist
Thu, Aug 1st 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Here’s a question for you: If you had to come up with an “anti-creativity checklist” for your organization… a checklist guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking… a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change… what would your checklist look like? With a wink toward the irreverent, here’s mine. (youngmemoon.com)
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Tags not folders – the new way of document organizing!
Tue, Jul 30th 2013 6:12a Arne S. Nielsen Organizing documents within folder structures is ingrained in the way we work and think. After all, it is the exact reflection of paper-document organization in cardboard filing folders. However, we are convinced that a central library for document files with tag-based search is the future – not folders.
- Anya Schmidt, senior product and project manager at Doo
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See how SharePoint lists integrates with IBM Connections
Sat, Jul 27th 2013 7:11a Arne S. Nielsen One of the good things with IBM Connections is that you can integrate almost everything into this social collaboration platform. Here is a new demo on how to integrate SharePoint lists into the worlds leading social software for enterprise.
Earlier I have published a video from e-office, the human software organisation, that shows how to integrate documents in Microsoft Office 365 with IBM Connections. If you want to know more about these integrations please contact e-office and ask for Michel [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM eats its own dogfood and save piles of money
Thu, Jul 25th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen So it is true that IBM eats its own dog food. Doing that is saving the company for a lot of money and get them more customer interactions with the help of a private cloud.
ZD Net writes:
IBM has published an infographic that shows its gains from its private cloud. While being the world’s largest computer company does give it a built-in advantage when it comes to cloud building and management, it’s still worth looking to the IBM example as an inspiration for other, less techy ent [read] Keywords: ibm
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L´Oréal makes cloud computing fashionable
Thu, Jul 25th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Real business is based on knowledge and facts – not on guesswork. That is why fashion company L´Oréal now base their decisions on business analytics solutions from IBM.
With the use of data analytics, businesses could predict the future with greater accuracy. This results in lesser wastage, faster turnarounds and improved performance. It affects both top and bottom line.
L’Oréal, the world’s largest cosmetics and beauty company, has seen the value of this approach to decision-making [read] Keywords: ibm
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Wow: IBM Docs with simultaneously editing in real time on an iPad!
Sat, Jul 20th 2013 4:15p Arne S. Nielsen You never thought it could be done, but now IBM has done it! Simultaneously document editing in real-time on an iPad! Try that with your Microsoft Office 365!
Last week, Forrester cited IBM as a Leader in their File Sharing and Sync Wave. And when you see this video you will understand why. This function beats everything you have seen to date. This is what we call real mobility and real-time productivity! As Luis Benitez, Social Software Product Manager at IBM, writes in his blog:
Imagine bein [read] Keywords: connections
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Aisana air crash: Social media changes everything
Thu, Jul 18th 2013 12:16a Arne S. Nielsen When Asiana Airlines crashed in SFO, the news flew faster through social media than ordinary mass media like radio, tv and newspapers. This shows how important social media has become also for enterprises.
These social channels is changing the way we communicate, it influences our behaviour and is a game changer also for how we interact as companies – and influences our decisions and strategies. Our business is becoming a social business – wether we want it or not!
Here is a great p [read] Keywords: facebook
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Are you a road warrior? Share your experiences!
Wed, Jul 17th 2013 7:16a Arne S. Nielsen Are you one of those road warriors? One of those more or less continously travelling in your job?
Then you have a lot of experience to share with my readers! Send me a photo of yourself, a photo of your travel equipment and a description of your job, and your best tips and experiences on how to do your travel as comfortable and productive as possible!
Send to this email adress!
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Fortune 500: Apple on top, IBM second, Microsoft less profitable.
Wed, Jul 17th 2013 7:16a Arne S. Nielsen Fortune has published their Fortune 500 list of the worlds leading companies. This is interesting as most of the companies on top of the list are such companies most of us has never heard of.
But what is interesting, to me at least, is to see a comparison of IT companies that is working within the collaboration market and are in he same «league», so to speak. And for me that is companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Google.
Apple is now ranked as the 19. biggest company in the world. IBM ran [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What is Social Content Management? Here is the answer!
Fri, Jul 12th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Everything get’s social! We already heard about Social Business and understand that it is work, just in a new way. We heard about Social Media and understand it is all about public channels for information and dialogue. Now there is also Social Content Management!
Filed under: News Tagged: Content Management, Social_Business [read] Keywords: facebook
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New plugin adds translation to IBM Connections
Wed, Jul 10th 2013 3:19p Arne S. Nielsen Working for a multilingual company? Then you know how it is when a colleague in another country uses his own language to express ideas or sending emails. Well, that can be fixed.
LinguaSys now offers a plugin for IBM Connections that translates texts to your preferred language. The plug-in even translates the contents of emails in your Exchange or Domino server via IBM Connections Mail.
Here is a short video that shows how your multilingual workday could me a lot easier:
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New theme for IBM Connections!
Wed, Jul 10th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen One of the many good things with IBM Connections is that its user interface could be skinned to adapt to your company’s graphic profile. But now there is also a new standard theme available for IBM Connections.
I am personally using this theme on my private cloud solution (where I soon will open closed communities for those of my blog readers who want to discuss social business and productivity) and have come to like it very much. And the feedback from IBM’s cloud customers has also [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lot’s of cool plugins for IBM Sametime!
Wed, Jul 10th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Looking for some cool and practical plugins for your IBM Sametime? If you don’t want to make them yourself there is a lot of stuff to download from the internet. Epilio is one of the company’s that offer even free goodies!
Take a look at the screenshot below to get a clue of what is available for free download from Epilio. Then go to this link if you want to download any of them. Note that I have not tested any of them, yet!
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Some call it Social Business – but it’s really about WORK..!
Wed, Jul 10th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen - Social Business. Open Business. The new way of doing our jobs have many names and expressions. But whatever you prefer to call it – WORK is what it’s all about. Here is the video that says it all!
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See the video: This is social collaboration at its best!
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 3:15p Arne S. Nielsen Ever thought of what social business really is? Just a buzzword? Or is there really some real stuff behind it? Here is a video you should see to understand what IBM mean social business really is. It is work, work and work. But in a new and more efficient way!
In this video you will see a little of IBM Connections 4.5. Additionally, also a demo of the new real-time collaboration capabilities provided by Sametime as well as some of the new features provided by IBM Notes 9.0. Enjoy the video &# [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Test IBM’s social software in real life – and for free!
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Not updated on IBM’s plattform for professional social collaboration? Still believing that «Lotus Notes» is old fashioned and with a boring user interface? Then you should update yourself and – with an open mind – kill your old myths to understand that tomorrows solutions already are here!
IBM has a special web page for you where you can watch a demo of the different solutions and also try and play with them for free.
Here are some of the solutions you can watch and test:
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SnappLinks for IBM Connections adds SlideShare support
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen Not long ago Snapps announced SnappLinks for IBM Connections, a set of social link helper plugins for IBM Connections. Now they are adding a new plugin to the mix, one to embed SlideShare presentations. You’ve seen them all over the web on blogs and articles, and now it’s a matter of a couple clicks to add them to your IBM Connections Blogs and Wikis.
Here’s a video introducing them where a IBM Connect 2013 presentation is grabbed and embedded into a Connections wiki. The video is a little [read] Keywords: connections
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See how easily you make your email social!
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen This video demonstration of Widgets and Live Text in IBM Notes 9.0 and IBM iNotes 9.0 (the web client) is a must see for all of you who does not understand what social email is! It shows how easily you integrate social functions in you email inbox to make you more productive and get an easier work day!
Widget and LiveText technology allows users to automatically recognize patterns of data in emails and any unstructured text. Widgets then provides a set of custom defined actions, linking to ex [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections vs. Microsoft Sharepoint: Social Personal File Management
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 12:15a Arne S. Nielsen Who is the best for file sharing – IBM Connections or Microsoft SharePoint? See for yourself!
To be honest with you, this video is a bit old so there could have been functionalities updates on both IBM Connections and Microsoft SharePoint. But you will be able to see the differences in thinking around file sharing! Besides, many customers that already have invested in Microsoft SharePoint choose to install IBM Connections on the top of SharePoint as they have understood that dialogues arou [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM gives Microsoft Windows a smarter desktop!
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 12:15a Arne S. Nielsen Microsoft seldom integrates with anything else than their own software. That is how they make their money, bonding their customers to their technologies. And that is why IBM has a strategy where they make it possible to integrate IBM’s solutions with any platform – also Microsoft. Here is one of the latest integrations: The desktop plugin for IBM SmartCloud Connections, IBM’s enterprise social network offering in the cloud.
The IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft [read] Keywords: connections
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Want to make Outlook social? Here is the solution!
Sun, Jul 7th 2013 12:15a Arne S. Nielsen IBM have released a new IBM Connections Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook ! This enhances the existing integration that IBM already provide via the native Outlook Social Connector capability. However, IBM found that Microsoft implemented this in a limited way since it only provided “read-only” access to the social network.
Therefore, IBM took the integration to the next level and added a brand new sidebar to Outlook to provide access to files, microblogging, communities and more. And y [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections App is updated
Sat, Jun 29th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen There is a new update in the Apple Appstore for those of you using IBM Connections on your iPad. The new version number is 4.2.0 and was distributed yesterday, 28th June 2013.
Here is some of the new stuff in the app:
Support for two factor authentication ussing clients certificates
Viewing and editing tags for a person’s profile
View description and background information for a person’s profile
View Peoples contacts for SmartCloud
Support for action required in activity streams
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Does Microsoft Office really matter?
Sat, Jun 29th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Think about it. If you did not have any software for word editing, spreadsheets and doing presentations – would you really pay money for Microsoft Office – when you could get the same stuff for free?
Now, if you have a handheld device like iPhone, would you really pay for Microsoft Office 365 licences to get word editing, spreadsheets and presentations on that device?
I wouldn’t – simply because I never use my iPhone for that kind of tasks. Who would write a letter, a rep [read] Keywords: apple
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Being social is being part of the pack!
Tue, Jun 25th 2013 12:19p Arne S. Nielsen After today’s social business workshop with a danish prospective client on IBM Connections, we talked a lot about what social really means. I told them how we in IBM use our social collaboration system to adopt new companies we bought and integrate their employees into our culture.
As an example I used the famous dog trainer Cesar Millan who is my shining star when I train my own dog, Charlie. He introduces the new dog to the pack of dogs he already has and leave it to the pack to adopt the ne [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Note to readers: Space for comments now increased!
Fri, Jun 21st 2013 7:18a Arne S. Nielsen Sorry, folks! Some of you have tried to comment on blogpost, but have not been able to make more than a few replies. I just found out that the system was set to just three leves. This should now be fixed and lever set to maximum, which is ten levels deep.
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How to work less and get more done!
Sat, Jun 15th 2013 7:22a Arne S. Nielsen - The more you work, the more you get done!
That is what people of my generation have been indoctrinated with from or teachers, parents and employers for generations!
A man (women should stay home in the kitchen, then) should work much, hard and long hours. Then he became an honorable man.
But is it really true that those who work hard and long hours get more done than those who don’t? Not in my opinion!
Here is why:
For years and years I have been working from early in the morning before the [read] Keywords: ibm
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Here is the new IBM SmartCloud for SocialBusiness
Sat, Jun 15th 2013 7:22a Arne S. Nielsen I use IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Both through my job account and my private account. This is really a tool that helps me get my work done, smoother, faster, simpler and make me more productive than ever. I no longer send email to clients, partners and friends. I share!
Check out the new version here:
Want to read more about IBM SmartCloud for Social Business? Want to get a free 60 days trial? Klick HERE!
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Danish company dropped Office 365 for IBM SmartCloud
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 11:18p Arne S. Nielsen Langhoff Promotion dropped MS Office 365 and chose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.
The danish company Langhoff Promotion threw MS Office 365 in the garbage bin and chose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.
One of the reasons for quitting MS Office 365 was that their employees «drowned» in all the functionalities. Langhoff Promotion tested MS Office 365 for a while, but the test group was not satisfied with the solution, according to Søren Langhoff, the company’s CEO.
Langhoff Promotion [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Work smarter wih IBM Notes Cheat Sheets
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 12:18a Arne S. Nielsen Smart Cheat Sheets for IBM Notes users!
Are you using IBM Notes? Do you use all functions to be as productive as possible? No? Well, there is help!
There are Cheat Sheets both in english and german that help find your way around in the fantastic collaboration tool called IBM Notes. These cover versions from Notes Basic to Notes 8.0, Notes 8.5 and IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition!
Some of the Cheat Sheets can also be printed to hang on the wall or wherever you want them!
The Cheat Sheets are made by [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Are Apple devices taking over as email readers?
Thu, Jun 13th 2013 8:18a Arne S. Nielsen Is Apple devices taking over as email readers? What email client does people really use to read their email?
I sent out an email to 244 recipients the other day. So far 76 has opened it and read it. But the real interesting thing is how many of them use what client to read their email. Microsoft say they rule the world of email clients. Maybe true. But my reporting system tell me that they do not rule as big as believed. And, what really surprises me is that so few have upgraded their MS Outloo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Competitor tried to stop new book about IBM Connections!
Thu, Jun 13th 2013 8:18a Arne S. Nielsen This is the book that a competitor of IBM tried to stop by buying off the writer.
As a Collaboration Strategist, well renowned writer, business consultant and specialist on adoption of social business technologies in companies and organizations, Michael Sampson travels around the world helping organizations make collaboration work.
When Michael Sampson started his latest book project – Doing Business With IBM Connections 4.5 – he was offered money by one of IBM’s competitor to lay [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The book is here: Doing Business with IBM Connections!
Tue, Jun 4th 2013 11:22a Arne S. Nielsen Michael Sampson’s latest book will be well worth the waiting time. I ordered my copy already when Michael started writing the book!
At last! I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for days and weeks. I have been looking forward to it for months, all the time since I first time heard that Michael Sampson had a new book on Social Business in work.
And now, finally, it is here. Today, and I opened the package that has been traveling all the way from New Zealand to Norway, just a few min [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to recharge your iPhone in the wilderness without electricity!
Thu, May 30th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Are you one of those crazy ones who like to sleep outdoors, no matter where, what time of year or how far it is from civilization? With as little equipment as possible? But you cannot be without your iPhone? Here is the gadget you need!
My son Jonas, just like myself, loves to be out in the rough, equipped with as little stuff as possible. Even without a map, without a compass or GPS, navigating by reading the nature. A good knife, good clothes, good shoes, dried and compacted food, a ultra sm [read] Keywords: facebook
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We are moving from email to activity streams!
Wed, May 29th 2013 11:19a Arne S. Nielsen - However tired we are of the expression “social,” there’s no doubt that people these days expect to have the same social possibilities at work that they have on their computers, mobiles and pads.
We are moving away from emails to activity streams. The latter won’t replace email, but a lot of the unnecessary emails you receive can be replaced with activity streams. However, it’s important to note that the activity stream is not an inbox. As things are pushed down in the stream, they wi [read] Keywords: domino
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Social Health is Harambee!
Wed, May 29th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Social Business. We have heard about that. A lot. Social Health? We have not heard so much about that, except the fact that health is a social thing when you catch the flu from your colleagues at work.
Social Health in a social technology meaning is probably new to many, but according to Jamie Heywood , engineer at MIT, social networks have existed in health care for 100 years.
An article in Fortune describes how Jamie and his brother Ben, both engineers at MIT, got frustrated by the lack of rel [read] Keywords: community
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WOW – an IBM ad!
Wed, May 29th 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen Believe it or not, IBM do advertising, though it might not be in your country. And when they do it, they do branding – not so many product ads – if ever.
The other day IBM published a great ad regarding rethinking how work really works. And that is what Social Business is all about. It is about rethinking how we do business, how we do what we do – to do it better.
The ad (click the picture) that was printed in The Wall Street Journal is a great ad! It presents examples on compa [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Connections: The Conference You Must Attend!
Tue, May 28th 2013 11:17a Arne S. Nielsen Are you more than average interested in Social Media and Social Business? Then Social Connections is “The Conference You Must Attend” before summer.
On June 28th 2013 Social Connections V, the international and independent IBM Connections user group will be hosted in Zürich, Switzerland.
- This is a must attend event! We are expecting more than 200 participants from more than 16 nations and 5 continents, says Mr. Otto Backer Solberg, Channel Sales Go To Market Transformation Leade [read] Keywords: administration
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New Event: The Open Group Oslo Conference 2013
Fri, May 17th 2013 1:15p Arne S. Nielsen - Business Development by Enterprise Architecture. That is the theme for The Open Group Oslo Conference 2013.
Larger more complex changes that affect several stakeholders within an organization must often be handled in a program of several coordinated projects and line activities. The ultimate goal of such a change will generally need to be revised during the lifetime of the program.
The accepted methods available to control program generally lack clear guidelines on what must be done to plan t [read] Keywords: administration
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Kill email before email kills you!
Fri, May 17th 2013 1:15p Arne S. Nielsen Fed up getting all those emails? Even more fed up giving long answers to them? Maybe you should try something new?
A research by management-consulting company McKinsey shows that the average worker spends 28 percent of their workday reading and answering emails. That makes about two and a half hour a day! Or nearly thirteen hours a week!
Is this the most effective use of expensive employees time? Reading and writing long emails to solve problems that could be fixed in second on the phone? Well, [read] Keywords: consulting
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How to sell more using Social CRM
Fri, May 17th 2013 1:15p Arne S. Nielsen - CRM needs another dimension, says Mr. Ahlert Hysing, a commentator in the Norwegian IT-newspaper Computerworld. Customer Relationship Management systems was originally made to track sales processes from the sales managers point of view, he claims. And he is right. What he misses is CRM that facilitates the sales process for both the sales person and the customer. And he is right.
But where he misses is when he says that sales representatives today has to use external social media and email o [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world – a must see video!
Thu, May 16th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.
Don Tapscott takes a farseeing look at our digital, connected, hypercollaborative world. He’s the chair of Moxie Insight and has written 14 books about aspects of this new world, h [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New and updated Social Business presentations!
Thu, May 16th 2013 6:15a Arne S. Nielsen I have uploaded two of my most popular presentations to the blog. These are “Social Business Changes Everything” and “Why and How To Become A Social Enterprise”. You are welcome to download them in PDF format!
Earlier I published my public presentations at SlideShare, but have experienced problems there lately, and I am not willing to pay for a professional account. So if you want to find my public presentations in the future, please check out my blog – on the righ [read] Keywords: enterprise
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A book you must read: Doing Business with IBM Connections
Fri, May 10th 2013 12:28a Arne S. Nielsen Planning to make your company a social business? Wize decision. But then you have to do it properly, prepare thoroughly and read up first. And the book you certainly shluld read first is Michael Sampson’s new book «Doing Business with IBM Connections: Opportunities for Improving Processes, Driving Results, and Acheiving Great Outcomes with IBM Connections 4.5».
No, I have not read the book myself, yet. It is still in the print and will be on it’s way from New Zealand to Norway as soon as i [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Why I am not a Pebble fanboy anymore…
Thu, May 9th 2013 2:17p Arne S. Nielsen My Pebble has been a disappointment!
I was a Pebble enthusiast. I even invested in two of them, one for myself and one for my son. And as a Kickstart supporter I was a fanboy. Yes, I say WAS.
I am not a Pebble fanboy anymore. And I will tell you why.
First – it is very unstable. Leave the iPhone in another room and they both loose their Bluetooth connection. Come back to the same room and you have to reset the connection manually. Nothing happens automatically.
Second – it looses con [read] Keywords: facebook
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My best friend’s first birthday! And how he teaches me social business and collaboration!
Fri, May 3rd 2013 6:18a Arne S. Nielsen My best friend, Charlie, turned one year the other day! He celebrated his first birthday wearing a crown and eating a fish cake!
So what has this to do on a blog that is all about Social Business, Collaboration and Productivity? I’ll tell you; It has got everything to do with it. Because a dog may teach you a lot, not only about dogs and their behavior, but also about yourself. And a lot about how to collaborate by understanding each others needs, and helping each other to succeed in our d [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM moves atoms in new video – WOW!
Thu, May 2nd 2013 7:19a Arne S. Nielsen Wow! IBM is now able to control the position of atoms! And to prove it they made a short film where atoms are shown moving around shaping figures. They do it by using a special microscope that enlarges the atoms 100 million times. The first microscope of this type was constructed by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Roher at IBM, Zürich in 1982. They got the Nobel Price in Physics four years later.
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