Now that the demos are done, here's a summary of what was shown.
8:41 A.M. First demo up. At this point, we had heard from Alistair, Michael J. Fox, Alistair again, Rob Novak to determine Demo Go/No Go decision, and a brief intro by Jeff Schick (3 min). Suzanne takes the stage to show IBM Connections beta activity streams with embedded experiences, including business apps and social apps.
Some quotes from Jeff's script: "We have broken the boundaries between the silos of collaboration AND business applications. We have brought the things you need to do, into a social experience. A way of interacting with software that people find familiar. Everything from a transaction from an SAP system you need to approve, the notification of an action required in a business process like an insurance claim, a presentation you needed to share with your team before a meeting, editing a document together... at the same time, or simply an email you need to act upon."
What Suzanne showed: Connections Home page Activity Stream with content from Files, SAP, Trilog, Twitter, images, Silanis, and others. Here's a screen shot showing the SAP entry along with embedded experience, which allows you to interact with business applications in-context with what you are doing.
There was a brief foray into Connections Mail, which Ed Brill talked about over on his blog here. IBM Docs demo showed launching the web editors from the Files app in Connections, then assigning a section to someone. Ed also blogged more about IBM Docs. Next she moved over to show some of the new community features, such as community streams, metrics, and the video streams using Sametime integrated with Polycom.
Enterprise Content Mgmt integration into the community came next. "You can take ECM libraries and share those inside a Community, giving your community members access to that content in the familiar experience of Connections while retaining the powerful capabilities available to them in the ECM system, such as custom document types."
Some people may have missed this one, but you have the ability to bridge your internal and external communities. For example, taking a discussion from Facebook and bringing it inside the firewall for further discussion and private resolution.
The demo ended with an experimental UX featuring multiple streams, a magazine-style layout and rich analytics on a tablet.
Next up I'll write up the demos for Mobile, Customer Experience Suite, and Notes.
Connections Mobile May Update
Wed, May 15th 2013 4:25p Chris Reckling IBM has released updates to the Connections mobile apps for Android and iOS - version 4.1. This one has some additional features and a handful of UI enhancements in it. In addition, there is broader support for SmartCloud Engage, including Communities (FIles, Forums, Bookmarks) and People. As is my custom on this blog, here are a handful of screenshots that show off the new features. 1. You can use @mentions in a status update post. We'll look up the name locally first, then search the serv [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections Mobile App Updates
Tue, Feb 19th 2013 3:23p Chris Reckling February 18, 2013 - IBM released an update to the Connections mobile apps today. This includes a handful of updates you'll be interested in, including: Performance improvements The app remembers which view you were using at goes back to it. So, for example, if you always use the "My Communities" view in the Communities section, you will return to that view each time you leave it and go back. The default view for the Activity Stream is "I'm Following". We thought this would be the more com [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections File Sync
Mon, Feb 4th 2013 4:25p Chris Reckling File sync to your mobile device was a hot topic at the recently concluded IBM Connect conference in Orlando, FL. During the Opening General Session (OGS), Luis Benitez demo'd the feature on the main stage (about 45 min into it). Grif and I also were showing a recent build in the User Experience Lab. We got a lot of good feedback on the overall flow and use cases we are supporting. I should mention that today you can download files to your device and access them in the Downloads view. I talke [read] Keywords: connections
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Mobile in the User Experience Lab
Sun, Jan 27th 2013 5:25p Chris Reckling I made it to Orlando and have set up the user experience lab. This year there are a number of fun activities and designs to see, try, and provide feedback on. Amanda Bauman has set up a photobooth, where you can dress up, get your picture taken, and we'll upload it to our Flickr stream. Here's the UX team trying it on for size this afternoon. That's me with the blue hair and next to me (blondie) is Grif, who handles Connections Mobile. We'll be showing all of our apps, of course, along wi [read] Keywords: connections
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Sametime Meetings for iOS app Update
Mon, Dec 17th 2012 9:26a Chris Reckling December 16, 2013 - Following on the heels of the recent addition of a great Sametime Meetings app for Android is the new app for iOS devices. There are many new features in this release compared to the previous version we shipped in February. Here's a partial list: Adds iPhone support. We already had Meetings on iPad. Meeting room management - create, edit, delete rooms, manage permissions Upload and download meeting room documents in the file library. This uses the iOS 'Open in..." functio [read] Keywords: ibm
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Android To Do Screens
Sat, Dec 15th 2012 1:45p Chris Reckling Here are a couple of screens of the Android version of Notes Traveler that came out last week with Traveler Upgrade Pack 2. We've adopted the newer Android 4 guidelines, as you can see in the action bar tabs at the top of the screen. Same functionality as on the iOS apps, too. The most important views are a tap away (All, Today, Overdue, Lists) and everything else is under the More... tab. Here's a look at the To Do's on an Android tablet, after you have selected one of them - it sha [read] Keywords: ldd
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Traveler To Do Apps Now Available
Thu, Dec 13th 2012 1:25p Chris Reckling The end of the year brings much cheer to the app store, with a new release of Sametime Meetings and now Traveler To Do apps on the Apple App Store and for Android as part of the Traveler Upgrade Pack 2. Per usual, for the mobile apps, designer Jessica Peter sought to optimize for the primary use cases. I would say our first use case was to be able to quickly and easily enter in a to do and mark it complete, as this is the most basic task (so to speak) for a To Do app to perform. Therefore, al [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime Meetings app for Android
Wed, Dec 5th 2012 5:22p Chris Reckling December 5, 2012 - A brand new Sametime Meetings app is now available on the Google Play store. Congratulations to the team, including designer Sue Un, who simultaneously handled iOS and Android duties with aplomb. You can see the list of features on the Play store. Take a look below for a preview of both tablet and phone. 1. Meeting Room with participants list open. You can switch between participants, file library, and discussion. 2. The Lobby, as we call it, has your list of rooms, cale [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Connections Mobile Command URLS
Sat, Nov 17th 2012 2:02p Chris Reckling The Connections apps released in October add additional command URLs to what we already had in them. See this post for details on the first batch and when you might use them, then come back here and check out the new ones. The account info is optional. To use these, call them wherever you would use an http url, such as in an tag. Added for Connections 4 mobile apps, but they are client side so will work with a Connections 3.x server. Launch Activities ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/activit [read] Keywords: connections
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