I spent a good hour yesterday in the UX
lab. Talking to UX specialists about Social Software and how I think
it could improve. Now why is that important? Well it's not and it is...
My opinion on it's own isn't important at all but by being one of
those thousands that is actually sharing it I might be able to make
a tiny difference in how the products I work with, and my customers
work with are build. And isn't that what 'being social' is all
about? Making a difference together...?
Now apart from it being good it's also
a lot of fun. People who know me know that I can be a very
opinionated person who will not shy away from speaking her mind. And
if there's one thing that is really.... correction: REALLY close to
my heart it is usability and UI logic. So being able to sit there and
just tell about all the pet peeves, ideas and possible improvements
I've got swimming around in my head with someone who is not just
politely nodding but actually taking notes is just fantastic. Of
course there is no guarantee that any of it will be used but at least
you get a chance to talk to the people who do have the ability to
make a difference.
So if you haven't done so yet get your
butt down there and start talking! They will ask you questions if you
don't have any direct ideas and you'll be surprised how much you
actually have to add!
Social Connections – Zurich
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I know I’ve been less than forthcoming with posts these last few weeks, my apologies for that. It has just been crazy busy.
First of all with work, second of all with achieving my CIP (Certified Information Professional by AIIM) certification and lastly by Social Connections.
After a very successful Social Connections IV in Amsterdam the International IBM Connections user group is about to decent on Zurich f [read] Keywords: connections
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How to prevent the community manager from exploding
Fri, Apr 26th 2013 2:19p Femke Goedhart To all organizations who think they’ve got it all sorted out so nicely because they have a community manager MANAGE it all…
Calling them ‘manager’ doesn’t mean they can control everything their community does or say unless you actually:
give them managerial rights over their community members (which you can’t if the community is comprised of customers or external parties);
inform them of the things you are doing BEFORE you are doing them instead of just dropp [read] Keywords: community
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From describing to applying – user training taken seriously
Fri, Apr 12th 2013 10:17a Femke Goedhart It still is one of the most common mistakes made ever… Implementing new or updated software without providing user training as the reasoning is: “Oh, we don’t need to train our users. They have been using this (or similar) software for years, surely they know by now how to use it“.
Well, do they really? I’ve recently been involved in several adoption projects where we trained both new users as well as users who had been using collaboration tools for years on how com [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Connections 4.5 and Connections Content Manager available
Fri, Mar 29th 2013 11:14a Femke Goedhart As announced the IBM Connections 4.5 release and the Connections Content Manager add-on were made available for download today through the appropriate channels. The following sites give information on features, links to relevant content and pricing:
blog by Luis Benitez with relevant video’s and links
Official IBM Connections 4.5 product page
Official IBM Connections 4.5 documentation wiki
Official CCM product page & pricing (US)
Enjoy! [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections 4.5 and Connections Content Manager release dates announced
Tue, Mar 12th 2013 4:38a Femke Goedhart IBM outdid itself this time by announcing the release of IBM Connections 4.5 and the new Connections Content Manager for March 29th 2013. Only 2 months after first presenting it at IBM Connect.
On top of the great new features IBM Connections 4.5 offers, Connections Content Manager will additionally offer document management functionality like checkin-checkout, nested folders, versioning & draft control as well as integrated access security to organize and control content within the IBM Conn [read] Keywords: connections
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Harmon.ie – bringing SharePoint into IBM Notes
Mon, Mar 4th 2013 10:11a Femke Goedhart As Silverside has recently become a partner for harmon.ie I’ve been testing their harmon.ie plugin for IBM Notes. A plugin that allows organizations running SharePoint as well as IBM Notes to have access to their SharePoint content from within their mail environment. I must say I’m enthusiastic!
Originally developed to allow access from within Outlook it was also adapted to run in IBM Notes. Making it possible to seamlessly use most of the SharePoint features without having to leave the [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Job interview with a twist
Thu, Feb 21st 2013 1:56a Femke Goedhart Usually I don’t really buy into these as it is of course a clever way of advertising a beer brand, but… I do love the premises of taking a process like the hiring process that is so standard, mandated and rigid that it has taken out any chance of really showing your true personality as a candidate and twisting it around completely to become something in which you can’t help but show something of yourself. But more then that, I love the idea of the voting. Making the hiring proc [read] Keywords:
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BLUG – speaking of social document management
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 5:12a Femke Goedhart Yet again Theo Heselmans and team have managed to do the impossible: get an absolutely fantastic line up together for the upcoming BLUG event in Leuven, Belgium on March 21-22.
I'm honered to say my session “Folksonomy versus Taxonomy, Social Document management in IBM Connections” about document management in general and the new integration of libraries in IBM Connections (CCM) in particular was accepted and I look forward to seeing so many from the IBM community in just over a [read] Keywords: connections
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