In a couple of weeks, I'll be flying to Boston to attend and speak at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. I've been going to the conference for several years now and it's always a great experience. Getting a chance to meet others in the industry, share ideas, and learn from the community is tremendously valuable to me.
For the first time, I'll be speaking this year along with my colleague Suzanne Livingston. Our topic is:
Title: Setting Up Communities to Solve Your Biggest Challenges Location: Room 210 Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Abstract: User communities powered by enterprise social software offer a powerful way to drive results to your bottom line. This session covers the best ways to set up communities within IBM Connections to achieve a variety of results, whether it's increased sales, improved support processes, or faster access to expertise. Specifically, we'll show trends on how organizations are setting up various types of communities, such as customer support communities that lower costs by turning customers into support agents, collaboration communities that unleash the ideas and expertise, and more.
As Suzanne and I get ready for the session, we want to hear from you! I've captured two questions below and some responses so far. We would like to hear from you either via Twitter or simply respond in the comments below. Take a peek at the questions below:
If you haven't registered yet, go ahead and register here. If you are going to the conference, see you in a couple of weeks. If you won't be going, make sure you to follow the conversation via Twitter using this hashtag: #e2conf.
Business Processes Go Social with IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and IBM Connections
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 6:18a Luis Benitez Today, IBM released IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 8.5, the latest in process management to optimize business processes and improve productivity. This has been a long expected release that Dave Hay talked about several weeks ago and was a big part of the IBM Impact conference a few weeks back as well.
In this release, the IBM Connections integration has been taken to the next level to socialize business processes. The marriage of traditional business processes with social collaboration is so [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What's New in IBM SmartCloud Connections - June 2013 Release
Wed, Jun 12th 2013 9:39a Luis Benitez Earlier this week, I announced the availability of a new release of IBM SmartCloud Connections, our multi-tenant offering of our marquee social collaboration platform. This offering provides the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, instant messaging, and communities.
In my blog post from earlier this week, I shared a demo video with some of the highlights (read: my favorite features) of the new release. Since the announcement, h [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Collaboration Just Got Better with the new IBM SmartCloud
Connections Release
Sun, Jun 9th 2013 7:29a Luis Benitez A few hours ago we completed the upgrade of our social collaboration platform: IBM SmartCloud Connections. In total, there's over 100 new features and enhancements.Among some of the things you will see:
A new look and feel (firs shown at the IBM Connect 2013 OGS)
Updated mobile clients
New desktop connectors for click-to-cloud
Enhanced rich text editors
New navigation bar gives you access to content faster
Enhanced Community Overview to create a compelling landing page
Share phot [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Government 2.0 Template Powered by IBM Connections Now Available
Fri, Jun 7th 2013 6:22a Luis Benitez Governments are challenged to deliver services to their constituents (citizens and visitors) efficiently and cost effectively in a world that is increasingly social and web enabled. Through interactions with commercial businesses they have become accustomed to on-demand service that is available 24 X 7. To meet these demands, governments are developing citizen portals to provide their constituents with access to information and government services. The social aspects of this template are powered [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections Developers - Here's What You Need to Start
Tue, Jun 4th 2013 6:18a Luis Benitez For a couple of years now, the IBM Social Business Toolkit has been a great set of development resources to get partners and ISVs started with developing apps for IBM Connections.
As I stated yesterday, the Connections eco system continues to grow and we want that app eco system to continue to grow. Maybe you've been thinking about joining the Appathon to win $1000. If so, then this is perfect timing for you. So if you've been thinking about submitting an app for the Appathon to win $1000, sta [read] Keywords: connections
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KangoGift brings employee recognition to IBM Connections
Mon, Jun 3rd 2013 9:17a Luis Benitez It's the beginning of June and this promises to be another month filled with great news around enterprise social business. Let's start with another example of the continuously growing IBM Connections ecosystem. KangoGift, a platform that helps companies deliver and measure informal employee recognition in a fun and meaningful way, has announced that it has become a partner with IBM and has integrated their solution with IBM Connections.
Lately, I'm hearing that more and more companies are l [read] Keywords: connections
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LinguaSys Demonstrates Translation Plug-In for IBM Connections
Thu, May 9th 2013 6:18a Luis Benitez LinguaSys has just posted a new video that shows real-time translation of content within the latest release of IBM Connections. As companies continue to roll out social collaboration platforms to collaborate worldwide with customers and employees, there's been a trend to foster collaboration in the end user's native language.
Internally, at IBM, every time I log on in the morning I see a lot of updates in Chinese and Japanese and I wish I could read them. With this new plug-in, I now can!
The [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SNAPPS Announces SnappLinks for IBM Connections
Tue, May 7th 2013 6:17a Luis Benitez Today, I'm glad to share the news that SNAPPS, a long time IBM partner and whose founder is an IBM Champion, has announced new extensions for the IBM Connections rich text editor.
The rich text editor is part of several IBM products including Connections. The editor in Connections can be extended with additional buttons and features and SNAPPS has taken advantage of this.
With SnappLinks™, you can use your editor -- in your applications with XPages or with the IBM products -- to create and s [read] Keywords: connections
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Demo: Deep Dive of IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
Thu, Apr 25th 2013 6:18a Luis Benitez The Information Development team has created this video to take a deep dive into IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5 which was released a little over a month ago.
Earlier I had shared a high level demo of IBM Connections 4.5 so if you missed that, or you are looking for more details specifically around Connections Content Manager (CCM), then this is the demo for you. Here are the features you will see:
Upload and sharing files
Configuring library settings like draft approvals, document types [read] Keywords: connections
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Demo: Mindmapping with IBM Connections
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 6:18a Luis Benitez Mindjet is a collaborative work management software for brainstorming ideas, organizing information and managing projects and tasks.
As you start working on a project, you may start working on it by creating a mind map. Once you've visually outlined the information and are ready to take action, Mindjet can help you start tracking tasks towards project completion.
Recently, Mindjet integrated with IBM's Social Business Platform, IBM Connections. As tasks are assigned and the project is updated, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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