They have taken on the mamoth task of creating a Connections 101 site that will assit those new to Connections and WebSphere to get you up and running with advice, information and assistance.
Something like this can not come soon enough.
I am lucky, I have been what I would describe as “mucking about with” WebSphere for the past 11 odd years. I had a very good teacher (thank you Bleddyn), and the best hardware to play with it on (the iSeries – or As400 for oldschool people or IBMi for new school people).
I was in at the deep end with Websphere 4 and 5 and IBM Commerce (which runs on WebSphere) and it went from there.
11 years later .. I am still at it. Athough I have swapped WebSphere Commerce for IBM Connections now.
This new site along with blogs (like mine I hope), useful presentations at lugs (like WebSphere for Domino people, or WebSphere what you really need to know), and the help of the community will get people up and running and working confidently with Connections. It’s a fantastic piece of software and once you know what bits you need you can get up and running fairly quickly.
I would love to help or contribute in anyway .. so if you feel I have something to add – let me know
Issues with Install manager GUI on RHEL 6.3 ?
Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 6:12a Sharon Bellamy If you are attempting to install Connecitons 4.5 on RHEL 6.3 you will have noticed that there is an issue with using the GUI for the IBM Installation Manager with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
The IM won’t fire up a GUI even though xterm works for other GUI’s on the machine, no errors, no splash screen, no nothing !!
It has been driving both Stuart and I bonkers .. after a lot of digging here is what you need to get it to work :
yum install gtk2.i686 gtk2-engines.i686 PackageKit-gtk-m [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sorry for the radio silence ….
Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 6:12a Sharon Bellamy I want to apologise for my lack of blogging and tweeting – there has been a lot of ups and downs in my personal life over the last 10 months, serious injury which is still not totally resolved and a bunch of other things that have contributed to not only my lack of blogging – but has stopped me attending and speaking at LUGs.
I would like to think that I may be over the worst of it – I had a fantastic holiday with my daughter Emily in Feb 2013 to Disney World, I am working with [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Connections V – coming soon
Tue, Feb 5th 2013 8:09p Sharon Bellamy The international and independent IBM Connections user group will be visiting beautiful Zurich, Switzerland on June 28th 2013!
IBM Switzerland has graciously offered us the use of their IBM Client Center and it already promises to be a busy day
To register for this event please visit our registration page here, or use the button below: [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Connections IV fun in Amsterdam
Wed, Dec 12th 2012 11:15a Sharon Bellamy After months of planning, much panicking by certain members of the SOCCNX team and a small amount of winging it – the 4th Social Connections User Group for IBM Connections Users hit Amsterdam on the 30th of November 2012.
Considering this user group was an idea that Stuart and I had over a coffee in the Uni cafe a couple of years ago, we have gone from 60 attendees at Social Connections I to a massive 203 attendees from 16 countries representing 99 unique organisations at Social Connection [read] Keywords: connections
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Mastering metrics and coping with cognos
Wed, Dec 12th 2012 11:15a Sharon Bellamy Here are the slides from out Cognos session from social connections iv – given with the mighty Greg Kutinov
Mastering metrics and coping with cognos from Sharon Bellamy [read] Keywords: connections
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I’m back .. it’s been a while
Tue, Sep 25th 2012 6:08a Sharon Bellamy Many of you may have noticed that I have been AWOL for a while.
I had much going on in my personal life and I would publicly like to thank my close friends for assisting me through that difficult time.
I am now back .. with a vengeance.
Since mid June 2012 :
I have lost over 36lb in weight – and I feel like a new person
Presented at UKLUG with a trapped nerve in my back – thanks to Bill Mal, Steve Mc D, Wild Bill especially for being so fantastic.
Changed jobs – I am now very [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Connections III – 3 weeks to go
Fri, Jun 1st 2012 10:11a Sharon Bellamy Only a few weeks until the 3rd Social Connections user group, held in the IBM Labs Dublin.
We have a few places left if you are interested in attending this unique user group. We have some fantastic sessions such as:
What’s New in Connections 4?
What Do I Need To Know? Designing A Training Plan For IBM Connections
Using Social Controls in XPages
Connections Administration: Understand the challenge … and find your way how to do it
Using Social for social good – the case for Soc [read] Keywords: admin
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Customizing Connections Demo Files
Wed, May 23rd 2012 9:12a Sharon Bellamy The demo files that acompany my Customizating Connections Presentation can now be downloaded here
Inside the zip file you will find :
The templates and css files from customizationcommonnav
The custom community thumbnail image from customizationcommunitiesimages
The custom strings required for the twitter profile extention from customizationstrings
The JustNudge profile twitter ear file – LCC_Twitter_EAR-latest.ear
Instructions on how to deploy this and how to extend the profile R [read] Keywords: connections
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Customizing IBM Connections – as seen at #NLLUG #socbiz2012
Wed, May 16th 2012 8:12a Sharon Bellamy Yes you can stuff a 2 hour technical jump start into an hour .. and get good feedback ..
Connections customization lite
View more presentations from Sharon Bellamy
I will also share the css and demo files when I get back home .. message me if you are interested.
Next outing for this #soccnx in June [read] Keywords: connections
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Returning user login issues – fun with the connections databases
Mon, May 14th 2012 7:12a Sharon Bellamy I recently had an issue with a user having issues logging in to certain applications.
The user could log in to some apps but recieved an error on others – for instance profiles, activities, communities and forums the user was fine.
Each applications database holds information regarding the user login and their external / directory / guid id – this guid is unique to the user – I found after extensive investigation that this user had orphaned entries in the other application DB t [read] Keywords: connections
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