Posts Tagged ‘connections’

Rob Will, Chief Architect at IBM, presented the future vision for Portal and WCM today.   He started out talking about how the concept of customer experience has been evolving over the past few years.  A core shift has been to enable non-technical users to do more and more with less reliance on IT. A slight […]

Rob Will, Chief Architect at IBM, presented the future vision for Portal and WCM today.   He started out talking about how the concept of customer experience has been evolving over the past few years.  A core shift has been to enable non-technical users to do more and more with less reliance on IT. A slight […]

One of the challenges with managing social media is getting your message out to the many, many social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, etc.  I wrote recently how I use IFTTT to send blog post announcements to various sites from our WordPress blog.   Companies like HootSuite have created platforms that solve this […]

Larry Bowden kicked off IBM’s webcast today about their new focus on Exceptional Digital Experiences.  In the past couple of years, IBM has introduced the Exceptional Customer Experience suite of products and the Exceptional Employee Experience suite.  These suites combine various IBM products such as WebSphere Portal, Connections, Sametime, etc into pre-configured suites focusing on […]

In working with our IBM Connections clients, we usually recommend not changing the standard Connections theme much.  The theme controls the color scheme, fonts, headers, footers, page layout, etc.   Making significant changes can impact features on the system as they can be somewhat connected to each other. IBM has recently introduced a new theme […]

On June 25, IBM announced the availability of version 1.0.3 of IBM SmartCloud Docs.  If you haven’t heard of IBM SmartCloud Docs, it is similar to Google Docs. You can store and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right on line without having to have desktop software installed.  IBM allows you to edit both Microsoft Office […]

The IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session “Social Web Experiences leveraging the Power of IBM Connections and WebSphere Portal” was delivered by Mac Guidera, Social Business Evangelist, IBM and  Jon Brunn, IBM Connection Architect, IBM.  The session focused on bringing WebSphere Portal and Connections together in a single cohesive solution leveraging the capabilities of both […]

In January, IBM announced an update to IBM Connections.  Now called IBM Connections 4.5, the major new feature is the addition of a document library.  The document library feature is based on IBM Filenet, and includes the standard features you would expect to see: check-in/out; upload documents; search; the ability to set document types, and […]

IBM recently released a Redbook on “Building and Implementing a Social Portal”  As you know, Redbooks are basically technical guides on a variety of subjects. This one was written by eight different IBM’ers and IBM Business Partners. Why is this of interest you might ask?  When IBM released version 8 of Websphere Portal, they solved […]

IBM Connect 2013 wrapped up last week and overall it was a great conference.  Social Business is on the rise and many IBM products such as IBM Connections are at the heart of meeting social business needs of organizations around the world.  At the conference I presented a case study with Fluor Corporation on how […]

Miguel Estrada and Nan Shi presented the session Getting the Most Value Out of Metrics in IBM Connections 4 at IBM Connect 2013.  Metrics and analytics are critical to understanding your customer, employee and partner behavior and interactions.  Some of the key points in the session include: Metrics Overview Connections provides quantitative and qualitative metrics […]

Michael Porter (@porteronportal) and Saren Sakurai (@saren) of Perficient spoke at the last day of IBM Connect 2013.  The title of the talk is the Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer.  The goal of digital marketing is the right message to the right audience at the right time on the right device. 4 primary objectives of […]