Posts Tagged ‘connections’

IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling.  I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]

IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling.  I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]

Are you one of the thousands who will descend on Orlando, Florida next week to attend IBM Connect 2013?  If you are, then you may have been trying to make sense of all the information IBM has been publishing about the conference.  I know as a business partner, we receive lots of emails on a […]

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I introduced many of the technologies used to build a social intranet.  In part 3, I talked about three scenarios and list some of the technology that would be involved in each social intranet.  For this last part of the series, I want to talk about what some of […]

Thanks to Becky Schroeder at Ephox for sending me the following video.  EditLive is an outstanding web-based text editor that has been included in IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager for several years.  If you use those products, EditLive is the Advanced Editor out of the box. EditLive brings lots of great features […]

In the past two posts (Part 1 & Part 2), I list many of the key technologies that make up a social intranet.  In this post, I’m going to talk about how you might combine those different systems into an overall social intranet platform for your company.  In the next post in this series, I’ll […]

In part 1 of this series (see Social Intranet Technologies, Part 1), I talked about many different technologies or systems that make up a social intranet.  In this post, I want to expand the list of technologies, and discuss briefly several technologies that often get overlooked, but can be an important part of a great […]

I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the concept of a Social Intranet lately.  The intranet is your company’s internal content network.  In many cases, it is nothing more than a series of links to other systems.  In more sophisticated intranets, companies publish corporate news and announcements, departments have their own pages to share […]

IBM has posted on YouTube several videos describing new features in IBM Connections 4.  You can find all the Connections videos and more on the Lotus Information Development Channel. Below I list some of the interesting Connections 4 videos. IBM Connections 4 Overview:   Getting Started with the home page:   Using Communities:  

On September 4, IBM formally announced the next version of their social software platform Connections.  Connections 4 adds a host of new features in all the areas of the product, including: Home Page has a new user interface with simplified navigation  Communities includes new events widgets and recent update views Recommendations are more relevant by […]

Summer, as defined by school schedules, has generally come to an end and that means we kick start our IBM Connection Bootcamp series.  This fall we will be continuing on our trusty format of delivering business-focused bootcamps to help business and IT leaders build use cases, define ROI scenarios and have a little fun while […]

IBM has long had a Solutions Catalog or application store, which includes portlets and other code for their products.   Some solutions are free from IBM and others, while some solutions you have to purchase.  You can look at the Solutions Catalog here. In addition to the Solutions Catalog, IBM is now offering what they […]