Posts Tagged ‘ibm connections’

Last week I highlighted several of the new features in the recent update to IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. I thought about how some of the features and terminology may initially be confusing to newcomers and seasoned users alike. So this week I’ll discuss three features that are both related and sufficiently different to warrant […]

Kudos is best known for providing add-ons to IBM Connections that help with and encourage adoption of the social media platform. Kudos Badges is a gamification system that includes missions, rewards, ranking and leaderboards. Just ahead of IBM Connect 2014, Kudos has announced a new product called Kudos Boards. Boards is targeted at the Activities […]

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 […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

Gartner just released their Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant.  (warning login and $$ required to gain access.)  Alternatively, Jive also offers it with your company information.  I don’t want to just copy what Gartner has to say so let me just focus on the use cases for Social Software and the leader quadrant. […]

Short but fun video about a client of ours.  I have to admit that Cars.com continues to make the car buying experience better. We recently bought a car and the best place to find enough valid information to figure out where to go and buy a used car is cars.com.   Their use of custom […]

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 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 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 […]

At the IBM Connect conference, we heard about some of IBM’s approach to Social Analytics.  In a nutshell, you can break the strategy into two main areas: External Customer Analytics  Employee Analytics In both areas, the overall approach involves social listening, data collection, segmentation and deep analytics.  What we heard from IBM was a focus […]

Mark Polly, director at Perficient, recently published a blog featuring a video that showcases the benefits and features of Ephox’s EditLive. EditLive is a web-based text editor included in IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager. It’s also now in Beta for IBM Connections. EditLive brings lots of great features to people who create […]