I am currently running a survey on how organizations approach user adoption for collaboration tools. Many people have filled out the survey in the past couple of months, but I only have 25 responses from organizations using IBM Connections. I know there are a lot more of you out there ... and I'm very interested to read the pulse on your approach.

Here's an offer for organizations with IBM Connections. If I can get more than 100 respondents using IBM Connections to complete the survey, I will run a special webinar just for IBM Connections customers on the survey results. The webinar will report on what organizations with IBM Connections are doing from an adoption perspective. If I get more than 200 responses, I will write up the findings in a report ... and give a free copy to every IBM Connections organization that completes the survey (and leaves contact details).

So, if you use IBM Connections ... please take the user adoption survey now.

Thanks much!

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IBM introduces the IBM Connections Suite Tue, May 15th 2012 3:56a Stuart McIntyre At the Social Business event in the Netherlands today, IBM announced the new IBM Connections Suite (link to follow). The Convergence of Social, Unified Communications, and Content Management Including IBM Connections, IBM Connections Community document libraries, IBM Sametime Advanced and IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite, this new solution is designed to provide an organisation will all the tools to offer its users a cohesive suite of social collaboration tools. I’m sure that you [read] Keywords: collaboration connections ibm sametime community instant messaging microsoft unified communications

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The rise of the Community Manager and the Collaboration Garden: an IBM Social Business Briefing Tue, May 1st 2012 5:29a Stuart McIntyre For our third IBM Social Business Briefing (aka Wicked Wednesdays) on 25th April at Royal Exchange in London, we felt the time was right to move the discourse from thought leadership and education to a more practical footing. Of course, we still leveraged the superb network of independent thought leaders who we are lucky to have at our events BUT at this latest event we changed / evolved the format. On this occasion I framed the discussion on the emerging role of the Community Manager (seen by s [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm community enterprise exchange exchange network

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Collaboration Matters awarded IBM Platinum Achievement Award Mon, Apr 30th 2012 4:51a Stuart McIntyre Collaboration Matters were delighted and incredibly honoured to be publicly recognised by IBM last week at the Software Partner Marketing College at IBM South Bank in London. The ‘IBM Software Platinum Achievement Award – Outstanding Marketing Achievement’ recognised those business partners that have marketed IBM’s and their own solutions in innovative and ground-breaking ways over the past year. Finalists were Portal, Applicable, Barrachd and Collaboration Matters wit [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm

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Different technology, same values Fri, Apr 27th 2012 4:11p Stuart McIntyre Lotus Notes ad from the R5 days, circa 1999: ‘I am ready’, ‘I am connected’, ‘I am not alone’, ‘The power to work the way you want’, ‘Share work and ideas’ and so on… This was describing Collaboration, Messaging and Workflow software from 13 years ago, but could so easily be describing the impact of Social Media and Social Business tools (such as IBM Connections) today. My goodness, Lotus Notes and Domino really was painting a v [read] Keywords: collaboration connections domino ibm lotus notes R5

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Warning for IBM Connections admins – change that Plugin keyfile password! Sat, Apr 21st 2012 1:10p Stuart McIntyre If you are running IBM Connections and have configured your SSL connect between the HTTP Server and WAS by importing the WAS SSL certificate into the Plugin keyfile (versus creating your own keyfile) and haven’t changed the default password, go do so now! As this IBM technote states, the default password expires on April 26th, 2012:Abstract The password to the plugin-key.kdb file that is shipped with WebSphere Application Server expires on April 26, 2012 US EDT. On distributed this file is [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus lotusphere application best practice enterprise password security server websphere

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Social Connections III – Registration is open, session abstracts invited! Tue, Apr 17th 2012 3:31a Stuart McIntyre Social Connections (the IBM Connections user group) is back, returning for its third event. Scheduled for Friday 22nd June 2012 at the IBM Labs in Dublin, this is the best chance you’ll have this year to hear directly from IBM Connections customers, consultants, partners, advocates and developers. Yes, developers too! By the kind invitation of IBM we are going direct to their European development base in Dublin, home to many members of the IBM Connections coding team. We’ll have ses [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotusphere community development facebook linkedin twitter widget

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Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows now available Mon, Mar 19th 2012 1:10p Stuart McIntyre The IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins Microsoft Windows is intended for Microsoft Windows users, adding social networking features and functionality from IBM Connections services, including Activities, Communities, Files, and Profiles. The IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows provides the following features from Windows Explorer: Upload files for personal use or to share with others Upload files to a community or attach them to an Activity Share existing Connections files with [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus community desktop mac microsoft network networking vista

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A fix for the Chrome header issue Fri, Mar 16th 2012 5:01a Stuart McIntyre Stuart blogged back in January about a known issue with downloading files from the files application using Chrome. IBM do not officially support Chrome with Connections 3.0.1 - but our good friend & IBM Champion Sjaak Ursinus has devised a work around. Header edit Content-Disposition ^(.*)creation-date=(.*);\smodification-date=(.*);$ "$1creation-date=\"$2\"; modification-date=\"$3\";" ensure the mod_header module is uncommented httpd.conf save and cl [read] Keywords: connections ibm ldd lotus application server

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issue with custom themes and communities Fri, Mar 16th 2012 4:01a Stuart McIntyre I have had a PMR open for some time relating to a bit of a known issue with Custom themes and Connections communties There was an issue where you would create a custom theme In my case I also customised the coloured community themes also When clicking on forums, blogs etc the theme was stripped out displaying It appears there was a step missing from the wiki!! http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Defining_a_community_theme_ic301 Step 1.d - d. Remove th [read] Keywords: connections ldd lotus community css wiki

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Issue with Connections media widget timing out Thu, Mar 15th 2012 4:00a Stuart McIntyre Whilst building a new Connections environment for a customer we noticed a strange issue when uploading large files to the media gallery. Initially I thought it was related to the size of the file, but the same file will upload to the Connections files application without issue. There is very little errors in the SystemOut.log for the Connections server, so I was baffled. A PMR was opened and the very helpful Mr Dave McCarthy was the PMR owner and we then started on our investigation [read] Keywords: connections application development server widget