Getting Started with IBM Connections
Fri, Feb 3rd 2012 8:43a Erika Varga IBM Connections 3.0.1 has a new getting started experience to interactively guide users through steps for setting up and using IBM Connections. Each step lets you Learn more, Watch video or Do it. Want to see how other people are using IBM Connections to do social business? The new getting started walks you through the same steps others have taken to network with colleagues, join a community, start an activity, and share files. Two ways to use Getting Started with IBM Connections: Try ou [read] Keywords: connections
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Help us plan our session for SXSW Interactive
Wed, Feb 1st 2012 8:22a Heidi Ambler Today's guest post is from Heidi Ambler Director of Social Software Product Management Luis Benitez and I are excited to be presenting at SXSW 2012, and we want to tap into the collective knowledge of readers of our blogs, Twitter, and even internal to IBM to find out what your thoughts are on enterprise social software trends, which is the topic of our session. How are you seeing social media being used by enterprises and what are some of your most favorite examples? [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012 - UX Lab Door Prizes
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:23a Joseph Russo Throughout the Lotusphere 2012 conference we'll be giving out these lovely fashion accessories as door prizes in the User Experience Lab in Asia 4. Come by any day and answer the "Question of the Day" at one of our stations for a chance to win. Increase your chances by attending any one of our special sessions or by following our LotusTechInfo or LotusDesign twitter IDs. We're also giving out collectible User Experience Lab buttons! (Photo used with perm [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2012 #LS12 #IBMSocialBiz
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 8:23a Joseph Russo Hi everyone, here's a heads up for where you can catch me at Lotusphere. I'll be in the UX Lab, come see me at the Social Business Solutions Design table. I'll be running a Hands on Design activity where we can take your favorite solution and see how to enhance the design with Social. I'll also be talking about Social Business Design Elements, please come, hear about them and influence the design with your feedback. Also, you can come to my presentation, under the Insights & Innovatio [read] Keywords: ibm
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Kudos badges for IBM Connections annouced today
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 4:23a Suzanne Livingston Adam Brown of ISW, an award-winning IBM Business Partner, posted some exciting news on his blog earlier today. Kudos Badges for IBM Connections is a flexible gamification engine for IBM Connections. By providing achievements and rewards (Kudos Badges), rank and leaderboards (Kudos Rank), and missions (Kudos Missions), organisations can dramatically improve their user engagement and adoption of IBM Connections. Congrats to the team on their launch! Check it out on their site http://www.ku [read] Keywords: connections
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Real businesses getting real results with Lotus Live
Tue, Dec 27th 2011 8:03a Suzanne Livingston A few days ago, wiredFinance's Big Fat Finance Blog posted a few Lotus Live customer stories: IBM, however, with its LotusLive Social Business Cloud has emerged as the leader with real businesses actually profiting through social cloud collaboration: Newly Weds Foods, here, needed a way to connect geographically dispersed teams without the capital expense and staff required to run an in-house collaboration system. They also needed security to protect their proprietary information and safegu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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ISSL announces IBM Connections Quickstart for Lotus Notes/Domino
Thu, Dec 8th 2011 7:23a Suzanne Livingston If you were excited about the entitlement to the IBM Connections Profiles and Files with Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 but aren't sure how to get started, check out this quickstart offering from our services organization: IBM Connections QuickStart for Lotus Notes & Domino is a new offering from ISSL. The IBM® Connections QuickStart for Lotus Notes® and Domino® solution is a well-defined services process, delivered by IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL), which allows for deplo [read] Keywords: connections
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New backup & restore tool for IBM Connections Communities
Tue, Nov 8th 2011 2:43p Suzanne Livingston There is a new asset in the Greenhouse Catalog for IBM Connections users. IBM Connections community backup and restore is an easy way to back up and restore Connections communities. Features: Back up a Connections community to a zip file. Backs up Members, Forums, Feeds, Bookmarks, Activities, Blog, Wiki, and Files in a community, interactively or via script. Restore a Connections community from the backup zip file. Restores Members, Forums, Feeds, Bookmarks, Activities, and Blog to a co [read] Keywords: connections
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What’s old is new again
Fri, Nov 4th 2011 1:23p Joseph Russo Being a little older than you may think, I remember the days when the United States embraced a long lost âsonâ, one who had taken his novel ideas around business, how to improve it dramatically, overseas to Japan, and revolutionized the entire business of manufacturing...his Japanese exploits took place in the 50's and then, only in the 80's did the USA business culture look to him for answers to it's stagnation. His name, W. Edwards Demming, his ideas, well, boiled into telling man [read] Keywords: connections
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The IBM Connections native iPad app is available TODAY!
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 9:24a Baan Slavens The IBM Connections native iPad app is available today for download at the app store - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibm-connections/id450533489?mt=8. The app will allow users to access to all the Connections applications including adding photo's or videos to the media gallery and voting on ideation blogs. Also, users have the ability to upload documents to the IBM Connections server from other apps that support the "Open In..." feature of iOS. For example, now you can upload email attac [read] Keywords: connections
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Socially developing software
Fri, Oct 28th 2011 7:43a Suzanne Livingston Software-blogger Bill Ives did a piece yesterday on how IBM Rational is improving collaboration within software teams and with key stakeholders to help drive innovation into the software development process: New integrations between IBM Connections social networking software for business and IBM Rational Team Concert allow software developers to use social networking to find experts within an organization and help collaborate with stakeholders on software development projects. If you a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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BM Connections Mobile App is now available
Mon, Aug 29th 2011 8:42a Joseph Russo Today, IBM officially announced the release of the IBM Connections mobile app (http://bit.ly/o5FMqT*) which is available in the App Store, Android Market and App World. IBM Connections for mobile smartphones is now available! Supported platforms include Google Android, Apple iOS and RIM BlackBerry OS6. To date our mobile interface has been through smart phone browsers, but that changes now. The IBM Connections mobile application extends access to company data to employees who are on th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Business
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 2:26p Joseph Russo Here's a very brief blog, one which the foundation of I've posted a few entries in the "way-back", just look for the good old "social-everywhere" tag here. What I want to know is besides this idea of social everywhere, where we can inject some things from the social world into other things or give the user a convenient "navigational" pivot into a social space is what is that next level of social? Here's what I think...it's composed of two essential parts. First, in any busines [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Vote us up for SXSWi!
Tue, Aug 16th 2011 11:42a Suzanne Livingston I've been attending SXSWi since 2008 as an attendee. This year, Luis Benitez and I want to attend as presenters! Help us and the other IBMers who submitted talks share our perspectives at SXSWi......and make sure you go! ----------------- VOTE NOW! Help get IBM Social Business topics on the agenda for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival that takes place March 19-13, 2012 in Austin, TX. Sessions are selected largely by voting results, so vote now to get our Social Business stor [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the IBM Lotus Quickr Library Widgets for IBM Connections!
Thu, Aug 11th 2011 11:25a Suzanne Livingston We are very pleased to announce the eGA of the IBM Lotus Quickr Library Widgets for IBM Connections 3.0.1! The IBM Lotus Quickr Library Widgets for IBM Connections 3.0.1 provides the following features: A "Linked Quickr Library" widget surfaces an existing Lotus Quickr library. Members of the community can read and manage library documents based on their roles in the Lotus Quickr place that contains the library. An administrator or user with a Manager role in the place must add community m [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections on the Android Market
Mon, Aug 1st 2011 10:04a Joseph Russo Click here for IBM Connections on Smartphones IBM Connections for mobile smartphones is now available! Supported platforms include Google Android, Apple iOS and RIM BlackBerry OS6. The application has been submitted to the various application stores and the first to approve was the Google Android Market. To date our mobile interface has been through smart phone browsers, but that changes now. The IBM Connections mobile application extends access to company data to employees who are on t [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Connections on the Android Market
Mon, Aug 1st 2011 9:43a Joseph Russo Click here for IBM Connections for Smartphones IBM Connections for mobile smartphones is now available! Supported platforms include Google Android, Apple iOS and RIM BlackBerry OS6. The application has been submitted to the various application stores and the first to approve was the Google Android Market. To date our mobile interface has been through smart phone browsers, but that changes now. The IBM Connections mobile application extends access to company data to employees who are o [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Connections 3.0.1 Reviewer’s Guide Now Available!
Sun, Jul 3rd 2011 7:05a Suzanne Livingston We recently published an update to our reviewer's guide that discusses the major capabilities in release 3.0.1 of Connections. Check out what's in Connections by going to developerWorks here and downloading the new update. From dW: "This Reviewer's Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBMâs social software, IBM Connections 3.0.1, and its nine applications: Home, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, and Wikis. In addition, this g [read] Keywords: connections
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What mobile device and apps do you use?
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 2:22p Baan Slavens As the Social Software Product Manager for IBM Connections and Lotus Quickr I am interested in finding out which devices and applications people are using. Please take a few minutes to respond to the follow questions: Which smartphone and/or tablet do you use? What are your 3 favorite personal applications? What are you 3 favorite business applications? Do you use your device for work? [read] Keywords: connections
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Heidi Ambler speaks at the IBM Forum event in Slovenia
Fri, Apr 22nd 2011 12:05p Heidi Ambler Please welcome today's guest blogger, Heidi Ambler, discussing her recent trip to Slovenia! Earlier this month I was asked to speak at the IBM Forum event, which took place in Slovenia. This two-day event was structured to highlight global trends in IT's future direction. Some great local and worldwide speakers kicked off the beginning of day one. The event was hosted by IBMâs General Manager of CEE, David Stokes. Tom Rosmilia from IBM ... was there and spoke about t [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections 3.01 Feature Spotlight - Ideation Blogs
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 10:05a Joseph Russo Talkin' bout some new features â Ideation Blogs Here's the scoop on this new app you can add to your community, called Ideation Blogs. It's intended to support brainstorming for your community. Let's talk about how it works and some of the interesting ways you can make use of it. First, like any community feature, owners can go to the Customize Button and from the Widget Palette, add Ideation Blogs to their Community. And when you do, you get a summary widget on the Overview pag [read] Keywords: connections
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Here it is! IBM Connections 3.0.1 announced today!
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 7:25a Suzanne Livingston Today, we're excited to announce the availability of IBM Connections 3.0.1. Here is a link to the official announcement, and I've pulled out some of the critical pieces into this blog entry below. Also, check out a demo video on the new features embedded here (I apologize - I had a cold when I recorded it and I sound a bit stuffy!). Planned availability date April 7, 2011: Electronic availability May 6, 2011: Media availability What's New? Media Gallery for sharing and viewin [read] Keywords: connections
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LinguaSys translates social content in Connections and more
Thu, Mar 31st 2011 4:04p Suzanne Livingston LinguaSys is providing a cool add on for Connections and other Lotus products that enables you to translate text from one language to another. According to their website, their TGSocial offering is "a browser plug-in that gives you highlight control over what gets translated. Works in all web based applications for LotusLive, including Notes mail through the browser. Simply highlight the text you want translated, and a window pops up with an instant translation. Change languages on a line by li [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New book - Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam
Wed, Mar 30th 2011 8:42a Suzanne Livingston Kate Pugh, consultant and author with many years of experience helping teams and communities share knowledge, has a new book out Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam. You may recall Kate's guest post last year on Sustainable Communities: Top 10 CSFs for Keeping the Faith. Here's some information about the book and how you can order it today. ______________________________________________________________________ By a factor of seven to [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Design Feedback on browser interaction
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 12:22p Joseph Russo I want to welcome guest blogger, Erika Varga, a member of the IBM Connections design team I am working on the IBM Connections user experience and would like some feedback on handling links when managing files. Lets say that you are viewing a page that describes information about a file and what you can do with it. You see general information describing the contents of the document, when it was updated, who updated it, and so on. You can also download the document to view its contents, but [read] Keywords: connections
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So far at SXSW Interactive
Sun, Mar 13th 2011 3:02p Suzanne Livingston I've been attending SXSWi since 2008, and this year it's very obvious how large this conference has become. Yes, people say that every year, but this year it's huge. The registration lines were insane, with names being shouted left and right while you waited to pick your badge up. Sessions are spread across the Austin Convention Center to several hotels nearby (I think there are 10 locations for sessions). Yet everywhere I go, rooms are packed. Today I along with about 20 others waited to get [read] Keywords: connections
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Cost and Value - Part 3
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 3:23p Joseph Russo Ok, so I heard your feedback, through this venue, through email, etc...and here's what you said Here they are in no particular order: 1. True Document Collaboration 2. Reward System 3. Static Content Pages (create these) 4. Metrics 5. Add external users 6. Ldap Groups 7. Sametime Integration (Improved) 8. Quickr Integration (DM aspects) 9. Integration Portal for other Social Software (Twitter, Linked In, etc) 10. Admin UX 11. Account Settings Page for Users 12. Real Analytics [read] Keywords: admin
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On Discourse in Social Software
Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 3:22p Joseph Russo Before I start my ramble, I want to say thanks for all the feedback on the Cost and Value blog entries - and I will be coming out with the "finale" of this blog series shortly..stay tuned! Now, meanwhile, here's a thought I want to put out here. It's about social discourse. Now, out there in the internet, it's somewhat of the wild west and we've all seen and heard of many sorry cases of cyber-bullying, etc. Or the often ridiculous spam junk commenting. Now in a Connections kind of deplo [read] Keywords: connections
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Cost and Value continued
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 3:42p Joseph Russo Returning to the previous entry I wrote on Cost and Value - I heard some good stuff from you all on New Features you'd like to see in product. Thanks for that. Now for the next part of the discussion - existing features. For all of our existing features in Connections today - I'd love to hear from you and specify one of three "categories" for these. Either this feature Need Enhancement, (and if you say that about a feature, please let me know what sorts of enhancements you'd like to s [read] Keywords: connections
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So long, LS11
Fri, Feb 4th 2011 5:43a Joseph Russo So, it's like love/hate...I'm at good ole MCO, thinking about the week we've just experienced. For me, it was absolutely my busiest one ever. So, the love/hate, well, I love this experience, it's great to meet the customers face to face, talk with them, listen to their concerns, their thoughts, their great ideas. And it's really great to hear all the great buzz about something I work on, really, I can't explain how great a charge this week always gives me about the work I do. The hate, wel [read] Keywords: connections
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UX Lab Buzz!
Wed, Feb 2nd 2011 3:03p Joseph Russo There has been a great buzz in the UX lab this week around connections 3.0, 3.01 and Next. Some really great feedback, and I want to thank all of you who've taken the time to come and sit with us and help us make this a better, more usable product. In upcoming blogs I'll come back to areas we've discussed here at Lotusphere and I'll ask for more input from you, I'll report on the feedback as well and best of all, report on where these things are going and detail these aspects as they get i [read] Keywords: connections
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Help design the next version of Connections
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 8:24a Joseph Russo Hi, I want to welcome you all to Lotusphere. I also want to ask you all to come to the UX Lab and talk to me about two areas that we've been knocking around on the blog. First, in my blog about new features I got a lot of good feedback - and there was considerable interest in providing and Admin experience. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, and I'd love to sit and draw up some simple wire frames based on our discussions to take back to the dev team and help to form future designs. [read] Keywords: admin
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Welcome to Lotusphere
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 7:22a Joseph Russo Wow here I am in sunny Florida. It's amazing to see a landscape without snow. It's kind of hard to believe that ones exist. I just want to say welcome to Lotusphere and I hope you come and see me in the UX lab, I'll be there on all week. Our hours are 11 to 6 on Monday, 9 to 6 on Tuesday and Wednesday, and 9 until 12 on Thursday. On Tuesday at 3:30 I'll be conducting a roundtable on community customization and on Wednesday 3 to 4 I'll be running a chalk talk about groups and group desig [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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New Connections Plugins for Quickr and Confluence!
Fri, Jan 28th 2011 5:43a Suzanne Livingston We are very pleased to announce two more additions to the Catalog! The IBM® Lotus® Connections 3.0 Connector for Lotus® Quickr⢠With the IBM® Lotus® Connections Connector for Lotus® Quickrâ¢, you can create associated Lotus Quickr team places for Lotus Connections communities. A Lotus Quickr team place provides a central location from which a team can organize, share files, and collaborate on documents. Every Lotus Connections community owner can optionally choose t [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Business Jam (February 8-11, 20011)
Tue, Jan 25th 2011 8:02a David A Brooks The Social Business Jam is a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of leaders from around the world, to pool their knowledge and experiences to examine the next generation of business. The objective is to cooperatively explore the value of social technology in business, the mitigation of its risks, and the management system required to drive a social transformation. Jam Topics: Building the Social Business of the Future Building Participatory Organizatio [read] Keywords: ibm
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Joe at Lotusphere 2011
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 8:42a Joseph Russo I just want to let all of you know, I'm going to be at Lotusphere this year, and I will be in the UX Lab. I'll be there to talk about Connections - I'd really love to show you things we're thinking about and especially I want to get your feedback on those ideas as well as new ones. Look here and on my twitter feed russoDesigns for some further updates. I'll be presenting a chalk talk about the use of Groups and how we can bring a holistic design solution to the area. Also, I'll be hosting [read] Keywords: connections
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Cost and Value - your input greatly desired!
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 11:23a Joseph Russo Ok, so apparently I can't take a hint.... a little while back I blogged about ranking the most desired features we should add and rank them if you could. Here's the blog Cost and Value I'd love for you to send me any and all thoughts you've got on this topic. I'm hoping to gather them up and report on them to this audience. So I'll give you another week, [read] Keywords: connections
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Special Accessibility Event Happening Today
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 8:02a Brian Cragun Please welcome today's guest blogger, Brian Cragun Today, there is web event about collaboration using Lotus Connections 3.0. At 12pm Eastern, we will have a public open Q&A session about the Lotus Connections, what it is, how you can collaborate with it, and all the accessibility features built in. We'll have on line: Ann Abbott, IBM Collaborative Solutions Accessibility Lead Brian Cragun, IBM Master Inventor & Consultant with the HA&AC Damian Chojna, IBM Collaboration S [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Cost and Value
Thu, Jan 6th 2011 9:42a Joseph Russo Design in general often is not so much about âthe perfectâ design, but rather, the best possible design when compared to two scales, how much it costs to deliver and how much value is received. And these three things sort of work on a sliding scale... Consider the telephone. If we could start from scratch would we really construct a system like the one we have? Phone numbers are still locked into the tyranny of geographic location...so rather than having a system designed to let you [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Please help us out and take a quick survey
Wed, Dec 15th 2010 10:02a Suzanne Livingston The Lotus User Experience Research team is looking to evaluate the ease of use of Lotus Connections 3.0 on Lotus Greenhouse, and would like your feedback! Please take a few minutes to complete three Lotus Connections tasks on this website and provide us with input for future improvements to the website. To participate, please visit the following URL, and follow the instructions on the screen. https://s.userzoom.com/m/MSBDOVM0MzM_ Note: Please remember to use your Lotus Greenhouse account [read] Keywords: connections
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Joe’s short blogging hiatus (and this is for Joe only!)
Wed, Dec 8th 2010 5:01p Joseph Russo My blogging hiatus (and this is only for little old me, Joe Russo...I'm NOT speaking for others or for this blog in general) Hey, I know I have been hitting up this space with weekly goodies but it all came to a grinding halt. This time of year is a busy one, we had the US Thanksgiving holiday, and then the upcoming end of year fun...Lotusphere preparations, the end of the year and end of year US holidays have crammed time to the maximum. I will be back with my weekly âspouting offâ [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Everywhere Part 3
Fri, Nov 19th 2010 9:40a Joseph Russo Ok, so we've talked about some of the "touch points" of Connections - so I want to get to the next part of this discussion. We talked about the business card and bookmarking embedded links. These represent two important design patterns. First, the business card. This represents three key design concepts - first that a person can be "represented" via this notion of a self-contained card and is tied to some artifact on a page that uniquely defines that person (Display name or email addr [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Lotus Connections 3 Help Videos
Thu, Nov 11th 2010 2:40p Suzanne Livingston You may have seen Luis' blog post about the cool new videos showing all the IBM Lotus Connections apps. Here is one on the new Home Page, which has lots of filters for all the microstreams produced in Connections. Be sure to check out all the links on Luis' blog. [read] Keywords: connections
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connect.BASF Updates their Adoption Story
Fri, Nov 5th 2010 11:47a Suzanne Livingston BASF has had tremendous adoption of social software in their environment. In this updates presentation, they share their background, motivation, approach, benefits, and updated adoption metrics of their deployment of IBM Lotus Connections. Dr. CheeChin Liew, who I've had the pleasure of meeting and working with, is the Enterprise Community Manager in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Best Practice: Online Business Network connect.BASFView more presentations from BASF. [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Everywhere
Fri, Nov 5th 2010 3:18a Joseph Russo Social Everywhere One of the key design points of social software revolves around this design âanchorâ...and that is, social, in general is itself NOT a destination. It's in the very fabric of the things we do, the destinations we go, the tools we use. A concrete, if âold fashionedâ example of this (and I know you'll cringe with the technology choice here, but bear with me) is the simple web site action âEmail thisâ. You go to your favorite news website, rea [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Everywhere
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 11:14p Joseph Russo Social Everywhere One of the key design points of social software revolves around this design âanchorâ...and that is, social, in general is itself NOT a destination. It's in the very fabric of the things we do, the destinations we go, the tools we use. A concrete, if âold fashionedâ example of this (and I know you'll cringe with the technology choice here, but bear with me) is the simple web site action âEmail thisâ. You go to your favorite news website, r [read] Keywords: connections
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What it means to be Social Everywhere
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 6:44p Suzanne Livingston Social Everywhere is an important piece of the IBM Social Software Strategy. Since the inception of IBM Lotus Connections, we've recognized the need to bring social technologies into the tools people use most frequently - be that email, instant messaging, web applications, mobile devices, embedded experiences, and even 3rd party applications and services. Social everywhere is about being able to access the information you need in the context of the places you need it. What we understood early [read] Keywords: connections
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Our Blog will be down on November 1st
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 10:44a Suzanne Livingston Our apologies. Synch.rono.us will be down Monday, Nov 1st at 11 AM Central time for up to 5 hours. Our servers are undergoing some improvements! We apologize for any delay in getting you content that you need. [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Open and Closed
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 10:44a Joseph Russo I want to put some thoughts out there about the way I see communities being used today and to see what would be the most important things we could do to get the most out of how people use them. There seems to me to be a spectrum. One one end we have the open, public kind of community where there is some topic of general interest. In these kinds of communities there are a set of passionate "evangelists" of this topic that start out this community and want to make it grow. They want to do thi [read] Keywords: connections
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Request to prioritize key focus areas for improvement in Lotus Connections
Thu, Oct 21st 2010 1:44p Suzanne Livingston The Lotus User Research team is looking for your input on how you are using Lotus Connections. Take 5 minutes to tell us which features are important to you and if we can improve the usability of those key tasks. To participate, visit: http://tinyurl.com/ConnectionsTopTasks The survey will be closing Monday, 10/25. Thank you! [read] Keywords: connections
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Let me invite you...
Thu, Oct 21st 2010 10:44a Joseph Russo So, we're introducing this action in a community, called Invitations. Here's the thing I'm questioning, why do we still need to Add people? Here's what I've heard from people as to why they still need Add... I need to make sure that person is in the community. So when I look, I can see them in the members list and know they are "there". An invitation let's them decide to join or not. So, let's think about this. If I add someone to a community, they become a member of the communit [read] Keywords: connections
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Community Metrics
Wed, Oct 13th 2010 9:14p Joseph Russo I want to get a pulse on what people think would be the right sorts of information for a community to collect on it's members and even viewers. In a community, there is the overview page and then pages for each "feature" area...so there are general things that could be done, like page views for example. But also, for each area there are things like contributions, it could be files being uploaded, and/or updated, comments, ratings, new blog entries, blog comments, discussion topics, replies. [read] Keywords: connections
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LoLA
Mon, Sep 27th 2010 11:44a Joseph Russo Hey, I just wanted to throw out an invitation to anyone who's attending LoLA this year. I'll be there, and I'd love to talk with you about Connections, especially Communities. I'm also giving a chalk talk on Groups in Collaboration Software, and I'd love to hear how you use groups in your business, what your pain points are and where you'd like to see things go. See you next week! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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This week in Lotus, from Amsterdam
Fri, Sep 10th 2010 7:13a Suzanne Livingston This morning, Stuart McIntyre got Bill Buchan, Chris Miller, Mary Beth Raven, Paul Mooney, and I together at NLLUG for a "This Week in Lotus" podcast session, covering all sorts of topics like recent Lotus User Groups, NLLUG, how we arrived there, and even some tips on Connections 3 and Notes 8.5.2. It was a fun session thanks to the ever entertaining personalities. The audio is quite dull here, but when the official podcast gets posted I will refer to it instead of the video. [read] Keywords: connections
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Australian Bureau of Statistics uses IBM Social Software
Fri, Aug 20th 2010 5:14p Suzanne Livingston This week, IBM announced the Australian Bureau of Statistics' use of IBM Lotus Connections software to help its 3,000+ employees collaborate. In addition top national daily paper The Australian among others featured the news: The offices of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have been decked out with wikis, blogs and instant messaging after the agency deployed a social-media platform for its 3200 staff. --ZDNet (link) The organisation has announced that is adopting IBM social sof [read] Keywords: connections
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