Social Connections V is a user group conference, which does not charge a conference fee. Many vendors supported the conference through sponsorship. Here’s the vendors that were on the showcase floor: – Ephox, showing EditLive for IBM Connections. It’s an add-in for IBM Connections that brings rich text […]
Nienke (Saxion University) and Sasja (e-office) are talking about one use case of IBM Connections – for secretaries. Some notes: 1. Saxion WorX is the vision of the new way of working. Objectives include efficiency, collaboration, and co-creation, among others. 2. Chose the secretaries to work with, because […]
Luis Garza from CEMEX is talking about how people now find experts at CEMEX. Some notes: 1. Luis started by showing a video about how bringing ideas together improves current practices at CEMEX. 2. CEMEX is a global building company. More than 50 countries. About 44,000 employees. The […]
Heidi Ambler, the Director of Product Management for Social Software at IBM Connections is presenting the opening keynote at Social Connections V. Some notes: 1. Heidi has been involved with “Connections” since 2005-2006, which wasn’t called Connections then. Connections was a new product based on internal IBM research […]
Stuart McIntrye is opening Social Connections V in Zurich. This is the fifth event, in the fifth country. We have seen a growing number of attendees, and increased support from the sponsors. The conference has become bigger and better each time. Why are we running Social Connections? Back […]
Andy from Lowe’s recently commented on Doing Business with IBM Connections (2013): “I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Michael for several years. He is one of the first people I read and reached out to when I helped start our Social Business journey at Lowe’s. His latest book […]
On Friday I will be starting another trip to Europe. It’s become something of an annual pilgrimage (sometimes more often than that), and for this year the first trip just about to start. After waiting for this week to come for months, it is finally here … and […]
A few hours ago, Martin White from Intranet Focus in the UK posted the second blog post I’ve seen on my new book, Doing Business with IBM Connections (2013). Here’s part of what Martin has to say: “400 pages of text on IBM Connections could easily become overwhelming […]
Arne in Norway was the very first person to order a copy of my new book – Doing Business with IBM Connections (2013) – so it is fitting that he was also the first to write a blog post about receiving it. He then quickly followed that up […]
In just over a week I’ll be in London to present the Collaboration Roadmap Masterclass. It is a day of discussing ideas, examining models, and making plans for doing great work in the collaboration arena. As I have been working through the slide decks to update them in […]
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