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24/082018

Announcement about Social Connections 14 in Berlin – The show must go on!

News 2018, berlin, connections, october, social, social connections by Social Connections

The team for Social Connections are working hard to finalise the details for our 14th event about IBM Connections in Berlin. We are very happy that we have an awesome venue, several amazing sponsors, fantastic customers who will speak and many great attendees already signed up.

 

One thing have happened though we didn’t count on. IBM, our Platinum sponsor, has decided to withdraw their sponsorship for Social Connections 14. The reason they gave us is that they have put all their resources into the launch of Domino v10.
This is a massive financial and emotional blow for us as an IBM Connections User Group, as we bring customers and business partners (and IBM) together so people can meet and learn from each other.

 

It is also an emotional blow for us volunteers in the team, we who work many and countless hours on our free time to organise this conference, promoting IBM Connections and maintain this amazing community of customers and business partners.
We have had a team meeting and decided that there is only one thing we can do, and want to do.

 

If you know us, you already know the answer…..

 

We will not stop by this, we will make it work and the event, October 16-17 in Berlin will take place. Because that is what we do!

 

The agenda stays as published and will not change. We have been assured by both Offering Management and the IBM Europe team that we have their full logistic support.

 

It will all of course take some work, some changes and some careful planning!

 

But we are certain, that we will deliver to you an amazing, vibrant event, all about the digital workplace. We will continue bringing people together who believe in collaboration software.

 

So, buckle up people, the show will go on!

 

See you in Berlin for Social Connections 14, October 16-17, 2018.

 

Support us by helping us spreading the word about the event! Invite your friends, colleagues or customers to participate. Or considering sponsorship? We have a few packages available.

 

Register here
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26/052017

It’s almost time!

News by Social Connections

The last few trembling days are upon us. In the US, Memorial Day weekend is ahead and with that the unofficial start of the summer!

We can’t wait to kick off the summer in Chicago with Social Connections 11 next week, the agenda is jam packed with great sessions from amazing speakers and our evening event will be something to talk about for ages!

Right now, we wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you all to Chicago, if you haven’t signed up yet, there is still time to do so.

The Social Connections team wishes you all safe travels from wherever in the world you are traveling from, and we will see you in a few short days!

 

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08/042015

Social Connections – The show must go on!

News boston, future, soccnx by Social Connections

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In the last week several members of the Social Connections team attended Engage conference in Ghent, Belgium. It was a great event and I recommend everybody to visit it next year. Many of us love the way Theo Heselmans runs this event and Engage always provides us with inspiration on how to improve our own conferences. By the way, Engage is sponsoring our event in Boston and we greatly value their support.

The reason for this post is that members of our team received a lot of questions in Ghent regarding the future of Social Connections after Stuart’s recent career move. Though this user group is his baby and his involvement is now somewhat reduced (he won’t be in Boston, for example), we want to make clear that Stuart is still with the Social Connections team, and we continue to plan future activities and events.

The team will cover the future plans in more detail at the Boston event, but we want to make a few statements earlier, to avoid concerns and rumours:

  • The event in Boston is definitely NOT the finale! We are already planning and working on the Social Connections 9 event in Western Europe this autumn. As usual, we will announce the exact date and location during our closing session in Boston.
  • The group remains IBM-centric and focused on IBM Connections and related topics, as it always has been.
  • On the other hand, we want to widen our scope to include more speakers from ‘outside the bubble’, presenting on generic topics like collaboration strategy, social business adoption, digital transformation, the future of work, and so on. Again, there is no big change, the talks on these topics started many events ago.
  • We have already started to look for possible venues for Social Connections 10 in 1H16.  Any suggestions, recommendations or offers are welcome! 🙂

The world of social collaboration continues to evolve and the team are delighted that Social Connections has became a significant event in the conference calendar (the only semi-annual multi-continental user group we’re aware of!).

Whilst the Boston event is somewhat limited by the venue’s capacity, it has still seen new peaks reached for numbers of sponsors, sessions, speakers and even IBM Champions in attendance. In addition, it has seen even closer collaboration with IBM itself, with previously unimaginable access to product managers, designers and development lab staff.

The team are happy to continue to share in discussions about the future direction of this user group – we greatly value the input of our long-term sponsors and speakers, and of course we try to listen to all members of this great community. However, the team are also very confident that our own strategy and direction means that the future of the Social Connections user group is both bright and assured!

We can’t wait to see you in Boston!

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