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07/062018

Social Connections Berlin Sponsor packages published!

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Social Connections 14 will be hosted in Berlin, Germany. As every conference, we offer companies the opportunity to sponsor this event to showcase their products and skills to the visitors and to get their name out in the open. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity and sign up as a sponsor today.

New this time is that we have added the opportunity host a short workshop the day before the conference for our Platinum sponsors. Please inquire if you want more info

This year we have slightly changed the process, no more emailing to sign up, we are using Buzzy

Find details on our sponsor packages and our sign up form here https://socialconnections.info/become-a-sponsor/

See you in the fall!!!

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13/042018

IBM ICS Collaboration strategy for the Future of Work

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Come to Social Connections, and more specifically to the keynote of IBM’s Vice President, Offering Management and Design, Watson Talent and Collaboration, Aarti Borkar to learn about the strategic vision from IBM on the Future of work.

Learn how IBM will combine the different parts of the portfolio to create a unified toolset to take on the challenges companies face today and tomorrow.

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21/042017

IBM Connections Next Developer Briefing brought to you by IBM on May 31st

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The Social Connections team is proud to announce that IBM will be hosting an IBM Connections Next Developer Briefing the day before our event.

The briefing will take place at the IBM building on 71 South Wacker Drive in Chicago, IL 60606 on Wednesday May 31st. It will start at 9 am and will end at 5 pm. Join Alan Hamilton and the other IBM speakers for a full day of exciting new technology.

 

Join us for this exciting preview of some of the technologies and techniques we are using to build the next generation of IBM Connections. This is a technical briefing to allow customers and business partners to understand how many of the components and technologies fit together for “Connections Pink”.
Presented by the IBM developers themselves, this is an ideal opportunity to get ahead of the curve and be ready to experience what Connections Pink will deliver. It is also the ideal primer for you to implement IBM Connections 6 with Orient Me – which is available now.
Open to customers and IBM Business Partners.

Places are limited so register here

Agenda:

Morning

Deployment and configuration of Connections 6.0 including Orient.Me

  1. What is Docker, Kubernetes, CFC?
  2. How do I set up Docker
  3. How do I access content in a Docker container
  4. How do I configure Docker
  5. How do I manage IBM Containers
  6. How do I scale those environments
  7. Tips/tricks/debugging CFC
  8. How do I do integrate between applications in Docker and WebSphere

Afternoon

Muse Middleware Proxy – Customisation of Connections using Muse

  1. What is Muse ?
  2. When do I Use it ?
  3. How do I configure it ?
  4. How do I build customisation’s for it ?
  5. How do I deploy and manage customisations
  6. Private Cloud v Public Cloud

Have you seen our Mobile app? Check it out here

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23/032017

Think Pink, Connections Pink comes to Social Connections Chicago!

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We are announcing our first session!

We are proud to present Mr. Pink Jason Gary as a speaker at Social Connections. Jason will tell us all about the future of IBM Connections which we know as Connections Pink.

Those of you who attended IBM Connect remember the excitement and vibe in his session where the room was so full we all had to stand in the back and along the walls.

We can’t wait to hear more from Jason on the latest updates regarding Pink since IBM Connect.

Jason will be speaking with Baan Slavens. Baan is Senior Offering Manager for IBM Connections.  Baan focuses on  understanding the collaboration market and the future direction for collaboration for IBM Connections.  She is also the Offering Manager for IBM Connection Mobile and the lead for the strategic direction of all the mobile applications in IBM Collaborations.

Check out the full description of this session here.

More to come! This is only the first of many great sessions we have lined up for you. Stay tuned for more information.

 

Register for the conference through our website, and note that we are accepting abstracts until end of the month if you are interested in speaking.

 

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26/012017

Join the Social Connections team at IBM Connect 2017!

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While we are working hard on planning Social Connections 11 in Chicago we want to do a shout out to another great conference: IBM Connect in San Francisco!

The Social Connections team have four speakers at IBM Connect delivering 5 sessions, details below, so we’re pretty excited!

IBM Connect 2017 promises to be an interesting event. Firstly, it is in a new city and conference venue, the Moscone Centre, San Francisco, which guarantees something new and refreshing. Secondly, with new Watson based cognitive functionality within the IBM Collaborative solutions, there’s exciting new content for IT professionals, developers and business leaders giving a great opportunity to teach, learn and share how they will deliver a new way to work using IBM Watson and the other collaboration solutions from IBM.

We look forward to networking with all our friends and also learning from thought leaders, researchers, gurus, Business Partners and experts who are driving results and transforming organisations, both large and small, around the world.

 

With over 200 sessions being delivered over 3 days it’s going to be difficult to choose which season to attend when we’re not delivering our own. Nothing beats hearing real-world insights from industry-leading companies, learning about the technologies, APIs, platforms and services that boost your existing solutions, extend productivity and deliver new business results.

IBM promises these goodies:

  • Expand your horizons—explore the promise of emerging technologies like augmented reality, Internet of Things, Blockchain, AI and Watson.
  • Reimagine everyday work—learn how the solutions that are redefining work—Watson, Verse, Connections, Notes, Domino, Bluemix, Box and more—fuel productivity and collaboration.
  • Meet the experts—hear from experts on solutions that focus employees on work that matters by connecting the right people, information and processes.
  • Experience solutions first-hand—see the latest workplace technologies and research projects in the EXPO. Work with the products in labs. Discover new approaches to integrate and extend IBM solutions.

As discussed, we’re proud to have Social Connections team members contributing to IBM Connect. We look forward to welcoming you at one of  to our sessions!

Femke:
1223A: Socialytics: Accelerating IBM Connections Adoption with Watson Analytics – Femke Goedhart, Date/Time: Tue, 21-Feb, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Simon:
1488A : Employee Engagement using IBM Connections   – Simon Vaughan, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 09:00 AM-09:45 AM

Wannes:
1056A : How to Be a Lion Tamer (Keeping IBM Connections under Control with Free Tools) – Wannes Rams, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Christoph:
1268A: IBM Connections Adminblast – Christoph Stoettner, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 8:00 AM-8:45 AM

1269A: Best and Worst Practices for Deploying IBM Connections, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

 

We hope to see you at IBM Connect 2017!

 

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17/012017

Announcement: Social Connections 11 comes to Chicago! See you there!

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Social Connections
comes to
CHICAGO!!!

 

Chicago

 

Are you ready for the best conference of the year, organized by the largest user group focusing on social collaboration technology from IBM?

Good, we are too!

We are sorry we have kept you waiting. A somewhat bumpy road since our last event has made us focus on the thing we knew all along:

Quality before quantity

So here we are, ready to announce the location of Social Connections 11. We want to welcome you all in the beginning of June to the amazing city of Chicago!

What do we have lined up for you?

We will continue our success story with a 2 day event filled with keynote sessions, quality speakers, captivating break out sessions, lots of IBM Champions, a Gala night with extra specials were socializing is the focus, speed sponsoring and of course lots of networking!

We won’t stop there. This time we will renew our concept a bit and add some extra things which will make this our best conference yet!

But don’t fret! Social Connections will still keep our main focus and deliver a conference with a strong focus on social collaboration technology, aimed at both existing and prospective customers and partners, and at individuals with both business and technical perspectives.

Hello sponsor: for you we offer a solution showcase with sponsors and breakout sessions in multiple tracks! You will have the perfect opportunity to network with your customers and new prospects.

Hello IBM customer: for you we offer a broad variety of tracks ranging from use cases, management, best practices, development, design and administration etc.

Hello speaker: time to start thinking and write your abstract to the sessions mentioned above!

We have it all for you!

The Social Connections team is stronger than ever and we are working around the clock around the globe to make this event the best one yet!

Stay tuned for more details such as venue, exact date, where to submit your session and where we will spend our magic gala night.

In the meantime, contact us at info@socialconnections.info should you have any questions.

Wannes, Simon, Maria, Jan, Lars, Femke, Christoph, Doug and Martin

p.s. we are very proud to let you know that all our team members are IBM Champions for 2017!

 

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11/082014

Watch Colleen Burns at Social Connections VI: ‘Who Gives a Clout? Three Reasons Social Eminence is Critical to Your Business’

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For the first time at Social Connections VI, we recorded every single session in glorious HD video – opening and closing sessions, keynotes, breakouts and even our ‘Pardon the Interruption’ panel. This was a huge (and expensive) undertaking but one that we think will be massively valuable in terms of increasing the volume of IBM Connections information and education available to the community.

Next to be highlighted is a session from our Management track delivered by Colleen Burns. Colleen is Influencer Engagement Program Manager at IBM.

Her session brief was as follows:

Your mom may have been wrong – in the right crowd, popularity IS everything. Well, popularity combined with expertise and influence. Increasing your social eminence can mean the difference between successful selling and missed opportunities. Is your company tapping into this valuable resource? Learn how companies like IBM are measuring social eminence and using it to influence buyers, customers and industry thinking – PLUS learn tips on how to increase your own.

Here’s the session – it’s in full HD and clocks in at 21 minutes, so make it full screen and enjoy!

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/102960939[/vimeo]

Who Gives a Clout? Three Reasons Social Eminence is Critical to Your Business, Colleen Burns  from the Social Connections VI channel, by Social Connections.

All the main stage sessions from the both days of Social Connections VI are now available on the event channel, and the remainder of the sessions will be published over the next few weeks (that’s the downside of HD-quality recordings – they take a while to upload!).

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08/082014

Watch Simon Vaughan at Social Connections VI: ‘Social Software adoption – Moving from ROI to ROB (Reworking of Behaviour!)’

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For the first time at Social Connections VI, we recorded every single session in glorious HD video – opening and closing sessions, keynotes, breakouts and even our ‘Pardon the Interruption’ panel. This was a huge (and expensive) undertaking but one that we think will be massively valuable in terms of increasing the volume of IBM Connections information and education available to the community.

Next to be highlighted is a session from our Case Study track delivered by Simon Vaughan. Simon consults for OiC, is a founder member of Social Connections and is an IBM Champion.

His session brief was as follows:

So you have spent time evaluating a Social platform for your organisation, the final phase is to get business sign off to proceed. In order to get sign off, you are asked to show what ROI your company will achieve from implementing a Social platform…

This session will give you some real life examples that have been used to help get final sign off for proposals. Once over the line, this session will also be of value to organisations who have adopted IBM Connections and want to hear about some innovative use cases they could utilise in their environment. Based on the highly successful ‘Social patterns / Use cases’, Business Value Assessment models used by IBM and the ‘Social Software adoption wheel’, you will be provided with some real life examples of why ROI is important BUT why the real benefit from your Connections implementation will be to helping drive cultural change within the organisation and implementing ROB (Reworking of Behaviour!).

Here’s the session – it’s in full HD and clocks in at 29 minutes, so make it full screen and enjoy!

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/102907776[/vimeo]

Social Software adoption – Moving from ROI to ROB (Reworking of Behaviour!), Simon Vaughan  from the Social Connections VI channel, by Social Connections.

All the main tent sessions from the first day of Social Connections VI are now available on the event channel, and the remainder of the sessions will be published over the next few weeks (that’s the downside of HD-quality recordings – they take a while to upload!).

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07/082014

Watch Chris Crummey at Social Connections VI: ‘Understanding the journey of becoming a Social Business’

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For the first time at Social Connections VI, we recorded every single session in glorious HD video – opening and closing sessions, keynotes, breakouts and even our ‘Pardon the Interruption’ panel. This was a huge (and expensive) undertaking but one that we think will be massively valuable in terms of increasing the volume of IBM Connections information and education available to the community.

Next to be highlighted is a session from our Management track delivered by Chris Crummey of IBM. Chris is the Executive Director of Sales For Social Business at IBM. With 25 years as an IBMer, he will be able to provide a LOB perspective on the value of a culture of a “Social Business”.

His session brief was as follows:

This session will focus on the the major milestones and journey of IBM as a “Social Business. We will present a combination of “Day in the Life” examples followed by an overview of the major milestones achieved by IBM. This session will focus on the process, culture, and IT programs designed to successfully deploy an “Social Business.”

 

Here’s the session – it’s in full HD and clocking in at over 45 minutes, so make it full screen and enjoy!

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/102117447[/vimeo]

Understanding the journey of becoming a Social Business, Chris Crummey  from the Social Connections VI channel, by Social Connections.

All the main tent sessions from the first day of Social Connections VI are now available on the event channel, and the remainder of the sessions will be published over the next few weeks (that’s the downside of HD-quality recordings – they take a while to upload!).

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06/082014

Watch Adam Brown at Social Connections VI: ‘Make your Connections Activities Rock!!! introducing Kudos Boards for IBM Connections’

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For the first time at Social Connections VI, we recorded every single session in glorious HD video – opening and closing sessions, keynotes, breakouts and even our ‘Pardon the Interruption’ panel. This was a huge (and expensive) undertaking but one that we think will be massively valuable in terms of increasing the volume of IBM Connections information and education available to the community.

Next to be highlighted is a session from our Sponsors track delivered by Adam Brown.  Adam is Senior Executive Director at ISW, one of the largest IBM business partners in Australia and developers of the award-winning Kudos portfolio of add-on solutions for IBM Connections.

His session brief was as follows:

We love Activities in Connections. They are awesome! Working together on projects and leveraging Social Tools is a very powerful way of working. However some Activities can get BIG and sometimes users need to look at their tasks or organise the Activity slightly differently. Sometimes users don’t need to see everything that is going on but just one part. Sometimes it would be easier if Activities was more VISUAL!
Come and see the awesomeness of Kudos Boards for IBM Connections! Imagine a visual way of viewing and managing your Connections Activities. Personalized, Visual, Productive, FAST – Kudos Boards has been designed to do this and a whole lot more, all seamlessly integrated into the IBM Connections interface. If you think that Kudos Badges was designed well, then Kudos Boards will rock your socks 🙂

Here’s the session – it’s in full HD and runs for 20 minutes, so make it full screen and enjoy!

Make your Connections Activities Rock!!! introducing Kudos Boards for IBM Connections, Adam Brown from the Social Connections VI channel, by Social Connections.

All the main tent sessions from the first day of Social Connections VI are now available on the event channel, and the remainder of the sessions will be published over the next few weeks (that’s the downside of HD-quality recordings – they take a while to upload!).

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