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IBM Connections
IBM
Connections product managers
Suzanne
Livingston, Mac
Guidera, Baan
Slavens, and Luis
Benitez fill us in on the
new features of the Connections 4 (IC4) release, including:
- Embedded experiences and activity streams
- Improvements to the home page
- Easily sharing information from any
context with the Sharebox
- What's coming in the Connections mobile
apps
- Reporting and metrics (over 100 new
reporting capabilities)
- Bridging content from external websites
and news sources
- And more...
Don't
miss the InformationWeek
simulcast on IBM Social Technologies
coming up tomorrow. A few more links to help get you up to speed on Connections
4:
What's
new in IBM Connections 4?
IBM
Connections 4 Reviewer's Guide
New
Capabilities in Connections 4
(there's also a YouTube video link on that page)
This show runs 32:55
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Steven
Green, CEO of TemboSocial
(@TemboSocial),
tells us all about The
Hive. It's peer-to-peer social
recognition software that integrates with IBM Connections to help share
knowledge, stories, and corporate culture among employees. Topics we covered
included:
- The importance of awards, achievements,
and peer recognition
- How all this ties into corporate culture
and values
- 400,000+ stories on The Hive site for
TD
Bank since 2009
- How does this integrate with IBM
Connections?
- Is it difficult to get management and/or
employees to use something like this?
- The way that stories become company
assets
- Analytics and reporting
- The use of promotional banners to bring
employees back the site
As we
mentioned in the podcast, there is a video
demo on YouTube and plenty
more information on the TemboSocial
website. For more information,
Chris Miller also has a video
interview with Steven Green
you can check out.
This show runs 39:32.
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We spoke with Chris
Reckling (Program Manager,
Mobile UX at IBM) and Rob Ingram (Manager of Mobile Strategy, Social Business
at IBM) to get the inside scoop on what's new with IBM mobile apps. Topics
we cover included:
Even if you don't have Connections
or Sametime in-house, you can try those apps out against Lotus
Greenhouse, and you can also
download a version of IBM Worklight that's free to try (look for a link
to the Developer Edition on the Worklight
home page). Also, don't miss
the upcoming IBM
Connections mobile tech talk
on August 15.
This show runs 41:01.
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In this episode we talked about developing
applications for IBM's Connections social software platform. We were joined
by three very special guests:
Topics
covered during the show included:
- Overview of the options available to
developers (APIs, Widgets, Java)
- How widgets and apps are deployed within
Connections
- Integrating apps with the Connections
Profile
- Surfacing apps and widgets within Communities
- How IBM Connections Next will utilize
OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms
- How Kudos Badges was built and how it
integrates and is managed within Connections
- Why developers should use XPages to
extend Connections
- How you can work with iWidgets and XPages
- How to access the Connections REST API's
from XPages
- Where you can find and download sample
XPages apps
- What other extensibility features might
be important for XPages developers
- and much more...
Resources:
http://ibm.co/StartSocial
- Landing for all things ICS development related including Notes/Domino
"Next" and Connections "Next"
http://xpag.es/?ForConnections
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections
The show runs 41:53.
Show Rewind:
Be sure to listen
to our interview with IBM's Ed Brill and Trust Factory's Wueter Aukema
about the new partnership between their companies, news about Notes Social
Edition and Ed's forthcoming book.
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Gab
Davis and Paul
Mooney talk about their new
Connections101.net
website, a project to document the steps involved with building an IBM
Connections server from scratch
using a "module-based" approach. In the podcast they discuss:
- What motivated you to do this in the
first place?
- What kinds of questions are customers
asking about Connections?
- Is it really that complicated of a product
to set up?
- What is the difference between Connections101
and the IBM
wikis?
- Do IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers
already have an entitlement to IBM Connections?
- And much more...
You
can contact Paul and Gab directly via their websites (pmooney.net
and turtleweb.com)
or on Twitter at @pmooneynet
and @gabturtle.
Episode 153 runs 35:00.
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