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30/092017

Welcome to the Social Connections Gala night in Vienna!

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Finding a venue for our Gala night is one of the most fun tasks when planning the Social Connections conference.

We all know our attendees look forward to the days with sessions, learning, networking and fun. We also know that our attendees almost as much look forward to our Gala night where they can wind down/wind up (whatever they prefer) after a day of conferencing with their peers, friends, colleagues, customers and partners.

Our Gala nights are often positively talked about long after the conference, which we are very happy for. So we always take time to find that place where we think we can achieve that special Social Connections Gala vibe we all like so much.

This time we found the oldest cellar vault in Vienna. Arrive hungry! The chefs here concentrate on traditional and fresh food, often from local producers.

The Melker Stiftskeller is part of the Melkerhof in Vienna’s Schottengasse 3 in the first district. A certificate from 1629 proves that there was a wine-cellar connected with the Melkerhof already at that time. The Melker Stiftskellers fine cuisine developed out of this wine-cellar.

In addition to the good food there will be some extra fun we can’t reveal yet.

So join us for an evening of good food and lots of laughter in a historic environment!

Melker Stiftskeller is located in Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien and is a 10 minute walk from our conference venue.

Welcome

27/092017

Sponsor highlight Infoware: Move and Merge all content and users in IBM Connections

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Part 2 of our blogging series where we highlight our Platinum and Gold sponsors is here. Today it’s time for the Swedish business partner Infoware who has been working with IBM products for over 20 years.

You know IBM Connections right? What you might not know is, that we make it even more powerful, useful, better, tidier with DomainPatrol Social

We can in 4 clicks merge two whole Communities. With everything in it! Neat and tidy. With the same function you can move and merge almost all content, like Wikis, Files, Communities, Activities, Users etc. All solving complex questions and issues from users and admins.

In our session we show real life examples how our customers have used DomainPatrol Social to:

use IBM Connections more. Sometimes users are afraid of submitting content as they don’t know where to put it
to upgrade their environment
to merge in companies they bought – with lots of new users and content
to handle movements of staff in the organisation
to handle unused and orphan content that clogs up the environment

Detach your content from the predefined places, and go social!

18/092017

Social Connections presents the agenda for our conference in Vienna, 16-17 October

News social connections socialconnections soccnx agenda published vienna 2017 by Maria Nordin

Welcome to the IBM Collaboration Solutions Conference

Enjoy IBM Keynotes, Customer keynotes and deep dives in administration and development of IBM Connections. More exciting sessions in our Future of Work track where our speakers put their ear to the ground and predict future changes for all of us.

Stay ahead and register today!

As always we received a huge and wide range of abstracts and our team has worked hard to create that perfect mix of technical and non-technical sessions aiming at both existing and prospective IBM Customers. Exciting samples below:

How to attract more users – The evolving story of the Eurapco IBM Connections platform Learn about the learning curve, the feedback of the users and how it was possible to quadruple the user base in this time frame.

The World of Team Space Tools: Watson Workspace vs. Slack, Teams, Skype, and others You’ll learn the competitive differences among the products, including how and where the various products can integrate together. Become more productive and learn how to leverage these tools!

The Journey to Connections Pink Pink will provide even more flexibility and choice in an open platform. See some of the most recent steps we are taking to delivering Pink.

All our sessions are delivered by stars in the IBM Collaboration community like Jason Gary, Sandra Bühler, Rene Schimmer, Ann-Marie Darrough, Gabriella Davis, Luis Suarez, Christoph Stöttner and many more.

The Social Connections conference has strong focus on social collaboration technology, aimed at both existing and prospective IBM customers and partners, and at individuals with both business and technical perspectives. Our events bring together highly qualified attendees, speakers and business partners from all over the world.

REGISTER TODAY

01/092017

It’s Friday, and we want to thank your sponsors!

News sponsors friday by Maria Nordin

We can’t do a conference without our valued sponsors. They bring expertise, innovations and experience into our community.

So here’s a little Friday tribute for them

Also, look out for our blog posts presenting our Gold sponsors in the weeks to come. Lots of ideas to read about and learn from.

Happy Friday all of you!

P.S. Are your company interested in participating in this great event focusing on IBM Collaboration software? Take a look here

23/082017

We found ourselves a palace! Social Connections welcomes you to Vienna and Palais Pallavicini

News 12, austria, conference, connections, palace, social, social connections, socialconnections, Venue, vienna by Maria Nordin

A palace! Nothing will suit us better than a palace when we return to Europe for our 12th conference. Welcome to Social Connections 12 in Vienna and Palais Pallavicini.

The beautiful city of Vienna is awaiting us with its stunning architecture, good restaurants, chocolate cakes, castles, horses and den schönen blauen Donau.

The venue we have chosen is one of the most stunning ones so far. The fabulous Palais pallavicini which foundation was laid in 1582. Home of a monastery, a count and now the aristocratic Italian family Pallavicini.

Close by you will find hotels, shops, restaurants and public transport. Right in the heart of Vienna.

Find out more about Social Connections 12 in Vienna here!

20/062017

Social Connections 11 in Chicago – it’s a wrap!

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First of all a big THANK YOU to all of you who partiticipated at Social Connections in Chicago in any way.

Without you we couldn’t do an it!

We had 2 great days in Chicago and what a city! Friendly and welcoming people, good food and a never-ending sunshine. I’m sure that many of us who were there definitely have Chicago on our list of vacation cities.

What makes Social Connections so great is just that; that we arrange our conference in a new city and country each time. That way we all get to extend our network and meet both old acquaintances and make new ones every time. New IBMers, new business partners and new customers. Lots of people to get to know and learn from and new business opportunities for our sponsors.

Great thing no. 1

Our sponsors. We are truly amazed at how innovative you are. You offer so many interesting and smart solutions and you showcase so much expertise and all it is available to all IBM’s customers. We are especially happy for our returning sponsors, but also our new sponsor friends which makes us equally happy.

Great things no. 2

Our speakers. You are all great! The knowledge, the expertise, the diversity and depth of your sessions is amazing! We had sessions about IBM Connections Pink, Docker, sponsors showing their solutions and the all popular sessions on real life customer stories.

Great things no. 3

Everyone who attended! You are the best! You came from near and far. Many locals from Chicago and some of you came all the way from the other side of the globe! That mix is hard to beat! Here are some statistics. We were 167 attendees which feels like good number in the US where we are the new kid on the block. We also managed to get really great and big American customers there both attending and speaking. We were 70 companies represented which also are happy with. And 14 countries.

Great thing no. 4

Evening events! As some of you know we take pride in doing the full circle of networking by putting a lot of effort in finding a cool event for our gala reception to which all attendees are invited. In Toronto we for example visited Hockey Hall of Fame and in Stuttgart, Germany were visited Sensapolis which is an indoor playground and restaurant combined.

This time we held the reception at the very cool table tennis club called AceBounce. That was if I can say awesome. It was so fun to see everyone playing matches with 2 or even 6 people in. All combined with really good food.

So by this the team of Social Connections, also called ‘the Midnight Squad’ as we mostly do our work around midnight, would like to thank you all again a fantastic 2 days in Chicago!

Last but not least

Social Connections 12 comes to Austria on October 16-17! We are now heading back to Europe and our fall event and the planning is already in full swing! Make sure you are in the lookout for more detailed updates from us. Subscribe to our newsletter here, follow us on Twitter here, on Facebook here, join our LinkedIn group here, our blog here.

We hope you all can be there!

15/052017

Party time! Time to reveal the location of Social Connections fabulous Gala evening!

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We know that a perfect way to end the first day our conference is a fabulous Gala evening together with old and new friends! Other ingredients should include good food, refreshing beverages and something extra fun. And this is the Chicago edition!

Welcome to a fun and playful evening at the table tennis club Ace Bounce – the home of PING PONG.

Ace Bounce offers an immense subterranean playground. Filled with ping pong tables each with their own party going. All kept in perpetual motion by DJs. And topped off with generous servings of food and beverages by award winning chefs & mixologists. Perfect for our conference!

We are sure you will enjoy a night with a game of table tennis and a bite to eat with your customer, your IBMer or that other business partner!

Register for Social Connections here and then check your email for the registration link to this evening event! Make sure you secure your spot to our fabulous gala night! 1 ticket per attendee.

So come and play with us! The Social Connections team is in hard training! 🙂

04/042017

Ed Brill and Chris Crummey keynotes at Social Connections in Chicago

News by Maria Nordin

The Social Connections team is very proud to present our first keynote session and speakers for Social Connections 11 in Chicago.

Please welcome Ed Brill, Vice President, Product Management and Design and Christopher C. Crummey, Executive Director of Customer Experience and Evangelism and their session Collaboration Today.

We really enjoyed their session at IBM Connect in San Francisco where they gave us insights in IBM’s flagship products within collaboration solutions. Real life demos of products for real life problems customers face each and every day while working together.

Come and see all about the future within collaboration today!

And:

last days (deadline Friday) for submitting your abstract

31/032017

Time for another sneak peek of our agenda – What’s new in IBM Connections 6

News by Maria Nordin

You might have read our first session sneak peek where we announce Baan Slavens and Jason Gary, both IBM, doing a retake on their immensely popular IBM Connections Pink session from IBM Connect.

https://socialconnections.info/connections-pink-comes-to-soccnx/

Next in line we have Jim Puckett and Daniel Kim. Their session has the title What’s new in IBM Connections 6

IBM Connections provides the platform of social tools you need to transform your organization. IBM Connections enables you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster. In this session, we’ll describe what’s new in the brand-new IBM Connections 6 release and preview a few new features being planned for the Connections Next. See first-hand how IBM Connections can work for you and how you can embrace all the new capabilities coming.

Stay tuned for more to come!

And:

last days for submitting your abstract

last days for early bird tickets