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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!

20/092017

IBM Connections Customizer Contest

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IBM and OpenCode4Connections.org are running an event to jump start IBM Connections Customizer. The Pilot Program is running so you can start experimenting today. Check out OpenCode4Connections.org for more information about the contest. It will run from September 14 (so hurry up, you are lagging behind) until October 12.

Winner will be announced at Social Connections in Vienna on October 17 during the Closing

Session of our conference. Also check out Martin Donnelly’s blog post about it and make sure to visit his session. First price of the contest is an iPad mini so time to dust of the coding skills and ask your grandmother what colours fir best together !!!!

Happy coding!!!

18/092017

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

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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!

09/082017

Social Connections 12 in Vienna – Sponsorship opportunities!

News Soccnx12 sponsors PAckages Vienna by Simon Vaughan

The clock is ticking and the countdown has begun for our next Social Connections event – Social Connections 12 in Vienna – Monday October 16th and Tuesday October 17th 2017.

We are currently in the process of confirming the venue and we hope to announce a great location very soon! With keynote speakers from IBM, Business partners, IBM Champions and most importantly of all – Customers, this is the event that you need to attend to learn from others and find out what is coming to the IBM Connections platform in 2017 and beyond!.

As for previous events, sponsorship opportunities are available and it is due to the contributions from our sponsors that the event is such a success.

From past events we have received great feedback from our sponsors.

Below are some examples:

‘What an event, the number of people we met far exceeded our expectations. We will certainly be at the next event!’

‘It was great to meet so many Connection customers and the interest in our product was amazing. It is the first time we have sponsored this event and we will be at the next event!’

‘Speed sponsoring was great! The chance to showcase our new product to both IBM and IBM Connections customers was really worthwhile.’

‘Thank you Social Connections team! The team responded to all our questions in the run up to the event and ensured that we received maximum return from our sponsorship. We will be at the next event!’

We have recently announced the sponsorship packages for the next event.

Are you a Business partner who has a solution to showcase – If so, what are you waiting for?

Interested in sponsoring the next event?

Detail of the packages can be found here or get in touch with one of the team by sending in an enquiry to info@socialconnections.info and ask us about our sponsorship packages (before they are all gone!).

03/072017

Call for abstracts for Social Connections 12 is open!

News by Martin Jinoch

Hi everyone!

We have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 12 in Austria.

Do you have something super awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We would love to have you do your presentation. This time around we have some different time slots to choose from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you got something extra inspiring for everyone to hear and see!

Haven’t got anything yet?

Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on the 31st of August.

Cheers!

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!