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26/092018

Join our workshop on Monday October 15! Learn all about Domino 10 and beyond

News domino, hcl, soccnx, workshop by Wannes Rams

Our Platinum sponsor HCL is organising a workshop on the Monday before Social Connections. Absolutely free for people with a valid ticket to the Social Connections conference!

Now that Domino 10 is out in the wild; come and join us to define the future of Domino 11 and beyond. The workshop is held by Jason Gary and is 2 hours.

Spaces are limited, we only have 20 spots and they will go out on a first come first serve basis. The only prerequisite is that you have a valid ticket to the Social Connections conference!

24/092018

Social Connections14, The show does go on – and it just got a whole lot better!

News by Simon Vaughan

HCL announced as Platinum sponsor for Social Connections 14 in Berlin!

The Social Connections team are please to announce that HCL will be sponsoring our upcoming event in Berlin as the platinum sposnor.

As you are all aware, the launch of Dominio 10 is taking place on October 10th and our event in Berlin will be an excellent opportunity to hear about the launch and what is also planned in this space!

Our event in Berlin will be the first user event following the launch and Social Connections 14 promises to be an even more exciting event than we had already planned!

HCL will also be running a workshop on Monday October 15th – please look out for a announcement regarding the content for the workshop and how you can register!

Still not registered for Social Connections 14 in Berlin – register now!!

21/092018

Today is the last day to get your ticket for Soccnx 14 at the regular price!

News Tickets by Simon Vaughan

Are you coming to Social Connections 14 in Berlin and have not yet got your ticket?

If you are, please act now and get your ticket before the ‘regular price ticket sale’ ends and the late ticket price comes into effect.

What does that mean you may ask – today tickets are available from the great price of €199 and tomorrow the price will be €259.

So what are you waiting for?

If you are still thinking of attanding, please do not wait much longer but take the step and buy a ticket today!

19/092018

Sponsor highlight: AppFusions

News Appfusions, dx, integrations by Jan Valdman

There is less than 30 days until Social Connections 14 in Berlin so it is high time to introduce our lovely sponsors, without whom we can not run our events. This time we will start with letter A, as for AppFusions or AppSpokes, their ready-to-go integrations.

AppSpokes for IBM Connections offers almost 20 integrations – both for cloud or on-premises – such as Salesforce, Box.com, Microsoft Sharepoint, Google Drive, Atlassian Jira, Dropbox, etc. AppFusions is also active in digital experience (DX), workspace and digital transformation, so do not fotget to attend their session and visit their booth.

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.

30/072018

What a beauty, have a look at our agenda for Berlin

News by Wannes Rams

The moment is there to be proud again, our agenda for Social Connections Berlin has been published. Thank you to all speakers that have submitted, our apologies to all that did not get selected, some choices were tough and the amount of abstracts was over double of what we could fit in. To all the ones that got selected, congratulations and see you soon in Berlin!

We are proud to have a strong representation from Offering Management at the conference. Danielle Baptiste, René Schimmer and Kirti Gani will be present. On top of that we have some excellent case studies from customers and business partners from the field talking about their implementations.

Next to that, we have a strong technical track with the classical Administration and Development tracks, and we are pleased to see so many submissions and thus sessions in the brand new New Technology track.

And last but not least, we have launched an Academic track. As we have seen lately that IBM Connections has a lot of traction in learning environments, the moment could not be better to amplify this message.

Now that the agenda is revealed, it is about time to register for the conference to secure your spot. We have a limited amount of seats in the venue so we will handle the first come first serve principle.

16/072018

Our mobile app is ready for Berlin!

News app, berlin, soccnx, socialconnections by Nico Meisenzahl

We are pleased to announce that our mobile app is ready for Berlin!

If you attended our last event in Philadelphia you just need to login to the new event using your existing credentials. Otherwise, you can download our app here:

You can also scan this QR-code using your mobile device:

Find more information here: https://socialconnections.info/mobile-app/

Stay tuned for our stunning Agenda!

09/072018

Social Connections extends call for abstracts until Thursday! Hurry up and get yours in!

News abstract, connections, extended, extended abstract, ibm, ibm connections, social, social connections by Maria Nordin

Hello!

We know. The sun is shining and it’s summer (or winter, depending on where you are). There is a lot to do and to plan and sometimes time just disappear like a cold glass of prosecco on a hot summer day.

But your friends in the Social Connections team has of course thought of that. Therefore we extend our call for abstract a couple of days so you now calmly and finally can sit down and put together that abstract you have had in you head for a while.

You know, that awesome code you wrote to solve that super tricky problem, or that customer who jumped up and down with joy when you executed that project with 5 star class, or maybe that trick you learned how to work better, faster, more efficient and fun!

Or, most likely, that fantastic thing that is in your head only. Yes, exactly that. We want to hear about that. And so does our audience of developers, administrators, managers, project managers, community managers, evangelists etc.

So please submit your abstract for Social Connections, 16-17 October 2018 in Berlin HERE

And before midnight end of Thursday!

Should you need a short refreshment on what we are interested in, take a look below

Social connections have always prided itself in being a very open conference that offers a podium to both the best of the best of experiences and well known speakers as well as to anyone that can contribute from a wealth of day to day experience. Be it customers, business partners or IBM.

Administration – sessions relating to administering collaboration platforms.
Case Study – sessions focused on telling the story of existing projects. We love case studies!
Development – share your tips, techniques and experience of developing solutions or applications.
Future of Work – sessions about improving the productivity of individuals and organisations.
Management and adoption – sessions that take a higher-level view.
Spotlight – think of it as being akin to TED talks, but within the framework of Social Connections.
Watson Work Services – New way of working in teams.
New Technologies – Anything new and exciting you think could be a fit.
Academic – Faculty, IT staff or Student of academic institutions.

So if you feel you have something to contribute, a story to tell, a lesson learned that could help others in a similar situation then please don’t hesitate and submit a session.

We would love to hear from you!

Ciao

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26/062018

Sessions abstracts are still open…

News abstracts, berlin, connections, soccnx, socialconnections by Nico Meisenzahl

… and we would also like to focus on our new tracks:

New technology

We also want to reach out to new things and topics not directly related to IBM Collaboration Solutions, if you feel you have an interesting session on a new technology, please submit in this track. Both 30-minute, as well as 60-minute slots, are possible in this track.

Academic

For faculty, IT staff or even students of any academic institution who want to share what they have achieved with IBM Connections or how they see the future of collaboration. Both 15-minute, as well as 30-minute slots, are possible in this track.

Of course, we also love to get your abstracts for all other tracks as well:

Administration
Case Study
Development
Future of Work
Management and Adoption
Spotlight
Watson Work Services
Analytics

Abstract submission is open until July 6th. So, be sure to submit your abstract soon! Or just do it now: The submission form is only one click away from here.