Recognizing Lifetime Achievement: Meet Julian Robichaux  

By SocialBiz User Group | 2/24/17 2:13 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

If you’ve attended the IBM Connect conference in recent years, or if you’re part of the IBM Collaboration Solutions user community, you probably know—or know of—Julian Robichaux. He’s a senior software developer at panagenda (an IT management software solutions provider and strategic IBM Business Partner), and he’s been named an IBM Champion every year since 2011.

Introducing the 2017 IBM Champions for ICS!  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/14/16 11:23 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It is my absolute pleasure to announce our 2017 IBM Champions for Collaboration Solutions! There are 123 champions in total for 2017. This is our largest year-to-year growth! Of the 123, there are 44 new champions, and 79 returning champions, including two Lifetime IBM Champions. I will also announce in the near future a new Lifetime IBM Champion for ICS. Who do you think it will be?

Transcript: Live Q&A - Structuring XPages Apps with Java  

By SocialBiz User Group | 9/16/15 3:56 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

On September 15th, we conducted a Live Q&A with Jesse Gallagher. The Topic discussed was Structuring XPages Apps with Java. Below is a transcript of the questions and answers.

Five Questions with Mark Roden, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month!  

By SocialBiz User Group | 6/15/15 10:01 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Five Questions with Mark Roden, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month!

Webcast Replay: Get Ready for IBM Verse  

By SocialBiz User Group | 3/12/15 2:04 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Get Ready for IBM Verse. Join Kramer Reeves, Director, IBM Messaging & Collaboration Product Management, including IBM Verse, and get the latest product news as we head to General Availability in a few weeks.

Interview with Kramer Reeves: IBM Verse at ConnectED 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 1/5/15 2:19 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Right before the Christmas break, I snagged a quick interview with Kramer Reeves, Director of Messaging & Collaboration Solutions at IBM. Kramer shared some insight into what we'll see about IBM Verse (formerly IBM Mail Next) at the upcoming ConnectED conference as well as a quick look at the Verse product roadmap.

Interview with Chris Miller: Sametime deployments, bandwidth considerations for cloud, and ConnectED 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/22/14 10:57 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

ConnectED is just a little over a month away, and below is a quick interview I had with Chris Miller. Chris is presenting two sessions at ConnectED: one on Sametime deployments with Wes Morgan and another on bandwidth considerations for moving to the cloud....

Webcast Replay - Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail Next  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/2/14 7:54 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

We've had a great turnout for Luis Guirigay's discussion about how to get the most out of a Notes / Domino environment and how to extend it with Social, Mobile and Cloud platforms.Check out the slides and watch the replay also to hear from IBM Champion Karl-Henry Martinsson about his day job and his community engagement.

December 11 webcast: Installing and Upgrading to the New IBM Notes 9 Social Edition  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/1/14 11:17 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Join this webcast to get lessons learned from a recent project upgrading a large-scale environment from IBM Notes 8.5.2 to IBM Notes 9 including key differences in installing the IBM Domino Administration and IBM Domino Designer clients.

Webcast Replay: XPages Extension Library: The Year In Review  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/25/14 2:49 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

If you missed our “XPages Extension Library: A Year in Review” webcast, don’t worry – it’s now available on-demand. You can view both the video replay and presentation easily right from your desk.

Quick Tip from Marie L. Scott and Thomas Duff: IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator: Transforming Data With AssemblyLines and Connectors  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/12/14 2:18 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

This is a tip from a VIEW Journal article “ IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator: Transforming Data With AssemblyLines and Connectors ” by Marie L. Scott and Thomas Duff. The first article of this series,...

October Community Webcast: Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail Next  

By SocialBiz User Group | 10/9/14 3:08 PM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Please join us for the October ICS Community Webcast with special guest Luis Guirigay. Luis is an IBM SME for Social, Mobile and Cloud and will talk about Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail Next

ConnectED 2015 Call for abstracts and track descriptions  

By SocialBiz User Group | 10/2/14 10:43 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM ConnectED 2015 will take place January 25-28 in Orlando. There are a few more changes than normal this time – most noticeably, the conference name is new, and it’s going to be much smaller this year than in previous years. Kristin Keene has already provided some background on what other changes we can expect this year.

Midwest User Group - Next Week  

By SocialBiz User Group | 8/22/14 8:40 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

The 2014 Midwest Lotus User Group event will be held next week, from August 27-29 in Grand Rapids, MI (IBM is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor at this year's event.). Last year, this was my first event in my new role and it show...

Webcast Replay: IBM Connections Next: Focus on What’s Relevant and Filter Out the Rest  

By SocialBiz User Group | 5/29/14 9:28 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Social technologies are connecting us to more people and information than we ever could have imagined. The challenge now is to get the right information from the right sources in the right context at the right time.

Interview with Saurabh Calla: IBM Mail Next features and feedback  

By SocialBiz User Group | 5/7/14 12:19 PM | - | Added by Celia Hamilton

Saurabh Calla, Product Manager for Messaging and Mobile Strategy at IBM, is speaking about IBM Mail Next at the upcoming June 10th New England user group meeting. In this interview, he discusses his upcoming presentation and the public reception to IBM Mail Next.

5 Tips to Encourage User Adoption of Social Business Tools  

By SocialBiz User Group | 4/16/14 3:19 PM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Simply having tools available within your enterprise for Social Business is not enough to ensure adoption. You need to help the users see the value they will gain through their use. Once value has been demonstrated you need to nurture their learning for ongoing exploration.

ATLUG Day of Champions Presentations  

By SocialBiz User Group | 4/9/14 9:20 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

We are pleased to announce the presentations given at our ATLUG Day of Champions event on Monday April 7 are now available online. Look in the Files section of this community.

Gartner, Mail Next, App-dev, and More  

By SocialBiz User Group | 3/14/14 6:50 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Wow! Where have the past two weeks gone? As the year flies by, it's hard to believe we are already only a few weeks away from the end of the quarter. One of the ways I like to pause and reflect every now and then, as well as gain perspectives and insights, is to meet with some of the key analysts in the space.

IBM SmartCloud Notes resources for your end users  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/5/13 3:39 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

If you're planning a move to IBM SmartCloud Notes or thinking about it, I've found a couple quick, informative YouTube videos that may help your users out. Moving from on-premises IBM Notes to IBM SmartCloud Notes Take a look at what it looks...

Interview with Gary Dolsen: Exceptional Digital Experience and WebSphere Portal  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/22/13 2:16 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Most of my interviews have focused on Notes, Connections, or social business, but today I'm spreading the love to WebSphere Portal and the Exceptional Digital Experience suite. I recently spoke with Gary Dolsen, Director of Strategy for Digital...

IBM's big week for big data  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/1/13 2:25 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This past week was a big one for IBM and big data. From October 29-30, they published 3 press releases covering everything from an acquisition to results from a recent study.

Simon Vaughn and Jim Anderson discuss SocialStudent.com, a collaboration platform for college students built on IBM Connections  

By SocialBiz User Group | 8/22/13 8:23 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM Champion and SocialStudent.com creator Simon Vaughn and his business partner Jim Anderson recently joined me for an interview. Simon launched SocialStudent.com -- a site built on IBM Connections -- as a way for college-age folks to...

Interview with Kevin Cavanaugh: Details from the Wired article naming IBM a leader in social software  

By SocialBiz User Group | 7/29/13 12:08 PM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Recently, Wired Magazine published an article naming IBM a leader in social software . Kevin Cavanaugh wrote that article and I recently spoke to him about some of the topics he discussed.