busy weeks! Zurich & Stuttgart

It has been a busy month all over but the last two weeks have been extremely busy. Both with a major project at a customer going live this weekend as well as with two conferences last week and this week. I had a great day on October 28th […]

Slidedecks – ICONUK

Below the slides for the two sessions (co)presented today at ICONUK: ICONUK 2015: Files, files everywhere! Do you know where your organisations documents are and can you say you control it when that auditor 'comes knocking'? from Femke Goedhart   ICONUK 2015: Zen and the art of requirements […]

Bringing your IBM Connections files to the user – desktop integration

As someone whit a special interest in both document management and social business anything that touches the both of them and improves the user experience of file management is of special interest to me. Today was a great day for me in that respect as I got to […]

Folders versus Tags – Infographic

For a while now I’ve been working on various posts on the topic of “Folders versus Tags” and why there is no such comparison really… This is a topic that is often hotly debated among people involved with social business and definitely close to my heart. The problem […]

Why? – Why not

Sometimes something inspires you, hits you or just speaks to you. Today I saw this fragment on a Dutch tv show and it hit a nerve. I’m not in science but I am in IT and I still get asked sometimes “why?”. I’ve never really paused at that […]

Podcasting… an impulse, a plunge and a lot of sleepless nights!

So those that weren’t all caught up in IBM Connect last week (yes I know, not many of you) might have noticed I did something new. Well not new in itself, but new for me. I decided to try and see if I could do a podcast. Now […]

Times are changing so are the names…!

The anticipation for Connect 2014 is growing. The yearly conference in Orlando that brings together the best of our technical IBM community and an opportunity to meet with experts, build or renew friendships and learn about upcoming changes and improvements in the IBM Collaboration Software stack. I’m not […]

Social Connections – Zurich

Online Ticketing for Social Connections V – Zurich powered by Eventbrite I know I’ve been less than forthcoming with posts these last few weeks, my apologies for that. It has just been crazy busy. First of all with work, second of all with achieving my CIP (Certified Information […]

How to prevent the community manager from exploding

<vent on> To all organizations who think they’ve got it all sorted out so nicely because they have a community manager MANAGE it all… Calling them ‘manager’ doesn’t mean they can control everything their community does or say unless you actually: give them managerial rights over their community […]

From describing to applying – user training taken seriously

It still is one of the most common mistakes made ever… Implementing new or updated software without providing user training as the reasoning is: “Oh, we don’t need to train our users. They have been using this (or similar) software for years, surely they know by now how […]