The 5th Social Connections in Zurich last Friday was a great success. It is always a joy to see when things come together and they certainly did this time! I flew out of Schiphol airport on Wednesday night after dropping off my car at the massive car park […]

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 […]

<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 […]

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 […]

As announced the IBM Connections 4.5 release and the Connections Content Manager add-on were made available for download today through the appropriate channels. The following sites give information on features, links to relevant content and pricing: blog by Luis Benitez with relevant video’s and links Official IBM Connections […]

BLUG 2013 Leuven (delivered March 22nd 2013) BLUG 2013: Social Document Management in IBM Connections from Femke Goedhart PDF version for those who prefer that over slideshare: blug2013-Social document mgt

IBM outdid itself this time by announcing the release of IBM Connections 4.5 and the new Connections Content Manager for March 29th 2013. Only 2 months after first presenting it at IBM Connect. On top of the great new features IBM Connections 4.5 offers, Connections Content Manager will […]

As Silverside has recently become a partner for harmon.ie I've been testing their harmon.ie plugin for IBM Notes. A plugin that allows organizations running SharePoint as well as IBM Notes to have access to their SharePoint content from within their mail environment. I must say I’m enthusiastic! Originally […]

Usually I don’t really buy into these as it is of course a clever way of advertising a beer brand, but… I do love the premises of taking a process like the hiring process that is so standard, mandated and rigid that it has taken out any chance […]

Yet again Theo Heselmans and team have managed to do the impossible: get an absolutely fantastic line up together for the upcoming BLUG event in Leuven, Belgium on March 21-22. I’m honered to say my session “Folksonomy versus Taxonomy, Social Document management in IBM Connections” about document management […]