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 […]

Fall user groups – busy times ahead!

After not having traveled much over the last few months it is promising to shape up to be quite a busy fall this year! 21st/22nd of September – London: In little over a week I will be attending ICON UK, the UK user group for IBM software users […]

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 […]

IBM Connections: Default follow on public files is it logical?

At one of my customers a user complained about the fact that every time he opened a publicly shared file it would automatically ‘follow’ that file. This meant that every subsequent ‘like’, change or comment to that file would show up in his timeline. Of course he could […]

Re-Thinking mail – Attachment storage in the cloud

This week Microsoft is hosting its big Ignite conference in Chicago and based on comments from some people in my network I was alerted to an intriguing announcement about Microsoft releasing a new integration between outlook and OneDrive by the end of 2015 that would allow attachments to […]

Announcement – Starting up a new venture

[dutch translation below] As of April 2015 I am starting up a new venture under the name of Ipsamet Consulting focusing on business analysis and information management. This won’t change my role within Silverside, where I will continue to work, but I will also be taking on this […]

Slides for our IBM ConnectED 2015 session

On Tuesday Jan 27th 2015 my coworker Sasja Beerendonk and I had the privilege to present at IBM ConnectED in Orlando, FL on our favorite topic of Social Business. Below is the session abstract & slide deck for those interested. BP202: Beyond Theory: Trials and Tribulations in Becoming […]

NFL season structure – infographic

Following the infographic I did two weeks ago about Folders vs Tags I decided to do another one on a more light hearted topic this time. A few years back I got introduced to the NFL. As a non-American this sport had always been completely alien to me […]

Speaking at IBM ConnectED 2015

After a year of absence I’m really looking forward to being able to attend Connect (or ConnectED as it is now called) in Orlando again this year. Based on the sessions schedule I’m convinced it will be another great event. I also look forward to having the honor […]