This months HCL Connections Super User / Ambassador call will be all about whether to keep tight control or giving your user full control. What are the benefits and downsides of for instance restricting the ability to create blogs or communities and what can you do to make […]

This months super users / guide call for HCL Connections will be all about how to use HCL Connections ‘in the light of things absent’. For instance, there could be things absent or missing from: The product itself (e.g. features that get taken out or not complete enough…) […]

Summer is drawing to an end and therefore it’s time again to get back to the realities of work. Not that that is a bad thing! As it is also the time to start exploring new ideas and new inspirations with a fresh attitude. So what better than […]

As you might know we (Joerg Rafflenbeul and I) have been trying to kickstart an initiative to get people from various organizations running HCL Connections together to talk about their initiatives and challenges with running adoption programs and local ambassadors/guides programs. Last week (21st of January) was the […]

There are lots of initiatives to connect people who work with HCL Connections. User groups, virtual events, blogs, websites. But what they do is usually connect those at the top. The admins, organizers, community managers, architects. There are so many more who use the product and never go […]

On November 5th we (Joerg Rafflenbeul and me) did an open call for anyone in, or running a super user / ambassador program for their HCL Connections environment. Aim was to see if there were other organizations interested in exploring the options to broaden their ambassadors knowledge and […]

Three weeks ago I was able to speak at the virtual DNUG event with Joerg Rafflenbeul on the topic of a program that is very close to my heart. The adoption & guides program at Heitkamp & Thumann. For the last two years I’ve been working one day […]

Back home for a few days now after a great Social Connections in Munich and still recovering from a very nasty cold (so my apologies for this one being a bit after the fact..). This was the first real conference dedicated fully to HCL Connections since the takeover […]

The below is my private opinion and in no way reflects the opinion of either my company or the customers I work with… So anyone who has anything to do with IBM connections will have already heard this and must be fully aware but yes, the sale of […]

Slide deck for my session on Social Analytics at Think2019 in San Francisco on February 14th 2019.