TemboSocial Demonstrates New Integration with IBM Connections

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In mid 2012, TemboSocial introduced the world to their peer-to-peer recognition add-on for IBM Connections, the market leading social business platform.

As we are now 14 days away from IBM Connect, TemboSocial has announced new integration options with IBM Connections 4.0, the latest release in the market of IBM Connections. It's extremely exciting to see how the partner eco-system for IBM Connections has grown and that they are keeping their solutions up to date with our latest release.

In their latest release, TemboSocial now takes advantage of the Connections business card to show more information about users, and integrates into the Activity Stream. As peers recognize each other, the action is reflected in the IBM Connections Activity Stream, and users can take advantage of the embedded experience to like, comment, share and print events right from there.

TemboSocial has also extended the IBM Connections Share capability to allow end users to recognize others right from that interface. Check out the quick 5 minute demo below:

TemboSocial will have a booth at IBM Connect so make sure you go check them out! If you want to see more capabilities available for IBM Connections, make sure you register and attend IBM Connect in 2 weeks!

Check out the New Social Business User Group Page

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Yesterday was the official launch of the Social Business User Group running on the latest IBM Social Business technology. The new site is running at SocialBizUG.org and is built on top of IBM Connections 4.0. It's another great example of building a community site on top of Connections..

On the site, members have the ability create profiles, connect with peers, read and write blogs and wikis, share files, and much more. You will want to go to the site and set up your account and your profile to get started.

Joyce Davis highlighted the following benefits of the new SocialBizUG.org site:

• More content—articles, blogs, whitepapers, webcasts, forum discussions, ideation blogs, wikis, and much more.
  
• Better design, better navigation—a more user-friendly design, refined navigation, re-designed pages, and added new features
• New ways to develop your personal network—find members based on their interests or areas of expertise and add them to your network.
• Ideation blogs—pick the brains of your colleagues and work together in online brainstorming sessions that foster collaboration, thought leadership, and new ways of thinking.
• Individual member blogs—share success stories, comment about the projects you’re working on, and more.
• Customizable user group pages—User groups can now post specific announcements or messages for their members on their own page, which is hosted on SocialBizUG.org
• User profiles—create a profile, upload photos and files, and share details about your skill set, projects, challenges, and more.
• Search capability—Search specific topics and get complete results in seconds.

So go out and check out the new site, www.SocialBizUG.org . New members can register for their free accounts there as well!

Gamification Goes Mobile with IBM Connections and Kudos

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As things ramp up for IBM Connect in 18 days, news tid bits are slowly starting to come out as to what's going to happen during the premier Social Business conference.

At IBM Connect, we are going to have an App Dev Throwdown where developers will have a chance to showcase their Social Business solutions built on the IBM Social Business platform. Make sure that you don't forget to go to that session to see all the new cool integration points developers are working on.

In the second release of Kudos, the gamification add-on for IBM Connections, it has been integrated into the native IBM Connections mobile app you can get from the iTunes App Store and/or Google Play. Kudos already tracks all actions done by a user either via the browser interface or the native mobile apps. Now, users can view their badges, the leader board and even Give Thanks to others directly from the app. They can also see their progress towards the various missions/achievements.

Check out the demo of the gamification module in mobile. While this is shown in an iPhone, this also works in the native IBM Connections iPad app.

This is extremely cool work so kudos to the Kudos team (see what I did there??).

To learn more about this solution, make sure that you register to attend #IBMConnect today!

Demo: Integrating Office365 into IBM Connections via Google App Engine

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Earlier this week I stumbled upon this video on YouTube that shows how you can integrate Microsoft Office365 into IBM Connections. IBM Connections continues to be the #1 social business platform according to IDC, so it makes sense that it's quickly becoming the go to collaboration platform for many businesses. Connections' support for the OpenSocial standard has opened the doors to reuse many existing integration points as well as reach out to a new breed of app developers. Feedback from developers has been tremendous in this area, especially because IBM also supports OpenSocial in its native apps for iOS and Android.

In the demo below, Michel from e-office demonstrates how you can use the Google App Engine to push events from Office365 into the IBM Connections activity stream. You can take a document and upload it to Office365, check-in, check-out etc and visualize from IBM Connections. You can even use the embedded experiences concept that IBM invented to interact with Office365 and preview files directly from IBM Connections.

I'll be sharing a couple of more examples as we lead up to #IBMConnect in 3 weeks, the premier social business conference.

Pardon the Interruption: Social Business Hot Topics at IBM Connect

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We are just 3 weeks away from IBM Connect. I've created a page here on my blog with some conference details that you may want to follow. As you probably know, I'll be sharing the roadmap for IBM Connections, IBM's social business platform.

At the conference, I'll also be joining my colleagues Luis Suarez and Louis Richardson where the agenda is set by YOU.

Our goal is to discuss 12-14 topics for 3 minutes each (1 minute for each one of us). To submit topics/ideas for us to discuss, tweet them using the #PTIsocialbiz hashtag. We'll be monitoring this tag up to Monday of the week of the #IBMConnect conference! I've never done anything like this but it sounds fun. Bring it on!!!

See you on Tuesday the 29th! Here's more details about our session.

pti connect 2013 from Louis Richardson