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Speaking at Lotusphere Comes To You UK
I was delighted to be asked by IBM to speak at their Lotusphere Comes To You conferences in London and Edinburgh on 13th and 15th April respectively. I’ll be speaking on the adoption of social software, based on Headshift’s experience with Lotus Connections customers but also other platforms. It’s a free event, so if you’re [...]
Confluence and Connections working together
As social tools become mainstream within organisations, inevitably businesses and users and going to have to deal with multiple platforms. A classic example would be the co-existance of a niche tool (such as a blog or wiki application) with a more complete social platform (such as Jive, Connections or SharePoint). Increasingly, we are seeing organisations [...]
Lotus Connections 2.5 install guide
Plan to (belatedly) update my Connections 2.5 install guide soon (before New Year). Was thinking that for single server install the 2.0 guide works pretty well for 2.5 so thinking of something different… Linux? Clustering? Different LDAPs? If anyone has requests please comment below. Update: I found that IBM now has a pretty good step [...]
Lotus Connections 2.5 – in depth review
Lotus Connections 2.5 has finally been released, and with a whole host of features. We’ve been using Connections 2.5 beta for a while at Headshift, quite often to build stories and user journeys showing the art of the possible with social software. We talked as much as we could about it but now the final [...]
Socialtext Signals
Since I last blogged about Socialtext Desktop and Signals, the guys have done a lot of work on the new features. So much so, they have released an appliance with just the Desktop, Signals and Profiles features – the Socialtext Microblogging Appliance. The fact that Socialtext, the poster-child wiki company, have now released a product without a [...]
Business 2.0
As organisations become more transparent, more open, more prepared to share we are seeing more and more intellectual capital being given away “free”. There is the over-quoted example of Goldmine giving away its geological data, Sun Microsystems and IBM giving away software, and pharmaceutical companies collaborating openly on the human genome project. These organisations haven’t [...]
How to find the people you need
Rich profiles can be a powerful cornerstone of an Enterprise 2.0 / next generation intranet / social business software solution. My previous post on how finding people rather than documents can be highly beneficial in terms of productivity, using information rather than looking for it, and simply getting things done and making things happen. They [...]
Sharepoint as an Enterprise 2.0 platform
After my recent posts on Jive, Socialtext and Connections, some people have been asking me where I see Sharepoint fitting in. I was planning a long post on it, but having read Thomas Vander Wal’s recent post I have nothing left to add. I’d just like to highlight one of his points: “Many who deployed [...]
Lotus Connections 2.5 – coming soon
As mentioned in my previous post, Lotus Connections is due to receive a significant upgrade in the Summer. It addresses many of the serious functional gaps that have been present up until now (such as lack of wiki functionality) as well as some impressive innovations, especially in terms of mobile access. Two major new pieces [...]
New features of Socialtext – Signals and Desktop
Socialtext have released Socialtext Signals, as well as Socialtext Desktop which I took a look at today. The easiest way to explain Signals is “Twitter for the Enterprise” but Socialtext have added a few features that give it extra value in an enterprise context. The basic principle behind Signals is simple. You update it with [...]
