Getting Started with IBM Connections 3.0.1

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IBM Connections 3.0.1
Getting Started with IBM Connections

© 2011 IBM Corporation

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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.

2 IBM Connections v3.0.1 – Getting Started with IBM Connections

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IBM Social Collaboration:
Connecting people and information across your value chain

Keep track of
what's happening
with your projects
Find the right people to
solve my problem now

Leverage what
others know
Have a place to
gather and
exchange ideas

Manage your
Share my files work more
effectively


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IBM Connections Navigation Menu

■Main navigation
uses an easy to
use drop down
menu

■Left navigation will
provide an easy
way to filter
content

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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Home – Getting Started experience

 Users are presented with all of the applications that exist in the main navigation. Links will
provide a text description along with a video.


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Home - Updates
Aggregated Status
Updates move to the
Home Page

Content
Type
See updates from across Filters
everything you follow, and filter
down to a single type of content, or
a single person, or a single
container (a community, an activity,
a blog etc) if they wish to.
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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Profiles

 Profiles is a directory of the people in your
organization that allows you to find and
connect with the right people fast. You can
search for people based on their contact
information, background, or expertise. Let
people know who you are by filling out your
own profile.
 Build up your own set of contacts by adding
people to your network.


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Profiles – My Profile
My Network Tab allowing Directory Tab will allow users to
for easy access to people easily search the corporate directory
within your network

Edit My Profile button
for edit the profile

Switch tab:
The board, Contact Information, Background, Recent Posts

My Network

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Profiles – My Network

Access to network, invitations, following, followers
provide through new navigation options

“Do You Know” widget
New network recommendations
based on existing network


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Expanded capabilities to help locate people and
expertise that you need

Search Directory
to find a profile


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Metrics are available from the page footer (all components)


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Bookmarks

 Use Bookmarks to store and retrieve
bookmarked web links from a central space.
 You can share some or all of your bookmarks.
You can also see other people's bookmark
collections, giving you the means to connect
with people who have similar interests or the
expertise you need.


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Bookmarks
 Easily publish some or all your bookmarks so that others can see your collection of content


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How to bookmark

from the page footer


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Blogs

 Blogs are online journals that you can
use to share information with the rest of
your organization.
 A blog is a great way to communicate
your latest news and views in an
efficient, dynamic style.
 By posting regular entries on a specific
subject or theme, you can make sure
people are kept up-to-date with the
latest developments in a particular area.


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Blogs


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Blogs - AutoSave

 An AutoSave function has been added to both “DRAFT” and “PUBLISHED” blog entries
 The AutoSave warning list will be shown in "My Blogs", "My Update", and blog entry edit
pages.


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Blogs – Following capabilities

 Users have the ability to follow a Blog.

 Users can stop following a Blog at any time.


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Activities

 Activities allow you to organize your team's
work around project tasks.
 Creating an activity is a useful way to share
information and resources, assign and track
to-dos, post team information, and organize
meetings.
 You can add new members to an activity at
any time, allowing you to quickly pull together
the resources you need for a project.


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Activities

Navigation menu


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Activities


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Wikis

 A wiki is a collection of web pages about a
particular topic.
 Wikis are a great way to share information
centrally and encourage collaboration within
your project team.
 Wiki members can add their own pages, and
edit and comment on existing pages,
thereby ensuring that information is always
kept up-to-date.


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Wikis

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Wikis – Using CKEditor

 Common Toolbars: In use across other Connections components including Blogs, Forums,
Bookmarks and Activities.

 Better layouts and features in editor dialogs


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Rich text editor: paste special styles

 Paste Special – introduces a clean-up mechanism which cleans pasted content originating
from applications like Microsoft Word.
 Styles – styles are maintained after the paste action.

• Caveats:
• Difficulty using Points not Pixels
for font size.
• Using cms/mms/inches for
indents in Lists do not paste well
• Images and Embedded content
do not paste.
• Advised:
• Use Pixel sizes for best support


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Files

 Files offers a convenient way to upload and
store files in a central repository.
 You can share uploaded files with selected
people, giving you the means to collaborate on
content without having to send large files
through email.
 You can also recommend and comment on
files, organize files using folders, and track
different versions of files.


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Files


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Files

 Adding Files to Folders
– Drag-and-drop, Picking files from the UI, Adding files from the web UI
– Folders can be shared on creation.
 Following on Folders
– Receive notification when a folder is shared with you.
– If you are following a folder, notification will be sent when a file is added to a folder.


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Forums

 A forum is an online discussion board
with a focus on a particular topic or
theme.
 You can participate in a forum by
posting questions or responding to
existing discussion threads.
 Want to find the solution to a problem
that's been blocking you? Forums are
a great way to brainstorm ideas,
gather feedback, and leverage the
expertise of others.


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Forums

 Several navigation options  What's new?
 Easy to create, edit and delete – Multiple forums in a community
 Searching capabilities – Stand-alone (non-community) forums
 Content creation and attachments – Attachments
 Following Capabilities – Locking Topics and Forums
 Managing a Forum


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Forums

 Create a discussion forum to share and collect ideas
 All Forums started in the stand-alone Forum application are public.
 To restrict access to a Forum it must be associated with a Community.


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Forums

 Listing includes Community forums as
well as stand-alone forums.

Standalone forums

Community forum © 2011 IBM Corporation
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Forums

 Create attachments during creation or edit.


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Forums in Communities

 Start multiple Forums within
a Community
 Multiple topics within a
Forum
 Follow a topic in a
Community
 Lock a topic in a Community c


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1.


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Communities

 A community is a group of people who
share a common interest. Communities
provide an excellent way to connect
members of a team and help them to stay in
touch and share information.
 Communities can be public or restricted,
allowing community owners to control who
can join the community and access
community content.


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Create Community


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Community invitations and membership

You can view all the pending
invitations for a community
from the Invitations tab on the
community's Members page.
The tab displays information
about when each invitation was
sent and who it was sent to.

Community owner can edit
membership roles or remove a
member from the community.


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Sharing Files with a Community

 File owners can share files
with a community or give a
copy of a file to a community
directly from the Files
application.


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Sub-communities
 Creating sub-communities is a useful way of organizing your community members into smaller
groups with different areas of focus.
– Community owners automatically become owners of sub-community.
– The sub-community has exactly the same functionality as the parent community.
– Displays on the My Communities page.


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Agenda

 Introduction
 Home
 Profiles
 Bookmarks
 Blogs
 Activities
 Wikis
 Files
 Forums
 Communities
 New in v3.0.1


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Media Gallery – New in v3.0.1.
 Can be added to any Community using the
Media Gallery Widget
 Allows community users to upload images and
videos to be viewed “inline” (ie. from the end
user's browser) without requiring additional
software/pugins etc.
 Images can quickly be “previewed” using the
available preview dialog
 Uploaded images and files are stored in the
“Files” repository


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Ideation Blog Support – New in v3.0.1.
 Can be added to any existing community using the Ideation Blog Widget
 Allow your teams to post their ideas for evaluation by others
 Collect comments and feedback on people's ideas
 Allow users to vote on ideas and thereby register their support (or not) for a
particular idea
 Allows you to “graduate” the best ideas into an “Activity” for implementing that
idea


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Content Moderation Support – New in v3.0.1.
 A “system” or “global” moderator role can be defined allowing for
review and approval of any moderated content on a server
 As an alternative, Community “owners” can moderate their own content
including:
– Blog entries and Comments
– Community Files and Comments
– Forum Posts
 If implemented, a community owner must approve any content that is
subject to moderation before it will be visible to others
 Community members can still notify the Community owner if they feel
some content should be flagged for review


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