This document provides an overview of the IBM Connections platform. It notes how communication technologies have changed dramatically over the past 10-30 years with the rise of social media. It then highlights user activity on various social platforms per second. The rest of the document outlines the key features of IBM Connections, including profiles, communities, activities, ideation blogs, and social analytics. It emphasizes that people are the greatest resource and encourages thinking big and starting small when using the platform.

1. IBM Connections

3. THE WORLD IS CHANGING…
10 years ago Skype, Facebook, YouTube,
Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox, and Instagram
didn't exist.
20 years ago there were only 130 websites
total, Google wasn't even around yet, and you
had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
30 years ago there was no internet.

8. THE WORLD IS CHANGING…
In one second on the internet there are…
636
Instagram photos uploaded
1 024 Skype calls made
5 700 Tweets tweeted
11 574 Dropbox files uploaded
46 333 YouTube videos viewed
52 083 Facebook likes
59 421 Google searches made
and... 1.666.666 emails sent

9. Social Business

11. What’s in the Platform?

12. PROFILES
Communicate to your
network your expertise
and content
Quickly find people and
expertise
Grow and maintain your
professional network
Post a status message
informing your network of
what you are doing

13. COMMUNITIES
Improve teamwork and
communication
Exchange and share
information and ideas
with people who share
common interests
Public, private or
moderated

14. ACTIVITIES
View, manage and
organize tasks
Tap into your
professional network
Collaborate easily on
everyday deliverables

15. IDEATION BLOGS
Designed to generate
discussion on a
particular topic
Gain consensus on the
best ideas or
suggestions by allowing
the users to vote
Graduate an idea

16. SOCIAL ANALYTICS
Discover who and what
you should know
Recommendations for
people, communities and
content
Based on your profile,
tags, social network and
actions
Visible on the Home Page,
Profiles and Communities

17. People are our greatest
resource!

18. Think BIG,
start small

19. Demo

20. Organize a lunch session
Create a private community
Invite members
Create Activities
Gather and promote ideas in Ideation Blog
Notify Community
Search
Collaborate

21. What makes us STRONG?

22. http://connections.cronos.be/

23. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ibm.lotus.connections.mobile
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/ibm-connections/id450533489
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/52232

24. Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Office & OpenOffice
Microsoft Sharepoint
Mozilla Firefox
….
IBM WebSphere Portal
IBM Connections Mail
IBM Docs
IBM Cognos Server
IBM Content Manager
….

25. STANDARDS-BASED
ActivityStrea.ms
OpenSocial
CMIS
RSS
REST

26. ECO-SYSTEM
Level Up
Kudos Badges
AppFusions

27. FIGURES & NUMBERS
40% of large enterprises will
have an ESN by 2015
71% of employees NOT
ENGAGED
38% TIME LOST duplicating
work & searching for info
62% of employees work in
MULTIPLE locations

28. QUESTIONS
CONTACTS & QUESTIONS
@drams88
@ThomasVD
http://connections.cronos.be

29. Gartner
SOURCES
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gallup Research
Forrester Research
http://instagram.com/press
https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-persecond-record-and-how
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-5757151378/dropbox-clears-1-billion-file-uploads-per-day
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-thenumbers-17-amazing-facebook-stats
http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches