A presentation that covers new features for existing customers in the newest release of IBM Connections. This deck covers all the social business tools and features in IBM Connections that will take your business to the next leve

1. IBM Connections 5.0
What’s New
IBM Connections
Product Management
Albert Nichols

2. Overview
• External Collaboration
• Viewing Content
• Files Gallery and Preview
• File sync
• Attention Management
• Additional New Features
• Resources and Announcements
• Q&A

3. External Collaboration

4. Designs are subject to change
Invite external users to an existing community
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External Collaboration

5. Designs are subject to change
… and start collaborating with the team!
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External Collaboration

6. Designs are subject to change
Share a file with anyone in the world
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External Collaboration
Photo credit: http://cloudaccountinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/businessCollaboration.jpg
Invite as many external
users as needed. They
can upload and share
with you too!
Build bridges and relationships, with just an email address

7. Viewing Content

8. Designs are subject to change
Files
• Find the content you’re looking for
• Thumbnails allow for quick scanning of a document’s first
page
• Users get an idea of file contents from first page preview
and don't need to click and view file until needed
• Get more information, without
leaving the page
• Easy thumbnail on hover to see additional information on
each file
• Hidden when not necessary, but available when you want
them
• Important information like Externally shared, public,
private etc visible on the front of the thumbnail
• Quick access to file download from the thumbnail
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Heather
Reeds
Grid View

9. Designs are subject to change
Files
• Preview files before you download
• Users get a an idea of file contents from first page preview
and don't need to click and view file until needed
• Navigate through content, in context
• Within a collection of files users can jump from one to the
next; effortlessly browsing many files with detail
• Sift through many files to find the one you need
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Tech Talk Slides
Misha Tompkin
File Preview

10. Designs are subject to change
Files
• Showcase collections of files
• Choose folders you’ve curated to show on the community
overview page
• Multiple folders can be added
• The familiar rich media view, for files
• Thumbnails, preview dialog, and details available for files you
choose to showcase
• File Organization and management
• Use the structure and organization of the files app for the files
that you choose to showcase on the community overview
page
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Heather Reeds
Files Gallery

11. Designs are subject to change
Files
• Sync to the native mobile app
• Synchronize files between your Connections files repository, your
desktop file system, and your mobile devices — Available today
• Bandwidth can be tapered to WiFi only
• Desktop File sync
• Round trip editing with local changes updated automatically
• Save directly to Connections from any desktop app
• Access the latest version available at all times
• Sync work by pushing files to your
desktop
• Mark files you want to access offline from the web UI
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File Sync

12. Attention Management

13. Designs are subject to change
Attention Management
• Activity Stream algorithm provides more
relevant information
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• View all of your notifications
in one area
• Link Previews summarize
content without visiting it
Homepage

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Attention Management
• Easy Acces to recent Collaboration
Spaces
• Re-order Navigation any way you want
• Mark content as important for ‘1 tap
access’ later
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Mobile

15. Additional New Features

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Additional New Features Custom Landing Pages

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Additional New Features
• People Typeahead
• Just type to search for expertise by keyword or name. Relevancy is
determine by the user’s social graph.
• Activity Stream Search
• Search activity stream to find messages and content
• Rich Text Editor (Ephox EditLive!)
• Additional install of Ephox EditLive!
• Copy and Paste of images
• Expanded @mentions
• Consistent @mentions to bring users into the conversation in
Ideation Blogs, Blog Comments, and more
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Market hea
Market hea

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Additional New Features
• Activity Stream Updates
• See conversation responses inline
• Use Hashtags inside status update comments
• See threaded comments from the Forum Embedded
Experience
• Community Updates
• Join sub-community and parent in 1 click
• Multiple ideation blogs per community
• Ability to recover deleted communities
• View open questions inside a community Forum
• App Updates
• Wiki table of contents macro
• Copy/Paste of images and spellcheck in the Rich Text Editor
• Edit comments in Blogs
• Threaded comments in Blogs
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19. Designs are subject to change
Additional New Features
• CCM Portlet
• Same functionality as the CCM widget in Connections
• Social Rendering Portlets
• Query and Render IBM Connections with WCM
• Out of the box samples
• UI and Information customization from templates
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Redbook: Implementing a Social Portal
Link
Available from the Greenhouse Catalog
Link

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Additional New Features
• Polls and Surveys
• Web-based survey/poll designer
• Notifications appear in Activity Stream
• Can be featured on the Community Overview Page
• Available from Greenhouse Catalog
• IBM File Viewer
• Allows for full document preview without downloading
• Available in the Greenhouse Catalog
• Updated Mobile Apps
• Mobile adoption features
• Two-factor authentication
• CCM review and approval
• Push notifications for File sync, Action Required, @mentions, and
my notifications
• Community Folders
• Community managers or admins can create folders managed
by the community
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4.5 CRs

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Additional New Features
• Open Office 4.0 Integration
• Seamlessly include files you’ve created in OpenOffice right into your
Connections instance
• Sametime 9 Integration
• Collaborate in Context with click to chat, click to call, click to meet
• Consistent identity, photo, and files across service
• Share from Connections Files into a meeting room or chat
• Embedding the Activity Stream
• Leverage the activity stream in any OpenSocial Container
• OOTB integration with WebSphere Portal and Notes 9.0 Social
Edition
• IBM Docs
• Preview, present and print files without downloading
• Real time co-editing in a web based editor
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Integrations

22. Resources and
Announcements

23. Designs are subject to change
Resources at your disposal
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New IBM Social Landing Page
http://ibm.com/social
Latest product info, research, podcasts, and more
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
IBM Connections Team Blog
http://ibmsocialsoftware.com
Assets, discussion, and opinion on driving
adoption of IBM social software
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
App/Widget Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com