Some examples what people do wrong in IBM Connections

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IBM Connections
Antipatterns
Jan Valdman, Whitesoft
@jan_valdman

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3. What is this deck about
• Wrong patters of user behavior in Connections
• Lets identify them and give them a name 

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Generic diseases

5. Cognitive dissonance
• Replying to notifications from IBM
Connections by e-mails

6. Tags
• This, is, a, tag
• Presentation, prezentace

7. Social schizophrenia
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Phorums

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Blogs

9. Blogophobia
• People, who do not blog at all
• People who start new blog with each post

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Communities

11. Defaultism
• Having communities with no descriptions
• Having default layout
• Using the “OOB” structure
• No icon

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Profiles

13. Zombie profiles
• No activity
• No photo
• No network
• No tags

14. Photo-nescience
• Weird photos
• Photos supposed to be funny
• Various props
• (Sorry Lars and Stuart )

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Files

16. File paranoia
• Replying by e-mail to notifications from
Connections
• Instead of commenting
• Instead of uploading a new version

17. File versioning
• great-presentation.ppt
• great-presentation-v2.ppt
• great-presentation-v3.ppt

18. Dumb file names and NO description
• Document.doc
• Presentation.ppt

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Activities

20. Activityholics
• People who do everything in activities,
perhaps because of a need for structure
• Sharing files
• Starting discussions

21. Thank You!
Jan Valdman
jan.valdman@whitesoft.eu
+420 603 590 152
Many thanks to people who helped me to discuss and validate my findings and ideas.

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The End

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