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Is IBM Smart Cloud Really Dead?

Posted on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 by elfworld

In short: The answer to the blog post title is yes. However, HCL is committed to Connections in the cloud as well as on premises. It’s just going to be different. Here’s what we know so far.

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Where Did the Outlook Plugin for IBM Connections Go?

Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 by elfworld

UPDATE! Last week a friend of mine asked me if I could try and find out where the IBM Connections plugin for Microsoft Outlook had gone. It was no longer available as a download in the IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog. Turns out it has been pulled!

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What to Do if Your IBM Connections Plugin for Outlook Goes Grey

Posted on September 7, 2018September 7, 2018 by elfworld

Yesterday I upgraded Office 2016 manually on my computer. This because I changed my Office 365 subscription to a payment plan that gives me more apps, like Teams and Skype for Business. This made the IBM Connections plugin for Outlook stop working. But thanks to IBM, I managed to fix it. Here’s how you can…

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How to Drag Attachments Directly from IBM Connections and into Webmail

Posted on August 27, 2018 by elfworld

If you have your files in a cloud solution like Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, IBM Connections or Google Drive, you can connect Windows Explorer directly to these services. By doing this, you get direct access to your files from your Explorer window, as if they were stored locally on your computer. You can even access them…

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The Story About the Shared Files

Posted on July 5, 2018 by elfworld

A real life story that happened to me with two different customers. Once upon a time there two files. Each file was used in a different organisation. The files were important for the organisations and several people needed access to them as several departments and projects needed to be able access, update and read them….

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Some Limitations of IBM Connections

Posted on February 7, 2018 by elfworld

As an IBM Champion who is visiting a lot of IBM customers, I often get asked questions about challenges that the users have with some of the products. Very often I can give them the answer. But sometimes I have to go to IBM to ask the product managers for help. And other times I…

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IBM Connect 2017 #4: Start Thinking and Get Pinking!

Posted on March 3, 2017 by elfworld

Sorry for being late with following up on the Connect 2017 conference, but the last days in San Francisco just flew by like a whirlwind. And after I got home I was stuck on the couch with flu like symptoms. But now I’m ready to talk to you about the future of IBM Connections, which…

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IBM Connect 2017 #3: I’ve Seen The Future of Domino and it is Sapho

Posted on February 24, 2017March 6, 2017 by elfworld

I promised a summary of the second part of the Opening General Session. And I will include it here, but this posting is mostly about the future of IBM Notes and Domino. It’s based around four separate sessions and lectures about the strategy around and development on the Notes and Domino platform. First things first:…

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7 Quick Tips About IBM Connections

Posted on November 11, 2016November 11, 2016 by elfworld

IBM Connections is a great tool for collaboration. But there are some very quick and cool things you can do to make it work even more efficient for you. Here are 7 tips: 1) Filter your activity stream A lot of people find the activity stream (news stream on the IBM Connections front page) to…

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IBM Connections Tip #6: Make Your Wikis More Sexy

Posted on October 7, 2016November 7, 2016 by elfworld

Very often, the start page of a wiki in IBM Connections tends to look like this: This looks very dull. It’s not very inviting for the users and the need for scrolling will make it harder for the users to find what they are looking for. Yes, you can tell the users to search the…

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