The 2016 autumn meeting in the Norwegian IBM User group (ISBG) was held on November 30th at BI (Norwegian school of finance) in Oslo. Even if I wasn’t second in command for the user group I still would say this: It was a very strong and varied agenda! Here’s a summary: Salesforce App Cloud and…
7 Great Tips About IBM Notes
The IBM Notes client is an important tool for a lot of IBM customers. It’s a powerful client (albeit a bit cranky at times), which has a lot of features that people don’t know about. So here are 7 quick tips to make your work day even more efficient. 1) Find a Notes application/database quickly…
7 Quick Tips About IBM Connections
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…
Whither IBM Part 2: Is Domino being silently killed?
Last week there was an online presentation co-hosted by TeamStudio and TLCC where IBM presented their roadmap for IBM Notes/Domino. I didn’t listen to the whole thing, I skipped some parts, because I could basically read the slides. In addition, they didn’t present anything new that they didn’t present at IBM Connect 2016. Nothing! Except…
IBM Connections Tip #6: Make Your Wikis More Sexy
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…
IBM Connections Tip #5: Version Control of Wiki Articles
Just like you have version control of files in IBM Connections, you also have complete version control of wiki articles inside a wiki. Every time someone edits an article, and save the changes, the last version of that wiki article will be kept. The versions of the article are listed at the bottom of the…
IBM Connections Tip #4: Save Connections Posting for Later
In my previous blog posting I showed you how you can save a Facebook posting so that you can read it later without worrying about it disappearing. A lot of IBM Connections users don’t know that you can actually do this in the activity/news stream in Connections as well. Let’s say you are at work….
Save Facebook Posting For Later
Have you ever seen someone link to or publish a Facebook posting that looks awesomely fun and interesting, but you haven’t got the time to look at it right now? My guess is that the answer to this question is a resounding Yes. So what happens? You close Facebook, it disappears from your news feed…
IBM Connections Tip #3: IBM Connections Plugins for IBM Notes
A lot has been said about the future of IBM Notes and Domino lately, but the truth of the matter is that there are still lots of Notes clients out there that are still heavily in use. There are also IBM Notes customers who are using IBM Connections. Because of this, IBM has created a…
ISBG Spring Conference Day 2: Becoming a Board Member
With a slight headache I got out of bed as late as possible (07.30) and went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast with Christoph Adler from Panagenda and Stephanie Heit and Arshad Khalid from BCC. The conference was held a five minute walk from the hotel, so I was there in good time before…