Download - What's new for Existing Customers in Connections 5.0

IBM Connections 5.0 What’s New

IBM Connections Product Management Albert Nichols

Overview

• External Collaboration

• Viewing Content • Files Gallery and Preview

• File sync

• Attention Management

• Additional New Features

• Resources and Announcements

• Q&A

External Collaboration

Designs are subject to change

Invite external users to an existing community

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… and start collaborating with the team!

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Share a file with anyone in the world

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Invite as many external users as needed. They can upload and share

with you too!

Build bridges and relationships, with just an email address

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Viewing Content


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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Grid View


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 SlidesMisha Tompkin

File Preview


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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Files Gallery


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

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



• 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

Additional New Features


Additional New Features Custom Landing Pages



• 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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• 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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• 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

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Redbooks%3A+Building+and+Implementing+a+Social+Portal#action=openDocument&content=catcontent&ct=redbooks

http://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog



• 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

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• 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

Resources and Announcements


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

http://ibm.com/social

http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness

http://catalog.lotus.com