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Custom control to display a My Communities list

By Patrick Kwinten | 10/22/14 5:08 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In the managed bean I described in an earlier post there was a method to return a list of communities in IBM Connections where the authenticated user is member of (getMyCommunities()). So what can you do with it? In IBM Connections when you section Communities \ I'm a Member you get to see a list…

PHP and the Social Business Toolkit: Some Newsworthy Updates

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 4/8/14 3:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last week we released PHP support for the Social Business Toolkit.

New API for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Resellers to manage Customers

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 4/8/14 3:07 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For resellers IBM provides the IBM SmartCloud Business Support System (BSS) which is a platform for managing and administering processes that support SaaS services. BSS provides REST services (using JSON) to create organizations, customers, users and more.

Video how to set up a Hello World Sample against IBM SmartCloud Connections

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/7/14 1:05 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The video outlines how to set up the Eclipse IDE and configure a simple hello world sample to work against IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.

Webinar on March 26th: What’s new in the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK at 10:00 AM EDT

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 3/25/14 2:36 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The daylight savings have caused some confusion again. We’ll do our webinar tomorrow (March 26th) at 10:00 AM EDT.

Social Recruiting Solution integrated in IBM Connections

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 3/25/14 2:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Reppify provides a social recruiting solution that helps companies find talent using the connections of their employees. The video below shows how Reppify Talent is integrated in IBM Connections.

Entwicklercamp Closing Session - IBM Collaboration Solutions App Dev FAQ

By Niklas Heidloff | 3/20/14 2:15 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This week I attended Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. As always Rudi Knegt did an excellent job organizing the event - great speakers and sessions, good opportunities to network and a lot of fun.

IBM Connect 2014 – Session Video online – AD206

By Henning Schmidt | 3/14/14 3:24 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I had the honor to present with Niklas Heidloff this year. We talked about how to extend IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business by using the REST APIs preferably wrapped in the Social Business Toolkit. We had 2 demos and lots of useful resources to get started. So in case you missed our session, here is a link that leads you to a session replay

IBM Social Business Toolkit now supports PHP

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 3/14/14 3:23 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit team is working hard to integrate PHP support and a release is now available on our Github repository.

Replays of IBM Connect 2014 Sessions on socialbiz User Group

By Niklas Heidloff | 3/12/14 2:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM has published many replays of IBM Connect 2014 sessions on socialbiz User Group. Below are some of the sessions related to app dev for IBM Connections.

Webinar on March 26th: What’s new in the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 3/11/14 12:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

After our IBM Connect break we’ll continue with our IBM Social Business Toolkit webinars again.

Social Media Compliance for IBM Connections

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/24/14 10:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Social Smart Software, LLC (iSocialSmart)‘s iComply integrates with IBM Connections to capture non compliant posts before they are published in the internet.

IBM Cloud: Codename BlueMix brings PaaS to the party

By IBM developerWorks | 2/23/14 11:00 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM recently announced Codename BlueMix, an open standards-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment for building, running, and managing web and mobile applications in the cloud. Start your exploration of Codename BlueMix technology here and find out how it gives you instant resources for developing with your favorite programming languages and runtimes.

What is Codename BlueMix?

By IBM developerWorks | 2/23/14 11:00 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM Codename BlueMix is the newest cloud offering from IBM. IBM Codename BlueMix is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering based on the Cloud Foundry open source project that delivers enterprise-level features and services that are easy to integrate into cloud applications. This document provides a high-level overview of IBM Codename BlueMix and Cloud Foundry and the differences between the two.[...]

Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections from TIMETOACT

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/19/14 1:17 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

TIMETOACT’s product “Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections” adds content management capabilities to communicate top down to employees on top of the social collaboration capabilities provided by Connections.

The Social Business Toolkit – First Project

By Henning Schmidt | 2/19/14 12:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In the first two posts in this series I talked about the Social Business Toolkit (SBT) in general and showed how to install all necessary items in order to use the SBT in XPages.

Pre-Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK for iOS

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/19/14 12:22 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At Connect 2014 IBM announced the new SDK for iOS developers to easily access IBM Connections from mobile apps.

New Control to access Files from IBM Connections in Apps

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/19/14 12:21 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The latest version of the Social Business Toolkit SDK contains a new type of resuable controls, called view controls. While the simple controls display lists of IBM Connections objects, e.g. my files, the new view controls also include actions for these objects, e.g. upload new files, share, etc.

New API Explorer and Documentation for the IBM Connections REST APIs

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/12/14 3:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In September I blogged about the new API Explorer for IBM Domino REST APIs. That same functionality is now available for the IBM Connections REST APIs.

App Dev Presentations from IBM Connect 2014 on Slideshare

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/12/14 12:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Below is a list of app dev sessions from IBM Connect 2014 that have been posted to Slideshare.

Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight

By IBM developerWorks | 2/11/14 11:00 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This article describes how you can develop an IBM Worklight mobile application that displays web content from an IBM WebSphere Portal server, while leveraging the advantages of a web content management system such as IBM Web Content Manager. This article provides an example that displays web content feeds from IBM Web Content Manager in a hybrid mobile application created with IBM Worklight.

Pardon the Interruption – Social Business Topics II

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/10/14 4:12 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Louis Richardson, Luis Benitez, Matt Ridings at IBM Connect 2014 Can a business go social without executive support? How much time per day do you spend being social? What if I have nothing to say? These were some of the questions Louis Richardson and...

The Code Behind My IBM Connect 2014 Keynote Demo - Part 4

By Luis Benitez | 2/10/14 9:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

And here we come. The 4th and final post on the code that I used during the IBM Connect 2014 keynote (the OGS!). If you need to catch up, here's Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Google Maps Widget for IBM Connections Profiles

By Klaus Bild | 2/10/14 12:52 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We showed an example of a Google Maps Widget in our IBM Connect session in Orlando and we promised to publish the code on our blogs, so here we go.

Gamification boosts engagement, amplification and fun quotient at IBM Connect

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/6/14 1:22 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The thrill of victory It was 6:30 pm on Sunday, January 26th in Orlando, Florida, and Ray Bilyk was nervous. I watched him as he paced up and down the Social Cafe, glancing up at the leaderboard and muttering to himself. “One...

Enchanting Business value with Exceptional Scriptlets

By IBM SocialBiz UX | 2/5/14 3:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM released recently released IBM Script Portlet Scriptlets for WebSphere Portal on the Solutions Catalog! It is a simple but power tool that enables a script developer to quickly develop portlets for WebSphere Portal without having the need to know anything about Java, portlets or the JSR 286 ...