by IBM Social Business Toolkit 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two IBM Connect Sessions about OpenSocial and Embedded Experiences  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/5/14 1:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Below are two sessions from IBM Connect 2014 about OpenSocial and embedded experiences in IBM Connections and IBM Notes/iNotes.

IBM Collaboration QuickStart Image now on Softlayer  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/5/14 12:21 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Paul Bastide presented at IBM Connect 2014 the new version 3.5 of the IBM Collaboration QuickStart image which is now available on Softlayer.

IBM Connect 2014: App Dev Strategy  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 2/3/14 6:13 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Below is the recording of the IBM Connect application development strategy session from Phil Riand and Mikael Orn.

IBM Connections App Dev Sessions at IBM Connect 2014  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 1/6/14 8:09 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Below is a list of IBM Connections app dev related sessions. Check out the session preview tool for a list of all sessions at IBM Connect 2014.

Webinar Replay: Programmatic Access to and Extensibility of the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 12/12/13 12:13 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Yesterday Phil Riand, Mark Wallace and I presented in the Social Business Toolkit webinar “Programmatic Access to and Extensibility of the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business”. Below is the video and the slides.

App Throwdown at IBM Connect 2014  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 12/3/13 8:38 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM has announced the app throwdown at IBM Connect 2014.

Michel Jonker: Integrating IBM Connections and Microsoft CRM Dynamics Online with C#  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 12/3/13 12:15 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Michel Jonker from e-office blogged about a Flipboard-like app that leverages IBM Connections as infrastructure.

IBM Software Services offer Application Developer Support  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 12/2/13 2:30 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM Software Services for Collaboration offer application developer support (flyer).

Webinar on December 10th: IBM SmartCloud for SocBiz: Programmatic Access & Extensibility  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/27/13 12:24 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

On December 10th at 11:00 AM EST Philippe Riand, Mark Wallace and I will present how to access the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business programmatically and how to extend it.

Mobile App Contest for Students  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/27/13 12:23 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM is hosting a mobile app contest for students, called The Great Mind Challenge 2013.

Single Sign On for Apps using the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/20/13 2:33 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The Social Business Toolkit leverages a credential store for single sign on. For OAuth for example the user tokens are stored in this repository so that users don’t have to authenticate and grant access to services like IBM Connections for every session.

Simple Samples to access IBM Connections from a local Tomcat Server  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/19/13 2:33 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Projjwal Saha has published another video in which he explains the so called samples framework. As part of the SDK, which can be downloaded from OpenNTF, comes a Tomcat server and a bigger set of simple code snippets which use the Java and JavaScript APIs to access IBM Connections.

Speed Up Deployments of your Apps using the Social Business Toolkit  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/19/13 12:12 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

One of the main benefits of the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK is the ability to deploy code easily to different environments, e.g. to move from test environments to production environments.

Developing Social Portlets by leveraging the IBM Social Business Toolkit  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/14/13 2:49 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Manish Kataria and Nagendra Shukla have published social portlets samples on OpenNTF.

Webinar Replay: Technology to deliver Exceptional Social Digital Experiences  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 11/14/13 2:49 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Yesterday Adam Ginsburg and Jonathan Booth presented in the IBM Social Business Toolkit webinar technology to deliver exceptional social digital experiences. They demonstrated the social portlets and how to build custom portlets via the Web Experience Factory and the IBM SBT.