Reflections on the Social Business Application Development Workshop  

By Sherpa Software | 11/6/13, 12:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Back in September, I had an opportunity to attend a workshop organized by IBM in their Silicon Valley Innovation Center.

OpenSocial Explorer v0.0.2 Released!  

By Ryan Baxter | 11/5/13, 12:48 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today I released version 0.0.2 of the OpenSocial Explorer. From an end user perspective not a lot has changed, although there are a couple of differences.

Customizing Authentication User Interfaces in the IBM Social Business Toolkit  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/21/13, 1:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Rajmeet Singh Bal has published a video to explain how developers can choose different available authentication UI options and how they can customize the user experience, e.g. via custom specific login pages.

New IBM Social Business Toolkit Homepage with Extensibility Documentation  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/16/13, 1:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We’ve updated the IBM Social Business Toolkit homepage. In addition to information about how developers can use the SDK to build social apps, we’ve added a second section with information how you can extend IBM Collaboration Solutions.

Access IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from PHP  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/14/13, 2:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

My colleague Van Staub has written two articles how to access IBM SmartCloud for Social Business (SC4SB) from PHP.

Integrating IBM Connections and Microsoft CRM Dynamics Online with C#  

By Michel Jonker | 10/4/13, 1:46 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In an innovation project at e-office we call Business Snapshots we have tried to create a Flipboard like experience while keeping up to speed with information that is added to corporate systems.

New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK posted  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/30/13, 1:31 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The focus for this release was on delivering some new Service API’s and UI controls that were requested by the community. The team also focused on stabilizing our Continuous Delivery infrastructure which will enable us to release more regular stable builds of the SDK.trans New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK posted

Customize it - Make IBM Connections look your way  

By Klaus Bild | 9/26/13, 9:30 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I just finished my session at Dominopoint days in Milano and it is really a honor to be a part of this event! I want to share my slides with you and I’m open for comments or remarks, so please tell me if you think I should add/change some slides in future.

Video: Development Environments for Social Application Developers  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/26/13, 12:53 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For the last months the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team has focused on consumability. We want to make it as easy as possible for developers to get started and to use our technology. Part of this bigger effort has been the new landing page, the improved documentation, new SDK functionality and so forth.

Google map link - IBM Connections Profile customization  

By Klaus Bild | 9/25/13, 3:54 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Tomorrow I will give a session at the Dominopoint Days in Milano on customizing IBM Connections and there I will show a simple Profile customization example.

Two forthcoming Social Business Application Development Workshops  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/25/13, 2:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

After Ireland, Germany, France and the United States the Social Business Application Development workshop will take place in Australia and Malaysia next month.

Developers, check out the IBM Social Business Toolkit Videos and News  

By OpenNTF | 9/24/13, 6:27 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit can be used to build social applications, e.g. via XPages, and to extend IBM Collaboration Solutions, e.g. IBM SmartCloud Connections.

Webinar on September 25th: How to use the Social Business Development Environments  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/19/13, 1:39 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

On September 25th at 10:00 AM EDT we’ll host our next Social Business Toolkit webinar. Paul Bastide will describe the different development environments that are available for social business developers: QuickStart image, IBM Greenhouse, SmartCloud test environment, images for partners, etc.

Preconfigured Development Environment - IBM Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business v3.0  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/18/13, 2:16 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

How many times have you setup IBM Connections, IBM Sametime and IBM Domino to replicate a complete customer environment? 100 times, 10 times, 1 time?

How To Add Your Own OpenSocial Gadgets To Connections - Replay Available!  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/18/13, 12:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last week I held a webinar on how to add your own OpenSocial gadgets to IBM Connections. We covered various use cases for using OpenSocial gadgets in Connections and touched on a variety of topics related to testing and deploying your gadgets to Connections.

SugarCRM enriches Customer Relationship Management via IBM Connections Communities  

By Niklas Heidloff | 9/16/13, 3:45 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

SugarCRM provides a connector for IBM Connections. Watch the video below to see the functionality in action. There are several interesting integration points. IBM Connections is used to enrich the S ...

Extending Moodle with IBM Social Business Toolkit  

By IBM SocialBiz UX | 9/13/13, 12:38 PM | - | Added by Luis Benitez

About the Author Jon Machtynger CTO, IBM Collaborations Solutions, UK and Ireland As CTO for IBM's Collaboration Solutions brand in the UK and Ireland, Jon helps define IBM's strategy to to support successful and innovative collaboration and social solutions. These cover a broad range of ...

Social Business Application Development Workshop - Day 2  

By Graham Acres | 9/13/13, 12:30 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Wednesday my day started before the workshop began. I attended a webinar put on by the Social Business Toolkit team, presented by Ryan Baxter on adding Open Social Gadgets to Connections. It was a good presentation. The slides are available, and the video will be shortly.

Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/12/13, 2:33 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM partner TIMETOACT GROUP developed a product Custom Page & Web CMS Extension for IBM Connections.

New Release of the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK on OpenNTF  

By OpenNTF | 9/12/13, 2:31 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

A new release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK is available for download.

Creating an IBM Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business 3.0 Instance  

By IBM SocialBiz UX | 9/11/13, 4:06 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This article details how to create an IBM Collaboration Quickstart for Social Business 3.0 instance.

Context based Information from IBM Connections integrated in SugarCRM  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/11/13, 3:37 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM business partner Highland Solutions has developed a nice integration feature between IBM Connections and SugarCRM called SemanticCRM.

Social Business Application Development Workshop - Day 1  

By Graham Acres | 9/11/13, 12:17 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I am in San Francisco for a two day workshop on Social Business Toolkit development. Day 1 is in the books, so I thought I'd write a quick summary of the day.

New release of Social Business Toolkit SDK posted  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/10/13, 3:36 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

A new release of the Social Business Toolkit is available for download here.

Social Project Management for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/10/13, 3:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Trilog Group provides a solution ProjExec® Live which is a social project management application for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business leveraging the IBM Connections functionality in the cloud.

Major Update to the IBM Social Business Toolkit Documentation  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/9/13, 12:20 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit Software Development Kit provides APIs and services to help you develop Java and web applications for IBM® Connections and IBM SmartCloud® for Social Business.

Video: How to access the Activity Stream in IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/9/13, 1:57 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Bill Looby and Francis Moloney presented in the last webinar how to access the activity stream in IBM Connections programmatically.

Socialaboration: Dressing Up Connections - Social Rendering  

By David Greenstein | 9/6/13, 12:42 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I recently worked on a project where we had to service two different user types with one deployment of Connections. The customer had extensive UI and feature changes for the smaller of the two groups of users.

Integrate IBM SmartCloud for Social Business in your own Apps  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/28/13, 3:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Vimal Dhupar from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team has published a new video in which she describes how to access functionality provided by the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from your own apps.

How to run the Social Business Toolkit Java and JavaScript Samples locally using Tomcat  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/27/13, 4:00 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK comes with a set of simple samples that demonstrate how to access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business via the JavaScript and Java APIs. These samples can be run locally by using a preconfigured Tomcat server that comes as part of the SDK.