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 ...

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

The IBM Collaboration Quickstart for Social Business contains many software products, which can be used in almost any environment. One common change is to modify the environment to match the look and feel of a customer's environment.

As a developer, one may wish to extend a user's profile using an iWidget to present relevant social artifacts from a 3rd party application. If one were using the Acme Airlines Social Sample from the IBM Social Business Toolkit, one may wish to present a user's flights in an iWidget.

The IBM Connections 4.0 Activity Streams feature supports posting third-party microblogs onto Connection's Activity Streams and displaying details in the Embedded Experience (EE) OpenSocial gadget.