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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 ...

New Blog UI for the IBM Social Business Toolkit

By Niklas Heidloff | 8/27/13, 2:40 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We have updated the user experience of the IBM Social Business Toolkit blog. The blog home page displays now featured blog entries at the top with a screenshot so that key blog entries remain visible ...

The Power of Reusable UI Controls for IBM Connections

By Niklas Heidloff | 8/26/13, 3:34 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

As hopefully most of my readers are aware of, the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK provides easy to use Java and JavaScript APIs to access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and it comes with convenience functionality to handle complexity like authentication and deployment to different environments.

News and Videos for Developers to learn how to build Social Business Applications

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/22/13, 2:24 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last month IBM launched a new landing page for developers building social business applications leveraging IBM Connections, IBM Domino and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.

New Landing Page for IBM Social Business Toolkit Developers on IBM developerWorks

By Niklas Heidloff | 6/3/13, 3:45 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM has created a new landing page for developers who are using or want to start using the IBM Social Business Toolkit. Today, in time for IBM Innovate, IBM is announcing and launching a first version of this web site. Our plan is to extend and improve this web site over time.

Try the IBM Collaboration QuickStart Image on IBM SmartCloud for 60 Days at no Charge

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/28/13, 4:20 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Since May there has been a new IBM Collaboration QuickStart image available in the IBM SmartCloud. The image allows social business application developers to easily get started with IBM Connections an ...

New YouTube Channel for the IBM Social Business Toolkit

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/28/13, 3:48 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

There is a new You Tube channel for the IBM Social Business Toolkit. The channel contains six videos initially that have already been published earlier. The IBM development team has planned to publish several new videos to this channel soon.

New Documentation: Getting Started with the IBM Social Business Toolkit

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/21/13, 1:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM published new documentation for the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK in the IBM Social Business Development wiki. Most of the new articles are about how the installation of the SDK.

Announcing the IBM Social Business Toolkit Webinars

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/14/13, 11:45 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We are happy to announce a new initiative - the Social Business Toolkit webinars. We've planned to host one or two webinars per month on various IBM Social Business Toolkit app dev related topics. Our intent is to deliver high quality content which is presented by various experts from the IBM development teams and potentially from people from the community.

developer.ibm.com/social

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/9/13, 1:27 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We've updated the developerWorks/social page. This landing page contains links to key resources for social business application developers, including several community resources like StackOverflow, GitHub and Collaboration Today. There is also getting started information explaining different types of developers how to start using the IBM Social Business Toolkit.

Set up IBM Connections in less than one Hour

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/29/13, 1:10 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Thanks to Paul Bastide and the IBM Collaboration Solutions app dev team there is a new version of the IBM Collaboration QuickStart image available in the IBM SmartCloud.

Video: Connect 2013 INV110 - App Dev Strategy - Coding Social Business Applications

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/4/13, 4:39 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Here is another must watch video for developers from Connect 2013. It's the session "App Dev Strategy - Coding Social Business Applications" from Phil Riand, with whom I've had the pleasure to work closely together for many years, and my new manager Mikael Orn. Great people, great content.

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