Presentation material from the 2008 UK Lotus User Group session.

3. Me + You = Us + Him + Him

4. IBM Lotus Connections Special Interest Group . . . I.L.C.S.I.G?

5. Why ?

6. W.I.I. F.M What – Lotus Connections 2.0 How – Getting it working Why – What can you do for your organization?

7. New thinking, new language

10. Why do we need Connections?

11. Why . . . #1 - Demographics BB X Y

12. Why . . . #2 – Technology Adoption BB

13. Why . . . #3 – Human nature

15. Improve Business Execution and Reuse Best Practices

16. If those are the needs, what’s the solution? Need for Innovation Need for Execution Need to Empower Need to Connect Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace technology success story of this decade. 30% of enterprises will openly sponsor internal…social sharing spaces to help employees find others with similar interest, skills, backgrounds and experiences. - Gartner, “ Predicts 2007 – Big Changes Ahead in the High Performance Workplace”, Dec 5, 2006

17. What is Lotus Connections?

18. IBM Lotus® Connections social software Communities Blogs Dogear Activities Profiles Home page Lotus Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers , partners and customers .

19. Profiles - Stay In Touch With Your Network

20. Communities - Vibrant Places of interest

21. Blogs - Improving Search and Discovery

22. Dogear - Share and Discover Information

23. Activities - Get Things Done The Way You Work

24. Keep up-to-date through the Homepage

25. Access Lotus Connections from applications you already use IBM WebSphere® Portal Portlet integrates any / all services into portal pages / sites Lotus Connections Services Microsoft Office & Windows Explorer Upload files to Activities, search profiles, create a blog, and make Activity To Do's Extensibility Browser Bookmarklets Feed readers Business card Mashups Mobile REST APIs IBM Lotus Notes Powerful activity sidebar IBM Lotus Quickr Add page to Activities IBM Lotus Sametime Activities and Profiles plug-in

26. Start your search with a person, from Lotus Notes…

27. 27 … or Lotus Sametime…

28. 31 … or from Outlook…

29. … or Microsoft Office ...

30. … or RIM BlackBerry…

31. Bring it all together SharePoint + Portal + Connections Portal integration Connections integration

32. … or your enterprise search solution… 50% of all intranet searches in IBM end in a click on user-tagged content, powered by Dogear .

33. HELP ME WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY AND SHARE BEST PRACTICES

34. 37 Add an email or Notes document to an Activity in Lotus Notes

35. 38 Add Lotus Sametime chat to an activity

36. 39 Add email to an Activity in Microsoft Outlook

37. Add a file to an Activity from Microsoft Windows Explorer

38. Add a website link to an Activity

39. Add a Microsoft Office document to an Activity

40. Then, you can work with your Activity…

41. Activities – Templates

42. Keep up to date with your social Homepage

43. Features Benefits Works with everything

44. Ok, I want one, what do I do?

45. Is it a . . . ?

46. Is it a . . .

47. It’s a set of Web Services

49. What are the obstacles?

50. Don’t Be Afraid!

51. Don’t Be Afraid!

55. Lotus Connections Operational Topology (high level view) Access Points Browsers Lotus Notes Lotus Sametime WebSphere Portal Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook RIM BlackBerry Feed readers Other rich clients Lotus Connections Services WAS 6.1.0.13 + IBM HTTP Server 6.1.0.13 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Enterprise Server V4.0 on x86-32 Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server - Standard Microsoft Windows 2003 Server – Enterprise SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 IBM AIX® 5.3.0.4 One or more features… Activities Homepage Profiles Dogear Blogs Communities RDBMS DB2 9.1 Fix Pack 2 SQL Server 2005 Oracle 10G 10.2.0.3 Corporate LDAP Directory IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0.0.3 or 6.1 Novell eDirectory v8.8 Microsoft Active Directory 2003 SP2 / ADAM Lotus Domino v7.0.2, v8, v8.0.1 Sun Java® System Directory Server v5.2 / v6

58. A more scalable version: Each feature on a two-node cluster with one shared Deployment Manager

62. What are the issues?

63. “ empowers you to be more innovative”

67. Types of Innovation: Sustaining and Disruptive Essentially Same Significantly Advanced Essentially Same Significantly Changed Customer’s perception of process, product or services capability Technological capability of new process, product or service Continuous Improvement ‘ Sustaining Innovations’ Commercially Disruptive Technologically Disruptive often STILL sustaining Technologically & Commercially Disruptive e.g. Flat Screen TV e.g. CDs, disk drive technology e.g. Sony Walkman Adapted from Veryzer (1997) Thomond 2008 ©, Think, Play, Do Ltd

68. Types of Innovation: Sustaining & “Low-end” Disruptive Thomond 2008 ©, Think, Play, Do Ltd

69. Types of Innovation: “Sustaining” and “New-Market Disruptive” Potentially Disruptive Business Area of displacement Established Business Area of new wealth / new net growth Thomond 2008 ©, Think, Play, Do Ltd

70. What blocks Innovation? Idea Capture Holistic Innovation Management Innovation Awareness Rapid Customer Feedback Thomond 2008 ©, Think, Play, Do Ltd

71. Dialog - Group discussions

73. Overcoming the obstacles

74. Final thoughts + = ?? Your Org

75. Connections places

76. As of November 2007 : 6,753+ registered users 3,192 individual companies 7,695 unique visitors 127,719 pages viewed 4,752 repeat visitors

79. Prizes for Connections

80. Questions?