Recorded on Friday 23rd March 2012.  Simon Vaughan, Mac Guidera and Baan Slavens join Darren and I to talk Connections – roll out of a new release at Cardiff University, futures for the mobile apps, fix pack one for 3.0.1 and even Windows Explorer access to your Connections files.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests

Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team.

Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion

Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions.

Topics

Cardiff just upgraded to Connections 3.0.1

What’s Connections being used for?

Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff?

Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile?

Connections mobile clients

What has the take up been like so far?

What’s coming next?

Multiple server access

Profiles integration with address books

Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes

Native files access

Connections as a platform for development

As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform?

Developers need to understand OpenSocial

Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications

Connections 3.0.1.1 released

What’s included?

Fixes

New features

MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support

Redhat Linux 6.1 support

Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support

Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed 🙂

Forums/Posts configuration etc

Was the ‘Super Community admin view’feature incorporated in this release?

How is it installed?

New Update Installer required

Should all customers upgrade?

Connections plugin for Windows Explorer released

What does it do?

How is it installed/deployed?

How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files?

Can you upload multiple files?

Does it obey quotas etc?

Can you have multiple Connections servers configured?

drag and drop of files into Connections files

Video by Luis Benitez

Connections 4 was previewed at Lotusphere 2012

What are the highlights?

When will it be available?

Which features are you most excited about?

Tips

Darren:

Veeam. Best virtual backup and replication solution on the market. And sold by STS 🙂

Baan:

Open documents in Connections app on the iOS platform by pressing and holding attachments.

Mac:

Mac users, use the files plug-in for Notes to drag and share files from your machine to Connections.