Social Networking with IBM Lotus Connections Workshop

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Overview:

You should have:

• Good technical understanding of Internet concepts
• A general understanding of object-oriented programming concepts, systems and languages

Also helpful, but not required:

• Some knowledge of Web 2.0 concepts
• Previous experience with Lotus Sametime or WebSphere Portal
• Familiarity with the Rational Application Developer (or Eclipse) development environment

Description:

IBM Lotus Connections is social software for businesses that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers.

In this workshop, you will learn how this software enables you to promote collaboration and innovation by connecting people with common work objectives or professional interests. It helps you harness the inherent social drives of the people in and around your company, and makes it easy for people to connect in new ways-which is the key to unlocking and leveraging all the skills within your organization and beyond.

Audience:

This is a basic course for solution architects and social networking adminstrators.

Objectives:

• Become familiar with the setup and use of Lotus Connections features
• Understand the functions provided by each feature
• Describe how the features work with each other as well as how they can be incorporated into other applications and Web sites
• Learn how to use the tools and underlying servers to configure the products for use

Prerequisites:

You should have:

• Good technical understanding of Internet concepts
• A general understanding of object-oriented programming concepts, systems and languages

Also helpful, but not required:

• Some knowledge of Web 2.0 concepts
• Previous experience with Lotus Sametime or WebSphere Portal
• Familiarity with the Rational Application Developer (or Eclipse) development environment

Topics:

The components, features and functions of Lotus Connections:

• Profiles: Search for and find people based on criteria such as name, organization, location, reporting structure and interests.
• Communities: Groups of people who share a common interest can collaborate with one another by exchanging and sharing information or interacting with one another using IBM Lotus Sametime and e-mail.
• Blogs: Communicate with your peers or colleagues and nourish innovation.
• Dogear: Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.
• Activities: Track your work with a dashboard; invite and share your tasks with others; and manage work items.

Available development tools

How to set up, configure and use each feature of Lotus Connections

How to incorporate the features in existing applications and Web sites