IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 develops professional communities and networks of colleaguesIBM United States Software Announcement 209-210August 18, 2009
IBM® Lotus® Connections 2.5 is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative, enabling efficient execution of business strategies by calling upon the expertise of networks of coworkers, partners, and customers. These networks become vibrant professional and customer communities that help you discover information, develop and refine creative ideas, and collaborate with the right people to achieve faster business results.
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IBM Lotus Connections is social software for business. It empowers business professionals to:
New features of Lotus Connections 2.5 Communities: Create, find, join, and work with communities of people
Files: A new personal file sharing service
Wikis: A new wiki service allows you to collaboratively edit content
Profiles: Quickly find the people and expertise you need
Blogs: Present your ideas in a Weblog and get feedback from others
Bookmarks: Save, organize, and share bookmarks using social bookmarking
Activities: Gather the e-mails, IM chats, documents, messages, and other information that you need to accomplish a business objective
Home page: Remain informed of social data updates from across the Lotus Connections services
By empowering people to easily connect with employees, partners, and customers, Lotus Connections can help businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and others realize the following benefits:
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August 28, 2009: Electronic software delivery September 18, 2009: Media and documentation
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 can help:
Lotus Connections 2.5 adds new capabilities across its existing services and adds new services for file sharing and wikis. Here is a summary of the new capabilities within each service: Files: The new Files service provides a convenient way to share documents, spread sheets, presentations, and other types of files with people without the need to send large files through e-mail. With the new file sharing service, individuals can:
Wikis: The new Wikis service allows teams to collaboratively enter, edit, and publish Web page content. With the new Wikis service, individuals can:
The wiki owner can control access to the wiki and assign read access, write access, or manager access privileges. Manager access allows one to add new members, change access for existing members, or delete members. Communities: The Communities service allows individuals with a common interest, responsibility, or area of expertise to stay in touch, share information, exchange ideas, and collaborate on projects. The ability to customize a community's appearance and content has been enhanced as follows:
The community discussion forum experience has been enhanced as follows:
Community membership management has been enhanced as follows:
Home page: The Home page service provides individuals with a consolidated view of their social data from across all of the Lotus Connections services. Staying current with updates from across your social network has been made simpler and faster with the addition of a new Updates tab to the home page. Its features include the following:
The MyPage tab on the home page has new customization capabilities with new choices for page layout, and an expanded selection of widgets as follows:
Profiles: The Profiles service helps you quickly find the people you need by searching across your organization using keywords that help identify expertise, current projects, and responsibilities. Keeping people in your professional network advised of what you are doing, and staying informed of what they are doing helps to build and foster professional networks. Accomplishing this is now simpler and more immediate with the addition of two new features in Lotus Connections: micro-blogging and message board. Features of the new micro-blogging capability include the following:
The combination of the board and the new micro-blogging capabilities provides a simple and easy way for people to maintain an active connection with the other people in their network. Lotus Connections 2.5 also enhances the tag cloud which is displayed in the profiles service. Tags associated with individuals from across the organization are now consolidated and displayed as a tag cloud. This can be used to quickly locate people with a needed expertise by clicking on the relevant tag. Activities: The Activities service allows individuals to create online work areas where they and their teammates can gather together the e-mails, IM chats, documents, messages, and other information that they need to accomplish a business objective. With Lotus Connections 2.5, activities can be started directly from a community. Activities created in this way are displayed on both the community's overview page, and in the Activities service view as well. Community members automatically become members of an activity that is started from the community. This provides community members with online work areas in which they can collaborate on projects. Blogs: The Blogs service allows you to present your ideas, get feedback from others, and learn from the expertise and experience of others who blog. The new blogs features in Lotus Connections 2.5 include the following:
Bookmarks: The Bookmarks social bookmarking service permits one to save, organize, and share bookmarks; and also discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others. Moving bookmarks into and out of the Bookmarks service is now simpler. Individuals can export their browser bookmarks or subsets of their browser bookmarks into the Bookmarks service. This can prove useful when initially populating a bookmarks list in the Bookmarks service, or updating it with a new topic of interest. Bookmarks can also be exported from the Bookmarks service and imported into a browser or shared with someone who does not use the Bookmarks service. New integrated mobile support Many professionals travel frequently or work remotely. Lotus Connections 2.5 now supports mobile browser access to the Lotus Connections Profiles, Activities, and Blog services from iPhone or Nokia S60 devices. Examples of the capabilities provided include searching for people in profiles, updating your status, working with your activities, plus reading and commenting on blog entries.
Refer to Software Announcement 208-131, dated June 10, 2008.
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Lotus Connections V2.5.0 Multilingual September 18, 2009
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Dutch, Czech,
Italian,
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Program VRM Program name number 5724-S68 2.5.0 IBM Lotus Connections
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Specified operating environmentHardware requirementsThe following hardware is required for the systems that host IBM Lotus Connections features.
Software requirementsServer side operating system
Client side operating system
Web browser support
Mobile support
Application server*
HTTP Server*
LDAP Directory
Database
Feed reader
Security
For profiles only
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