Social Networking with IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Workshop

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. You will learn how to leverage the eight integrated services for social networking delivered by Lotus Connections 2.5. You will hear about and use the functions and features that capture, communicate, share, collaborate, organize, and deliver social software for business.

Objectives:

• Become familiar with the setup and use of Lotus Connections features
• Understand the functions provided by each feature
• Understand how the features work with each other and how to incorporate them with other applications and Web sites
• Learn how to use the tools and underlying servers to configure the products for use
• Participate in hands-on labs