IBM Connections November 2013 Release Available in the Cloud

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Over the weekend, we rolled out this quarter’s update to IBM Connections, IBM’s Enterprise Social Collaboration platform. this update comes just shy of 8 weeks since our last update which represented our biggest release ever.

In this release, you’ll notice the following updates and new capabilities:

• New layout of the Homepage to consolidate information, make sharing easier, and help you focus on what’s important
• Updated recommendations based on social analytics to more quickly find and discover content you may be interested in
• Community polls and surveys
• Community owners now can set a custom landing page for their members
• @-mention in blogs and ideation to continue the conversation
• More mobile push notifications to drive the engagement of mobile users
• Community managers can recover communities that were accidentally removed
• and more.. !

As before, I’ve updated the IBM SmartCloud Connections presentation with the latest features and you can see that here:

IBM SmartCloud Connections Overview - Q4 2013 from Luis Benitez

For the full list of all the new features, see this document.

Update 7/Nov/2013: Marty Lechleider, the Product Manager for Community Polls and Surveys, created this quick video as a tour:



To go and see the new features or to start your free trial, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social . As usual, customers on-premises will get these features in the next major on-premises release.