Ever think that you can’t possibly keep up with all your work conversations? Well, worry no more — check out Moments in IBM Watson Workspace! Tapping into the power of Watson, Moments keep tabs on what’s happening in your conversations, highlight where you need to focus and summarize what matters, making it super easy to stay up to date. Learn more about Watson Workspace and Moments at help.workspace.ibm.com.

IBM and Cisco are joining forces to deliver a cloud-based suite of communication and collaboration tools. Listen to Inhi Cho, General Manager, Collaboration Solutions, IBM and Jens Meggers, SVP and General Manager Cloud Collaboration, Cisco, discuss the IBM and Cisco partnership and how together they will deliver unique customer value.

Moving collaboration to the cloud? Don't accept the same old tools - give your employees a new way to work. A truly integrated collaboration platform that helps you get work done faster and smarter by bringing what’s most important to your attention. Microsoft Office 365 might not be able to help with that, but IBM Connections and Verse in the Cloud can. Because it is true collaboration for the cognitive era. Sign up for a free trial athttp://ibm.biz/ConnectionsFreeTrial

Single shop for 1) Roadmaps and strategy 2) Product help 3) Partner certification assistance 4) Skill building

VideoBite featuring IBM Connections Cloud for using Discussion Forums for your Q&A
o Problem to solve:
§ No good way outside of email to run our projects... tasks need assigned and notifications? Due dates!? Tracking of progress by everyone on the team? Historical record a part of it?

Bobby Wood, Network Administrator at Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance of Arkansas, describes how his company's work style went from a "siloed" to "sharing" with IBM Connections, improving work productivity and effectiveness across the team.

Emails accumulated during your absence and going through the backlog exhausts you? See the IBM Verse difference!

University of Southern California, Palo Alto in Finland & the University of Arizona partnered for a virtual research competition with their students. Discover how teams can use IBM Connections to collaborate & manage their day.

Jörg Rafflenbeul, IT Coordinator at Heitkamp und Thumann Group in Germany, talks about years of successful collaboration and communication with IBM Connections, Notes/Domino and Sametime and about being on the Cognitive journey with IBM as Watson capabilities continue to emerge.

o Problem to solve: § Away from office with no laptop availability but need to interact with the collaborative tools! § Boarding a flight, have to go into airplane mode, need to review the presentation before the meeting.
o Showcase IBM solution to problem: § Rich mobile apps for Connections, Chat, Meetings. Demo the File-Sync for the airplane mode problem to solve. Show Verse as well as editing a document inside of Docs from mobile!

For more information, go check out the IBM Connections Cloud website at http://ibmcloud.com/social

Only one IT-compliant collaboration platform can help you grow your business to its full potential. With collaboration unified under a single sign-on, teams are engaged to get work done faster, without the clutter. You and your organization no longer have to compromise on security, stability, user design, or budget. IBM Connections with bundles optimized for Social, S2 with Meetings, and S1 with IBM Verse, is more than business software. Define innovation and future growth with partner solution integration, advanced analytics, and cognitive personal assistance.

Experience Connections now with a FREE 60-day trial: https://www.ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/enterprise-social-collaboration/purchase/us/en-us

Five features that will noticeably improve the user experience over what was available in Notes.

Joe Pluta - WDSC Basics, Volume 2

The first tutorial in this series showed you how to configure your workbench to provide the best System i editing environment. However, before you can actually do any work, you'll need to connect to your System i host. The connection process has a few quirks (such as "what is a profile?"), and this session will walk you through them. By the end of the tutorial, you'll have set up a connection and used the built-in verification features of WDSC to be sure your WDSC installation is as productive as possible.