IBM Connections Antipatterns

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

IBM Connections Antipatterns

Jan Valdman, Whitesoft@jan_valdman

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What is this deck about• Wrong patters of user behavior in Connections• Lets identify them and give them a name

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Generic diseases

Cognitive dissonance • Replying to notifications from IBM

Connections by e-mails

Tags• This, is, a, tag• Presentation, prezentace

Social schizophrenia• Blogs• Wikis• Phorums

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Blogs

Blogophobia• People, who do not blog at all• People who start new blog with each post

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Communities

Defaultism• Having communities with no descriptions• Having default layout• Using the “OOB” structure • No icon

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Profiles

Zombie profiles• No activity• No photo• No network• No tags

Photo-nescience• Weird photos• Photos supposed to be funny• Various props• (Sorry Lars and Stuart )

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Files

File paranoia• Replying by e-mail to notifications from

Connections• Instead of commenting• Instead of uploading a new version

File versioning• great-presentation.ppt• great-presentation-v2.ppt• great-presentation-v3.ppt

Dumb file names and NO description• Document.doc• Presentation.ppt

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

Activities

Activityholics • People who do everything in activities,

perhaps because of a need for structure • Sharing files• Starting discussions

Thank You!

Jan Valdmanjan.valdman@whitesoft.eu+420 603 590 152

Many thanks to people who helped me to discuss and validate my findings and ideas.

Toronto, June 6-7 2016

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