IBM Collaboration Solutions community sunsets - now The Social Lounge
Tags :SocialBizUg Greenhouse ICS IBM Connections
Annnounced on June 4th, the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community is being sunset and moved to The Social Lounge. What this means is that IBM is moving their own ICS community from the IBM Connections environment on Lotus Greenhouse to the IBM Connections environment on SocialBizUg.
Notice: As of June 4, 2013, the IBM Collaboration Solutions community is being transitioned toThe Social Lounge in the Social Business User Group community. Please register at SocialBizUG.org to continue participating in this vibrant community of professionals focused on social business and collaboration. For more information, see http://bit.ly/SocialLoungeFAQ
One of the reasons cited is that SocialBizUg allows anonymous access to view to community, but you will still need to register to add comments and such of course. They also mention that SocialBizUg is different than DeveloperWorks but this site was not on DeveloperWorks. I enjoyed working with the new features in Greenhouse. On the opposite side is that SocialBizUg will not be undergoing constant outages and maintenance like Greenhouse seemed to.
The previous community and all it's content will not be migrated to the new community so you will need to access both for a while or for archive purposes. I was asked what I thought of the move. I am torn.
Sure, where it is located really doesn't matter as long as it grows as a community. Then again, having an official IBM type community on a non-IBM official site is rather strange when it was already running inside the exact same software is strange.
What is your thoughts?
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On Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 by Chris Miller
