verb: engage; 3rd person present: engages; past tense: engaged; past participle: engaged; gerund or present participle: engaging
1. occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention).
"he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans and engage Sutton's attention"
synonyms: capture, catch, arrest, grab, seize, draw, attract, gain, win, captivate, hold, grip, engross, absorb, occupy
"the tasks must engage the children's interest"
involve someone in (a conversation or discussion).
"they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation"
2. participate or become involved in.
"organizations engage in a variety of activities"
synonyms: participate in, take part in, join in, become involved in, go in for, partake in/of, occupy oneself with, throw oneself into; share in, play a part in, play a role in, be a participant in, be associated with, have a hand in, be a party to, enter into, undertake, embark on, set about, launch into
"they like to engage in active sports"
establish a meaningful contact or connection with.
"the teams needed to engage with local communities"
Online communities are the key driver of social business adaptation programmes. There's a great chance you already have an on-going community building programme using IBM Connections. You're now thinking about how you could help accelerate that adaptation process for your different communities. WHAT IF data analytics could help you with that? What if you'd find an effective way to engage your top contributors & SMEs to influence user behaviour? Do you know where your lurkers are? What if you could identify some of the core activities within your communities so you can encourage more active participation & engagement? What if you could spot right away potential trouble areas slowing you down in your community building efforts? Time to act now!
Luis Suarez is a Digital Transformation and Data Analytics adviser at panagenda. A well seasoned Social / Open Business strategist and 2.0 practitioner with over 21 years of working experience on Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Learning, Online Communities and Social Networking for Business. Currently focusing on helping organizations make the most out of their own change initiatives and digital transformation programs through making sense of their own data analytics visualizations.
Cor01. How healthy is your Enterprise Social Networking environment?
Influencing change in your organization’s culture is tough. Understanding how healthy your ESN (Enterprise Social Networking) platform is will help you unleash its true potential. Transforming how you connect, collaborate and learn with your colleagues, customers and business partners has never been so critical. There are multiple ways of how you can approach such transformation efforts in order to help improve your digital adaptation capabilities. panagenda ESN HealthCheck helps you improve adoption, explore user activity details and participation rates, better understand community analytics, evaluate end-to-end availability, service quality and performance measurements, detect automatically anomalies and critical peaks, and evaluate the overall effectiveness of your different change initiatives. Come and join us for this practical session including a hands-on demo on what ConnectionsExpert 2.0 has to offer to measure how healthy your ESN is within your organization so that you can take your digital transformation journey into the next level.
Luis Suarez works at panagenda as a Digital Transformation and Data Analytics Adviser. A well seasoned Social / Open Business strategist and 2.0 practitioner with over 21 years of working experience on Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Learning, Online Communities and Social Networking for Business, he is currently focusing on helping organisations make the most out of their own change initiatives and digital transformation programmes through making sense of their own data analytics visualisations.
I have been to numerous events over the years and this was be far the best one I can remember. The structure, venue and content was great.
Wonderful event, one of the best I have been to. Focused on IBM Notes/Domino and Connections. Just what I want.
Theo (and team) did it again ! A very professional conference, with a great value for me as a Customer!
My first Engage, and despite the long travel distance for me, hopefully not the last.
It's a privilege to be able to attend Engage and this year was, most probably, one of the very best out there!!
Awesome event, for sure an organizational masterpiece. Excellent! It's hard to believe the Engage staff is not organizing conferences as principal job ;-)
It was the best event I attended so far. And I attend about 5-8 each year!
2nd time for me attending Engage, but it was incredible again! 2 days packed with extremely informational content, a great venue and a great community!
We did more business and collected more leads during Engage 2017 in Antwerp, than at IBM Connect in San Francisco.
As a first-timer I didn't really know what to expect. The organization of the event positively surprised me!
A premiere event that rivals anything produced by any other organization. Great job...AGAIN!!!
It's a treat to always keep coming back for more! Well done, once again, and look forward to the 10th edition next year!
It is mind boggling to see two people create an event that rivals those put on by larger vendors with dozens of resources.
And huge thanks to Theo and the others for giving me my first international speaking engagement!
Theo is a legend, Theo has style. And he is putting together the best event in this space, year after year.
Engage was my first UG as a speaker and it has developed into arguably the premier user group for ICS in Europe.
Yet again a brilliantly done event. One that is used as the yard-stick by which all other user group events are measured.
Theo and Hilde did it again: Engage was bigger than last year, venue was impressive and the event most successful.
It was a pleasure, due to the efforts of Theo his team, the sponsors, the location and the participants. Much appreciated!
I was extremely impressed on all levels. Thank you to Theo Heselmans for the opportunity to speak at this event!
I’ve been to several of the past Engage conferences and Theo always puts on a great event but this was better than ever.
What can one say about this Engage, Eindhoven, NL. It is in fact THE European user group meeting,...
Theo Heselmans has raised the bar yet again as to what can be achieved with organizing an IBM User Group event.