The Calendar of the Future | A Manifesto
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 10:28a Bruce Elgort Tungle has put together a series of short videos on their new site "Calendar of the Future" site. IBM's Ed Brill makes a short apperance in the first video:
Visit the "Calendar of the Future" site > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Innovators of Vancouver, Washington - An Online Documentary
Sun, Aug 22nd 2010 9:00p Bruce Elgort Innovators of Vancouver is an online documentary video series documenting leaders of vision, passion and action in Vancouver, Washington (not Vancouver, Canada) and surrounding areas. Whether serving local communities in Southwest Washington, or running global corporations or non-profit organizations, the Innovators of Vancouver are using their creativity, energy and ambition to make the world a better place.
Chris Martin of Chris Martin Studios is the person behind this fantastic new initi [read] Keywords: facebook
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Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world
Sun, Aug 22nd 2010 7:54p Bruce Elgort Some key takeaways from this excellent TED video:
The last decade was the decade of establishing the social layer plumbing
The next decade is building the game layer
Appointment dynamics (think happy hour and FarmVille)
Influence and status dynamics
Communal dynamics
Progressive dynamics
A nice short 12 minute video. [read] Keywords: application
The Social Software Platform You Already Own
Sun, Aug 22nd 2010 7:07p Bruce Elgort Last week Elguji posted a new position paper on their site entitled "The Social Software Platform You Already Own". This paper talks about how you can use your investment in Lotus software to being to integrate "social" into your existing suite of Notes and Domino apps that help run your business.
The paper includes a list of products, services and tools from the open source community and other ISVs and also highlights Elguji's IdeaJam, IQJam and LinkJam social software products.
LetR [read] Keywords: domino
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SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 8:27p Bruce Elgort Michael Sampson (@collabguy) tweeted about this video which I have seen before on SCRUM. For those of you who aren't familiar with SCRUM I suggest you have a watch of the video. Great stuff. [read] Keywords: application
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Fun with ToonPAINT
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 11:51a Bruce Elgort This morning I came across ToonPAINT a nice little app for the iPhone that creates pictures like these:
crap
Check out ToonPAINT > [read] Keywords: apple
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Cross Platform Mobile App Development with Appcelerator
Sun, Aug 1st 2010 8:58p Bruce Elgort Jeff Haynie President and CEO of Appcelerator speaks to a class at Stanford University about all things Appcelerator. I was turned on to Appcelerator by mobile app developer Jeff Gilfelt and have enjoyed using it over the last few months. Have a watch at this incredibly powerful mobile app dev product. [read] Keywords: application
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Innovators of Vancouver - Episode 1 Dale Chumbley
Sat, Jul 31st 2010 2:47p Bruce Elgort Our friend Chris Martin proprietor of Chris Martin Studios has rolled out episode 1 of his new "Innovators of Vancouver" video series. In Episode 1 my friend Dale Chumbley who started the extremely successful "365 Things to do in Vancouver Washington" site and Facebook page.
Chris has done an amazing job in capturing the work that Dale does. Dale is a social media machine and from what I can tell knows more people in Vancouver, WA than I do.
Elguji is slated to appear in an episode of [read] Keywords: application
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Taking Notes Episode 115 - The OpenNTF Mobile Controls
Tue, Jul 27th 2010 10:14a Bruce Elgort Julian and I interviewed Niklas Heidloff (IBM), Chris Connor (BSS), Michael Gollmick (TIMETOACT), and Herbert Wagger to discuss the XPages Mobile Controls project on OpenNTF.
Niklas heads up the project so he was able to give some great background and developer information, and Chris, Michael, and Herbet gave us some perspective on using the project in "real life" situations as business partners.
The show is 43.2mb and runs 44:56 minutes.
More > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Four Years
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 2:28p Bruce Elgort Gayle and I are off to celebrate our four year wedding anniversary. See you on the other side. [read] Keywords:
Getting the Apple iPad to work with Lotus Traveler
Tue, Jul 20th 2010 3:47p Bruce Elgort Over the weekend I installed Lotus Traveler on our mail server. The install was quick and easy and I had Traveler setup on my iPhone 3GS (running iOS4) within minutes. I then decided to fire up the install URL on my iPad and ran into a problem. Every time I selected "Apple" as my target device I was presented with a screen that contained the correct provisioning profile however there was nothing I could do with it.
I then turned to Twitter and asked threw it out there to my followers. I tried [read] Keywords: lotus
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Pulling Muscles from a Shell - the iPad Version
Fri, Jul 16th 2010 10:44a Bruce Elgort Squeeze has been a favorite band of mine for many years and I stumbled across this video of the keyboardist using an iPad to play some of the keyboard parts:
Now if there were only some good drumming apps for the iPad. [read] Keywords: application
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Time to say goodbye
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 10:30a Bruce Elgort After 12 years of service at Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas I have decided to leave the company and pursue other endeavors. At Sharp I served as a Senior Systems Engineer for two years and then as the IT Manager for the last 10. During my tenure as IT Manager I had the privilege of leading and working with a fantastic team of IT staff that have been able to sustain a zero downtime record for the business.
Going forward I will be helping Elguji continue to grow their business including [read] Keywords: openntf
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The OpenNTF IdeaJam has begun
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 11:13p Bruce Elgort Over the next two days OpenNTF is encouraging developers, end-users and other site patrons to contribute their ideas on how to improve the overall OpenNTF experience. There are already two pages of ideas and lots of comments. Please take a few minutes from your busy day to vote, comment and post your ideas. Also, if you haven't visited OpenNTF lately please poke around the site to see many of the new and revamped features.
On behalf of OpenNTF I want to personally thank you for your participa [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Get your podcast on with "This Week in Lotus"
Sun, Jul 11th 2010 12:22p Bruce Elgort For those of you may not be readers of the Planet Lotus site there is a fantastic new podcast out called "This Week in Lotus". The show is hosted by Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke. The show is a refreshing take on all things Lotus. The production quality is excellent and the content even better. The show is available on iTunes and from the This Week in Lotus website.
A must listen for all of you involved with Lotus software, social networking and technology. Rated A+++. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Whiffies - How social media created one of Portlands best know food carts
Sun, Jul 11th 2010 12:10p Bruce Elgort How did Gayle and I learn about Whiffies fried pie food cart? Via Twitter and Facebook of course. We first went to Whiffies in June 2009 where there were over 150 people lined up to eat pies at this four week old food cart in Portland, Oregon. Have a watch and next time you come to visit Gayle and I, get some Whiffies! [read] Keywords: application
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Back from a 4+ month hiatus - The Taking Notes Podcast Episode 114
Sat, Jul 10th 2010 12:39p Bruce Elgort On Episode 114 of the Taking Notes Podcast Julian and I speak with Chris Blatnick about all things LotusLive. If you are like me, the sheer number of LotusLive offerings was overwhelming. Chris takes some time to clearly explain each of the LotusLive offerings including LotusLive Connections, LotusLive Engage, LotusLive Notes, LotusLive Events, LotusLive Notes, and LotusLive iNotes,
More > [read] Keywords: connections
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New XPages based company website to launch soon
Sat, Jul 3rd 2010 10:18p Bruce Elgort In a few days we will be launching a redesigned elguji.com site. The site was designed and developed by Team Elguji and is XPages based. Here are some screenshots of the new home page (click through to see a larger image): [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages - what would you want to learn in a 60 minute user group presentation
Sat, May 1st 2010 9:02p Bruce Elgort On Thursday, May 20th I will be presenting a session on XPages at the Atlanta Lotus User Group meeting being held at IBM. My question to you is "What types of XPages things would YOU be interested in learning about?" Keep in mind that the user group is probably a mix of developers, admins and end-users. Some things I have been tossing around are:
Extending Notes applications to the web using XPages
XPages 101
IQJam teardown
Watching a movie of my mom doing XPages development
Looking forward t [read] Keywords: ibm
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An entire cloudy month of of Salesforce.com service disruptions
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 3:32p Bruce Elgort Here is an email which was sent to all Salesforce.com customers yesterday regarding their month long disruptions in platform services:
This message has been updated on April 7, 2010 3:21PM US/Pacific.
Beginning March 8, 2010, the salesforce.com service experienced issues related to our network. Some of our customers experienced sporadic service degradation, including some brief service interruptions. We apologize for this impact to our customers.
Since the first incident, we have been conti [read] Keywords: email
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