New Domino CAL pricing is fully in effect as of today
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 8:03a Ed Brill In October, IBM announced that licensing for Lotus Notes/Domino would be changing. We announced a client access license model for Domino, replacing various software licensing schemes for Lotus Notes, iNotes, Domino Designer, and Notes Traveler. The two client access licenses defined are the Domino Messaging CAL and the Domino Enterprise CAL. Domino Designer became a free/entitled product -- free to download and test, entitled in the Domino CAL to connect to Domino. Lotus Mobile Connect's cli [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2010: Lotus Knows how to help you tell your story
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 7:31a Ed Brill Somewhere in the myriad of offers, giveaways, and promotions at Lotusphere, I missed one we were running ourselves. I am a huge fan of sites that allow you to create photo books out of digital images, and mypublisher.com and I are good friends. I've tried Snapfish, iPhoto books, and others. A site that wasn't on my radar until today is panraven.com. IBM partnered with Panraven to help you tell your story from Lotusphere 2010 -- and we'll even buy the book. Now Lotus knows [read] Keywords: ibm
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Symphony 3.0 beta now available
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 2:32a Ed Brill As promised at Lotusphere, the beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0 is now available on symphony.lotus.com... Key new features in Symphony 3.0: VB Macros support ODF 1.2 support for improved file interoperability embedded audio/video allows users to add media directly to slides, documents and sheets autotext support to create "chunks" of text that are used frequently and quickly inserted digital signatures redline support --- shows edits made to document usability enhancements I know some are askin [read] Keywords: lotus
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Michael Sampson: Lotus roadmap and user adoption surveys
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 7:00p Ed Brill Michael Sampson looks to me like he can see the future. Though he was never briefed on what was coming at Lotusphere 2010, in January, he published a white paper on the Lotus roadmap:Lotus Notes has been around for a long time. Since its release in 1989 it has always been viewed as a "different" piece of technology, loved by some people and reviled by others. It takes a different approach to information management and collaboration tasks, it looks different from the standard Microsoft offering [read] Keywords: collaboration
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From a recent LinkedIn conversation about Notes to Exchange migrations
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 6:50p Ed Brill I think I'm not allowed to quote LinkedIn discussions from membership groups in public, but there are some real quotable comments in this thread. The original poster basically asks for experiences with Notes to Exchange migration. Most of the reply comments say, essentially, don't do it -- you won't be successful, it will cost more than you anticipated, and in one case, we decided not to after all our study. The only "dissent", if you can call it that, is a person who shares Microsoft party l [read] Keywords: domino
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Robert R Taylor Network: Website and Lotusphere video
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 5:50p Ed Brill So I had no idea about this during Lotusphere but it's pretty cool. A group of high school and college interns sponsored by the Robert R Taylor Network were at Lotusphere... and they've built a whole website using Lotus Foundations, the IBM client for Smart Work (Notes+Symphony on Linux), and Virtual Bridges. Another great project to get student populations involved with Lotus software... This video was recorded at Lotusphere: and talks about how they are developing RRTN.net. [read] Keywords: foundations
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Phil Simon: Technology Today podcast with Ed Brill
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 8:00a Ed Brill A few weeks ago, Phil Simon wrote a blog entry called "When it's time to abandon ship", where he discussed the new FewClix plug-in for Notes. His general point -- why would anyone use a plug-in to address "basic features, such as search and performance?" I am not sure that is how FewClix is positioned -- I met with Synaptris at Lotusphere and thought FewClix was pretty cool. It's not for everyone, but it does have an executive dashboard-like feel about it, and some real clean navigation an [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2010: An oral history of Lotus Notes / the first 20 years
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 4:00p Ed Brill I have been remiss in not posting our slides from this session. While I believe that the presentation was one of those "Lotusphere moments" that are hard to recreate, I will deliver versions of this as part of presentations at upcoming Lotusphere Comes to You events in Munich and Dusseldorf....and maybe other locations. For the rest of you, it's worth sharing what Scott Souder and I did. Lotusphere 2010: An Oral History Of Ibm Lotus Notes First 20 YearsView more presentations from Ed Brill [read] Keywords: ibm
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Bob Balfe: Free charting in Lotus Notes
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 9:30a Ed Brill This question came up at "Ask the developers" at Lotusphere 2010 and in a separate customer meeting I had during the week. Customers want to know how to do charting in the Notes client. This is one of the benefits of having moved the Notes client to Eclipse -- there are numerous tools, including the BIRT Eclipse plug-in and Dojo tools, to now easily do charting in Notes.At the Meet the Developers session someone asked why there isn't charting tools "free" in the Notes client. There actually i [read] Keywords: lotus
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A Bold upgrade
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 11:01a Ed Brill Extremely grateful to my friends at RIM for upgrading me to the new Blackberry Bold 9700. I was one of the first Bold 9000 users, and I abused the heck out of that thing. It was finally a Blackberry that became a Crackberry for me...the whole reason I never wanted a Blackberry in the first place. This is, oddly, sort of a good thing. At least professionally it was. Anyway, my Bold 9000 was a trusted companion for the last 15 months, but it started "white screening" frequently and having [read] Keywords: lotus
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New screenshots of Lotus iNotes on IBM.com
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 9:40p Ed Brill The ibm.com team is utilizing some new techniques to display product screen shots on our Lotus iNotes web pages. In the past, I've heard complaints that screen shots are hard to find on our website. The new technology makes them easier to find, display, zoom, and interact. A bug in webkit-based browsers (e.g. Safari) related to image maps means this capability is intermittent, but on Firefox and IE, it works great. Link: ibm.com: Lotus iNotes > [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010: Closing session remix by DJ Steve Porter
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill I have to admit, DJ Steve Porter wasn't on my radar until a few months ago, when Bob Picciano pinged me the "slap chop rap" video link on YouTube. So I wasn't entirely surprised to see the man himself standing on the Lotusphere stage at the closing session, and I love what he did to our week: [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2010: Family
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill The press loves to describe Lotusphere as a "reunion of the faithful". The reality, though, is I saw tons of "first time" buttons this week (I think Bob Balaban ran out), and I had plenty of "this is my first Lotusphere" conversations. The next sentence was usually "it's fantastic". Lotus Knows that part of the reason is the way in which Lotusphere attendees, and the conference itself, are so into working together that the genuine feeling of unity and camaraderie is infectious. It continues, [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2010: Getting the GIST of it
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill One of our announcements this week at Lotusphere 2010 is a partnership with Gist. I met with Gist yesterday to learn more about the service and their plans for Notes integration, and walked away incredibly impressed. Gist CEO T.A. McCann is here, and while we had never met, he knew all about me before walking into our meeting. Gist's service aggregates news, blogs, Facebook, tweets and more, all in one place. This isn't just a feed -- it's a profiling service, that helps you determine h [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2010: Symphony 3.0 and Project Concord
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill At Lotusphere 2010 yesterday, IBM announced the upcoming beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0, coming in February. Symphony 3.0 is based on the OpenOffice.org version 3 codebase, with a refined user interface, more features, support for Visual Basic macros, and the latest Open Document Formats. Symphony 3.0 marks the first major release of Symphony since 2008, and demonstrates IBM's ongoing commitment to the Symphony project. Be ready to check out this beta in a week or so, or if you are at Lotusphere, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2010: Notes/Domino developer news
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill During Lotusphere 2010 today, we announced that, like other parts of IBM software, Lotus Domino will soon be available as a developer/test image on the Amazon EC2 web services cloud. This service will be available through IBM developerWorks and makes a great complement to the newly-free Domino Designer application development tools. It will be quite easy to get started with Domino on AWS. A three-step process is all that is needed to spin up the image. In the Notes/Domino mini-keynote, I [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010: IBM Project Vulcan
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill Today at Lotusphere 2010, we laid out a vision, a blueprint, a concept for the future of collaboration, including the future of Lotus Notes, from IBM Lotus. Called IBM Project Vulcan, the demonstration highlighted several components to the Lotus collaboration vision. In the past, the complaint about Lotusphere is that we had become very focused on the here-and-now, and weren't sharing enough long-term vision. New Lotus GM Alistair Rennie made the tough decision to go the other way, and sta [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2010: Stuff we didn’t get to in the general session
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill I don't want to spoil it all but let me say this -- there will be more news in each of the mini-keynotes today and tomorrow. That includes mine/Kevin Cavanaugh's at 1 PM, the premises/cloud/appliance one Tuesday morning, and the app dev mini keynote. And as I suggested last week, you really want to check out things like the LotusLive Labs session for some real looks at the future. (Comments disabled on this post) [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2010: LotusLive Notes
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill Today at Lotusphere, we discussed plans and designs for updating LotusLive Notes in 2010. LotusLive Notes is the IBM-hosted Domino SaaS/cloud offering, which has been available in various forms for a few years. A major work-effort on my team and in our labs right now is to build an updated back-end for this service, which we will put into beta in the first half of 2010. The new version of the service will run in the LotusLive data centers atop a multi-tenant Domino environment. We will exp [read] Keywords: domino
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My blogging plans for Lotusphere 2010 announcements
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill My plans for Monday are simple. I could live blog, but there is going to be so much announced on Monday I'll never be able to keep up (oh, and Fake Steve Jobs will make fun of me again). Instead, I will be posting blog entries and updates throughout the day, covering news and vision coming live from Lotusphere. Meanwhile, if you are here, please be sure to introduce yourself -- or re-introduce yourself if I don't remember you. I shook a lot of hands today, but I know I only saw small fractio [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Mikkel Heisterberg: Lotusphere 2010: Conference Underway
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill Mikkel captured one of the moments of applause from Lotusphere 2010's business development day general session:I was happy to hear that Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino will also go into controlled distribution in 2010 meaning that you have to be certified to sell it. I find that a very good, although bold move by IBM. This is a decision that will help us tremendously in our business. Having to be certified (both technically and sales wise) means that you cannot simply sell licenses without deliveri [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010: The new Lotus solutions catalog is live
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill Lotus Knows I'm probably stealing somebody's thunder, but there is so much news to cover this week, I thought I'd write about this one early. A long time ago, Lotus customers and prospects ooh-ed and aah-ed over the world of Notes/Domino solutions available in the printed "Notes and Domino Guide". You could see all kinds of ISV solutions, tools, enhanced templates, etc. We tried to replicate that online, but the results of the Lotus Solutions Catalog were, well, less than successful. We' [read] Keywords: domino
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Gartner: One Company Cuts Lotus Domino Costs by $11 Million Over Two Years
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:21a Ed Brill That's a pretty impressive headline....As part of an IT cost-cutting exercise, a large multinational firm reduced its IBM Lotus Notes/Domino operating costs by more than $11 million over two years ($2.5 million for 2009, $8.6 million for 2010). It achieved this mainly through significant reductions in storage costs.The company profiled had 97,000 mailboxes and 250 Domino servers when they started the exercise. Through application rationalization, implementation of DAOS, archiving, consolidation [read] Keywords: domino
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Microsoft hiring Linux and OpenOffice competitive lead, if you can figure out the lingo
Fri, Dec 18th 2009 10:09a Ed Brill I'm not sure what language this job posting is written in:If you’re looking for a new role where you’ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”, build a complete left to right understanding of the subsidiary, have a large amount of executive exposure, build and manage the activities of a v-team of 13 district Linux& Open Office Compete Leads, and develop a broad set of marketing skills and report to a management team comm [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2010: Lotusphere Idol submissions open for just one more week!
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 5:39p Ed Brill We are just a week away from the closing date for submissions for Lotusphere Idol! at Lotusphere 2010. If you have missed the fun at Lotusphere 2008 and 2009, this session is an "audition" for a Lotusphere speaking slot -- the winner gets their own Lotusphere session at Lotusphere 2010 and the title of Lotusphere Idol! Here was my previous posting:If you didn't already submit a Lotusphere Idol! proposal during the original call for abstracts, you can now propose an Idol! audition via email. S [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Sametime Blog: ’Extending’ Notes with Sametime Standard or Advanced
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 4:29p Ed Brill A welcome packaging change from my friends in the Sametime product business....For years, Lotus Notes has included a basic version of Sametime. It provides simple presence and text chat within the Notes / Domino environment. For online meetings, voice, video, file transfers, screen captures, mobile clients, browser clients, the gateway for public IM federation, etc, etc, etc, users needed a license to Sametime Standard or Advanced. Yet, for some reason, we never had an easy upgrade path in place [read] Keywords: domino
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Have you voted for the PlanetLotus.org 2009 blogger of the year?
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 3:49p Ed Brill 13% of all visitors to edbrill.com arrive here via PlanetLotus.org. This aggregation site, bringing together nearly 350 bloggers who write about Lotus software, has clearly become a key focal point for the Lotus community. At Lotusphere 2009, Yancy Lent bestowed the first annual PlanetLotus.org Blogger of the Year award to me. I was extremely grateful for the recognition from the community. Now, the voting is open for the 2009 2nd annual award, and all 349 bloggers listed on PlanetLotus ar [read] Keywords: lotus
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Kevin Hansen puts his money where his mouth is
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 4:49p Ed Brill I frequently see criticism of the Lotus community that we are a closed system, too much of a self-serving "echo chamber" of like-mindedness. I don't believe this -- while it is true that there is a social aspect and camaraderie around working with Lotus software, anywhere in the world, there are many more technologists working with Lotus software than those reading the blogs, tweeting, and LinkedIn-ing away. Knowing there are others out there that aren't as in-tune with the Lotus community i [read] Keywords: ibm
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Building Notes Traveler references
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 1:33p Ed Brill It's really been great to see a number of blog entries since we shipped Notes/Domino 8.5.1 that talk about how Lotus Notes Traveler is easy to deploy, use, and "just works". Thank you Paul, Declan, Andy and many others. Now that Notes Traveler 8.5.1 has been out for a couple of months, my team is looking for some feedback on your use of Traveler. We hear a lot about the iPhone implementation, but less about those using Notes Traveler and other devices. Jan Kenney has posted three easy ques [read] Keywords: domino
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Really glad we’re working so hard to formally support Notes 8.5.1 on Windows 7
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 9:59p Ed Brill Much as Microsoft loves to poke at IBM for having different businesses that sometimes are in conflict with each other, they are apparently suffering similar problems. While on the one hand desiring ISVs such as IBM to quickly support Windows 7, Microsoft is simultaneously allowing their technical leaders to declare Notes "incompatible" with Windows 7 -- which it is not. Notes runs fine on Windows 7, and IBM will imminently announce formal support for Notes 8.5.1 on both 32-bit and 64-bit versi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Joining the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2010 Advisory Board
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 3:44p Ed Brill I am excited -- I just finished a call where I was asked to join the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo 2010 in San Francisco. This is a pretty cool conference, and my team recently participated in the New York version and found it to be really useful. Here's the conference storyline:Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web. This an [read] Keywords: connections
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20 years ago today...Notes 1.0
Sun, Dec 6th 2009 10:46p Ed Brill [This post pre-dated a few hours since it's already 7 December in most of the world... will fix in the AM my time] On December 7, 1989, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, Lotus Notes 1.0 was officially unveiled. I wasn't there, and the date wasn't significant to me other than as I was approaching final exams in my penultimate semester of college. Clearly, though, that event changed history -- and produced one of the most successful and long [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Microsoft Exchange Team blog: Updates to the Exchange Supportability Matrix
Sun, Dec 6th 2009 8:29p Ed Brill Engineering problem or excuse?Finally I do want to update all on one other piece of feedback we have received - allowing the in place upgrade of the operating system under Exchange. Technically the work required to provide this capability is consistent with the work we would need to do to support an in-place upgrade of Exchange itself. As such the amount of work needed is outside the scope and complexity of what we can do in a post release product update. Still we do understand the demand and [read] Keywords: application
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Lotusphere 2010: Bring some old clothes
Sat, Dec 5th 2009 6:39p Ed Brill Looks like we're going for nostalgia on a few fronts during Lotusphere 2010. Sandra Marcus (the queen of Lotusphere) sent out a note asking to raise awareness of this fun little trip down memory lane. For the product showcase reception on Monday, January 18, Lotusphere attendees are invited to wear old Lotusphere shirts to celebrate the history of this unique event. I think I still have going back to Lotusphere 1996, and my staff t-shirts from the Lotusphere Europe 1998 in Berlin...I'm sure y [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2010 sessions are posted
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 9:09a Ed Brill The final list of Lotusphere 2010 breakout sessions has been posted. The mini-keynotes haven't been listed and there are a few additional details (such as date/time) to also be added, but overall this gives you the full picture of the conference sessions. I'm really happy with how the tracks have turned out this year, including the new bootcamp sessions in the jumpstart track and the plethora of special sessions throughout the week to keep things interesting. Some Birds-of-a-Feather session [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free Domino Designer is off to a good start
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 11:10p Ed Brill It's been just shy of 60 days since we announced the free distribution of Lotus Domino Designer. I asked my team earlier today about the download stats and was pleasantly surprised. We've had thousands of downloads of Designer 8.5.1 -- more than any other 8.5.1 downloadable module (client or server) so far! I know we need to do more in terms of tutorials, wikis, examples on OpenNTF, and other learning modules to help developers with Domino Designer. Still, I'm really happy with how this ch [read] Keywords: designer
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Go-Go Inflight Internet marketing #fail, but Lotus Knows
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 11:49a Ed Brill It's been three months since my last flight, and I'm easing back into the glamorous world of business travel. Before boarding this American Airlines flight to Boston, a perky marketing type was passing out promotional codes in the departure lounge in order to use the new GoGo in-flight Internet service for free. Sign me up! I've used in-flight wi-fi before, when Lufthansa was the first airline to offer the capability through Boeing's Conexxion service. So the novelty factor isn't there, bu [read] Keywords: connections
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Peter Presnell: Notes 8.5.1 Helps Break Box Office Record
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 12:15p Ed Brill This is such a cool story about practical use of Lotus Notes and Domino, and how the best technology can help a company win in the marketplace:While only a small company with less than 200 employees, it has to find a way to manage 10 million e-mail messages. That's an average of 50,000 messages per person that grows at an average rate of 2.25GB per day. In the marketing department multimedia content has seen some individual mail files grow to 72 GB. Busy executives rarely find time to file their [read] Keywords: domino
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Groklaw: Comes Exhibit 2151 - Gates: "I have decided we should not publish these extensions."
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 12:08p Ed Brill I'm not paranoid, there has always been a basis for the way I view the competitive market...and every so often, written, supporting documentation comes along:Its time for a decision on iShellBrowser. This is a tough decision. ...It is hard to know how much actual market benefit iShellBrowser integration would bring. I believe Chicago will be very successful either way. Unfortunately I don't think the integration will have a marked effect in terms of Capone competing with cc:Mail, so that batt [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Life, the U-Verse, and Everything
Sun, Nov 29th 2009 7:39p Ed Brill Having been a marketing dude for twenty years, I find that I am often fairly immune to being marketed to. I know all the messages designed to "save time and money", so traditional marketing rarely gets through to me. There are times, though, when I will eventually give in and pay attention, especially if I get hit over the head with a marketing message often enough. Years after I vowed never to shop at Macy's when they buried the Marshall Field's brand, I found myself at the mall today shoppi [read] Keywords: lotus
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Best year for Lotus User Groups ever?
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 10:03p Ed Brill This has really been an incredible year for Lotus events worldwide, but especially in Europe. We have had some incredible user group events that have invigorated or re-energized the community in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Poland, and other countries. We saw Lotusphere Comes to You sell out in Paris, with over 600 attendees -- after the IBMers were told not to show up. Ongoing organizations like DNUG in Germany have continued their success with conferences, training, and networking. [read] Keywords: domino
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ZDNet Australia: Monash dumping Thunderbird for Lotus Notes
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 3:46a Ed Brill A customer I had the privilege to visit during my August tour through Australia. Interesting challenges of being in an academic environment and needing to support some who choose their own clients, some who just want browser apps, and some who want full, rich clients that offer more:When Monash University's long-term chief information officer Alan McMeekin retires next month, he will be handing over a half-completed, prolonged staff email migration from Mozilla Thunderbird to Lotus Notes. ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010: Lotusphere Idol submissions have re-opened
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 9:00p Ed Brill As I mentioned last week, those whose Lotusphere session proposals were not accepted -- along with those who have been thinking about participating -- are invited to submit proposals to audition for Lotusphere Idol! at Lotusphere 2010. Lotusphere Idol! is one of several ways that the Lotusphere content team approaches identifying new speakers for the Lotusphere circuit -- and certainly one of the most fun. Here's how it works -- each contestant has five minutes to deliver a presentation, eit [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Wall Street Journal: Marketers find web chat can be inspiring
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 11:16a Ed Brill The "Lotus Knows" campaign makes headlines in today's Wall Street Journal:For decades, advertisers have relied heavily on sometimes-dated consumer surveys and focus groups to provide grist for their ads. Now, some are using new technologies to scan the Web for key words to find out what consumers are--and aren't--saying about their brands. ... That insight, says Kristen Lauria, a vice president of marketing and channels at IBM, led to a new print ad with the text "Lotus knows you're trying t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2010: Global Business Excellence Forum
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 12:19p Ed Brill Lotusphere 2010 includes an event-within-an-event this year, designed for an executive-level audience with specific industry focus areas. The four industries that are part of the Global Business Excellence Forum are banking, insurance, government, and healthcare.The Global Business Excellence Forum promises to be the definitive place to learn virtually everything about how to achieve better business outcomes with IBM Lotus and IBM WebSphere Portal software and services from IBM and trusted part [read] Keywords: ibm
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Doodle integration with Lotus Notes - Beta
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 3:49p Ed Brill Doodle is an on-line scheduling tool which makes it easier for individuals and organizations to schedule meetings and events. Earlier this week, they announced the beta of a Doodle widget for Lotus Notes 8:The Doodle Widget for Lotus Notes brings the best of both worlds together to one powerful solution. New Doodle polls can directly be initiated from Lotus Notes without the need to open a web browser first. Doodle polls received by email will automatically be shown in a Notes sidebar while rea [read] Keywords: lotus
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Andrew Pollack: If you didn’t get chosen to deliver a Lotusphere Session....
Wed, Nov 18th 2009 10:42a Ed Brill Yesterday, speaker notifications -- and session rejections -- for Lotusphere 2010 were sent out. Congratulations to those selected to speak -- we are honored to have you on our stages. Apologies to those who were not -- thank you for taking the time to submit a proposal. I was surprised for the second year in a row that social media provided the tools to amplify disappointment coming out of those who were not selected to speak. Tweets, blog posts, and comments showed that there was a bit o [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Upgrade cookbook: Notes/Domino 8.5.1
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 3:52p Ed Brill There are a number of important new resources around deploying Notes/Domino 8.5 available through the Notes/Domino wikis. Two in specific are welcome additions to the documentation available to help your upgrades and deployments Upgrade Cookbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 -- this resource was written directly by the development and support organizations and discusses the typical client/server/application upgrade approaches. Lotus Notes and Domino version 8.5 Deployment Guide [read] Keywords: domino
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Esqiure Magazine "Augmented Reality": The CueCat is back
Sun, Nov 15th 2009 5:28p Ed Brill The December '09 issue of Esquire magazine arrived the other day, with the cover trumpeting an exciting new innovation -- "Augmented Reality". There, embedded right between Robert Downey Jr.'s legs, was the future of interactive publishing -- a webcam-readable barcode, which, when activated through special software installed on the reader's Mac or PC, would lead to an interactive esquire.com set of features. Does this remind anyone of the CueCat? I'm all for innovation in publishing [read] Keywords: mac
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Notes client on Snow Leopard and Windows 7
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 4:39p Ed Brill There have been many questions since the release of Notes 8.5.1 about plans to support Notes on Apple's Snow Leopard operating system as well as Windows 7. We've had a technote published on the topic but it was non-specific until yesterday. Technote 1385293 now says:Windows 7, Snow Leopard (on Mac OS X 10.6.2), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Desktop certification testing is currently underway targeting support for Notes 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 in January 2010. As part of this release, Notes 32-bit [read] Keywords: domino
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Adam Brown: Real world outcome of Domino Designer becoming Free
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 10:54a Ed Brill This is what I like to see...I explained to them the recently announced changes with Lotus Notes licensing, in particular that come Feb next year their Lotus Notes Collaboration licenses will convert to Domino Enterprise CALs and that as part of this they get an entitlement for Domino Designer with each license. There instant reaction to this was to ask "So does that mean every one of our users can have Designer?" which off course the answer is yes. They were wrapped with this and said that whil [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Notes/Domino 8.5.1 available in first set of languages today
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 8:19a Ed Brill As of this morning, Notes/Domino 8.5.1 international editions are available in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Catalan, Chinese-Traditional and Simplified, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazilian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, and Finnish. The remaining languages should come in about 45-50 days. [read] Keywords: domino
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The Lotusphere 2010 blog
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 8:49a Ed Brill It's great to see that the Lotusphere Blog is back up and running for Lotusphere 2010. Authored for and by the Lotusphere community, this blog is an essential resource for all the details -- especially the unofficial ones -- about Lotusphere 2010. An impressive-looking Domino/DominoBlog application, but more importantly, a great resource going into Orlando in January -- and beyond. Link: The Lotusphere Blog > [read] Keywords: domino
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Paranoid Android
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 11:37a Ed Brill I was just reading Jens Bruntt's blog entry from last week, "Android synci'ing PIM with Lotus Traveler: TouchDown". This is just days after I held an internal review to discuss our plans for Lotus Notes Traveler in 8.5.2 and beyond. I can't blog those plans yet, but a portion of the discussion covered what our plans should be for support for Notes Traveler on Android-based devices. The philosophy with Lotus Notes Traveler has been to leverage built-in capabilities on the devices that are [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Knows bowling night in Chicago recap
Sat, Nov 7th 2009 9:49a Ed Brill Summary: It wasn't a big crowd, but we had fun anyway. Logistics up against us -- IBM's Innovation Center had a big 10th anniversary event on Thursday, with nearly 500 participants at the Chicago office just down the street. That event also had an evening reception and cocktail hour; even though I spoke there earlier in the day, it didn't feel appropriate to siphon people from one event to go to the other. Thus it was good to see Roy Rumaner and others at the IBM office, and several faces fro [read] Keywords: ibm
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GlobeCampus.ca: Keep your job and learn from afar
Fri, Nov 6th 2009 10:48a Ed Brill Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to a room full of educators, instructors, and academic IT professionals at IBM's Chicago Innovation Center about the use of collaboration and social networking in a learning context. Here is a great example related to distance learning:Athabasca University, which pioneered distance education in Canada and bills itself as Canada's open university, takes a less high-tech but more portable approach in its 840-student executive MBA program, which is Canada' [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The "I" stands for "International"
Thu, Nov 5th 2009 2:05p Ed Brill From my inbox:Edward, I have recently sent you a couple emails regarding [XYZ Company] assisting IBM in international sales. I was wondering if your competitors are gaining ground in lucrative international markets while IBM sits on the sidelines. Or have you put off growing your business overseas due to the economy, budgetary constraints, or lack of resources? Going global doesn't have to break your budget. ... Edward, I would welcome the chance to discuss the value of buildin [read] Keywords: ibm
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Back to work reminders: Chicago events on Thursday, Lotus Awards nominations
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 9:09p Ed Brill As I scan through my inbox, readying for a return to on-the-job in the morning, two items are standing out as good reminders: 1) This Thursday, November 5, IBM has a number of interesting events in Chicago, both professional and social. During the day, you can visit the IBM Innovation Center and learn about a variety of our products and offerings. Then the fun begins -- at 5:30 PM, I am hosting an open bowling evening at Lucky Strike Chicago. No sales pitches, just a pure social event to b [read] Keywords: ibm
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Burton Group: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 -- IBM is Ready to Compete
Sun, Nov 1st 2009 11:09a Ed Brill Burton Group's Bill Pray calls Notes/Domino 8.5.1 a "compelling release":Reaching the service pack 1 milestone for 8.5 removes what is often the last barrier to upgrading for many enterprises who wait for the first service pack. It comes at an opportune time for IBM to stave off potential switching e-mail solutions discussions that Microsoft's Exchange 2010 will inevitably introduce in many enterprises.and to win some new customers as well... Link: Burton Group: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus user group love in the Netherlands and New York
Thu, Oct 29th 2009 1:37p Ed Brill So much of what makes the Lotus community vibrant is our occasional coming together -- vendor, partners, customers -- around an idea, an event, or a theme. In-person or virtual user group efforts are an important component of keeping the market informed and the energy going. Today and tomorrow in Amsterdam, the Dutch market's Lotus User Group is coming together for a meeting, with my boss Kevin Cavanaugh as the keynote speaker. Many other IBMers and partners are on the 40-session agenda. B [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Knows my admin assistant is awesome!
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 8:05p Ed Brill We are loving so many of the wonderful cards and gifts that have come our way since Chloe joined our family seven days ago. Creativity is a plus, but never in a million years did I see this one coming from my assistant Jodi and her family: It's a set of baby "onesies" with Lotus Knows on the front....and in one case, on the back: Hopefully Chloe will grow enough to fit into these by Lotusphere, where she can model the latest "Lotus Knows" efforts in style! Thanks, Jodi! [read] Keywords: admin
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November 5, Chicago: IBM Innovation Center and a Lotus Knows party
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 12:09p Ed Brill If you are in Chicago (or can be) next week Thursday, November 5, a couple of really cool events are open to you -- free! The first is the IBM Innovation Center's tenth anniversary: The IBM Innovation Center in Chicago is hosting this open house event to celebrate its 10th anniversary. It will include smarter planet business and industry tracks, executive insights, and an opportunity to network with the local business and academic community. If you are an IBM Business Partner, developer, pro [read] Keywords: ibm
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Infoworld: 8 key tips for transitioning to Exchange 2010
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 2:56p Ed Brill From the comments on this article from last week, I can see that it was visible somewhere in the Lotus community... a number of you stepping in to call into question the economics and the simplification of the author's message. Putting aside that an article about Exchange 2010 starts with the thought that Domino customers are the ones that should be moving -- doesn't that ever get old for MS fanboys? -- the second question slam dunks all multi-year/multi-release TCO arguments of them vs. us...2 [read] Keywords: domino
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Help recognize the "IT Superstar of the Year"
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 9:39a Ed Brill Imagine your friend or colleague opening their morning email today and finding out that they are the "IT Superstar of the Year". Now, IBM.com can help you recognize that contribution! Go here to start the recognition (and be sure to watch the resultant video all the way to the end): Link: IBM.com: IBM Software - IT Superstar > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Home with Chloe
Sun, Oct 25th 2009 10:27p Ed Brill Wow. Last week's announcement that Chloe Frances has joined our household was amazing, with support and congratulations here/Facebook/Twitter that have continued for days. Since I will be taking most of this week off and a day or two next week, blogging will continue to be a little slow here. We came home from the hospital with Chloe yesterday evening. Today the daughter and the dog experienced the new human in our household. Flowers and gifts arrived from all over the world, neighbors b [read] Keywords: blogging
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Welcome Chloe Frances Brill
Wed, Oct 21st 2009 7:49p Ed Brill This morning at 11:51 AM CDT, we welcomed Chloe Frances Brill into our lives and our hearts. She was a little bit stubborn about joining us, but she was worth the wait. Six pounds even (I mistakenly read "0.3" on the scale as "3" ounces in my Twitter/Facebook update earlier today), 19 inches, and of course, beautiful. Deborah and daughter are doing great. Big sister Megan spent some time getting to know Chloe this afternoon and even held her little sister and commented on how soft her hair i [read] Keywords: facebook
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eWeek: IBM, Ubuntu Cloud Collaboration Package Seeks to Cut Down Microsoft Windows 7
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 5:09p Ed Brill IBM and Canonical ramp up the message around the client for Smart Work...Citing recent Gartner research that said migration to Windows 7 could cost businesses around $2,000 per user due to new PC requirements, IBM said its Client for Smart Work package is geared to help companies save up to 50 percent per seat on software costs versus a Microsoft-based desktop. This is because the solution lets companies run a combination of Web-based applications and Linux on their existing PCs, netbooks and th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Survey time again: IBM Lotus Virtualized desktop for Notes Client
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 4:29p Ed Brill This seems to be a topic of increasing interest...IBM would like your input regarding a IBM Lotus Virtualization desktop for the Notes Client. Background: The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI is beginning to replace traditional desktop clients in today's workplace. Some work areas starting to utilize VDI are call centers, computer labs, training centers, public kiosks, etc. You may already see the benefits of server virtualization in your organization today. Do you plan to leverage that i [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF blog: Best Open Source Contribution 2010 Lotus Awards
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 10:20a Ed Brill Niklas Heidloff has just updated the OpenNTF blog with lots of additional details on the 2010 Lotus Awards for best open source contribution:For both categories, Lotus Awards will be presented to the individual/business partner that provides the best template, solution or sample, made available via open source through OpenNTF.org. The judging will favor offerings that leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus Notes and/or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X such as XPages, widgets, Ecli [read] Keywords: domino
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James Governor’s Monkchips: Lotus Knows: IBM Strategy is "Good Enough"
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 5:04p Ed Brill Prescient insights from Redmonk's James Governor:"Good enough" -- used to be a pejorative at IBM. "Good enough" is what those upstart competitors offered customers, upsetting finely honed pricing and sales models for feature-rich systems and software products. Generally IBM products suffer from an excess of features, rather than a lack. I often joke that IBM never met a feature request it didn't like. So what about Lotus? Two major new Lotus strategies are now about good enough... So Lotus [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dan Lyons: Google Wave. Huh. What Is It Good For?
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 10:53p Ed Brill Yes, I get the ironies of linking to a guy whose Fake Steve Jobs blog once called me names. Still, after looking at Wave myself this week, and reading a bunch of blogs and having some conversations about it, I think Lyons sums this up pretty well:Maybe you've heard about Google Wave. It's the hot new product from Google, the one that's going to change the world and replace e-mail and transform us all into cyborgs with the power to travel into the future and save mankind. Or something. ... I [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New levels of transparency
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 2:16p Ed Brill Most of the comments in yesterday's posting about Domino Designer and Domino Express customers are along the lines of "here's what you [Ed/IBM] should do". It struck me as I scrolled to about comment 28 this morning, we are having a truly remarkable and transparent discussion. My team and I have been working on the 8.5.1 changes to the Notes/Domino licensing/packaging for most of 2009. A few of you participated in an NDA focus group back in June, where we floated some of the proposa [read] Keywords: designer
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Paul Mooney: Setting up your iPhone to use your business mail, calendar and contacts
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 7:18a Ed Brill Paul was kind enough to blog this simple guide to using Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 on the iPhone last week, but 8.5.1 had not yet shipped. Now that the code is out, I wanted to link back to Paul's tutorial:I presented on Lotus Traveler and went through the iPhone setup using a webcam. I figured it may be useful to someone to screenshot the set-up process, just so you see how easy this is. Setting up the traveler server is very straightforward, and installation instructions are in the admincam [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM consumability experience survey
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 4:29p Ed Brill My colleagues in IBM's globalization team (they do product internationalization) are conducting a survey, and would like your input. Generally, they are looking for customer satisfaction information related to several aspects of IBM products. You can respond to the survey for any IBM product, but obviously, they've asked me to help gather some additional responses as it relates to Lotus software. The survey questions are detailed and ask about aspects such as the ease of doing business with I [read] Keywords: ibm
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2010 Lotus Awards nominations now open...with a few new twists
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 10:06p Ed Brill I love when the stars align. The 2010 Lotus Awards nominations are now open. In case you are unfamiliar with the Lotus Awards, these are the premier recognition of technology and solutions built atop IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal software. The awards are announced in December and/or at Lotusphere 2010. In preparing for this year's Lotus Awards, the Lotus marketing organization decided to get creative. There are four new award categories this year, including: Best end-user solution B [read] Keywords: ibm
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I’m getting closer to figuring out who @FakeEdBrill is
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 3:13p Ed Brill It's got to be one of these people... ...who would have thought that Bob Picciano, Darren Adams, Kitty Elsmore, Steve McDonagh, and the monkey would all be contributors to @FakeEdBrill on Twitter? Now I am seriously bummed that I didn't get to UKLUG last week and missed out on the chance to meet the fake me!!!! [read] Keywords: twitter
Notes/Domino 8.5.1 available: So what do you think?
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 8:58a Ed Brill Earlier today, Notes/Domino 8.5.1 became available for download. The IBM developerWorks site will be updated later today with the new free download for Lotus Domino Designer. There are probably a few other lingering issues to be worked out today; we also still have to publish the licensing conversion announcement (from Notes/iNotes to CALs) which will come tomorrow. All over the blogs, I see comments on download and success on installing. But other than a few outlier postings of atypical u [read] Keywords: designer
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Notes 8.5.1: More Mac-like in several ways
Sun, Oct 11th 2009 8:07p Ed Brill If you aren't reading Mary Beth Raven's series of postings on what's new and great in the Notes 8.5.1 client, you're missing out. She's been highlighting a whole lot of usability work that went into this release...some of it subtle, some of it in-your-face. I'm not trying to compete :-) but I just loaded up 8.5.1 today and I have some first impressions. I'm sure it comes as a surprise that I have not loaded 8.5.1 earlier. I did this is a solidarity move, really -- I wanted to run what you [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010: Ah, that’s better...
Sun, Oct 11th 2009 11:17a Ed Brill The deadline for abstract submission for Lotusphere 2010 was yesterday. A week ago, I was a little concerned that we didn't have submissions in some key tracks...well, at least now we see that extending the deadline made sense. And just like last year, we received over 1000 submissions and over 1000 proposed speakers. (Some speakers submit more than one; some sessions have more than one proposed speaker; it balances out). It's fantastic to see the interest level continues at its all-time hig [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Some photos from the Lotus Knows bus visit to Chicago, October 6
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 12:49p Ed Brill We were fortunate enough to have a great timing confluence on Tuesday -- the Notes/Domino 8.5.1 launch, a Lotus brand customer event at the Willis Tower here in Chicago, and the "Lotus Knows" bus visit to Chicago. Even better -- there were "Lotus Knows" ads running on the monitors in the elevators at WIllis Tower! Very good brand awareness. If you missed the Notes/Domino 8.5.1 launch webcast, it is available for replay on LotusUserGroup.org. And if you missed the Lotus Knows bus, you can s [read] Keywords: domino
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