Introducing IQJam 1.1 (Spring '10)
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 9:55p Bruce Elgort In a few weeks Elguji will be launching a new version of it's question and answer social software IQJam. In this release customers will have some really cool new features that they have been asking us for. They are:
- Attachments can now be added to an answer
- Added IBM Lotus Connections Business Card integration for views, questions and answers
- Added a new Web Service - "securityservice" which will return the security key for a user when you pass in their username and password
- We now [read] Keywords: administration
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Updated product brochures
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 12:51p Bruce Elgort We have updated some of our product brochures and here they are:
IdeaJam - Idea and Innovation Management Software
- Top 10 Reasons You Need IdeaJam (PDF)
- Notable IdeaJam Features (PDF)
- IdeaJam Product Brochure (PDF)
- Improve the Performance of Your Enterprise with Social Networking Software (PDF)
IQJam - Question and Answer Community Software for the Enterprise
- IQJam Product Brochure (PDF)
LinkJam - Social Bookmarking Software for the Enterprise
- LinkJam Produ [read] Keywords: community
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The USDA IdeaJam has launched
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 10:19a Bruce Elgort Earlier this month and as part of the Open Government Initiative the USDA launched an IdeaJam to share and collect ideas from US citizens. This site was set up by Elguji Partner Sean Burgess with ANSD Designs based in Laurel, Maryland.
Here you can provide feedback about published data, records, reports & resources provided by us as well as our Open Gov Plan. Let us know how we can improve the quality, value & usefulness of USDA information.
Learn more about what we’re doing, [read] Keywords: administration
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PRNewswire: IBM Brings Business-Grade Social Software to iPhone, Macs
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 3:02p Bruce Elgort IBM issued a press release today covering their support for Macs and iPhones and their presence at Macworld. The release includes Elguji's IQJam and it's support for the iPhone:
Elguji Software's IQJam, a question and answer community solution powered by IBM Lotus Domino and xPages technology, helps organizations capitalize on the knowledge of their employees. IQJam allows people to identify who the subject-matter experts are by keeping track of answered questions and associating them with [read] Keywords: domino
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Hutch Carpenter: Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 11:17p Bruce Elgort Hutch Carpenter the VP of Product for Spigit (a competitor of Elguji's) has a great blog entry about how important ideas are in the context of Enterprise 2.0:
If Enterprise 2.0 rests on delivering value through collaborative, emergent and social means, ideas are the top basis for leveraging these qualities.
...
There are many types of content and activities – social objects – that are part of a social computing initiative. I’d argue ideas, for a host of reasons, shou [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Our XPages 101 class in London was a success!
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 6:54p Bruce Elgort Yesterday, Ben Poole and Elguji's Matt White presented the XPages101 course which was designed over the last couple of months to be an introduction to developing with XPages. This class was delivered in cooperation with the London Developer Co-op
Overall the class seemed to go pretty well, the timings need some work, and sometimes we went a little fast at some points which may have left a few people overwhelmed at the fire hose of information we got through in a short period of time! That wil [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Lotusphere Comes to You Portland, Oregon - Elguji and Pavone
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 6:41p Bruce Elgort For all those unable to attend IBM Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, PAVONE AG and Elguji Software offer the possibility to learn about IBM's news and trends in Portland, Oregon. We are inviting you to our Lotusphere Comes to You event on March 16, 2010.
A few hours of your time will allow you to catch up with the most important news from Lotusphere® 2010. Will also give you a summary of current IBM trends for 2010.
We will start at 8:30 AM and end at 1 PM, allowing you to return to work in th [read] Keywords: ibm
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Elguji partnership opportunities
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 1:04p Matt White Over the last year or so we have been contacted by many IBM Business Partners around the world with a view to them reselling our *Jam suite of products (IdeaJam, IQJam and LinkJam). As with all things legal, this has taken some time for us to get set up, but, now we are ready and have a partnership program set up. So if you'd like to resell our products or partner with Elguji to help your customers and their "Social Software in the Enterprise" needs then please drop us a line and we'd be happy t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Elguji Partnering with RSVP Consulting within the UK Public Sector
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Bruce Elgort Elguji is now working with RSVP Consulting (www.rsvp-consulting.com) to support the development of service strategies within the UK Public Sector. We are bringing together strategy, change and innovation consultancy with Elguji's IdeaJam™ idea and innovation management software offering - to deliver "more for less" to the UK Public Sector.
This partnership is already paying dividends, over the last 3 months we have supported the development of an information strategy for two Prima [read] Keywords: consulting
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The Year of Business 2.0 - 2009 sees fast-paced integration of new technology by businesses
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Bruce Elgort J. Maury Harris wrote a nice piece in The Vancouver Business Journal featuring a quote from me:
As in the past, emerging technologies fundamentally changed the way companies do business, with the explosion in popularity of social networking websites, Smartphones and an expanding list of mobile applications in 2009. But this year, the real story was how businesses, large and small, public and private, integrated these technological advances into their day-to-day operations.
Bruce Elgor [read] Keywords: applications
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IQJam now on Twitter!
Sun, Dec 20th 2009 7:39p Bruce Elgort You can follow "@iqjamquestions" on Twitter to see new questions submitted to the The Lotus Community IQJam site. You can also follow new IdeaJam ideas on Twitter at "@ideajamideas". [read] Keywords: lotus
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Example Javascript code to add IQJam questions to IdeaJam
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 1:12p Bruce Elgort Earlier today we blogged about surfacing
IQJam question in IdeaJam and below is an example of the JavaScript code
customers can place into their IdeaJam Control Panel to have IQJam questions
appear with inside of IdeaJam. Customers will need to include their IQJam
API Security Key for the "securitykey". This is sample code and
will be included with IdeaJam V1.7.
function getRelatedQuestions(){
try {
var url = "/iqjam/iqjam.nsf/jsonSearchQuestions";
v [read] Keywords: document
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See the IQJam JSON API in action in IdeaJam
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 9:55a Bruce Elgort With a few lines of Javascript, customers can easily add IQJam functionality to any website using the IQJam API. Below you will see that questions from IQJam are being surfaced within an IdeaJam idea. Very cool stuff and even more cool stuff coming soon. You can see this functionality live in The IBM Lotus Community IdeaJam right now.
To see how you can integrate IQJam with Microsoft Office look here. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Example Javascript code to add IQJam questions to IdeaJam
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 1:08a Bruce Elgort Earlier today we blogged about surfacing
IQJam question in IdeaJam and below is an example of the JavaScript code
customers can place into their IdeaJam Control Panel to have IQJam questions
appear with inside of IdeaJam. Customers will need to include their IQJam
API Security Key for the "securitykey". This is sample code and
will be included with IdeaJam V1.7.
function getRelatedQuestions(){
try {
var url = "/iqjam/iqjam.nsf/jsonSearchQuestions";
v [read] Keywords: document
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See the IQJam JSON API in action in IdeaJam
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 9:54p Bruce Elgort With a few lines of Javascript, customers can easily add IQJam functionality to any website using the IQJam API. Below you will see that questions from IQJam are being surfaced within an IdeaJam idea. Very cool stuff and even more cool stuff coming soon. You can see this functionality live in The IBM Lotus Community IdeaJam right now.
To see how you can integrate IQJam with Microsoft Office look here. [read] Keywords: ibm
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OpenNTF Lotus Awards
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 8:55a Bruce Elgort There are two brand new Lotus Award categories this year for open source contributions:
Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual
This Award will be presented to person that provides the best template, solution, widget or sample, made available via Open Source through OpenNTF.org. The offering must leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® Notes and / or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X, such as XPages, Live Text, Application integration with the Sidebar, or mobilizati [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF Lotus Awards
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 8:56p Bruce Elgort There are two brand new Lotus Award categories this year for open source contributions:
Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual
This Award will be presented to person that provides the best template, solution, widget or sample, made available via Open Source through OpenNTF.org. The offering must leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® Notes and / or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X, such as XPages, Live Text, Application integration with the Sidebar, or mobilizati [read] Keywords: domino
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TaskJam is now in the OpenNTF GPL Catalog
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 4:16p Bruce Elgort Elguji would like to announce that their TaskJam XPages application is now available in the OpenNTF GPL V3 catalog.
Many thanks to Declan Lynch (OpenNTF Committer) and Peter Tanner (OpenNTF IP Manager) for their assistance. The entire process took less than 48 hours. If you would like assistance on getting your application approved please let us know.
Download TaskJam from OpenNTF > [read] Keywords: xpages application
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TaskJam is now in the OpenNTF GPL Catalog
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 4:17a Bruce Elgort Elguji would like to announce that their TaskJam XPages application is now available in the OpenNTF GPL V3 catalog. TaskJam is a simple task management application for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5/8.5.1. It's also probably the most downloaded XPages template for learning XPages development in the Lotus-verse.
Many thanks to Declan Lynch (OpenNTF Committer) and Peter Tanner (OpenNTF IP Manager) for their assistance. The entire process took less than 48 hours. If you would like assistance on ge [read] Keywords: domino
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Elguji Speaks
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 11:45p Bruce Elgort Elguji's Matt White and Bruce Elgort will be speaking at the upcoming Lotusphere 2010 event being held in Orlando, Florida January 17-21, 2010. Here is what they will be speaking about:
SHOW112 (Show and Tell) - How to Build an XPages Application From Start to Finish
Join IBM's Tim Clark and Elguji Software's Matt White as they take you step by step and click by click through building an XPages application. Learn the basics and then grow the complexity as you expand the application, includ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Elguji Speaks
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 11:44a Bruce Elgort Elguji's Matt White and Bruce Elgort will be speaking at the upcoming IBM Lotusphere 2010 event being held in Orlando, Florida January 17-21, 2010. Here is what they will be speaking about:
SHOW112 (Show and Tell) - How to Build an XPages Application From Start to Finish
Join IBM's Tim Clark and Elguji Software's Matt White as they take you step by step and click by click through building an XPages application. Learn the basics and then grow the complexity as you expand the application, in [read] Keywords: ibm
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Product Documentation Updates
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 9:49a Bruce Elgort The following are links to the product documenation for IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam:
IdeaJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Quide
IQJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide
LinkJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration
TaskJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Product Documentation Updates
Sun, Dec 6th 2009 9:50p Bruce Elgort The following are links to the product documenation for IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam:
IdeaJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide
IQJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide
LinkJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide
TaskJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide [read] Keywords: ideajam
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PwC Innovation Blog
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 10:14a Matt White If you're interested in innovation and idea management (which of course we are) then you should really check out the PwC Innovate Blog, run by members of the PricewaterhouseCoopers innovation team they dig up some really useful articles and also add a lot of their own content as well.
They're on twitter as @pwcinnovate if you're into that sort of thing as well [read] Keywords: blogSphere
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PwC Innovation Blog
Thu, Dec 3rd 2009 10:11p Matt White If you're interested in innovation and idea management (which of course we are) then you should really check out the PwC Innovate Blog, run by members of the PricewaterhouseCoopers innovation team they dig up some really useful articles and also add a lot of their own content as well.
They're on twitter as @pwcinnovate if you're into that sort of thing as well [read] Keywords: blogSphere
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How to drive revenue with an open source product in your portfolio
Thu, Dec 3rd 2009 9:34a Bruce Elgort Part of Elguji's company strategy to help people developers learn more about IBM Lotus XPages development and to create brand awareness for Elguji included developing an open source application called TaskJam. With the thousands of TaskJam downloads have come inquiry after inquiry about other products - most of them leading to sales of IdeaJam, LinkJam and IQJam. How do we know this? Well people tell us! Additionally, we have acquired a cadre of XPages development work and consulting services as [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to drive revenue with an open source product in your portfolio
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 8:57p Bruce Elgort Part of Elguji's company strategy to help people developers learn more about IBM Lotus XPages development and to create brand awareness for Elguji included developing an open source application called TaskJam. With the thousands of TaskJam downloads have come inquiry after inquiry about other products - most of them leading to sales of IdeaJam, LinkJam and IQJam. How do we know this? Well people tell us! Additionally, we have acquired a cadre of XPages development work and consulting services as [read] Keywords: ibm
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The United States Department of Agriculture - Case Study
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 12:32p Bruce Elgort A few days ago we blogged about the Lotus Knows Ad Campaign Case Study and, now we are happy to share the Case Study for the United States Department of Agriculture and how they used Elguji's IdeaJam product.
During the economic downturn of 2008 President Obama challenged all US Government employees to make cost saving suggestions for the annual US Budget process. This was part of a larger effort to ensure that the US Government agencies invested taxpayer dollars in programs and initiativ [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Lotus Knows Ad Campaign - Case Study
Sun, Nov 29th 2009 8:16p Bruce Elgort Elguji has been witnessing company after company innovating with our products and, in particular IdeaJam. We have put together a series of case studies that are available on our web site. The first one we want to share with you is the Lotus Knows IdeaJam that took place in August 2009. Putting together public case studies is also a requirement for IBM Business Partners participating in the Business Partner Advisory Council which Elguji is a member of.
View the case study (PDF) > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Elguji at Lotusphere 2010
Thu, Nov 26th 2009 7:55p Bruce Elgort Elguji Software will be exhibiting their social networking software at IBM's annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida January 17th-21st, 2009. Elguji will be located at booth 622 in the product showcase and both Matt White and Bruce Elgort from Elguji will also be presenting conference sessions on XPages and other Lotus technologies. Last year at Lotusphere Elguji's IdeaJam idea and innovation management software won the Breakout Technology and CTO Innovation awards and also was a finali [read] Keywords: ibm
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IdeaJam covered in new book from IBM Press
Thu, Nov 26th 2009 6:55p Bruce Elgort Joey Bernal's book "Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise: Guidelines and Examples for Implementation and Management Within Your Organization" from IBM Press is out and covers all things Web 2.0 and Social Netowrking from Lotus and includes Elguji's IdeaJam idea and innovation management software. A quick review of the book reveals that IdeaJam is one of the only third party applications included. Here is the description of the book from Amazon.com:
This book provides hands-on, s [read] Keywords: connections
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Web design agency innovating with Elguji
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 9:43a Bruce Elgort One of our Canadian customers in the financial services industry works with a web design and communications agency in Canada called iStudio. This agency is responsible for all of their web design work. When this company purchased IdeaJam they needed to customize it to match their corporate branding guidelines as well as the needs of the business unit interested in using IdeaJam.
Using the native out-of-the-box functionality of IdeaJam, iStudio was able to make the customers IdeaJam look exact [read] Keywords: domino
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Very cool use of our API
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 2:40p Matt White Although IQJam has been officially released today, the public site has been up for people to test and use to get some great content for a couple of months now.
One of our beta testers has sent over a screenshot of some development they've done using our Web Services API which integrates IQJam into MS Powerpoint. It's this sort of flexibility which we think makes IQJam such a powerful tool in the enterprise. Imagine your users being able to query your corporate knowledge base when they're in [read] Keywords: symphony
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IQJam has shipped!
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 8:50a Bruce Elgort Elguji Software is very pleased to announce that IQJam, our question and answer community social networking software is now available for purchase. IQJam has been specifically built for IBM's Lotus Domino 8.5.1. Customer demand for an enterprise class question and answer system is the primary driver for Elguji developing IQJam. IQJam customers can also expect the same world-class customer service and support that they are accustomed to with Elguji.
The demo schedule is practically booked soli [read] Keywords: domino
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Introducing the IQJam Web Services API
Sat, Aug 15th 2009 10:24p Bruce Elgort IQJam has a set of web services (SOAP) that will allow developers to read data from and post data to an IQJam. The way this will work is through a security token that each user is assigned in their Profile along with an ACL Role that allows the API access. The implentation is very elegant and currently consists of the following methods:
addQuestion
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getRecentQuestionsByTag
getRecentQuestionsByAuthor
If we take a look at t [read] Keywords: acl
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Introducing IQJam
Mon, Jul 27th 2009 9:52a Bruce Elgort An Innovative Collaborative Question and Answer Community for the Enterprise
Let's face it, we all know that someone somewhere out there has the answer to a question or a problem that you have. The hard part is finding that someone. CEOs will always tell you that an organization's greatest asset is the cumulative knowledge of its employees.
IQJam helps you locate and harness the power of that knowledge with exceptional ease.
Introducing IQJam!
IQJam is the perfect solution for organi [read] Keywords: domino
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How do we suggest ideas for you
Thu, Jun 18th 2009 3:54a Matt White It's been about six weeks since we released version 1.5 of IdeaJam and one of the key new features we added was the Dashboard. On this page we show you the current status of your ideas and we also make some suggestions of ideas that you may be interested in reading and voting on.
A few people have asked how we build the suggested ideas list for you. Well basically we take your past activity on the site and extrapolate from that the areas that you are most interested in. To do this we take a [read] Keywords: community
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Making the Connection
Thu, Apr 30th 2009 10:48p Bruce Elgort In this weeks edition of the Vancouver Business Journal I was quoted in an article about Web 2.0 and social software:
Vancouver-based Elguji Software LLC creates and sells social networking software. Its flagship product, IdeaJam, is a virtual suggestion box that allows businesses to collect ideas, solicit and manage feedback and use the “wisdom of the crowd” to rank ideas.
The application has won several awards for its innovative approach.
“People are already talkin [read] Keywords: application
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Spring '09 Beta Released
Wed, Apr 1st 2009 3:50a Matt White This morning, possibly not the best choice of day given that it's April 1st, we released the latest beta of IdeaJam to the public ideajam.net site.
There are three fairly visible changes that you may notice immediately. The new "quick" login, to save you having to go to the classic login screen, the new Home Page and we have also replaced the default statistics page with some new Flash charts.
There are also several changes that we've made behind the scenes. We have managed to reduce t [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Follow Us...
Sun, Mar 29th 2009 1:54p Bruce Elgort If you are on Twitter and/or Facebook you can follow the Elguji Software team. We will be tweeting and posting to Facebook all things Elguji including new features, new releases, speaking engagements and more:
- on Twitter
- on Facebook [read] Keywords: facebook
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New IdeaJam "Home Page" coming soon in Spring '09
Sat, Mar 28th 2009 1:32p Bruce Elgort Back on February 25, 2009 Roland posted an idea on IdeaJam.net where he suggested the following:
I fully admit that when I go to IdeaJam, sure I'll vote on some ideas and make comments, but what I am really interested in is what is happening with MY ideas. I want to know what new comments were posted on my ideas and which of my ideas are hot or not so hot since since last time I logged in. Bruce and company most likey have their own private admin views for this. Right? This will save us the [read] Keywords: admin
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Elguji Partnering with Think, Play, Do
Thu, Feb 19th 2009 8:48a Matt White The time since Lotusphere has been incredibly busy, we had a great time and met some really interesting people and companies who are interested in running IdeaJam in their organizations.
One of the areas that some people have expressed an interest in is the process and strategy around Idea Management more broadly - beyond the capture element that IdeaJam typically supports. Well, over the last month or so we have been working with a UK based company called Think Play Do, who are innovation [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Winner: CTO Innovation Award
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 8:46a Bruce Elgort Yesterday during the Lotusphere 2009 Opening General Session Lotus General Manager announced that Elguji was awarded the "2009 CTO Innovation Award" for IdeaJam. Bob also announced that IdeaJam was also a finalist for the "2009 Best in Showcase".
"The CTO Award recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the technology charge by exploiting Lotus' and WebSphere Portals latest capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, and exciting new ways. These ground-breaking solutions a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Winner: Breakout Technology Award
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 7:49a Bruce Elgort At Business Development Day Elguji was awarded the "Breakout Technology Award" for IdeaJam:
"This Award will be presented to an IBM Business Partner who offers a solution that extends the software user experience by leveraging new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® and IBM WebSphere® Portal portfolio. These technologies must be new since Lotusphere® 2008, such as XPages, Live Text, Composite Application integration with the Sidebar, and the Portal Web 2.0 client. They pr [read] Keywords: composite
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Learn what's coming in IdeaJam Winter '09
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 6:44p Bruce Elgort With Elguji's commitment to provide quarterly maintenance releases for our products we are happy to announce some of the features that will be available in the Winter '09 release of IdeaJam which will be available in the Lotusphere 2009 time frame. All of the new features in this release have come from our customers. As we like to say "we use our product to build and enhance our product".
IBM Lotus Domino XPages Support - For customers running the forthcoming release of IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 [read] Keywords: administration
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Special Lotusphere Pricing for LinkJam Starts Tomorrow
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 4:48p Bruce Elgort function mailto(name, domain)
{
location.href = "mailto:" + name + "@" + domain;
}
We are happy to announce that we will be offering LinkJam our social bookmarking software for IBM Lotus Domino for $1,995 (US) from November 12th, 2008 through January 22nd, 2009. This price is for a single server and includes one year of email support. Flexible software maintenance plans are also available at an extra charge.
This special offers every Lotus Notes/Domino shop the opportunity to employ soc [read] Keywords: domino
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Free IdeaJam and LinkJam Evaluations
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 10:46p Bruce Elgort I bet you didn't know that your company can get a free 30 day on-line fully functional evaluation of IdeaJam or LinkJam. Evaluations are secure and can be provisioned on our servers quickly. If you are interested in an evaluation, please fill out our "Request Information" form on the Elguji website and somebody will contact you. And if you have not yet seen our product tour videos be sure and have a look. You can find the IdeaJam Product Tour here and the LinkJam Product Tour here. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Contest Winners
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 1:22p Bruce Elgort Elguji Software is happy to announce the winners of the "If you thought Elguji was a _____, think again" contest. Let us tell you it was very tough selecting the three winners out of 82 entries. Some of us didn't talk to each other for days as we squabbled over the entries. Well here they are:
First Place (Apple 8gb iPod Touch) - Haleigh Blatnick
"If you thought Elguji was a Japanese search engine, think again"
Second Place (Apple 8gb iPod Nano) - David Taylor
"If you thought Elguji [read] Keywords: apple
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Learn more - Take a Product Tour of IdeaJam
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 3:46p Bruce Elgort Now you can learn more about IdeaJam by watching several video demonstrations. Videos include a Product Overview, Posting an Idea, How to Vote, iPhone Access for IdeaJam and Installation, Setup and Customization.
IdeaJam Product Tour > [read] Keywords: ideajam
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In the Lotus developerWorks Spotlight
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 6:38p Bruce Elgort A few weeks back in cooperation with Joyce Davis from IBM Lotus we added the "Lotus Technical Inforamtion" IdeaSpace on IdeaJam. Today you can find a link on the front page of the Lotus developerWorks site to IdeaJam in the "Spotlight" section. Many thanks to Joyce and Steve Frank for getting this IdeaSpace up and running.
Suggest and vote for technical content ideas! Check out the Lotus Technical Information IdeaSpace on IdeaJam where you can share and help promote or demote ideas.
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Another language added
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 10:12a Bruce Elgort An Italian language pack is now available for IdeaJam. The new user selectable language settings in the Fall '08 release now allow your users to run IdeaJam in their language of choice including French, English, English (GB), Spanish, French, Italian and soon German. Many thanks to IBM Business Partner DominoPoint for the Italian language pack. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Making the most of the economic meltdown
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 3:00p Matt White Unless you've been living under a stone for the last few weeks then you'll know about the turmoil in the financial markets around the world.
What's interesting from an idea management and innovation point of view is what it means for our customers. Budgets get put on hold or even cut, so the focus on doing more with what you've got becomes even more important. We are seeing our customers and prospective customers wanting to increase their productivity and income by making use of the skills [read] Keywords: ideajam
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We will be at Lotusphere 2009 pedestal 227
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 3:05p Bruce Elgort Elguji Software is happy to announce that they will be participating in the Lotusphere 2009 Product Showcase. Please stop by and visit pedestal 227 to learn more about products, to say hello and to pick up some great shwag. Stay tuned for more announcements regarding Elguji and Lotusphere. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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IdeaJam on an iPhone
Mon, Sep 22nd 2008 6:48a Matt White We've had several requests from customers for an iPhone interface onto IdeaJam. Well with the help of Jeff Gilfelt we have just managed to get it included into the 1.3 release which is due out on October 1st. We have put out latest test build out onto the public IdeaJam site so if you want to get a sneak peak of what you'll be getting (if you're an existing customer) or what you could be getting if you buy IdeaJam then go to i.ideajam.net. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Announcing the "What is Your Elguji?" Contest
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 11:17p Bruce Elgort Step 1 - Watch the video
Step 2 - Add your "If you thought Elguji was a ....... - think again" contest entries to this blog post
Step 3 - Winners will be announced on Wednesday, October 16th, 2008
Prizes
First Prize - Apple 8gb iPod Touch
Second Prize - Apple 8gb iPod Nano
Third Prize - iTunes $50.00 (US) Gift Card
Good luck! [read] Keywords: apple
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Your help is requested for the "What is your Elguji?" contest
Wed, Sep 10th 2008 9:01p Bruce Elgort Elguji Software will soon be announcing their "What is your Elguji?" contest. A video outlining the contest prizes and rules will air sometime next week. As part of the video we would like to include small video samples of you, your dog, your iguana, your wife or whomever saying either "Elguji" or "What is your Elguji?". Please send the video file no later than Sunday to Gayle [gayle dot elgort at elguji dot com] so it can be included in the video.
Thanks in advance for your help. This is go [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Committed to XPages
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 12:53p Bruce Elgort Matt White who is the lead developer of both our IdeaJam and LinkJam products has been blogging about porting IdeaJam over to the forthcoming Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages technology. One thing that Matt hasn't mentioned is that we will be shipping a single NSF file that will support isntallation on Domino 8.5 as well as older version of Domino. Additionally, many of our customers have asked for Dojo support and the XPages version of both IdeaJam and LInkJam and we are excited to be able to easily del [read] Keywords: domino
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Comparing IdeaJam and Salesforce Ideas
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 6:53p Bruce Elgort A frequent question we get from potential IdeaJam customers is "how does IdeaJam compare with Salesforce Ideas?". Our answers can be found in a document entitled "Comparing IdeaJam and Salesforce Ideas". Besides being a heck of a lot more affordable than Salesforce Ideas, IdeaJam is the perfect solution for companies looking for an easy to use Idea Management system which can be run either inside or outside the corporate firewall. Additionally IdeaJam includes all of the source code which compan [read] Keywords: document
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Why use LinkJam in your company?
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 12:05p Bruce Elgort Here are eight reasons why your company should be using LinkJam:
Logically organize, group and find web sites
Provide access to collective intelligence
Identify people interested in and possibly working on similar projects
Create a web of trusted bookmarks behind the company firewall
Allow new ways of organizing information and categorizing web resources
Use social bookmarking to allow like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities of users
Tag information re [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Preparing for a Board of Directors Meeting with IdeaJam
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 12:46p Bruce Elgort One of our customers will soon be testing the Fall '08 release of IdeaJam which includes the ability to attach multiple files to an idea. Not only graphical images but Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Symphony and PDF documents or any type of file for that matter. With this feature they will be using IdeaJam as a tool for their corporate Board of Directors to solicit feedback through voting and comments on meeting agenda items and other items/issues. Cool stuff [read] Keywords: symphony
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iPhone Developer Wanted
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 11:48p Bruce Elgort If you are an iPhone SDK and/or iPhone web developer with exceptional Notes/Domino skills please drop us a note and let us know about your skills and successes. We are in the process of adding iPhone support to both IdeaJam and LinkJam and need additional development resources. We look forward to hearing from you. [read] Keywords: domino
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Link Love
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 11:37a Bruce Elgort Our customers really like the widgets we have develped for IdeaJam and LinkJam. The "blog this" and sidebar widget for IdeaJam and the sidebar widget for LinkJam. We just realized that we forgot to tell you how to add the LinkJam sidebar widget on your blog. Cut and paste the code below and if you want to show only your links change the word all to your name. [read] Keywords: javascript
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eProductivity launches their eProductivityJam
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 9:45p Bruce Elgort The folks over at ICA/eProductivity have launched their "eProducitivtyJam" IdeaJam site for their customers. ICA customers are encouraged to contribute and vote on the eProductivity features that they would most likely want to see. There are cureently at 21 ideas and counting, voting and commenting. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Coming in IdeaJam Fall '08 and LinkJam Summer '08
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 9:23p Bruce Elgort As part of the Fall '08 release of IdeaJam and the Summer '08 version of LinkJam (due out in 2 weeks) users will have the ability to mark ideas and links as "favorites". The public IdeaJam site now has favorites enabled. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Introducing IdeaJam V1.2
Tue, Jul 8th 2008 12:15p Bruce Elgort On Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 V1.2 of IdeaJam will be available for download.
New Features
Added configuration to control the number of items in What's Hot on the sidebar
Added configuration to control Statistics, Tags, Unvoted and My Profile in the header menu
Added LinkJam integration
Improved uniqueness of statistics chart names for customers running multiple instances of IdeaJam
Added configuration to control where temporary files for statistics get saved (requir [read] Keywords: document
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IdeaJam and LinkJam - A happy couple
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 5:32p Bruce Elgort With version 1.2 of IdeaJam (availlable on Wednesday, July 9, 2008) and LinkJam can share user profile information. Simply enable the "LinkJam Integration" option in IdeaJam and the "IdeaJam Integration" in LinkJam and puff........... instant integration. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Go for it...
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 1:35p Bruce Elgort The LinkJam beta site is now open to all registered IdeaJam users. Have fun and stay out of trouble. Please post your feedback on IdeaJam. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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LinkJam beta updated to V 0.9.3
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 7:03p Bruce Elgort The following new features have been added to the LinkJam beta site based on feedback we have been getting in IdeaJam:
Added new "Report Broken Link" functionality (thanks Rich)
Added "Edit" link for all links for LinkJam Administrators
Added support for clickable links in the Notes client (thanks to Tim, Ian, Don, Dave, Ranjit, Peter and Greg)
Added user settings screen to control how links are opened (current or new window) (thanks Vitor and Jason)
Added new Links By T [read] Keywords: notes
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Buy IdeaJam and save 30% on LinkJam
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 12:32a Bruce Elgort Now when you purchase IdeaJam you can also get LinkJam our social bookmarking tool for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino (shipping in July) at a 30% discount. Contact our sales group for more information. IdeaJam and LinkJam work seamlessly together to provide your company with idea management and social bookmarking - all on your existing Lotus investments. [read] Keywords: domino
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LinkJam beta goes live
Sun, Jun 15th 2008 7:33p Bruce Elgort All of the beta testers have just been sent information on the LinkJam beta testing program. If for some reason you did not receive an email from us please let us know. For those of you who would like to see LinkJam take a look here.
LinkJam will be available in July 2008 and is a must have application for every Notes and Domino shop out there. LinkJam is available as a stand-alone application or in conjunction with IdeaJam. [read] Keywords: domino
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Sherpa Software is reaching out to their customers for innovation
Tue, Jun 10th 2008 7:22p Bruce Elgort Sherpa Software a leader in email management tools for IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft's Exchange Server has recently purchased Elguji's IdeaJam software. Sherpa will use IdeaJam to solicit ideas on how they can improve their products.
I can't even begin to explain how simple this was to configure and get running. Our site was ready to go in honestly a matter of minutes. It's well designed and thought-out, plus it's a Notes database. Even some of our Microsoft guys have been [read] Keywords: domino
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Just how flexible is IdeaJam?
Thu, May 29th 2008 3:18p Matt White You may have seen that we have launched a new IdeaJam site to try and support the launch of the upcoming 8.5 Beta release of Notes and Domino. It's not an official site, but we hope that it will help the community and IBM during the beta process.
We took a standard IdeaJam template, but wanted to change the focus from being an Idea management tool, to being a bug and enhancement tool, by editing all of the labels via one of the configuration documents, and changing a couple of the graphics, [read] Keywords: domino
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Testers Wanted
Tue, May 27th 2008 8:16p Bruce Elgort LinkJam our social bookmarking application for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino will soon be going into a private managed beta. If you are interested in participating please let us know. We will also be showing LinkJam at the Irish Lotus User Group meeting being held in Dublin, Ireland June 4-6. [read] Keywords: domino
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IdeaJam V1.1.3
Mon, May 19th 2008 3:31p Bruce Elgort New Features Added
Changed votes by date and week charts to only count Promotes and Demotes (ignoring No Opinions)
Made the display of Header Stats configurable in the Control Panel
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in Idea Linking when there are more than 1000 ideas
Fixed display of labels in Profile when viewing in read mode
Fixed potential XSS attack on Idea and Profile screens
Fixed potential hacker vulnerability that allowed the insertion of a non-existant IdeaSpace via the Idea form [read] Keywords: bug
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