How do you perform a search in the product wikis?
Mon, Aug 29th 2011 1:22p Cara Viktorov The Lotus and WebSphere Portal wiki development team wants to learn more about how you search and navigate in the Lotus and WebSphere Portal product wikis. Take a few minutes to go through a short two-task survey that has you perform a search and navigate for information in the wiki of your choice. The data we collect from this survey will help provide insight into your search and navigation experience so the wiki development team can continue enhancing and improving your experience with the pro [read] Keywords: lotus
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Latest article from Everyone Writes: "Configuring SSL encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 "
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 3:06p ICS User Experience Article title: "Configuring SSL encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 "
Authors: Desmond McCann and John Doody
Link: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Configuring_SSL_encryption_for_IBM_Lotus_Domino_8.5.1
Summary: This article provides the detailed steps on how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5.1.
Announcements:
Notes from Lotus Support blog
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Filtering documentation to receive information you want
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 1:26p ICS User Experience The ICS Information Development team is piloting the addition of filters to our IBM Connections Installation documentation so that you receive information that pertains to your specific database and operating system environment.
We have created some samples to show you what different types of content would look like if installation content was filtered. Whether you have done a Connections installation in the past, are planning to do one in the near future, or have done an installation of a [read] Keywords: connections
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Seeking Redbooks authors...
Thu, Aug 11th 2011 2:42p ICS User Experience We have a couple of openings to participate in an IBM Redbooks residency...
Residency #1: Creating an Integrated Web Experience (with Connections, Quickr, Portal, Sametime, and Domino), LO-1W01-R01
Purpose: Create a wiki to show how to integrate and customize Lotus collaboration products to create a integrated Web experience.
Will document how Showcase demo is created.
Still needed: 2 or 3 candidates with the following qualifications:
(1) Has hands-on experience in installing, integra [read] Keywords: collaboration
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We are here to help!
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 3:02p ICS User Experience Get support and recognition for things you're already doing!
If you want to write an article for one of our wikis, help is available. Through the IBM Everyone Writes program, you can get editing, publishing, and promotional support.
Participate in the IBM Everyone Writes program to receive the following benefits:
copy-editing and publishing support by the Everyone Writes Technical Content Editor
personal recognition via the IBM Author Achievement Recognition Program for [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Try out a new Domino Designer tutorial and let us know what you think
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 1:06p ICS User Experience The Domino Designer Information Development team has created a new tutorial targeted for the novice user of Domino Designer. The goal of the tutorial is to learn the basics of Designer to get up and running. We are looking for volunteers to review the tutorial who are new to Designer. We are also looking for a couple of volunteers who are experienced with Designer to go through the tutorial and give feedback on the effectiveness and usefulness of the tutorial. All feedback will be used towards [read] Keywords: domino
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Interactive Getting Started Experience - what do you think?
Tue, Aug 9th 2011 11:03a ICS User Experience The ICS Information Development team has a new design concept for an exceptional getting started experience to share with you! We have a posted a video prototype and other material in the Online UX Lab, and we want to know what you think! This is your opportunity to help shape the getting started application to meet your challenging business needs.
How to Participate
Visit the getting started experience online lab: http://tinyurl.com/ibmgettstart
Join the community, watch a video, and [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the Sametime 8.5.2 Learning Widget
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 11:23a ICS User Experience The Sametime 8.5.2 Learning Widget is available! The learning widget works in the Sametime 8.5.2 standalone client, and in the Sametime client embedded in Lotus Notes versions 8.0.1 or newer. Find media resources including demonstrations, videos, tutorials, reference cards, and web seminars to help you get started with Sametime. There are resources here for users and administrators. Instructions for Windows and Linux users. Mac user instructions coming soon. The learning widget is a drag and d [read] Keywords: ldd
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Do you use eReaders?
Wed, Aug 3rd 2011 2:42p ICS User Experience We, the information development group, are building a proof of concept ePub of the official product documentation for one of our products.
Our early tests look good but we have found a couple of issues with formatting. Before we spend too much time fixing issues, we want to get your opinion about ePubs.
Do you use an eReader for anything today?
What eReaders do you use?
Would you download and use an ePub of product documentation?
In the next couple of weeks we hope to share [read] Keywords: development
New wiki feature to create custom search scopes
Wed, Aug 3rd 2011 8:42a ICS User Experience In the latest release of the Lotus Product Wikis a new feature was added that lets you create a custom search scope. The search scope is saved for you. View this 5 minute Prezi to learn more about default and custom search scopes. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus product wikis: New look and new features!
Mon, Jul 18th 2011 10:03a ICS User Experience The Lotus and WebSphere Portal product wikis have been updated to the latest version of the wiki template (7.2). There's a whole new look and feel, plus some new features.
User interface improvements
Home page improvements
Updated color scheme to match IBM.com
Simplified content section
Streamlined navigation
New placement of buttons and new tab styling
New "Stay Connected" icons
New Community Articles tab
View all articles authored by the community (in [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting started with LotusLive - usability opportunity
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 8:46a ICS User Experience Have you been wanting to try IBM LotusLive to see what it's all about? The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development team is looking for volunteers who have never used IBM LotusLive to participate in a usability evaluation that is focusing on new users getting started with LotusLive.
The usability study will be conducted July 18 - 29, will last approximately 90 minutes, and will be conducted via phone and web conference, so anyone can participate regardless of location.
I [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Introducing the 2011 IBM Champions for Collaboration Solutions
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 11:42a ICS User Experience By Joyce Davis
IBM Collaboration Solutions community manager
It is my great pleasure to introduce our very first set of IBM Champions for Collaboration Solutions! These 50 individuals spend a considerable amount of time, energy, and resources evangelizing for IBM, sharing their knowledge and helping grow the community of users and business leaders focused on our solutions. As champions, they will receive an IBM Champion merchandise package (apparel and some cool gadgets!), increased visibil [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What kind of mobile information is most useful to you?
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 2:02p ICS User Experience The Mobilizing for Mobile online discussion forum is staying open until Friday, June 10th. This is your chance to give the information development team direct feedback and suggestions on how to best provide information you need on your mobile device.
Join us in the Mobilizing for Mobile Online UX Lab now through June 10 and share your ideas! [read] Keywords: development
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IBM Community Meeting - Is the Lotus brand going away? (June 28th 10AM ET)
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 3:22p ICS User Experience Join us for our June community meeting!
Meeting Agenda:
Community updates
Community member spotlights
Per Henrik Lausten, PHL Consult
Michael Alexander, IBM
Special Topic: Learn how IBM's evolving Social Business strategy will impact the product and solution naming approach within the IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio.
Speaker: Scott Neuman, Director Social Business Marketing
You can now join via audiocast streaming!
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What's new in the cloud?
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 11:42a ICS User Experience LotusLive product documentation just got better! The latest update to LotusLive includes improvements to the Activities and Communities online help. Over twenty known issues have bee addressed. The IBM information development community takes quality seriously. Visit LotusLive at https://www.lotuslive.com.
You can check out our entire product documentation set on the LotusLive wiki, too. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Wiki Interaction survey
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 12:02p ICS User Experience The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development team has put together a short survey to collect feedback on your interaction and experience with our Lotus and WebSphere Portal product wikis. The data we collect from this survey will help the development team understand which wiki features are most valuable to you and what you primarily use the wikis for. Your responses will help us prioritize what we should focus on in future wiki releases.
This survey is anonymous and should tak [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mobilizing for Mobile
Tue, May 31st 2011 11:43a ICS User Experience To help meet the needs of the mobile user, the IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) Information Development and User Experience Teams have begun a concerted effort to investigate the best ways of providing an optimum mobile user experience in the following areas:
A well thought out mobile application user interface design that allows for maximum ease of use
An efficient and easy information/help delivery system that gives additional assistance to users if they still need it to continue usi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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May Community Meeting Replay - User Experience Update
Tue, May 24th 2011 5:03p ICS User Experience Thanks to all those to attended our community meeting today! At the beginning of the call, I covered a myriad of community news highlights, which I've summarized below with some links. Eileen Fitzgerald was scheduled as a community member spotlight, but she was having so much fun at the UK Lotus User Group conference, that she couldn't make our meeting. No worries, she'll be joining us for a future call! Flemming Christensen was our IBMer community spotlight and shared how he works [read] Keywords: admin
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Join the Mobile Jam activities!
Mon, May 16th 2011 2:42p ICS User Experience Mobile Jam has started! Come join the various activities that are focused on helping you be more successful with Lotus mobile products.
As part of the Mobile Jam event, the Information Development team is hosting a special mobile round table on Thursday, May 19th at 1pm EST to understand if and how you use our technical content to install, configure, and use Lotus mobile products.
There is still time to sign up! If you would like to be part of this discussion, send an email to lotusdoc@u [read] Keywords: connections
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Latest from Everyone Writes: Two SSO companion articles
Fri, May 13th 2011 5:03p ICS User Experience Article titles:
"Configuring single sign-on with an LTPA token on IBM WebSphere and IBM Lotus Domino platforms" and
"Configuring Microsoft Windows single sign-on on IBM WebSphere and IBM Lotus Domino platforms"
Authors: Xiao Feng (Roger) Yu and Jeff Hoy
Links: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Configuring_single_sign-on_with_an_LTPA_token_on_IBM_WebSphere_and_IBM_Lotus_Domino_platforms
and
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What types of learning materials are most effective?
Fri, May 13th 2011 9:23a ICS User Experience Do you like to watch videos to learn new software, new versions of software, or new tasks? Or do you prefer looking for a written help topic or wiki article? How easy is it to find learning materials to get you started? The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development Team recently collected via survey your preferences for useful learning materials, and now we are going to host a round table to have a more in-depth discussion with you about the materials you find most effective and valua [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Community Meeting - User Experience Update (May 24th 10AM ET)
Thu, May 12th 2011 9:42p ICS User Experience Join us for our May Lotus community meeting!
Meeting Agenda:
Community updates
Community member spotlights
Eileen Fitzgerald, GSX Groupware Solutions
Flemming Christensen, IBM
Special Topic: Learn how the IBM Collaboration Solutions User Experience team turns your feedback into product improvements and more effective online help/documentation
Speakers: Cara Viktorov, Velda Bartek, Michelle Cooper
You can now join via audiocast [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How do you use document, spreadsheet, and presentation software?
Tue, May 10th 2011 9:26a ICS User Experience The Lotus User Experience Research team would like your feedback on frequency of using capabilities within document, spreadsheet or presentation software. This 7 question survey should only take a few minutes to complete. Your input is very important to our process and will be used in combination with other data to influence additional user experience work.
Click here to take our survey!
Thanks for your feedback! [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interactive, Role-Based Getting Started with LotusLive
Mon, May 9th 2011 8:05a ICS User Experience Social Business. It's where it's at. But features can be a little puzzling. Profiles, Communities, Network Contacts, Files, and that's just for starters. But where do I start? What's a tag for? You want me write about myself in the About Me section of my profile? Isn't that a little vain? You mean I can invite people who are not in LotusLive to come in and use LotusLive for free?! Really??
These and other questions can be answered with the new, interactive, role-based Ge [read] Keywords: connections
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Sign up for the Mobile Jam ID Round Table!
Fri, May 6th 2011 8:46a ICS User Experience Lotus Support and Lotus User Experience are hosting a 4-day event May 16 - 19 especially for users of Lotus mobile products. Mobile Jam will feature a number of activities focused on helping you be more successful with Lotus mobile products.
As part of the Mobile Jam event, the Information Development team is hosting a special mobile round table on Thursday, May 19th at 1pm EST. We hope you join us!
We want to understand if and how you use our technical content to install, configure, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Join us for Mobile Jam! May 16 - May 19
Thu, May 5th 2011 5:45p ICS User Experience Lotus Support and Lotus User Experience are hosting a 4-day virtual event May 16 - 19 especially for users of Lotus mobile products. Mobile Jam will feature a number of activities focused on helping you be more successful with Lotus mobile products.
Jam activities include Open Mic Webcasts; Q & A with product support experts; usability activities; and online screening of mobile product videos. There will be special "celebrity" guest appearances by Luis Pineda, Vice President, Worldwi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New, shorter, easier to remember URLs
Mon, May 2nd 2011 4:25p ICS User Experience To help make it easier for you to find the information you're looking for, we now have simplified URLs to some of our key Web sites.
http://learn.lotus.com
Find media resources including demonstrations, videos, tutorials, reference cards, and web seminars to help you get started with Lotus and WebSphere Portal Products.
http://wiki.lotus.com
Share your deployment experiences and best practices with Lotus® and WebSphere® products in our wikis and help IBM to create [read] Keywords: ibm
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Visit the Online UX Lab for Portal and WCM
Fri, Apr 29th 2011 10:06a ICS User Experience Time is running out, so don't miss your chance to tell the information development team what you think. We want to make getting started with WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager easier. But we need to hear from you to make that happen.
Tell us:
Which concepts or features are hard to understand?
What did you struggle with when you started using Portal and WCM?
In a perfect world, what would you like to use to get started with Portal and WCM?
How can we make getting [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages forum template is now available for download
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 3:26p ICS User Experience The XPages Forum is a discussion forum template that is being championed by XPages enthusiasts inside and outside of IBM who are committed to improve it. We have now shared this template on OpenNTF.org so that the community can contribute and benefit from the improvements.
This is a great opportunity for IBM and the Lotus community to work together in a collaborative development effort. We haven't done this before, so we're blazing a trail here. We are learning and discovering the [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the IBM Champion program!
Thu, Apr 14th 2011 8:46a ICS User Experience Overview
We're pleased to announce that The IBM Champion program, hosted by developerWorks, has expanded to recognize and reward clients and partners who evangelize and advocate IBM Collaboration Solutions, share their expertise, and help grow the community.
Purpose of the program
The IBM Champion program recognizes exceptional contributors to the technical community -- clients and partners who work alongside IBM to build solutions for a smarter planet. An IBM Champion is an in [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus product XPages forums get an upgrade
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 12:06p ICS User Experience Lotus product XPages forums get an upgrade
Improvements and new features
More prominent links to wikis on the "Additional Resources" tab
Facebook "Like" button
Ability to share a forum entry via social media
Improved forum post information grouping
Issues fixed:
Topics with long subjects don't wrap and become mis-aligned
Categorized views do not expand correctly
Fixes to RSS feeds
Forums with the new design
Go to this page to see a list of forum [read] Keywords: connections
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The X Cast discusses XPages forums
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 1:26p Amanda Bauman Recently, Joyce Davis and I had the pleasure of recording a podcast with the crew from The X Cast (www.thexcast.net). We talked to Paul Withers, Tim Clark, and David Leedy about the XPages forum template, our plans for continuing to develop the template, and our plans for sharing the template on OpenNTF.org so that the community can join in the development efforts.
Learn all about our XPages Forum collaborative development plans and more by listening to the X Cast: http://www.tc-soft.com/thex [read] Keywords: xpages community
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Lotus product wikis updated
Thu, Mar 17th 2011 11:23a ICS User Experience User interface improvements
Home page improvements
Global views moved to left navigation
Expandable/collapsible navigation
RSS feeds available in browser address bar and on the wiki action toolbar
Updated layout and content for home page
"What's this wiki?" box removed
Spotlight section removed
New Community Articles section
New right sidebar with "Stay Connected" and More Resources sections
New link to page that lists "All Wikis"
Scope simpl [read] Keywords: ibm
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Short survey about product wiki search
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 12:43p ICS User Experience The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development Team has put together a short survey to collect your feedback on the search functionality in our Lotus and WebSphere Portal product wikis.
This survey is anonymous and it should take less than five minutes for you to complete. The data we collect from this survey will help the wiki team understand and prioritize what improvements are needed in search and which search features are most important to you.
The wiki search survey will [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Welcome to the newly renamed and expanded Lotus User Experience community!
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 7:42a ICS User Experience I am now joining Joyce Davis as a co-community manager for this newly renamed community. Joyce has done a great job with this community, formerly called "Lotus Technical information and Education". Because the Information development and education group has merged with the user experience group at IBM, we're expanding the scope of this community to include user experience.
Yes, this is in addition to the several user experience blogs that we currently maintain. Please continue t [read] Keywords: connections
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Get to know others in the Lotus community!
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 3:45p ICS User Experience My IBM team, which has members all over the world, has recently enjoyed getting to know each other better by using a Lotus Connections community forum to share a little bit about ourselves. I figure we should have the same fun with the broader Lotus community here in Lotus Greenhouse! I hope you'll take a minute to answer a few questions about yourself to let others know who you are! Have fun! And who knows, you might even find someone with similar interests, or who has expertise you're [read] Keywords: connections
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Learning Widget for Lotus Notes is available in the Solutions Catalog
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 3:42p ICS User Experience The Learning Widget for Lotus Notes is now available on the IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. The Learning Widget provides quick access to learning materials right from the Lotus Notes client sidebar or inside your Lotus iNotes client. Be one of the thousands of people to download and use the Learning Widget for Lotus Notes!
Stay tuned for the Learning Widget for Lotus Symphony and Learning Widget for Lotus Connections to be posted to the Solutions Catalog soon. [read] Keywords: connections
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Meeting Replay - Lotusphere Class of 2011
Tue, Feb 22nd 2011 6:29p ICS User Experience Today's Lotus community meeting was an overview of GBS College, an event held at Lotusphere 2011 to encourage a new generation of Lotus enthusiasts! Michael Baum, Dawn Friedel, and Stephanie Joy shared how the event was planned and executed. And special guest, Adam Lazarus, talked about his experience as a student participant in the event, including winning the early bird development contest. As part of the contest, he built an application using XPages technology, and we even got to see a de [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the XPages forum!
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 6:02p ICS User Experience The Information Development team is happy to announce a new forum, specifically all you XPagers out there -- whether you're aspiring OR perspiring developers! Up to now, discussion on XPages has been occurring in the Notes/Domino Application Development wiki. We heard loud and clear from the community that they needed a dedicated forum, just for XPages topics.
One of the coolest things about this forum is that it is built on -- you guessed it -- XPages technology (duh!). Another cool thing [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Community Mtg (Feb 22 10AM ET) - Lotusphere Class of 2011!
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 8:46p ICS User Experience Join us for our February Lotus community meeting!
Meeting Agenda:
Community updates - an update on VideoFest and more!
Community member spotlight
Special Topic: Hear representatives of GROUP Business Software talk about GBS College, the Lotusphere 2011 event designed to educate students about the role that IBM technology plays in social business and collaboration.
Speakers: Dawn Friedel, Mike Baum, Stephanie Joy
Phone Conference Information:
Tues, Fe [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Fun at Lotusphere 2011 - Social Collaboration Alabama Style!
Tue, Feb 8th 2011 4:43p ICS User Experience One of the best things about the Lotus community is that, in addition to being expert collaborators, we love having FUN when we get together. Lotusphere is a conference where you can learn a TON of technical information, make important business contacts, and learn about IBM's collaboration strategy. But you also get a chance to connect with Lotus community members on a personal level and just have fun! Below is a video taken of me (in red sweater) with Business Partners Lisa Duke and Darren [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere is for <cool>nerd girls</cool>
Thu, Feb 3rd 2011 9:03a ICS User Experience For the last three Lotuspheres, I've wanted to attend the Nerd Girls session, but never got the chance. Yesterday, I was able to attend this popular session, and let me just say, it didn't disappoint! The panel of 6 nerd girls ( and 1 husband of a nerd girl) discussed these myths:
All women are misunderstood and suppressed by men.
By not stating what you want, it will fall in your lap.
Appearance is everything in life and a makeover will fix everything.
Mother or femme f [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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