New Media Tuesday - 8/31/2010
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 12:30p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Beatdown Best Of Soul Train Brainjacked Brothers & Sisters: Season #4 Ca$h Cemetery Junction Final Girl FlashForward: The Complete Series Forbidden Dreams Harry Brown House: Season #6 Lonesome Dove: The Series: Season #1 Marmaduke Middle, The: Season #1 NCIS: Los Angeles: Season #1 Naked Cities One Tree Hill: Season #7 Parenthood: Season #1 Persons Unknown: Season #1 Sexy Radio Sons Of Anarchy: Season #2 Thriller: The Complete Series (#18 in [read] Keywords: vista
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Happy 20th Birthday to PSC!
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 10:20a John D Head Tomorrow, August 28th, marks the 20th birthday of PSC Group. The founders, Andrew Lauter and Bruce Bellak started the company out of a desire to do provide superior service and great technology consulting to their customers. I have personally been with PSC for 10 years and am proud to be part of this great company. And at 10 years, I am in the middle of the pack in terms of seniority ... we have one member of the team that has been here for 19 years and another for 18! Pretty incredible [read] Keywords: consulting
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New Media Tuesday - 8/24/2010
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 12:30p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 90210: Season #2 Ax Men: Season #3 Black Orpheus: 2 Disc Edition: The Criterion Collection Days That Shook The World: The Complete Series Dexter: Season #4 (Blu-Ray) (#15 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dexter: Season #4 (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) First Four Films Of Akira Kurosawa, The: Eclipse From The Criterion Collection Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete Collection Gangland: Season #5 Gossip Girl: Season #3 Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under [read] Keywords: symphony
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MWLUG 2010 - Thoughts
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 5:50p John D Head Last week, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second MWLUG took place. MWLUG 2010 was bigger and better than the first last year. Here are some thoughts on the conference: 1. The conference really came into it's own this year. As much as I liked being in Chicago last year - and being at the IBM Innovation Center - being a hotel in another city took MWLUG to it's user group roots. It felt like a user group conference - not something IBM ran. This was a good thing. 2. The attitude of the user group menta [read] Keywords: connections
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New Media Tuesday - 8/17/2010
Tue, Aug 17th 2010 10:20a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Black Orpheus: 2 Disc Edition: The Criterion Collection Ca$h Cemetery Junction Cougar Town: Season #1d Dark Oracle: The Complete Series Dexter: Season #4 (#8 in the DVDPS Top 40) Friday Night Lights: Season #4 Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Season #3 L'Enfance Nue: The Criterion Collection Last Song, The Max Headroom: The Complete Series (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) One Tree Hill: Season #7 Orlando: SE Red Shoes, The: 2-Disc Edition: Criterion Coll [read] Keywords: mac
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PSC built BarillaUS.com featured on topsharepoint.com
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 10:10a John D Head PSC's Microsoft practice has gotten a great accolade: the Barilla website (www.barillaus.com) has been featured on topsharepoint.com Congratulations to the team at PSC for developing such a great site and being selected for topsharepoint.com! [read] Keywords: microsoft
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New Media Tuesday - 8/10/2010
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 7:00a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 187: One Eight Seven Adam-12: Season #5 Casper's Scare School: Season #1 Crumb: The Criterion Collection Date Night Joneses Louie Bluie: The Criterion Collection Max Headroom: The Complete Series (#2 in the DVDPS Top 40) Mercy: Season #1 Minder: Season 3 Numb3rs: Season #6 Titan Maximum: Season #1 Trauma: Season #1 UFC 114: Rampage Vs. Evans: Ultimate 2 Disc Edition Computer Games Madden NFL 11 ( Xbox 360) Tritton AX Pro Dolby Digital Precis [read] Keywords: vista
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Yellow Day Release: Updated OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 6:50a John D Head In honor of Yellow Day, I am going to post a new version of the OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience. Here is what is new: - Support for Microsoft Office 2010 - Updates to Microsoft Office Label and Envelope Functionality - Started work on adding Label functionality - The beginnings of custom field functionality: The goal is to have custom templates that the user can select, but first we need custom fields. The first release just defines the basic fields and a way to customize them. More to com [read] Keywords: notes
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Yellow Day is coming August 11th!
Mon, Aug 9th 2010 12:20p John D Head As Nathan blogs, Yellow Day is coming in just two short days! Yellow Day is a celebration of the Lotus community - how are you going to celebrate? Some folks like Nathan will release new projects. Others make product or services announcements. Lots of folks post tips & tricks to their blogs. Others make updates to projects on OpenNTF.org. And many just wear something Lotus branded; t-shirt, hat, etc. So how are you celebrating Yellow Day? Whatever you do, you should do something and share [read] Keywords: ibm
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IamLUG 2010 - Thoughts
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 11:40a John D Head Another IamLUG is complete and people are back home. In it's second year, IamLUG has taken on it's own identify very quickly. Smack in the middle of the year, it acts as a true bridge between Lotuspheres. Great content, great people, and great interaction. The days of being up to 4 am at Lotusphere seem to have changed into staying up until midnight at IamLUG. But I find the mixing of the long term community folks with first time attendees at any event to be better at IamLUG than anywhere else. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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PSC Booth at IamLUG2010
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 10:51a John D Head A quick screen shot of our booth at IamLUG 2010 Alex and I decided to go with a different theme this year. Instead of listing a lot of bullet points on things we do, we are just displaying our brand and on-line presence. As the only service provider who sponsored IamLUG this year, the different approach seemed to spark a bit of interest. If you are attending MWLUG 2010 in two weeks, come see the booth and say hello! You can ask me about what PSC does and how we can help too ;) [read] Keywords:
PSC Booth at IamLUG 2010
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 11:20a John D Head Just a picture of our booth at IamLUG 2010 ... As a business technology services firm, our message is more about our brand than any bulletpoints about a product. So our marketing is about our name, logo, and our on-line presence. If you missed us at IamLUG 2010, come see us at MWLUG 2010 in two weeks! [read] Keywords:
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New Media Tuesday - 8/3/2010
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 10:10a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 300 (Limited Collector's Edition) After.Life Allnighter, The Cross My Heart Days That Shook The World: Season #3 Days That Shook The World: The Complete Series Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Elvis On Tour Elvis: 75th Birthday Collection Errol Flynn Adventures (#11 in the DVDPS Top 40) Escape From New York (Blu-Ray + DVD) (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) First Four Films Of Akira Kurosawa, The: Eclipse From The Criterion Collection Hawaii Five-O: Season #9 Heroes: S [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Time for another review ... Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 10:00a John D Head So this is going to be a short mini-review until I finish the all the single player content and really get deep into multi-player ... but some initial data points: 1. 10 years (12 since the original Starcarft, 10 since Starcraft: Brood War) is a long time to wait for a game 2. This game feels like Starcraft 1.5 in terms of play ... and that is not a bad thing 3. It cost 100 million to make this game 4. It will make ~ 600 million this year alone So what do I think? Very simple - this is [read] Keywords: laptop
New Media Tuesday - 7/27/2010
Tue, Jul 27th 2010 4:30p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Acceptance Batman: Under The Red Hood: SE (Blu-Ray) (#13 in the DVDPS Top 40) Batman: Under The Red Hood: SE Brooklyn's Finest (Blu-Ray) (#35 in the DVDPS Top 40) Clash Of The Titans (2010) (Blu-Ray) (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) Clash Of The Titans (2010) Crash: Season #2 Instant Star: Season #4 Life After People: The Series: Season #2 Lucy Show, The: The Official Season #2 Real McCoys, The: Season #4 SGU: Stargate Universe: Season 1.5 Sabrina, The T [read] Keywords: mac
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IBM: Please follow in Microsoft’s BPOS footsteps here ...
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 5:20p John D Head I saw this on Karen Hobert's blog: Microsoft showcased at the show this week a number of its partners whoâve already jumped on the BPOS bandwagon. To encourage others to start selling the suite, Microsoft announced that it will offer partners 250 BPOS seats for their own use. You can read all the details on Microsoft's Partner Network page. Lots of fine print. For instance, here who is eligable: Certified Partners Gold Certified Partners Microsoft Action Pack subscribers Empower f [read] Keywords: connections
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New Media Tuesday - 7/20/2010
Tue, Jul 20th 2010 10:30a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Bannen Way, The Being Human: Season #1 Cop Out Courage The Cowardly Dog: Season #1 Degrassi: Next Generation Season #9 Desperate Romantics Instant Star: Season #4 Jersey Shore: Season #1 Kangaroo Jack Look Around You: Season #1 Losers, The Maria Watches Over Us: Season #4 Matlock: Season #5 My Bride Is A Mermaid: Season #1: Part 1 NHL Stanley Cup Champions 2009-2010 Ninja's Creed Our Family Wedding Professional, The (French) Red Shoes, The: 2-Dis [read] Keywords: vista
New Media Tuesday - 7/13/2010
Tue, Jul 13th 2010 12:00p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Alaska State Troopers: Season #1 Ally McBeal: Season #3 Bounty Hunter, The Caught In The Crossfire Chloe Film Noir Classics Collection, The: Volume 5 (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Film Noir Classics II Greenberg Hawthorne: Season #1 Lucy Show, The: The Official Season #2 Maria Watches Over Us: Season #4 My Three Sons: Season #2: Volume 2 New Tricks: Season #3 Only Son, The / There Was A Father: Two Films By Yasujiro Ozu: Criterion Collection Our Fami [read] Keywords: vista
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Sun, Jul 11th 2010 9:30a John Head Another year, another number. Age has never been a big issue with me so July 11th is more a time to remember old times than worry about what a number means. A few more grey hairs at 36 than 35, but otherwise just a passing of time. One interesting thought: 36 means that I have now been part of the Lotus community for half of my life. I started posting in the Ami forums on Compuserve in the spring of 1993, when I was 18. I didn't get into Notes and the Lotus BP community until a few years late [read] Keywords: lotus
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New Media Tuesday - 6/29/2010
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 2:51p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo, The: The Complete Series America's Test Kitchen: Season #10 Back Up Plan Basilisk: The Complete Series Ben 10: Alien Force: Season #1: Volume 6 Ben 10: Alien Force: Season #1: Volume 7 Closer, The: Season #5 Crazies, The Creation Eureka: Season #3.5 Everlasting Moments: The Criterion Collection Fist Of The North Star: The Complete Series Collection: Volume 1 Green Zone Hoarders: Season #1 Hot Tub Time Machine How The Eart [read] Keywords: eclipse
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey - Full Report Published
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 12:40p John D Head In May of 2010 I blogged the following posts about a business technology resources survey that PSC commissioned in the spring of this year: PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 1: Technology Pain Points? PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 2: Top 2010 priorities PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 3: Top Information Sources PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 4: Trusted Sources PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 5: Top Applications Used to Res [read] Keywords: application
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LinkedIN Lunch Learn - Slides
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 5:30p John D Head Last week, I presented at a LinkedIN Lunch & Learn at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago with Mark Carter. Here are the slides. It was most a talk vs slideware, but figured I would share the slides anyways. Enjoy. LinkedIN Lunch & Learn - June 23rd, 2010View more presentations from John Head. [read] Keywords: application
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PSC is hiring: JavaScript with EXT.JS / Sencha experience and Java Developers
Fri, Jun 25th 2010 12:30p John D Head PSC continues to grow and we are looking for new members of our team. We have job openings in the following areas: JavaScript with EXT.JS / Sencha experience Java Developer with J2EE experience There are multiple openings in both categories. These jobs are in the Chicagoland area and you must be able to be on-site at the customer. We are looking to grow our team and hire, so at this time we are not looking for contractors. You can apply on-line (each job description on our website has an "Appl [read] Keywords: java
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The Lotus Solutions Catalog is NOT an ’app store’ nor is it ’app store’ like
Tue, Jun 22nd 2010 11:40a John D Head With all the chatter about an 'App Store' for Lotus Notes, I am really starting to get a bit testy when I hear IBMer's call the Lotus Solutions Catalog anything along the lines of 'app store like' - and here is why. It's on Greenhouse. Until it has a url of www.lotus.com/apps or www.ibm.com/notesapps or even www.ibm.com/lotusapps its just part of a R&D website. Get it off Greenhouse - RIGHT FREAKING NOW! Until I can purchase a product with a credit card and have it install directly into m [read] Keywords: domino
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New Media Tuesday - 6/22/2010
Tue, Jun 22nd 2010 10:20a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Cadillac Records Close-Up: The Criterion Collection Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (3D) (Blu-Ray) Entourage: Season #6 Heroic Age: The Complete Series Hung: Season #1 Mystery Train: The Criterion Collection Night Train To Munich: The Criterion Collection Red Desert: The Criterion Collection Riverworld Star Is Born, A (Blu-Ray) Star Is Born, A: Deluxe Edition White Ribbon Wolf Moon Computer Games Transformers: War for Cybertron ( Xbox 360) [read] Keywords: mac
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The Big Four Live in the movie theathers!
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 11:20p John D Head Do you know who the Big Four are? If you answered that the Big Four were the top four bands in thrash, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, you would be right. And for the first time ever, all four bands are playing on the same concert bill! Europe is getting this amazing line-up - we never get the good concerts here in the states - but someone got smart. Take those high end movie theaters and show this live! $20 bucks for 4 hours of music. Totally worth it - and maybe a once in a lifetime [read] Keywords:
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New Media Tuesday - 6.15.2010
Wed, Jun 16th 2010 5:00p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Air Bud: World Pup: SE American Dad!: Volume 5 Best Years, The: Season #2 Book Of Eli, The Circle Of Pain Everwood: Season #3 Family Guy: Volume 8 Father Knows Best: Season #4 From Paris With Love Happy Tears Hawthorne: Season #1 Here's Lucy: Season #3 I Love Lucy: The Movie And Other Great Rarities Insomnia (Widescreen) Leave It To Beaver: Season #3 Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black MacGyver: The TV Movies My Three Sons: Season #2: Volume 2 Myster [read] Keywords: vista
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Dowload the New Improved Crains Chicago Golf iPhone App (Built by PSC)
Wed, Jun 16th 2010 5:00p John D Head One of the many things PSC Group, LLC does is develop iPhone applications for our clients thru our Mobile practice. Our most popular application on the iPhone is the Crain's Chicago Golf application. The application got a bunch of updates for the 2010 golf season. Congrats to the PSC Team for another year of this great application and partnership. [read] Keywords: application
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3 Plug-ins
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 9:40p John D Head To go along with IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3, IBM has released a bunch of new plug-ins specific to this version: LotusLive Connector : Links you to LotusLive by simple click Mass Convertor : Batch converts MicroSoft Office files into odf format Organization Chart: Generates organization charts in Lotus Symphony Presentations Embedded SharePoint: Manages SharePoint server documents in Lotus Symphony Media Wiki : Lets you write and publish your wiki in Lotus Symphony Wiki Convertor: Converts Lo [read] Keywords: connections
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New Media Tuesday - 6/8/2010
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 12:41p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 41 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It, The A-Team, The: The Complete Series Bob Hope: Thanks For The Memories Collection Cleaner, The: Complete Series Pack Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season #7 Family Matters: Season #1 Ghostwriter: Season #1 Jim Henson's Dog City: The Movie MacGyver: The TV Movies Nip/Tuck: The Sixth And Final Season Not The Messiah: He's A Very Naughty Boy Oceans Road, The (2009) Shutter Island ( [read] Keywords: eclipse
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3 is Out!
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 7:40p John D Head Just released today, you can find the release here. The highlights of what is new in Beta 3: What's New in IBM® Lotus® SymphonyTM 3 Beta3? General Quality Improvements Improved ODF file fidelity to better support processing files which were generated by previous versions of Lotus Symphony Fixed key Mac OS specific stability, functional and usability bugs Fixed Lotus Symphony Presentation table functional and usability bugs Improved memory leak issue during long run of Lotus Symphon [read] Keywords: ibm
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 6: Research Influence on Decision Making
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 10:30a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The sixth question we asked technology executives was "What is the importance of gathered research and its influence on decision making?" Here are the results: This question is about hindsight. After the decision is made, how did the research done effect the outcome? Over half of the respondents believed that gathered research was 'absolutely critical' in the decision. As I try to ma [read] Keywords:
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For those in Chicago, upcoming events on Negotiation and LinkedIN
Wed, Jun 2nd 2010 2:20p John D Head For those of you in the Chicago area, here are two great events at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago: NEGOTIATION SKILLS SEMINAR Thursday, June 3 5:30-7:00 p.m. $15++ Club Board of Governors, Dennis Pauls, is President and CEO of HUB International, the leading insurance brokerage with over 4,700 employees. Pauls will be sharing the techniques he used to accelerate his trip to the top. Get what you want at the conference table or the kitchen table. Come for wine, hors d'oeuvres, networking an [read] Keywords: facebook
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 5: Top Applications Used to Research Technology Purchases
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 11:30a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The fifth question we asked technology executives was "What are your top media applications used to obtain information for technology purchases?" Here are the results: Here are some further thoughts after breaking down the results: 1. 85% of respondents used more than one application to obtain information for a technology purchase. 2. 39% of those surveyed used between 3 and [read] Keywords: application
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New Media Tuesday - 6/1/2010
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 10:30a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Alice In Wonderland (2010) (Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Alice In Wonderland (2010) (Blu-Ray) (#9 in the DVDPS Top 40) American Pickers: Season #1 Barbara Stanwyck Collection, The Beck: The Complete Series Burn Notice: Season #3 (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Cleaner, The: Complete Series Pack Cleaner, The: Final Season Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name Trilogy (Blu-Ray) (#18 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dalziel & Pa [read] Keywords: vista
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Phase 2 of Personal Branding is Underway
Mon, May 31st 2010 1:20p John D Head As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, I am coordinating my effort to apply a personal brand to my on-line presence. When someone finds me on-line, I want them to get the same information and same look and feel no matter where they find me. My blog was the beginning. This weekend, I applied a new TwitBack to my Twitter account. The look and feel matches the blog here. As I can not do the same theme applications with Facebook, LinkedIN, or Slideshare, I need to make the content match. That will [read] Keywords: applications
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Remembering Our Heroes on Memorial Day
Mon, May 31st 2010 10:30a John D Head In the United States, today is Memorial Day. It is the traditional unofficial start to the summer season here, with swimming pools, beaches, and other summer activities opening. It is a national holiday and a day of bbqing, seeing a 'summer blockbuster' movie and much more (it also happens to be a day to watch Chicago Blackhawk hockey for the first time in 16 years ... :-) ). But Memorial Day is about honoring our veterans. It is the day to say thank you to all of the men and women that have [read] Keywords:
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 4: Trusted Sources
Thu, May 27th 2010 10:30a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The forth question we asked technology executives was "What are your most trusted information sources" Here are the results: It should surprise no one that face-to-face or referrals was the top vote getter. The result I find most interesting is that Magazines ranked fourth out of nine, ahead of trade shows, vendor sales representatives, and the vendor website. Personally, I do not [read] Keywords: applications
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Soluto aims to end PC frustration, goes into beta today at Techcrunch Disrupt
Tue, May 25th 2010 3:30p John D Head If you have a PC, you need to check out Soluto. Soluto - How to use Soluto Beta from Soluto on Vimeo. Now, you can go to their page and try to download, but don't be surprised if you can't right now. I hear they are getting hammered. How important is your computer boot time? Is software like this worth the time and effort? For some, very much so. Others won't care one bit. What I find more interesting then their software is the PC Genome project they are starting. A wiki that allows you [read] Keywords: application
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Want to know more about PSC Group?
Tue, May 25th 2010 11:50a John D Head I often get asked about PSC and what we do. I get asked this by potential customers who do not know us at all. I get asked this by folks in the social media world who only know me and my on-line presence. I also get asked this by folks in the Lotus community who do not realize that IBM is just one of our technology focus areas. We put these slides together as an introduction to PSC Group. About PSC GroupView more presentations from PSC Group . [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Media Tuesday - 5/25/2010
Tue, May 25th 2010 11:10a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume 2: The Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties Flashpoint: Season #2 Goth Guild, The: Season #3 Hard Ride To Hell Justice League: The Complete Series (15 Discs) Leverage: Season #2 Marked: Season #1 Mystery Team Real Housewives Of New York: Season #1, #2 Red vs. Blue: Blood Gulch Chronicles: Complete Series Road, The (2009) Royal Pains: Season #1 Stagecoach: The Criterion Collection Top Ch [read] Keywords: eclipse
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 3: Top Information Sources
Mon, May 24th 2010 10:30a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The third question we asked technology executives was "What are your top 5 information sources? " Here are the results: Some further thoughts on the results: 1. 92% of respondents rated Internet search as one of their Top 3 information sources. 2. 69% rated Face-to-face referral or referral from personal network as one of their Top 3 sources of information. The one item h [read] Keywords: network
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14 Insane twitter Tips for Business Other Social Media Nuggets by Kim Redd
Fri, May 21st 2010 7:01p John D Head I had the pleasure of attending the Chicagoland Underground Social Media Society event last night. Kim Redd of @reddsmitty fame (and in the day, selling RapLeaf) gave a great presentation on Twitter. Entitled "14 Insane twitter Tips for Business & Other Social Media Nuggets". Here were the tips: Follow everyone back .. Yes, even the porn stars Your Avatar? Your Headshot! Add YOUR name to the profile Engage your followers Find more followers Listen Respond Be Thankful DO NOT USE AUTO D.M.s [read] Keywords: profile
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 2: Top 2010 priorities
Thu, May 20th 2010 10:20a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The second question we asked technology executives was "What are your top 5 priorities in 2010? " Here are the results: Some interesting statistics that came from the results: 1. Over 50% of respondents selected "Business application and information integration" as their number one priority in 2010. 2. 85% of the respondents selected "Business application and information [read] Keywords: application
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PSC Business Technology Resources Survey Part 1: Technology Pain Points?
Mon, May 17th 2010 10:34a John D Head As I mentioned before, PSC commissioned Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group to do a Technology Resources Survey. The first question we asked technology executives was "What are your top 3 technology pain points?" Here are the results: I don't think that anyone out there will be surprised that ROI, business demands, and efficient and effective technology are the top three. The one item that I find interesting is that "keeping up with the pace of technology change" was ranked six out of eight. We [read] Keywords: web 2.0
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RIP Ronnie James Dio
Mon, May 17th 2010 12:10a John D Head If you are a fan of hard rock, you know who Ronnie James Dio is. Today he passed away after a year long battle with stomach cancer. Ronnie will be missed, not only for his voice, but for being one of the nicest men in the business. I wanted to share a something of Ronnie on this blog entry. I thought I would grab a video of him performing, but I found this instead. Here is Ronnie fighting cancer just one month ago. He is gracious to his doctors. His attitude is one of kicking cancers butt and [read] Keywords: application
New Media Tuesday - 5/11/2010
Tue, May 11th 2010 12:50p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Bandit Of Sherwood Forest, The Daria: The Complete Animated Series (#4 in the DVDPS Top 40) Daybreakers Deadliest Warrior: Season #1 Edge Of Darkness Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, The: Season #5 Goth Huntik: The Complete Series Legion My Wife & Kids: Season #2 Nature's Splendor Nature's Tapestry One Piece: Season #2: Seventh Voyage Prince Of Thieves, The Raising The Bar: Season #2 Rita Rocks: Season #1 Rogues Of Sherwood Forest Sherri: Season #1 S [read] Keywords: vista
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New Media Tuesday - 5/4/2010
Tue, May 4th 2010 4:40p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 9: Nine According To Jim: Season #2 Armageddon (Blu-Ray) (#34 in the DVDPS Top 40) Cold Storage Crime Of Passion Darker Than Black: Complete Season #1 Dirt: Season #2 Dirty Dancing: Limited Keepsake Edition (With Book) Doctor Zhivago: Anniversary Edition (Blu-Ray) (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Doctor Zhivago: Anniversary Edition Facts of Life: Season #4 Flash Gordon (Savior of the Universe Edition) (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Th [read] Keywords: oracle
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New Media Tuesday - 4/27/2010
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 11:50a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies After Dark Horrorfest 4 Avatar (from last week) Barbara Stanwyck Collection, The Descent, The: Part 2 Destination Truth: Season #1 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Fugitive Kind, The: The Criterion Collection Hills, The: Season #5: Part 2 I Love Lucy: The Movie And Other Great Rarities Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus It's Complicated It's Garry Shandling's Show: Season #1 Looney Tunes Super Stars: Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire Looney Tunes Super [read] Keywords: vista
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What’s Your Guilty Movie Pleasure?
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 11:50a John Head So one of the movies that came out this week on Blu-Ray was what I consider my guilty movie pleasure. It's Armageddon. I know, I know. It's cheesy. It's Michael Bay at his worst. It's over the top and from a scientific stand point, a complete train wreck. But man, how I love watching it. Typical summer blockbuster action movie with a sappy under plot and some really bad acting along the way. It has a great cast - you can't fault them for putting together an ensemble of Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Th [read] Keywords:
HTML5 Follow on thought ... and how it applies to Notes SQL
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 12:50p John Head So after I showed the amazing HTML 5 Presentation to Nathan Freeman, he said the following to me: 6:34:02 PM hrmm 6:34:08 PM I wonder... 6:34:15 PM the JS SQL API... 6:34:25 PM can you write a driver for the SQL backend? 6:34:36 PM John D Head im not sure 6:34:49 PM wouldn't that be interesting? 6:34:53 PM John D Head of course 6:35:00 PM cause then you could use SQL as a declarative syntax 6:35:06 PM would be a reason to revive NotesSQL Nathan of course was talking about Slide 8 - [read] Keywords: domino
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New Media Tuesday - 4/20/2010
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 12:21p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Bright Star Coco Before Chanel Crazy Heart Deadly Impact: Unrated Drawn Together Movie, The: The Movie Emma (2009) Falcon Crest: Season #1 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season #1: Part 3 Have Gun Will Travel: Season #4: Volume 1 Lovely Bones, The Merlin: Season #1 Minority Report (Blu-Ray) Peacock Perry Mason: Season #5: Volume 1 Summer Hours: The Criterion Collection Vivre Sa Vie: The Criterion Collection Young Victoria Computer Games She [read] Keywords: vista
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Interesting Thought: Art is whatever moves you - and Roger Ebert, video games move me
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 9:50p John Head So if you have not read this post Video games can never be art by Roger Ebert, please start there. So Mr. Ebert says quite a bit on why he doesn't think video games are not art, and man, I totally disagree. To me, art is what moves you. It invokes emotion. There are many things out there that I feel lack taste, but are still art. For instance, the live performance art of naked people sitting in a chair - I don't get it, I think it's dumb, but I still think it's art. Just not my taste. Bu [read] Keywords:
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HTML5 Presentation - This is why IBM is so hot about using HTML 5 for Project Vulcan
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 7:50p John Head This is a great demo of why HTML5 matters, written in HTML5. This is for the web developer looking for what is new, but it is also for the other folks who want to know why IBM Lotus is betting so big on HTML5 as one of the five key technologies for IBM Project Vulcan. Check it out here. (Thanks Don!) [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5.2 Finally Makes Database Icon’s Rock
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 9:30a John Head So with 8.5.2 Code Drop 4, IBM removed the limitation of not being able to talk about what is coming in the release. There are a lot of great new changes coming, but the one will make most people smile is the changes to Database Icons. When you select the Icon resource in 8.5.2, you will get this dialog: You can select a full color icon of type BMP, JPG, GIF, and yes folks, PNG. Where do they apply? Well, how about the bookmark bar, database tab, search icon, in Designer, and on the Wo [read] Keywords: dxl
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Interesting Thought: Brand Rehash starting to hit Computer Games
Fri, Apr 16th 2010 11:53a John Head Something interesting is happening in the gaming world. In 1994, one of the best games of all time ( voted to be one of the best video games of all time by many gaming magazines and websites, including #1 on the IGN's list of Top 25 PC Games of All Time in 2007 and again in 2009, #2 on the Pelit's list of Best Video Game Since 1992 in 2007, #3 on the PC Gamers list of "Top 50 Games of All Time" in 2001, and #3 Computer Gaming Worlds list of Best Game of All Time in 2001 ) was released. It was ca [read] Keywords: apple
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SymphonyThursday: A LotusScript Mail Merge API Tip
Thu, Apr 15th 2010 11:10a John Head Here is a great tip for anyone working with mail merge in Lotus Symphony Documents 1.3 using the LotusScript API. One of the first things people want to do with automating mail merge is to automate just enough so the user can write a form letter without having to automate the whole process. Just get the selected documents, map the fields, and open the mail merge wizard/process. We do this pretty easily with Microsoft Word Mail Merge and the Mail Merge Wizard. Until now, this was not possible [read] Keywords: lotus
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Interesting Thought: Today I realized how far OpenNTF.org has come in a year
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 6:10p John Head Today while on the Notes/Domino Design Partner call, I realized just how far OpenNTF.org has come since IBM got involved and the Alliance was formed. I can't talk about what specifically IBM showed, but there are two great tools coming to OpenNTF.org shortly. It's not what they are that matters, its why they are going on OpenNTF.org. Before this past year, if IBM wanted to get something into the hands of the community, it had to go on Notes.Net or LDD or devWorks. That took time and there was [read] Keywords: domino
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Interesting Thought: DOLS and the Weblicator are hot again
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 10:20a John Head So I find myself thinking back to the time when we had the Lotus Weblicator; it took web pages offline; and Domino Off-line Services (DOLS) and they were pretty active and hot technologies. The ability to take web applications off-line with no Notes client installed? I remember being very impressed - seeing as this was the R5 time frame. The DOLS Manager gave us a client-front end to manage those applications and even allowed admins to have some level of control. Click a link on an applications [read] Keywords: domino
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New Media Tuesday - 4/13/2010
Tue, Apr 13th 2010 10:24a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective Apollo 13: 15th Anniversary Edition (Blu-Ray) Brothers Warner, The Dallas: Season #12 Dallas: Season #13 Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 Special) Defendor Dynasty: Season #4: Volume 2 Emergency!: Season #6 Gone With The Wind: The Scarlett Edition Haunted: The Complete Series Jim Henson's Animal Show With Stinky And Jake: Lions, Tigers And Bears Jim Henson's The Song of the Cloud Forest Lovers And Friends Sh [read] Keywords: vista
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Interesting Thought: Adobe should work with Amazon with the Kindle 3
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 10:11a John Head As a follow-up to the thought about Adobe and Creative Suite and Apple discussion, maybe Adobe should go out of it's way to work with Amazon to put Flash on the Kindle? I assume we will see Flash on the HP Slate and a slew of Android tablets later this year. But the Kindle the 'other' successful tablet out there. Amazon has to be working on something to answer the iPad (well, unless you are one of those that thinks Amazon will walk away from the hardware biz and just focus on the Kindle apps). T [read] Keywords: apple
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OpenNTF Contacts Experience Version 1.0 is coming ... and here is some proof!
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 10:00a John Head I swear, it's coming "Real Soon Now" ... Version 1.0 is just in final testing. And here is a preview of some of the features: Version 1.0 will be released here this week. I promise! :-) We won't be submitting this release to the catalog, we want to get some of the "Coming Soon" features done first. [read] Keywords: openntf
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Interesting Thought: Why should Adobe keep releasing Creative Suite for the Mac?
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 9:20a John Head (Note to the reader: I am starting a new "Interesting Thought" blog type. These are mostly quick thoughts I want to get out there for discussion but feel that Twitter and Facebook make the discussion difficult. Enjoy) Interesting Thought: With what seems to be a permanent desire to not support flash on the Apple mobile (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) platform, going all the way up to Steve Jobs himself, why would Adobe not decide to cease supporting OS X Operating System for it's Creative Suite? C [read] Keywords: apple
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Collaboration 2010 : A request for your help
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 5:50p John Head As my day to day job shifts this year, one of the things I am doing more and more is talking about Collaboration more broadly. This is in the form of customer meetings and presentations. I am trying to craft a presentation I can use on a regular basis that will speak to the three pillars in the marketplace. First, there is the IBM Lotus space. I have that area down pretty well. Second, covering the Microsoft offers including Sharepoint, Office, OCS, Dynamics, and CRM. The third pillar is what I [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to be Relevant in 2010: Selecting Technologies that are Business Enablers Presentation from CAMP IT
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 5:50p John Head My co-worker Jim Vaselopulos gave this presentation at the CAMP IT Conference on "IT Architecture: Strategies for New Technology Adoption" on April 1st, 2010. It is a great presentation that covers some great thought leadership. I know Bruce Elgort enjoyed the presentation so I figured I would share it. How to be Relevant in 2010: Selecting Technologies that are Business EnablersView more presentations from Jim Vaselopulos. [read] Keywords: application
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Public Service Announcement for anyone using the Domino Blog template
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 9:20a John Head Many of you who read this blog or any of the other IBM blogs that PSC hosts noticed that since Sunday evening, the blog server was very slow. Sometimes not reachable at all. Since fixing it last night, I figured I would pass along a few thoughts on how others can prevent this problem. 1. If you are using the Domino Blog template from IBM, please make sure you have the Anti Spam Check? Option turned to YES The mix-and-mash blog did not have this turned on ... and had gotten over 250,000 [read] Keywords: connections
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New Media Tuesday - 4/6/2010
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 8:30p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Ally McBeal: Season #2 Battlestar Galactica (2004): The Complete Series Icons Of Suspense: Hammer Films Jade Warrior Lord Of The Rings, The: Remastered Deluxe Edition Lord Of The Rings, The: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Blu-Ray) (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Party Down: Season #1 Sharpe's Peril Simon & Simon: Season Four Tetro UFC: The Ultimate Fighter: Season #10 Computer Games Borderlands Double Game Add-On Pack: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned [read] Keywords: vista
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OOXML Drama ... No-Duh!
Mon, Apr 5th 2010 11:40p John Head Last week, Alex Brown wrote a pretty scathing blog entry about how Microsoft has not followed thru on implementing and supporting the OOXML ISO Standard. We have seen Ars Technica pick up the story. Even Ed blogged about it. Today, Nathan Freeman asked me this in IM: "so, I'm wondering if Alex's (Brown) blog post puts you in MSFT apologist-mode or "no-duh" mode" My answer was a resounding "no-duh" Here are some thoughts why. Microsoft said in late 2008 that there was no way ISO/IEC 2 [read] Keywords: ibm
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A Galactic Empire State of Mind
Wed, Mar 31st 2010 11:40p John Head Holy crap, this is the best Star Wars spoof video of all time ... See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Via The Movie Blog ... take one part Star Wars and another "Empire State of Mind" from Jazy and Alicia Keys, and you get this masterpiece. [read] Keywords: application
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New Media Tuesday - 3/30/2010
Tue, Mar 30th 2010 2:10p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 1st Amendment: Season #4 2012 Abbott and Costello Show: The Complete Series Alice In Wonderland: Special Un-Anniversary Edition America's Test Kitchen: The Complete 7th Season Crucifer Of Blood, The Damage Dangerous Man, A Deadliest Catch: Season #5 Dillinger Is Dead: The Criterion Collection Education, An Familiar Of Zero, The: The Complete Series (Viridian Collection) Hannah Montana: Miley Says Goodbye? IMAX: Under The Sea Joe Rogan: Talking Mo [read] Keywords: vista
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