Moving On To A New Job
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 5:29p Luis Benitez pEffective September 1st, I've started to transition to a new job. While I won't take the new job until October 1st, I've started the transition to get used to my new responsibilities./p
pWhen I first joined IBM more than 8 years ago, I joined as a developer in the Lotus Development organization. 2.5 years ago, I left Lotus Development to become one of the evangelists for social software and Enterprise 2.0 at IBM. That was a very rewarding experience and I truly enjoyed working with so many cust [read] Keywords: ibm
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Web-Based Administration Panel for Lotus Connections
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 4:27p Luis Benitez pThe past 48 hours have been pretty crazy for me. On Monday at 1am I left home to go to BOS then DFW. I had a a meeting at 10am in Plano, TX and that was the only way to get there on time. The meeting was very successful and then I headed up to Kansas City, MO for another meeting on Tuesday. Now, I'm on a plane heading back home./p
pAs I was at the airport and started to catch up with my feed reader, I found an interesting tool that all Lotus Connections administrators should be aware of. For th [read] Keywords: administration
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Lotus Connections Community Newsletter Generator Plug-In
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 3:30p Luis Benitez pAs you know, I a href="https://w3.ibm.com/connections/blogs/SocializeMe/entry/3_weeks_away_from_work_only_53_emails"was recently out of the office/a for my paternity leave. In my previous post I hinted as how I was working with Sacha Chua on a new project. Well, it turns out that during my paternity leave, my first TAP (IBM's Technology Adoption Program) contribution was published: the Lotus Connections Community Newsletter Generator!/p
pBased on some code that I had already written (and it's a [read] Keywords: connections
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3 weeks away from work: Only 53 emails!
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 12:26p Luis Benitez pSo after 3 weeks of being away from the office, I'm back. What kept me out for so long? This beautiful baby that just arrived img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2108/2535612391_2890d4586d.jpg?v=0" /./p
pimg style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://gallery.me.com/luisb518/100211/DSC_0194.jpg?derivative=mediumamp;source=web.jpgamp;type=mediumamp;ver=12821538370002" /br //p
pAnd besides this beautiful creature arriving, I was glad to open my email [read] Keywords: connections
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How To Drive Adoption For Your Enterprise 2.0 Deployment with Videos
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 10:23a Luis Benitez pYou may have heard this before, but I think it's worth repeating. I consider myself a newbie in the world of Enterprise 2.0. I started blogging internally at IBM about 4 years ago (even though our blogging platform has been around for almost 8 years). At the same time, I became an avid social bookmarker (again, even though our social bookmarking platform has been around for about 6 years). So what took me so long to get started?/p
pBack in 2006, I was working in IBM's consulting organization. D [read] Keywords: connections
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How To Accelerate iPhone 3G with iOS 4
Fri, Jul 2nd 2010 5:25p Luis Benitez pimg align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/IOS43GS.PNG" width="214" height="321" /Ever since I installed a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_4"iOS v4/a on my a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_3g"iPhone 3G/a, my phone has been running extremely slow. Simple applications like Camera, Safari, Text Messages, and others were simply crashing. Other apps took about 45 seconds to 1 minute [read] Keywords: apple
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IBM Lotus Connections is #1 Social Platform
Thu, Jul 1st 2010 4:24p Luis Benitez pa href="http://www.idc.com"IDC/a (International Data Corporation) just published a press release announcing its new study called a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=223817"Worldwide Social Platforms 2009 Vendor Shares/a (if you want to download it, it costs $3000!)./p
pAccording to the press release, the study found that even though 2009 was a tough economic year, the market for social platforms showed significant gains. In fact, font color="#993300"revenue grew 55.9% year-over-ye [read] Keywords: connections
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My First Trip to IBM Watson
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 6:28p Luis Benitez pYesterday, I made a quick trip up to the a href="http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml"IBM Watson Research Facility/a. I participated in an all day Executive Briefing with a customer as we convinced them that IBM was the right choice for collaboration technologies. But enough about me. This is about Watson./p
pWondering What Is Watson? Maybe this video will help./pobject width="560" height="340"
param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FC3IryWr4c8amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;hd [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Enterprise 2.0 Software for Consultants
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 4:27p Luis Benitez pBack some moons ago, I used to be part of IBM's services/consulting organization. Global Business Services (GBS) is the global consulting organizatoin within IBM. I started using Enterprise 2.0 software (mainly Lotus Connections) as a consultant for IBM./p
pIt was (and still is) the best way to find knowledge and people font color="#993300"bwhen/b/font you need them. One of the things that got me hooked was all the a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/search/label/integration"integration/a points th [read] Keywords: connections
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Harness a Changing Workforce and Drive Growth with Enteprise 2.0
Software
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 11:27a Luis Benitez pThis Wednesday IBM is hosting a free webcast for those of you still in the verge of the a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/search/label/business-value"business value of Enterprise 2.0/a. Jeff Schick, VP of Social Software for IBM will take you through some compelling use cases with significant business results. A live question and answer period will follow the presentation./p
pRegister by clicking on the link below:/p
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pHarness a Changing Workforce and Drive Growth with Social Software/ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Creating a Lotus Connections Plug-In for Sametime
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 12:25p Luis Benitez pimg align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://blog.lbenitez.com/images/lotus-connections-alert-20100607-064308.jpg" /Last week I posted about a new plug-in I created for a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/sametime/"Sametime/a, the a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2010/06/lotus-connections-plugin-for-sametime.html"Lotus Connections Notifications Plug-In/a. The plug-in is basically a feed reader of all the things that your collea [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Connections Plugin for Sametime
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 8:24a Luis Benitez pFor the last month or so, I've been consumed working on a side project. You see, every once in a while, IBM hosts an internal coding competition which takes place during 24 hours; it's called HackDay. On the last HackDay, one of the best developers for a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a, a href="http://twitter.com/vburckhardt"Vincent Burckhardt/a, created a desktop application for Lotus Connections. The application would show an alert periodic [read] Keywords: connections
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Getting the Lotus Connections Portlet to work with WebSEAL
Thu, May 27th 2010 3:27p Luis Benitez pfont face="sans-serif"span style="font-size: small;"font face="Helvetica" size="3"span style="font-size: 12px;"Last week, I spent a day at a customer up in New Jersey. They are currently deploying a pilot of a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a 2.5. One of the most important things for them is to be able to mash up Lotus Connections with their existing intranet applications via their portal (powered by a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webs [read] Keywords: connections
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Reto 2.010: A Local Web 2.0 Competition
Thu, May 13th 2010 9:27p Luis Benitez pThis past week I had the opportunity to serve as one of the judges for a local Web 2.0 competition called a href="http://www.apex.pr/reto/"Reto 2.010/a. IBM is one of the sponsors for this competition and the local team asked me to be a judge./p
pThe competition was open to local college students. The purpose of the contest was to see who could create the best mashup application using the a href="http://www.apex.pr/reto/documents.html"API's/a of a href="http://www.elnuevodia.com"El Nuevo Día/a [read] Keywords: ibm
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2nd Annual Bloggers Conference - A Recap
Mon, May 10th 2010 1:24p Luis Benitez pAs I mentioned in my last post, this past weekend was the 2nd Annual Bloggers Conference here in Puerto Rico. Unlike last year, this year's took place on a Saturday (as opposed to a Wednesday)./p
pSince I was the first speaker of the day, I thought it would be appropriate to get the audience engaged and motivated with the revolution that is Social Media and some of its stats. And to get everyone up to speed with the latest on Social Media, I kicked off the day with this video from Socialnomics: [read] Keywords: connections
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2nd Annual Bloggers Conference
Thu, May 6th 2010 8:28a Luis Benitez pThis weekend will be the 2nd Annual Bloggers Conference here in Puerto Rico. I attended last year and the event was very popular. There were about 150 attendees and I got to meet, for the first time, a lot of the local Blogging and Twitter community.img align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/935/96/n375915195671_8741.jpg" /br //p
pThis year, I'm going to be presenting along the lines of a previous talk I [read] Keywords: ibm
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Video Streaming in Lotus Connections
Wed, May 5th 2010 11:27a Luis Benitez pBack in January 2010, we had Lotusphere. Because something came up, a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2010/01/lotusphere-2010-recap.html"I had to leave Lotusphere/a immediately after the Opening General Session. One of the things that I missed from the session was a new solution available from a business partner. Ever since Lotusphere, I kept hearing about "Genus this" and "Genus that" and I wasn't sure what it was until recently./p
pIt turns out that a href="http://www.genusllc.com/wps/portal"Ge [read] Keywords: connections
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5 Tips to Energize Your Enterprise 2.0 Community
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 10:28a Luis Benitez pAs you may know, I lead the World Wide Social Software community within IBM. The Social Software Community @ IBM was launched on March 2007 with 200 initial members. Today, it has over 2000 members. On Friday, I got the following email from one of my peers at IBM./p
pimg style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://blog.lbenitez.com/images/community-best-practices-email-20100409-093028.jpg" //p
pI realized that this is a question that I get frequently f [read] Keywords: connections
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Source Code for Lotus Connections Portlets Now Available
Fri, Apr 9th 2010 8:29a Luis Benitez pimg align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LthFaPhQcm8/S7yZcc0q2CI/AAAAAAAABxQ/ew26TJuPPQg/s320/portal_collaboration_128.png" /a href="http://macguidera.blogspot.com"Mac Guidera/a, Product Manager for Lotus Connections gave us some a href="http://macguidera.blogspot.com/2010/04/lotus-connections-25-portlet-developer.html"wonderful news/a recently. The Lotus Connections development team has released the source code [read] Keywords: connections
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Microsoft OCS iWidget for Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 8:35a Luis Benitez pYesterday I told you how a href="http://www.epilio.com"Epilio/a was able to get the a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2010/04/microsoft-ocs-in-lotus-connections-25.html"Microsoft OCS presence awareness information in the Lotus Connections person card/a. Well, it turns out that the same company has also created an a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/search/label/iwidget"iWidget/a which can be deployed to Lotus Connections. That way, directly from the a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/produc [read] Keywords: connections
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