What do I have in common with 102 teenages and 50 gallons of juice?
Fri, Mar 9th 2012 2:30p Mary Beth Raven The “Fast for Social Action” is taking place this weekend at St. John Newumann Church in Merrimack, NH. We have 102 teenages signed up to go 30 hours with no food to raise money. (They can drink juice though.) The money goes to 6 area agencies. Each of the agencies comes and does a presentation during the 30 hours, so the kids learn where the money is going.
This is the 16th year we’ve done it – and I’ve volunteered in som eway each year. In the past few, my k [read] Keywords: community
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Summary and impressions from my first SolidWorks World Conference
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 1:10p Mary Beth Raven I am on my way back to the east coast after my first SolidWorks World. I am very fortunate that even though I’ve worked for SolidWorks for only 5 months, I was able to attend. I had a two-fold purpose for attending: Conduct some usability tests and speak with Keri Prasky in a breakout session.
I conducted 18 one-hour usability sessions over 4 days (some were a bit shorter, some were longer). I had a wonderful time with each test. My favorite part was learning what you all use SolidWork [read] Keywords: ibm
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Meet more of the UX team!
Tue, Feb 14th 2012 1:10p Mary Beth Raven Come and meet Chin-loo Lama in the Usability lab in the Hilton Bayfront rom 312
And while there you can also meet Julie Casanave!
Or, if you don’t have time to come to us, when you see us in the halls, just stop and say hi! [read] Keywords: facebook
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Meet the UX team in the usability lab at SolidWorks World, 2012
Tue, Feb 14th 2012 12:20p Mary Beth Raven SolidWorks World 2012 is in full swing as we enter the second full day of sessions. The UX (user experience) team has already been had at work doing usability testings all day Saturday and Sunday. We continue to run usability tests on e-drawings, sustainability, costing, Simulia, Community forums, Tree view, and other topics.
If you are scheduled to be a participant, thank you! If you are not scheduled, we have a few slots left (I am free at 3:30 if you want to do community forum testing). [read] Keywords: community
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Lotusphere 2012 from the inside out
Sun, Jan 29th 2012 8:00a Mary Beth Raven Lotusphere 2012 is just a memory now (well, a memory enhanced by instagram and flickr and other photos sites…).
For 14 years I attended as an “insider” – an IBM employee. This year was my first year not as an IBM employee; I was the guest of business partner panagenda.
During my 14 years as an IBMer, I participated in various ways. My first several years were as the Sametime UI designer. We had a pedestal on the showcase floor my very first year. My second yea [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere: Stop by booth 508 for free copy of The View
Thu, Jan 12th 2012 8:20a Mary Beth Raven To those of you attending Lotusphere 2012 in Orlando next week, I’ll have several copies of The view, Vol 17 Issue 2 from 2011, to give away.
The contents of this issue are:
Version Control for Domino Designer (Julian Buss)
7 Ways to Ease users’ Transition from MS Outlook to Lotus Notes (Mary Beth Raven)
Lotus Votes! A Ready-Made Function for Your Notes 8 Users (Richard Thompsen)
Mobilizing Domino Data using Kryos Velocity AppXtender (John M. Wargo)
Xpath: A Flexible Solution for [read] Keywords: domino
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Collective Intelligence, Collective Compassion
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 8:00a Mary Beth Raven In a previous post, I argued that as users of social media and as people striving for collective intelligence, that the “Borg” character from Star Trek is something we should aspire to. Certainly, the idea of being able to immediately and seamlessly work together to solve a problem quickly or react to a situation in new and different ways, is something that we as human communities want to do.
It would have been great to have this kind of “borg-like” learning and respons [read] Keywords: facebook
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Star Trek’s Capt. Picard was wrong. The Borg are not our enemy. They are what we aspire to be.
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 7:00a Mary Beth Raven In the TV series Star Trek: the Next Generation (and Movie First Contact), the crew of the Starship Enterprise fights against an enemy called “The Borg.” The Borg are depicted as cybernetically enhanced humanoids of various races, organized as a “hive mind” collective that can think and learn together. The Borg sound byte is:
“We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technical distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Can we crowdsource some books for my kid’s school?
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 8:01p Mary Beth Raven Hey folks,
If you have one or more of the following books taking up space on some shelf…, and you do not need it any more, please send it to my daughter’s charter school in New Hampshire, USA. A charter school gets little funding, so they are always looking for help in various ways. The number is the number of copies they need.
Just take it to the post office/Fed ex, whatever is cheapest and mail it to:
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NH Academy for Science and Design
316 Daniel Webster Highway
Merrimack, [read] Keywords: facebook
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What will the Samoans’ Online Calendars Do?
Fri, Dec 30th 2011 5:00p Mary Beth Raven As many of you have heard, Samoa is changing time zones and losing a day.
What will their online calendars do? As Flemming Christiansen pointed out in his blog post, users of Notes may have a patch.
I am enjoying the news coverage. Because, when John Lance and I were working on Lotus Notes and the Notes calendar, we’d compe up with all sorts of use cases….
For example:
Samantha is flying backward over the internatoinal date line on the same day as Daylight savings time kicks i [read] Keywords: lotus
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Social Media, Social Justice — Social Ignorance???
Tue, Dec 20th 2011 8:10p Mary Beth Raven Last Sunday I taught 2 classes at my church about “Social justice” (the idea of creating a society based on justice and equality).
I thought it might be fun for these high-school kids to tie it in with Social media, so I planned to talk about the Arab spring and the role Facebook played, and Occupy wall street.
Well.
The first class has 27 kids. Almost all of them had facebook accounts. But. Not ONE of them had heard of the Arab spring or the role that Facebook played.
I was a bit [read] Keywords: facebook
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Social Justice, Social Media
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 7:40a Mary Beth Raven I agreed to teach a high school religious education class next Sunday night. The topic is “What is Social Justice and what can we do to achieve it.” Since it’s with High schoolers I want to incorporate a “Social meida” component and get them talking/thinking about how, if at all, using social media can help achieve Social justice. I’ve jotted some ideas below, but please – add your thoughts and comments as well!
The story of Twestival – talk ab [read] Keywords: facebook
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See you at #LS12
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 8:40p Mary Beth Raven Congratulations to my friends who were notified today that they have speaker slots at the IBM Lotusphere 2012 (#LS12) conference.
(And condolences to those who were not chosen!)
I participated in 12 Lotusphere conferences as an IBMer. And I loved each one of them. I spoke at most of them — perhaps 8 or 9. My first speaking gig was 1999, when Sametime was a brand new product. My last was last year, when I did a Show and Tell with Jamie Liu about extending Notes, Sametime and Symp [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Farewell and Congratulations to my friend and colleage, Marty Moore
Fri, Nov 18th 2011 5:30p Mary Beth Raven My friend and colleage of several years at IBM – Marty Moore – has decided to try his luck at Google. In New York City. In their Cool new (well new to them) building.
Marty and I worked together on several projects, from Workplace, to Notes 8, to project Vulcan. I want to publically thank Marty – he’s been a great asset to IBM and just a wonderful, humorous, and reliable person to work with (and the speed with which he can deliver a beautiful mockup intimidates the He [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Searching in MS Outlook 2010: A disappointment
Tue, Nov 8th 2011 7:00p Mary Beth Raven I spent several years as the design lead for Lotus Notes, and during that time, I often heard “Outlook does it this way”…
with the implication that that meant “better.” Based on how many glowing things I’d heard about “how Outlook does it”, when I started a new job at which I use Outlook, I was prepared to be pleased and productive. Heh.
My first and biggest disappointment with Outlook 2010 is the search. It was not easy to figure out how to se [read] Keywords: lotus
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A blog about collaboration and social media adoption
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 7:58p Mary Beth Raven I’ve been blogging for about 6 years, mainly on Www.NotesDesignBlog.com. That blog was mainly to gather feedback from our many constituents about the design of Lotus Notes, including the integration of various social business features such as microblogging in the sidebar. That blog was very specific to certain technology.
In this blog I’d like to explore and discuss some (technology-agnostic) issues concerning getting people to “do” social business/adopt social media [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Internal online communities: create as many as you want?
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 5:26p Mary Beth Raven I had a conversation today with someone who wanted to increase the use of the internal collaboration communities at her company. By “collaboration communities” I mean online communities that you find in IBM Connections, IBM LotusLive, or a discussion forum as you might find in Jive, or a Socialtext Workspace ( I am trying to be technology- agnostic ). One of the things we discussed was whether or not the employees could just make any kind of new community at will, or whether the cr [read] Keywords: admin
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