This has been an interesting Lotusphere
from the perspective of the Lotus Vendor Community. The feedback
I heard, and I talked to as many Vendors as I could without distracting
them from their customers and prospects, was that the attendees were more
senior and more in decision making roles than last year. There were more
attendees from outside the United States which was great exposure to the
worldwide customer base.
Attendees were also curious to see what
was new, even though they did not have a specific need, they wanted something
new and exciting to bring back to their company.
Vendors were also happy with the new
Product Showcase booth layout as it invited people to wander and
discover really cool new Notes App that might be in a faraway corner.
There was some vendor complaining "IBM
should do this or that", to which I replied (as I always do) that
IBM is not responsible for their marketing, they are. I of course encouraged
them to list their Apps on the NotesAppStore
to add a place where they can be found (All of them responded very favorably...more
on that next week).
There was a lot of discussion about
the disappearance of the word "Lotus", and the conclusion was
IBM was beginning a rebranding process, the purpose of which was not clear
to the Vendor community.
Alistair Rennie showed up on the floor,
for only a few minutes. He was whisked away before I had a chance to film
him taking my "Boardwalking" Lotusphere Trivia questions, but
his presence was appreciated
This was the warmest Lotusphere in 3
or 4 years while the rest of the United States was getting the worst weather
of the winter.
The logistics of smoothly feeding thousands
of people a very tasty lunch in one hour was noted by more than one
vendor.
Next week "Boardwalking" Lotus
Trivia challenge....
Monitoring my Inbox for Replies
Tue, Mar 5th 2013 8:42a Frank Paolino Monitoring my Inbox waiting for a reply is
a vexing email problem that has bothered me for a long time. My coworkers
know that I am disorganized, and like to have tools to keep me on the straight
and narrow. I often send emails that require a response, but I have not
found a fast and easy way to monitor if I ever get a reply to that
important message. And I don't have a good system to do that.
So I designed a sidebar app, which I call
Reply
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Hurricane Sandy and MX Failover
Wed, Oct 31st 2012 11:22a Frank Paolino MayFlower provides MX Failover to all SpamSentinel
customers in cases of emergency, as Hurricane Sandy has proven to be.
Currently, we have a law firm in New
York and their mail is queueing up on our servers here, waiting for them
to return to work (who knows when?). They are not responding to phone calls,
which makes sense, as much of New York city is still having problems with
water and electric power.
Many times, when I explain MX failover
to customers, they generally say tha [read] Keywords: domino
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Canned Reply for CPA and Accounting Firms
Fri, Oct 26th 2012 10:22a Frank Paolino In my continuing effort to help customers
get a better return on their Lotus Notes investment, we have tuned our
Canned Reply offering for CPAs and Accounting Firms.
Let's take a look at how a CPA firm
would use Canned Replies for Lotus Notes.
Many CPA firms answer routine customer
questions about tax questions via email. A common question asked by many
customers relates to changing tax laws and deductions.
Busy tax accountants might be tempted
to answer with a short answer, as the [read] Keywords: lotus
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Art is Work
Wed, Aug 15th 2012 9:07a Frank Paolino My daughter, Sophie Germaine, just completed a three week project making
a mural on a wall in Concord, Massachusetts. Sophie and I were at La Provence
restaurant over winter break and talked about doing something with that
wall. The "wall" really was, to Sophie, a great big blank canvas
and cried out for some color and life!
Here is the wall as it looked
in the early spring of 2012:
So, Sophie spoke with the
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LinkedIn hacked for 6.5 million passwords
Wed, Jun 6th 2012 11:29a Frank Paolino Many sources have this report:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/linkedin-6-5-million-passwords-leaked-as-ios-app-comes-under-fire/
They all say "change your LinkedIn password now".
What also comes to mine is that more spam will be generated by scammers
exploiting this news story. They will be saying "click here to change
your password", or "your LinkedIn account has been hacked",
etc. etc.
Expect more spam purporting to be from LinkedIn. If you
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Canned Replies for Lotus Notes
Tue, May 22nd 2012 12:44p Frank Paolino One of the most popular features of Gmail is
"Canned Responses", which are "official" answers to
Frequently Asked Questions. It allows a Help Desk or Sales staff to provide
more complete answers every time they reply. So I asked myself "Can
this be done in Lotus Notes"? Well, the answer is "Yes"
and we have done it!
We call it Canned
Replies. It installs as a Lotus
Notes Sidebar App* in about 2 minutes. It allows us to create high
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Why Testing Everything is Important
Tue, Apr 10th 2012 8:24a Frank Paolino So this blog is being targeted by spammers
to advertise their products. I don't get a lot of comments, so I made the
default ACL "Readers" to stop the spam overnight and moved on
to the next thing on my Agenda.
I did not bother to test the blog
by creating a comment because I knew it would work. Until
it didn't.
Moral of the story: Make changes and
test them, or as a customer told me on my first week as a consultant:
Don't expect
it if you don't
inspect it.
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Jon Stewart on Obama Spam and Social Media
Fri, Apr 6th 2012 8:04a Frank Paolino This is a pretty funny skit. Jon talks
about Social Media and email spam. I don't want to spoil the fun, but here
are a few excerpts:
"The
ones from Barack Obama have the subject line "Hey"...you don't
need to address anyone as "Hey" to be cool. You're the President,
that's pretty f---ing cool! You don't need to resort to the sort
of fake familiarity that spammers use ...
Second, everytime I open those super
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Waikiki Celebrates Hawaii's Love of Canned Spam
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 5:04p Frank Paolino The WAIKIKI SPAM JAM Festival is a street festival
that celebrates the people of Hawaii's love for SPAM products a canned
meat from Hormel Foods. In Hawaii, you will find SPAM family of products
at all grocery and convenience stores, many restaurants and in most homes
in Hawaii.
According to Barbara Campbell, vice president
of Outrigger Enterprises Group, one of the event’s founding sponsors,
more SPAM is consumed per person in Hawaii than is consumed in any
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Unified by Spam - The Social Experiment
Mon, Mar 12th 2012 9:04a Frank Paolino This is a fun story of a spam atack that ends
up uniting a group of people. As reported in the Wall
Street Journal article, a spam message
sent to a listserv address created an auto-reply to all. Many other people
replied-to-all with "remove". This happened over and over. Finally,
one user said:
"Do
people understand that, by replying to all, you're perpetuating this ridiculous
spam cycle?" someone from the U.K. wrote. "I realize that I'm
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