Yes, it was fun. And no, I couldn't see you.
Fri, Jan 27th 2012 4:20p Rob Novak I had the privilege of being called on
stage at Lotusphere 2012's opening general session by Alistair Rennie to
represent the IBM Champions for Collaboration Solutions. He gave me 5 minutes
notice and apparently didn't tell OGS staffers (except a few required to
get the photo right) during rehearsals for fear it might get back to me...
So at the opening, Alistair asked me
"Demo or No Demo?" to which I immediately said, "As big
a fan as I am of panels..." then crowd-sourced the a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SnappFiles native app for iOS, Quickr, CM8 and Filenet updated
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 10:40a Rob Novak Happy to say that we've just released SnappFiles
1.0.6 with some fixes to issues introduced by either Apple's iOS5 or IBM
Lotus Quickr 8.5.1. For the new year, we've addressed all of the reproducible
problems reported in Q4, leaving enhancements for the next round. Well,
all but one!
What's been fixed?
Crash after entering password if no
password was stored (iOS5 issue)
Crash deleting stored server information
(iOS5 issue)
Crash opening attachment from checked-out
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Lotusphere 2012 sessions
Tue, Dec 13th 2011 2:50p Rob Novak I'm pleased to be attending my 17th Lotusphere
in just a month (gulp) and speaking for the 11th straight time. It's a
little different this time around, with a new topic and speaking with a
new co-presenter, but it should be a great time again. Last year I eclipsed
my 50th session overall (pun intended), guess I've been slowing down in
my old age!
Here's what I'm signed up for:
For You "Nonstructured"
People: Getting Started with Analytics
Speaker: Rob Novak, SNAPPS
A [read] Keywords: domino
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From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing the evolution of Quickr templates
Fri, Sep 23rd 2011 1:00p Rob Novak Today I get to announce five new product
offerings from SNAPPS, not really surprising ones but cool nonetheless.
You may be aware that SNAPPS produced all the goods over at QuickrTemplates.com
in 2007, and updated them through Quickr 8.2. These free templates were
a big hit, and solidified IBM Lotus Quickr in many customer environments,
as well as helped hundreds of IBMers sell Quickr. These business-focused
templates were the key to success of Quickr in many organizations -- I've
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The Most Important Thing I've Written In My Life
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 12:00p Rob Novak Blog post number Five
Hundred Ninety-three.
This is it. It's also the most important
thing I've ever written, anywhere, ever. Papers, presentations, proposals,
reports, white papers, books, magazine articles, schoolwork, emails, blogs.
Ever.
Fair warning, I'm going to ask you for
something. Well, two things.
This is an awareness post, and a call
to our community (and others to which I belong, I'll be cross-posting)
for some assistance for one of our own.
Many of y [read] Keywords: collaboration
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From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing SnappWidgets for IBM Lotus Quickr
Wed, Sep 7th 2011 2:50p Rob Novak With the introduction of Quickr 8.5 came
a massive change in architecture, implementing (as in other IBM products)
a more current version of the Dojo JavaScript library. Not *the* most current,
but a quite serviceable version 1.4.3. This opened up Quickr Domino for
a new level of customization - no more hacking forms and subforms, susceptible
to corruption and upgrade blockages. By extending Quickr with Dojo widgets
(called "dijit"), one can accomplish what used to take a large
effort f [read] Keywords: domino
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From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing SnappMap Sitemap for IBM Lotus Quickr
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 4:10p Rob Novak Back in the old QuickPlace days, SNAPPS
had a great little product called AnyPlace Sitemap. It was an innovation
in navigation, and we sold quite a few in a couple years. Then came Quickr
in 2007, and without time to re-build and market, I decided to mothball
the product and put it in the "free" category. It had a bit of
heft and clunkiness, as it was implemented the only way possible at the
time, as a form plus a document with options. But it was popular, as it
could shorten end users [read] Keywords: ibm
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From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing SnappViews for IBM Lotus Quickr
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 3:20p Rob Novak IBM Lotus Quickr has folders and a fairly
good way of presenting them. Domino has views as well, which are quite
customizable and have evolved over 20 years. Domino developers with Ninja
skills have made views do things you never could imagine (believe me, I
know...we did an entire Great Code Giveaway on it in 2007). But those views,
our precious views, were not meant to be consumed by Quickr for Domino.
Nope, in fact, you're really not supposed to mess with the back end databases
in Qui [read] Keywords: collaboration
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From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing TrashMan for IBM Lotus Quickr
Wed, Aug 24th 2011 2:13p Rob Novak Here folks is the first of SNAPPS' ten
product announcements coming fast and furious over the next two weeks!
The Trash feature added in Lotus Quickr
8.5 (detailed here)
is a convenient way to remove unwanted or obsolete files from places and
rooms with a "safety net" to avoid unintentional deletion. But
unless manually deleted by someone with the proper authority, these files,
folders, lists, attachments and more will remain in the Trash forever,
getting backed up to tape, slowin [read] Keywords: connections
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Time to open the treasure chest
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 1:53p Rob Novak In 14 years of primarily being a consulting
practice, SNAPPS "Labs" has certainly put out quite a few utilities,
products, and tools for developers, admins and end users. Let's see...we
had four products for QuickPlace. We built templates that have had 130,000
downloads in 4 years. Our SnappFiles app for iOS has nearly 10,000 users.
We built Adobe Air utilities PandaBear and Flippr for cross-platform file
integration and remote administration. Add to this a few hundred thousand
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Happy SNAPPSiversary to...oh wait, never mind :)
Mon, Aug 8th 2011 10:33a Rob Novak Three years ago today, August 8, 2009,
I had the pleasure of bringing on board one of our community's elite programmers,
speakers and writers,
Julian Robichaux. We were colleagues
who became friends (and occasional roommates and road trip mates), and
he quickly contributed to the team, while stretching into new territory
-- Quickr development, mobile development, deep analysis of the Eclipse
side of Notes, and of course represented SNAPPS to the highest standards
at conferences and user [read] Keywords: notes
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SnappFiles native app for iOS, Quickr, CM8 and Filenet updated, now available
Mon, Jul 18th 2011 12:20p Rob Novak At long last, SnappFiles for iPhone, iPad,
and iPod touch has been upgraded for use with Quickr 8.5.1! And it's just
the beginning, as SNAPPS is "opening the treasure chest" and
announcing more new products this week!
Quietly launched on June 24, we watched
the support inbox while more than 4,000 people updated their devices for
3 weeks, and we received only four issue reports. Two were on unsupported
versions of Quickr (8.5.0 is not supported!), one on a server using basic
authen [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr 8.5.1 Fixpack 4 is out--with one of my favorite SPR descriptions ever
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 10:00a Rob Novak Fixpack 4 for Quickr Domino 8.5.1 showed
up this morning. While none of the SPRs were "ours" I do see
quite a few that have been reported in the Quickr forums and on Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, I have sadly removed my standing search for "Quickr."
It's too bad, really, as I've used the medium to help quite a few
people with issues from time to time. It's amazing what you can do in 140
characters if the question is clear! Alas, a "quickr.org" site
popped up in the last 3-4 mont [read] Keywords: domino
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There goes one of the good ones. Hasta la vista, Viktor!
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 8:20a Rob Novak Viktor Krantz and I like to tease people
by telling them we "met on the Internet" in 1999. It's true,
really. After having spent 1986-87 as a foreign exchange student in Missouri,
he came to visit his host family about every other year. And two years
after I started SNAPPS, Viktor shot me an email asking if I had any interest
in hiring as he planned to move to the United States, his wife-to-be was
in mid-Missouri, and he knew that jobs were only to be had in KC and St.
Louis. I was int [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Up and Coming: USF Students at Lotusphere 2011
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 10:30a Rob Novak "What
enticed 140 University of South Florida students to roll out of bed early
enough to catch a bus leaving for Orlando at 5:30 in the morning? It wasn’t
a trip to an amusement park or sporting event. It was the opportunity to
be one of the first student groups ever to attend Lotusphere 2011, the
annual premier conference for developers, administrators, IT and business
professionals from all over the world, coming together to share their latest
innovations and software solutions."
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You know those Collaboration Skype chats you're not in? Now there is another one. Sametime...
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 11:50a Rob Novak About a year ago, our good friend Stuart
McIntyre (I won't even attempt a link because he has entirely too many
from which to choose!) set up community chat groups for Quickr and Connections,
and maybe a few others, on Skype. Last week I wondered (which turned into
a Skype question in pixels) if he had done one for Sametime, and he hadn't.
It was an odd concept, true, setting up a Skype chat about Sametime, but
Skype is just so darn good at grouping and keeping track of chat histories
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The wrapup that has nothing to do with Lotusphere
Thu, Feb 10th 2011 8:30a Rob Novak Some of you have noted my lack of blogging,
in fact I took the entire month of January off and didn't even blog during
Lotusphere. Yes I was in the blogger's den, and tweeted 420 times during
Lotusphere - second
most with the #LS11 tag - instead
of blogging. There are some great Lotusphere blog entries and "wrap-ups"
out there so nobody has been starved for reading material.
I have a lot to say about Lotusphere,
"Lotus," Domino, Quickr, Sametime, Connections and the community
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In which I slightly embellish Julians excellent ILUG adventure tale
Thu, Dec 9th 2010 3:50p Rob Novak As Julian Robichaux so elegantly recounted,
we had a wonderful time last month at the Irish lotus User Group meeting
in Belfast. He recounted it because I couldn't remember bits. A story for
another day, but suffice it to say muscle relaxants after 18 hours of travel,
good. Beer, good. Both, because you forgot the former, bad. But I digress.
Julian's tale of our adventures is in fact quite accurate - we did take
something of a "long" route from the Giant's Causeway to Dublin,
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You know, calendars can be boring and embarrassing. Mines gone. This is better.
Fri, Nov 19th 2010 7:10p Rob Novak I just decided to ditch the blog calendar
that's been sitting on the top right for all 7.5 years of this blog. Why?
Lots of reasons. Blogging has slowed (here anyway - nobody can type like
Ed
Brill, I've seen the man in action!)
due to the proliferation of other social media (follow me! follow me! connect!)
making the calendar an in-my-face reminder of what appears to be laziness
or staleness, when in fact I'm engaging with people in more ways than the
blog could ever do. I have a ver [read] Keywords: ibm
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The most inspiring use case Ive ever heard for Lotus mobile
Tue, Nov 2nd 2010 4:00p Rob Novak I've recently been informed that the combination
of Lotus Quickr, SnappFiles
(free iPhone/iPad reader for Quickr content, created by SNAPPS' very own
Julian
Robichaux) and a shiny new iPad
are being used on a regular basis by a president. Not a tiny little
company president like me, not an impressive company president like Sam
Palmisano (well, maybe he is, who knows!), but a real, elected president.
Head of state.
My jaw dropped.
I cannot say which country and won't
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Wearing the badge of honor...its about time
Thu, Oct 28th 2010 8:10p Rob Novak OK so here's the deal. We could have done
this 10 years ago. We probably should have done it five years ago. I just
wasn't paying much attention to badges, labels, points, or certs. However
after being convinced a year ago by Catherine Stone at Lotus that it was
a good thing - no matter what your reputation or how successful you already
were - to "level up" as an IBM Business Partner. So, with a few
days of work I rearranged a few fields, validated a product and bumped
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Irish Lotus User Group coming in just three weeks...and there will be beer
Tue, Oct 26th 2010 10:50a Rob Novak Julian
Robichaux and I have the pleasure
of going once again to the
Irish Lotus User Group meeting
in Belfast, Northern Ireland in just a few weeks. If you said it took me
too long to decide on a session topic, then ten of my friends and organizers
would simply nod in agreement...
Just posted, here is my session topic...yeah,
there's the hook up front but still, this should be a fun and interesting
session to deliver after three packed days of technical brilliance. Have
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The eve of 9/11 will always be another event for me, this one happy
Fri, Sep 10th 2010 2:00p Rob Novak Today in history:
On September 10, 1938, Joseph and Emily
Novak, now 93, were married. Today marks their 72nd wedding anniversary,
and they celebrate with my parents in Naples, FL tonight. I wish I had
some words worthy of such an occasion - I wrote a
tome on their 70th - but all I
can think of today is ... Happy Anniversary, Babi and Gramps. I love you. [read] Keywords: notes
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CU Keynote Announced, Quickr 8.5, and quotable quotes
Tue, Sep 7th 2010 3:50p Rob Novak First and foremost, I'm pleased
to announce that Louis Richardson, Lotus Worldwide Executive for
Social Software, has agreed to deliver the Keynote address at BOTH Collaboration
University events this month -
London Sept 21-23, and Chicago Sept 27-29. Louis, at IBM the past six years,
has been instrumental in helping get the word out about Collaboration University
inside IBM, has seen his role expand from worldwide Document collaboration
sales to include the Social Software lines as they [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Ten days later, we have liftoff
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 5:00p Rob Novak SNAPP-On™ Modules for Lotus Quickr Released
As I announced here on Aug 16th, SNAPPS was working on some user-focused plug-in modules for the "My Places" area of Lotus Quickr for Domino. Well today I can happily say it is a fait accompli, and ready for production! We've developed three to start with, and more are in the works. The Modules work with versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.5 (beta or GA, when that comes). I've detailed them below, and you should see screenshots very soon - but the [read] Keywords: domino
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Just a wee delay for Sametime 8.5.1
Thu, Jul 29th 2010 6:16p Rob Novak From IBM Channel Comms:
On Tuesday, July 27, IBM announced that
IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 would be generally available (GA) for customers
and IBM Business Partners to install today, Thursday, July 29. Unfortunately,
we identified an issue during the build process and have opted to delay
the GA release by up to two weeks.
We understand that some Sametime customers will be impacted by this delay
and apologize for the inconvenience. However, IBM takes product quality
very ser [read] Keywords: ibm
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