Running DAOS? New Fixpack available
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 1:21p Stuart McIntyre Running DAOS on Domino 8.5.1? If so, then you need to know about this fixpack:Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 (8.5.1 FP1 IF1) - DAOS Fixes Abstract A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) issues have been identified and fixed by IBM. We recommend any customer running DAOS to apply this interim fix or release that addresses these issues. Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 is available that addresses these DAOS issues. Content A series of DAOS (Domino Attachm [read] Keywords: domino
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Running DAOS?
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 1:21p Stuart McIntyre Running DAOS on Domino 8.5.1? If so, then you need to know about this fixpack:Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 (8.5.1 FP1 IF1) - DAOS Fixes Abstract A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) issues have been identified and fixed by IBM. We recommend any customer running DAOS to apply this interim fix or release that addresses these issues. Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 is available that addresses these DAOS issues. Content A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment [read] Keywords: domino
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And while we’re at it... LotusInfocenters.com
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 10:01a Stuart McIntyre Along the same lines as the LotusWikis.com redirects I mentioned earlier today, you can now use LotusInfocenters.com to easily access all the Lotus product Infocenters: Simply enter LotusInfocenters.com/'name of the product' and you'll get redirected instantaneously to the appropriate wiki, e.g.: LotusInfocenters.com the list of all the Lotus/Portal documentation sites LotusInfocenters.com/notes Lotus Notes/Domino infocenter LotusInfocenters.com/domino Lotus Notes/Domino infocenter Lotu [read] Keywords: connections
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What if work was SOCIAL again?
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 5:20p Stuart McIntyre Whilst Collaboration Matters is best known as a Lotus partner, and for our work on Lotus Connections specifically, its worth restating that we are focused on social collaboration adoption, not on one particular vendor's tools. To that end, we are also a partner of Jive software, and love the work they are doing with their SBS social suite. This new ad gives an overview of where they're headed with their latest release... What if work could be SOCIAL again? [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Is Lotus a well-behaved Lotus ISV?
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 2:32a Stuart McIntyre If an organisation becomes a Lotus ISV, i.e. builds products and solutions on the Lotus portfolio of products, IBM has certain unwritten expectations (they're probably written as well, but I can't find them on Partnerworld)... Expectations that probably include: That the code written will be reliable and secure That the product will not be marketed in a way that conflicts with Lotus' own marketing That the product will keep up with support for new versions of the Lotus products All fairly r [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Salesforce.com move into cloud-based collaboration tools
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 9:22a Stuart McIntyre Interesting move by Salesforce.com - clearly looking to expand their solutions to compete with offerings from LotusLive and Microsoft amongst others:CRM software vendor Salesforce.com has rolled out the beta version of its Chatter application, which is designed to integrate enterprise collaboration with cloud computing and social networking, for around 100 customers to try the software on their existing infrastructure. The company has designed the software in an attempt to compete with IBM's [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 2:11a Stuart McIntyre Now here's a great case-study... The Social Media Examiner takes an in-depth and very appealing look at IBM's social media strategy, and is surprised at what it finds:“Be yourself.” It’s one of the rules of social media. If you’re blogging, tweeting or Facebooking for business, be real—or you won’t be followed. Yet, how do you pull off “authentic” while maintaining the company brand message? It’s tough enough for a small business. W [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2010 Feedback - Mini Keynotes
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 1:55a Stuart McIntyre First up, I want to reiterate that Lotusphere 2010 was a great event. There was massive business value to be gained, it ran like clockwork as we have come to expect, the community that attended produced a wonderful atmosphere and fun was had by all. My thanks go out to the team involved in organising it (Sandra, Kristin and many unsung heros and heroines), and Lotusphere continues to be the best tech conference I attend each year. You know there's a 'but' coming right? There's a few [read] Keywords: connections
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Knowledge Network - introducing the user profile
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre The user profile is a key element of the Knowledge Network (K-Net) solution - it starts with the usual organisations directory types of information - phone numbers, email addresses etc. - and builds out to capture much more contextual and social information regarding a user's identity, knowledge and experience. Wherever a user's name appears in K-Net, it is a direct link to that user's profile. For example, here is a notification that I have updated my profile: If I click on the name, [read] Keywords: email
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Introducing the Knowledge Network
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre I am delighted today to announce that Collaboration Matters has launched its first packaged social collaboration soltion, the Knowledge Network, or K-Net for short. K-Net is a full-featured suite of social collaboration and knowledge sharing tools for organisations, built 100% on a Lotus Domino platform. Features include: Social Profiles Collaboration Spaces and Communities Team, Group and Project areas Tagging and Bookmarking Personal and Group Blogs Content Management and much much more. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Last minute request for assistance - US 3G SIM card?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre I've tweeted this request a few times but not got a useful answer as yet. I'm lucky enough to have a unlocked 3G/HSDPA ExpressCard modem which I can use worldwide (great deal from Expansys by the way). Unfortunately my operator in the UK, T-Mobile, insists on charging GBP7.50 ($11 or something) per Megabyte (!!!!!!) for data use in the USA. Errr thanks, but no thanks! They don't no any kind of roaming bundle for the US, nor have any relationship with T-Mobile USA that would mean I could ge [read] Keywords: lotus
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Choppy Skype conversations?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre Ever since we upgraded our broadband connection from the office, I've had massive issues with Skype call quality. Audio has been choppy, conversations have been lagged and calls have been dropped. Not good, especially when trying to record podcasts and plan Lotusphere sessions with folks on the other side of the Atlantic, amongst many other requirements! This despite decent bandwidth (6Mbps download - this is rural Wiltshire after all) and good performance for all other network activities. [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Knowledge Network - Introducing Spaces
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre Last Sunday at Lotusphere 2010, Collaboration Matters launched the Knowledge Network, our new Social Collaboration and Knowledge Management suite for Lotus Domino. The Knowledge Network, or K-Net for short, is a rounded suite of social tools allowing organisations to enable their users to more easily share information, find skills and resources, collaborate with others and to build an organisations network of knowledge. During the next couple of weeks, we'll be introducing each of the mo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Canonical Offers Dedicated Support Program for Lotus Symphony
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre This is good news - Canonical throwing its weight behind Lotus Symphony:Canonical today announced a dedicated support program for Lotus Symphony, the no-charge office productivity alternative which is a core component of IBM Client for Smart Work (ICSW) on Ubuntu. (PRWEB) January 18, 2010 -- Canonical today announced a dedicated support program for Lotus Symphony, the no-charge office productivity alternative which is a core component of IBM Client for Smart Work (ICSW) on Ubuntu. This suppo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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A new Lotus?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre As is my wont, I'm trying to take a 30,000ft view of Lotusphere on the final day, and as usual, it's really difficult whilst still here on site in the hustle and bustle of the event. However, whilst a debrief takes time, and a full review of the week will follow after I get back to the UK, there is definitely a theme that I will take away from this week. A new Lotus has begun to emerge... A Lotus that: is assured of its place in the market, ready to compete head on with all the soci [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Open Mic: Planning for deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 (January 27, 2010)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Stuart McIntyre Now this will be an interesting call, particularly given how complex the Sametime 8.5 product is perceived to be:You are invited to participate in an IBM Open Microphone call with IBM subject matter experts to discuss planning for deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 (namely, deployment considerations, install planning, and upgrade considerations). Title: Open Mic: Planning for deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 Announcement: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=477&uid=swg21418099 Da [read] Keywords: administration
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Ready for ’Social Software 2.0’?
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 2:12a Stuart McIntyre Just when many organisations are finally getting to grips with Social Software for the first time, Hutch Carpenter tries to take it to the next level:Social Software 1.0 was the era of actually creating these open, collaborative applications. The approach of these tools was groundbreaking. Apps for managing knowledge that are open, persistent, easy to create and accepting contributions from many? This was groundbreaking. The tools of Social Software 1.0 are: blogs, wikis, forums, microblogging, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Presenting at Lotusphere 2010!
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 4:07a Stuart McIntyre I am delighted (and very honoured) to say that I have been selected to co-present a session at Lotusphere 2010. Rob Wunderlich and I will be presenting:"Twelve Things Your Mother Never Told You About Installing Lotus Connections" It’s a case of the "bark is worse than the bite." Installing Lotus Connections – admittedly - is a complex process, with many pre-requisites to be met, environment-specific decisions to be taken and almost endless opportunities for customization and [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino-based blogs and Feedburner - the fix!
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 3:19p Stuart McIntyre Like many others in the Lotus community, I'm a big user of of both Domino-based blogs (DominoBlog in my case, but I believe Blogsphere is also affected) and Feedburner. I send all my blog content, comment and aggregated feeds through Feedburner in order to have some freedom to move the blogs around, to change settings and above all, to be able to track subscriptions and manage podcast content. It's a good service, though like others that Google has acquired over the years seems to have fal [read] Keywords: domino
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Update on ExtST - IBM’s external Sametime service
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 12:28p Stuart McIntyre Those that follow me on Twitter, via this blog or have seen my comments on other blogs will know that I have had a significant issue with IBM's external Sametime service for a number of years. Also, may of you will be aware that I am not alone in this - other bloggers of note have made it very clear that IBM's support for this service has fallen short. How? Well, ExtST.ibm.com is intended to be a Sametime community that anyone worldwide can connect to (customers, partners, analysts, press [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why IBM still matters...
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 8:11p Stuart McIntyre Interesting coverage from Computerworld:Opinion: Why IBM still matters To read the headlines in the business and technical press during the last several years, you'd think that the once world-beating IBM had fallen off the face of the earth. Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft -- those seem to be the names that garner all the publicity. You might be surprised, then, to learn that IBM is flying high these days, a success as much driven by its forward-thinking services and s [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1 announced
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 2:49a Stuart McIntyre Right on schedule, this morning we have the formal announcement letter for Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.1:IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5.1 include many features and enhancements that improve usability for both the end user and developers IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5.1 includes many features and enhancements that improve the usability of the solutions for both the end user (Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes, and Lotus Notes Traveler) and developers (Domino Designer). * Lowers the [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1 announced
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 2:47a Stuart McIntyre Right on schedule, this morning we have the formal announcement letter for Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.1:IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5.1 include many features and enhancements that improve usability for both the end user and developers IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5.1 includes many features and enhancements that improve the usability of the solutions for both the end user (Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes, and Lotus Notes Traveler) and developers (Domino Designer). * Lowers the [read] Keywords: designer
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Rules for students
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 6:09p Stuart McIntyre Many of you will already have seen these (or at least the first eleven), but my wife was discussing them with our kids today, so I thought it was worth posting them here: Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1. Rule No. 2: T [read] Keywords: document
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IBM and Canonical launch netbook platform
Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 8:58a Stuart McIntyre This is exciting news - a combined IBM and Ubuntu based netbook platform designed for on-premise and cloud-based collaboration and aimed at emerging markets such as Africa:IBM, Canonical and Partners Launch Cloud- and Linux-based Netbook Software in Africa IBM Client for Smart Work Helps Bridge the Digital Divide for Businesses ARMONK, N.Y. and JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Canonical are introducing a new, flexible personal comput [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Protector 2.5 announced
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 2:00a Stuart McIntyre IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 delivers spam and malware enhancements At a glance IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 gives you: * Notes client integration * Zero Level Analysis (ZLA) * IBM System x hardware support * Performance improvements Overview IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 is proven to be out-of-the-box 99% or better effective against spam and malware (as verified by independent ICSA Labs) and provides enhanced rich content filtering cap [read] Keywords: collaboration
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If you are planning to go to one Lotus event next year...
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 1:25a Stuart McIntyre ... make it this one - Collaboration University! Yesterday was the first day of Collaboration University in London, following the three-day event in Chicago last week. 40+ knowledgeable customers and partners, the best community speakers in the business and a clear and unashamed focus on Lotus Quickr, Sametime and Connections - a great mix. There really is no better conference if you have an interest in these products - the sessions are very technical deep-dives, both admin/infrastructure [read] Keywords: admin
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LotusKnows the campaign is underway!
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 1:39a Stuart McIntyre Today is the day! The first of the LotusKnows advertising will hit the airports, subways and newspapers in the USA, with international coverage to follow soon. Just as importantly, the LotusKnows website at http://lotusknows.com has gone live... And what's more, it's a great site - attractive, appealing, very interactive and covering all the bases. Great stuff! [read] Keywords:
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Mac user? Want to run VMs?
Fri, Sep 18th 2009 7:57a Stuart McIntyre If you'd like to run Windows or Linux on your Mac in virtual machines, you really have two choices: Parallels or VMWare Fusion. My personal preference has always been for Fusion as it lets me create and use VMs that can subsequently be migrated to ESX and run as servers. If you're interested in VMWare Fusion, now might be the time to buy:VMware Fusion 2.0.5, 56% off VMWare Fusion... Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the [read] Keywords: apple
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Use Google Docs? You might want to read this...
Fri, Sep 18th 2009 5:10a Stuart McIntyre Received this in the mail today:Google Apps: Important changes coming to published Google Docs Hello Google Apps admin, We wanted to let you know about some important changes around published documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. In a few weeks, documents, spreadsheets and presentations that have been explicitly published outside your organization and are linked to from a public website will be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.c [read] Keywords: admin
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Running Domino on Windows 2003 on ESX?
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 6:36a Stuart McIntyre Do you run Domino 7.0.x, 8.0.x or 8.5 on Windows 2003 on VMWare ESX? If so, you might wish to check the performance you're seeing from the Domino HTTP stack:Poor performance of Domino HTTP server on VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5 Technote (troubleshooting) Problem While VMware ESX is a supported hypervisor for Domino and Domino based applications, several customer have reported poor performance of Lotus Domino HTTP on Windows 2003 on VMware ESX. The symptoms are flat CPU utilization (regardless [read] Keywords: domino
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6 days to go - you know you can’t miss this
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 3:59p Stuart McIntyre With just 6 days remaining before Collaboration University Chicago and 13 days to CU London, we are reviewing final presentations and can tell you that there is really some great new technical info this year. With new versions of everything (and Sametime 8.5 indepth coverage) there are going to be more than a few revelations at this year's conferences. Here's a sample of what the experts are preparing for you! * Warren Elsmore has labored many many weeks getting Sametime 8 on Linux, so yo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Wow, HeadShift acquired by Dachis Group
Wed, Sep 2nd 2009 2:49a Stuart McIntyre DACHIS GROUP EXPANDS INTERNATIONALLY ACQUIRING HEADSHIFT, LTD. Investment creates international firm providing scale and reach to service global clients SOURCE: Dachis Group AUSTIN, TEXAS (September 2, 2009) News Details * Dachis Group announced today that it has acquired London-based Headshift Ltd. * The acquisition provides Dachis Group the ability to meet the increasing demand for larger and more complex engagements with global companies striving to create value through [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Two great quotes on building dynamic and productive social networks
Thu, Aug 27th 2009 2:02a Stuart McIntyre Oliver Marks:The goal of good collaboration networks over time are to build up ever more valuable repositories of information. The contributors may evolve and change over time, just as the personal connections and relationships that grow from sharing the information may mutate and change, but the body of knowledge and interconnected ‘business fabric’ grows cumulatively ever stronger.Patti Anklam at the{app}gap:If you have a “closed” network, where everyone pretty much kno [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 OpenMic
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 2:30a Stuart McIntyre Hopefully you're all planning your upgrades to Domino 8.5 right now, or even better, are in the midst of the upgrade process. If not, why not? Simply enabling DAOS may well cover the costs of the upgrade work. Either way, this promises to be an excellent OpenMic call:IBM is hosting an Open Mic conference call with Lotus Development and Support Engineering to discuss Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM EDT (2:00 PM GMT). The call will last 60 minutes. Pleas [read] Keywords: domino
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Looking for the WebSphere Update Installer?
Mon, Aug 24th 2009 8:26a Stuart McIntyre Just about anyone who has ever installed a WebSphere based product will be familiar with the Update Installer - a separately installed mini-application that provides a GUI (plus command-line and silent installer) for WAS and WAS ND amongst other applications. Searching for a version for AIX on FixCentral I noticed that the Update Installer was not listed, which I'm sure used to be the case. Instead, it must be downloaded from this page:Update Installer for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 [read] Keywords: connections
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Come join the Jam!
Wed, Aug 19th 2009 1:09a Stuart McIntyre Tell us what You Know about Lotus Software! We want to use an inside-out approach in developing the Lotus Knows campaign elements by tapping into the energy in the Lotus community to inspire advocacy and generate real content and excitement at campaign launch. Many of you are already involved helping to get the message out virally through your blogs and tweets. The next milestone happens on August 19th. On August 19 at 8:00 am EDT US we are launching the “ [read] Keywords: lotus
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The value of Storytelling
Fri, Aug 14th 2009 6:32a Stuart McIntyre Do you present to an audience on a regular basis? Do you find it tricky to get your message across using typical Powerpoint-style bullet points, or even using more modern image-based slides? Well, I certainly do, and I'm always on the lookout for means to improve my own presentation skills (I can hear my recent audiences now saying 'Hell, yeah!"). Via Twitter, I came across this great post from Steve Dale, detailing the value of Storytelling as a means to get a message across, and more i [read] Keywords: lotus
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Implementing DAOS? Concerned about backups (and more importantly, recovery)?
Thu, Aug 13th 2009 4:33p Stuart McIntyre The technote that many have been waiting for:Question How do I do back up and restore data on a Domino system that uses DAOS?From the restore tests that I've conducted with customers, it really isn't as scary as it appears. The only scenario that I have found tricky is to the common practice of retrieving a DB to a local client to then selectively copy/paste documents back into the original DB. I'll elaborate on how to deal with this (when not using TSM) tomorrow. However, for now, check out [read] Keywords: domino
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Adieu Notes and Domino 7.0.x
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 6:19a Stuart McIntyre So long, farewell... IBM has announced the dates that Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0.x and Lotus Enterprise Integrator 7.0.x will be withdrawn from marketing and from support.Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: Program number VRM Program release name Withdrawal from marketing date Withdrawal from support date 5724-E62 7.0.0 IBM Lotus Notes/Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Changing the web browser preferences in Notes 8.5 on the Mac
Wed, Aug 5th 2009 10:10a Stuart McIntyre Ever wondered how to change the web browser preferences on the Notes 8.5 Standard client on the Mac? It's not obvious (the setting isn't available via Manage Locations): This is the answer according to IBM Support: Please follow the work around steps below. - Exit the client- Edit the Notes Preference file (found in /Library/Preferences)- Add this line: UseBasicNotes=1 just after Timezone=-8 (Embedded image moved to file: pic54098.jpg) Save the file- Start Notes client and you'll [read] Keywords: document
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DAOS - it’s not just for mail!
Wed, Jul 29th 2009 6:01a Stuart McIntyre Most of the readers of this blog will be aware of DAOS by now - the new Domino Attachment and Object Service implemented in Domino 8.5.0 and above. One whitepaper describes DAOS as:With the release of version 8.5, IBM Lotus Domino server employs the Domino attachment and object service to save significant space at the file level by sharing data identified as identical between databases (applications) on the same server. Document attachments are the first components to use the DAOS feature in Lo [read] Keywords: document
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Thinking about moving your organisation’s Email into the cloud?
Wed, Jul 29th 2009 5:31a Stuart McIntyre As you may be aware, as well as being specialists in on-premise Lotus social collaboration solutions, Collaboration Matters is also a LotusLive design partner and Google Apps, SalesForce.com and SocialText partner, and have successfully sold and implemented many SaaS solutions for our customers. Therefore, we can demonstrate the pros and cons of cloud-based offerings and can help our customers to make business-value judgements on whether migrating to SaaS is the right option for them. Howe [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration University 2009 sessions announced, early registration ending soon
Tue, Jul 14th 2009 5:06p Stuart McIntyre By now you're aware that Collaboration University 2009 for Lotus Quickr, Sametime and Connections registration is officially open. And, Rob and the team have been working hard behind the scenes, assembling an incredible lineup of 35+ sessions to address all of the changes in Lotus software this year. Collaboration University is the only conference focused specifically on Lotus's Web 2.0 technologies, and is independently produced by industry experts. Now in our 4th year, Collaboration Univers [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Availablogging: Scotland w/c 27th July and 3rd August
Mon, Jul 6th 2009 9:59a Stuart McIntyre Ed Brill has coined the phrase 'Availablogging' for when he posts free diary slots via his blog - this term has even made it to 'illustrious' pages of the Urban Dictionary ;-) This has worked pretty well for Ed, so I'm going to give it a go... I'm going to be up on the East coast of Scotland (just North of Edinburgh) for the next few weeks and have some slots available for meetings and paid work, most notably during weeks commencing 27th July and 3rd August. Therefore, if you're within [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Expands its Software Development Lab in Ireland
Thu, Jun 25th 2009 10:20a Stuart McIntyre Great to see investment from IBM into EuropeIBM today announced new investments for its Ireland Development Lab to produce intelligent software, which help lower cost of operations; generate intelligence for quick growth; and build closer business relationships with customers, partners and colleagues. New jobs will be created for high value software engineering work at the lab, which addresses real-world issues such as environment protection projects and maritime affairs. IBM will have up to [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LinkedIn announce the launch of sub-groups
Wed, Jun 24th 2009 9:11a Stuart McIntyre An interesting announcement from LinkedIn: There are now over 300,000 groups on LinkedIn where professionals are discussing, sharing news and collaborating with each other. We sincerely appreciate your dedication to the LinkedIn group you manage. Your efforts are essential to the continued success of groups. We're happy to announce that later this week we are launching a long-requested feature for group managers: the ability to create subgroups. Subgroups are like a break-out session at [read] Keywords: connections
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Sametime goes Virtual
Wed, Jun 24th 2009 5:35a Stuart McIntyre Many of the readers of this blog will have seen Sametime 3D demonstrated in the Innovation Lab at Lotusphere2009, or if not, may have seen a presentation on YouTube - I blogged about it back in March. Today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Sametime 3D will be announced as a product available for purchase, Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime (VCS). VCS was created by IBM Research and developed in its development labs. Organisations in a variety of industries ranging from aer [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mac users - get VMWare Fusion at 30% discount
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 11:06a Stuart McIntyre Act now and save 30%!* For one week only, VMware is offering you 30% off when you buy VMware Fusion online. Redeem 30% off automatically when you enter the promo code "oneweekdeal" before clicking on "secure checkout" in the shopping cart. SAVE 30% TODAY Regular Price: 52.67GBP (or local equivalent) Your Price: 36.87GBP* (or local equivalent) Buy Now *Price does not include VAT Tax. Offer Expires at 11:59PM PT on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Sincerely, The VMware Team [read] Keywords: mac
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Trust and change
Fri, Jun 19th 2009 12:50a Stuart McIntyre Jon Mell comments on the cultural and organisational change required to truly embrace Enterprise2.0:[Enterprise 2.0] will require more and more “knowledge workers” – people who don’t follow an administrative business process to do their jobs but rely on their experiences, professionalism and networks to add value to their organisations – or, as recently described by Thomas A Stewart, ”someone who gets to decide what he does each morning..” O [read] Keywords: connections
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Panic!
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 4:50p Stuart McIntyre Twitter is down! What should I do? Ummm. Of course, I need to tweet to tell folks that it's down. Ah. Doh! [read] Keywords: twitter
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Collaboration Matters 10 - UK Lotus User Group (UKLUG) 2009
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 4:41p Stuart McIntyre Neil Burston and I talk with Warren Elsmore to discuss UKLUG 2009, coming up this autumn. We cover: What is UKLUG? When? Where? What's new for 2009? What's the relationship with ILUG? How is UKLUG organised? Who's involved? Is it scary organising a 500 attendee user group? Who pays for the event? What about Collaboration University - this is also scheduled for the UK later this year? The year so far - how has 2009 been for Lotus technology? The Year ahead - what is planned / foreseeable - inte [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Technical Information and Education Community webcast - June 23rd
Mon, Jun 15th 2009 6:46a Stuart McIntyre We at Collaboration Matters are delighted to be part of the Lotus Technical Information and Education Community, and to act as Community Advocates, encouraging others to participate in the Lotus community and to create shared content. To that end, I'd like to bring your attention to the next community webcasts, taking place on 23rd June at 10AM ET/3PM UK and 8PM ET/1AM UK. I will be participating in the call and will be sharing my story with the community. If you'd like to join, add it [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration Matters 9 - LS09 Connectr BoF Review (with Luis Suarez & Luis Benitez)
Mon, Jun 8th 2009 12:09p Stuart McIntyre Neil Burston and I talk once again with Luis Suarez and Luis Benitez to review the Connectr 7 BoF held at Lotusphere 2009. We cover: What is a Connectr? Who was there and what did we discuss? Tools versus Enablement & adoption What Social tools are people using - injecting Social Software capabilities into the existing application landscape Actually using Social tools - asking questions and opening up the Silos Do Social Software Best Practices really exist? Who is driving social software [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration Matters 8 - Los dos Luis (en Espanol)
Sat, Jun 6th 2009 3:17p Stuart McIntyre Neil Burston gets together with two of IBM's most vocal social software evangelists, Luis Benitez and Luis Suarez to chat (in Spanish) about: Lotusphere - the excitement and the challenges Successes and challenges for Social Software Is Social Software "Mainstream"? A Year without email - working in different ways? This podcast is 36MB and runs for 26 minutes at 192kps and is 100% in Spanish, so you have been warned! Enjoy! Collaboration Matters 8 - Los dos Luis (en Espanol) P.S. The [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Took a while...
Fri, Jun 5th 2009 10:41a Stuart McIntyre ... but those press releases are finally up on ibm.com/press: 200+ Microsoft Partners Per Month Flocking to Sell IBM Lotus Foundations Appliance Companies Choosing Lotus Collaboration to Work Smarter and Lower Costs Searching for these press releases on Google (here's an example), each has over 100 hits, but unfortunately most of these are simply news syndication sites - there doesn't seem to have been much discussion or review so far - a shame in my opinion. I'll keep watching... [read] Keywords: collaboration
foundations
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Congratulations are in order...
Thu, Jun 4th 2009 10:19a Stuart McIntyre ... to two of the most hardworking Loti you'll ever meet: So congratulations to Darren Adams and Pete Hampton on their new promotions. Excellent news, guys! [read] Keywords: lotus
DAMO R.I.P.
Mon, Jun 1st 2009 12:49a Stuart McIntyre The development teams at IBM responsible for the Domino Access for Microsoft Office (DAMO) functionality currently plan to continue to support and maintain the functionality. There are no plans to add new features or functions to the technology beyond those that have been developed and tested. Issues brought to IBM Support where it is determined that the functionality is not working as designed will be addressed. The latest version of DAMO is built on the 8.0.x code stream and there are no pl [read] Keywords: domino
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The ’Curse of Knowledge’ - are we a community of tappers?
Thu, May 21st 2009 7:12p Stuart McIntyre I've had a fantastic day today, with a few really eye-opening conversations both face-to-face and online. I'll fill you in on the former over the next few days. However, starting with the online piece. As is my wont, I listened in on the IBM Think!Thursday call today (a series of sales and technical calls for IBMers and business partners on a varity of topics), and viewed a wonderful presentation on collaboration by Louis Richardson, one of the Lotus Worldwide Sales Executives. I hope to [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Domino/Websphere version support - some constructive feedback
Mon, May 18th 2009 3:29p Stuart McIntyre One of the most common questions I get from customers is regarding Lotus version support - i.e. 'what release of Domino does Quickr 8.1 support?', or 'what version of Websphere Application Server is needed for Connections 2.0.1?' This is often quickly followed by 'but that's not the same release of Domino as I need to run for Sametime 8.0.2!' or 'how can I run Connections 2.0.1 and Quickr 8.1.1 on the same Websphere server if they need different releases?' IBM clearly has a tough job to ke [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino/Quickr/Sametime certificates issue - first Q&A call recording posted
Thu, May 14th 2009 12:40a Stuart McIntyre Hopefully everyone that is responsible for Lotus Domino, Quickr or Sametime servers is now aware of the imminent SSL certificate expiration issue. If not, you need to get up to speed ASAP - the certificates expire on May 18th, that's next Monday folks. There are a series of IBM 'open mic' Q&A calls taking place this week to answer any queries surrounding the issue. The first two took place yesterday, the last one is at 12:00EDT today, that's 5pm UK time. So if you have any questions o [read] Keywords: domino
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Collaboration University 2009 Registration is Open!
Tue, May 12th 2009 1:39a Stuart McIntyre If you're a technology professional that works with Lotus Sametime or Lotus Quickr, you should be aware of the Collaboration University events - the most focused, highest quality Lotus conferences held each year. CU producer Rob Novak:As we enter our fourth year, Collaboration University is evolving, just like the collaboration software we know and love. With new versions of Sametime and Quickr released in the past 12 months, the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 (which we're covering as well [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What’s the story, Lotus?
Fri, May 8th 2009 3:09p Stuart McIntyre There's been lots of chat on the blogs and on Twitter these past few weeks regarding Lotus marketing and advertising. To a large extent, I've been trying to stay out of the conversations - I'm no marketeer and IBM (as a multi-billion dollar organisation) should have the experience and talent to get their messages right of their own accord. Lotus' lack of advertising does disappoint me, but I've been around this space for long enough to know that what I can't change I shouldn't get upset abo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SocialText closes new funding
Tue, May 5th 2009 4:39a Stuart McIntyre From Mike Stackpoole at Ferris Research:On March 31, 2009, collaboration vendor Socialtext closed a new equity fund-raising of $4.5M. Products, Facilities, and Competitors: * Socialtext provides hosted and appliance-based wikis, integrated weblogs, and social networking for workplace communities. * The company is especially recognized for pioneering the enterprise wiki technology. * The company has around 5,000 customers. * Customers include BASF, Boston College, CondeNe [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM unveils "Smarter Work" initiative
Mon, May 4th 2009 4:49p Stuart McIntyre Today, at the IBM Impact conference, IBM has unveiled a new initiative called Smarter Work, which is part of the overall Smarter Planet campaign. Lotus plays a big role in the Smarter Work initiative, and will continue to do so moving forward. According to IBM, Smart Work will be influencing a lot of what we will hear and see from Lotus this year: You probably work a lot smarter today than you did twenty years ago, or ten years ago—or even last year. The Internet and wireless revoluti [read] Keywords: collaboration
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