Calling those with first hand experiences selecting, prototyping, integrating, and managing IBM products!
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 10:44a Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Calling all people with first hand experiences selecting, prototyping, integrating, and managing IBM products! We're trying to make our products more cohesive, consistent and easy to integrate in your environment, and we need your help in completing a survey. Your answers will be provide to our development teams to alleviate the problem. The survey can be done on any IBM product, but obviously we would love your feedback on Lotus products! The survey will take anywhere between 20-30 minute [read] Keywords: ibm
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Community Landing Page Experience
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 11:13a Joseph Russo Today, in communities, the "landing page" for the service brings the user to the Public Communities list view...and additionally, they can click to see the My Communities list view... After hearing lots of feedback and comments from customers, I've been thinking about how to redesign this experience and it seems to fall into these categories; 1. New user When a new user, someone who's not joined any or just a small # (3 or less, or some other reasonable small #) it probably makes sense [read] Keywords: connections
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Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 with Lotus Widget Factory and Google gadgets
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:07a David A Brooks Want to learn how to create widgets for Lotus Connections without having a deep knowledge of Web development? This article by Vincent Burckhardt explains, with concrete examples, how to use Lotus Widget Factory as a development tool to create real world widgets. The article also outlines how to leverage the catalog of Google Gadgets to extend Lotus Connections. Enjoy. Vincent Burckhardt is a Software Engineer at the IBM Dublin Software Laboratory. Vincent has been working as part of the [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere awaits
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:07a Joseph Russo Hey I just wanted to put a plug in...I will be going to Lotusphere this year, I'll be pulling shifts in the UX Lab, where we'll be talking about possible design choices for COnnections going forward, this is your chance to help guide the design, so please, by all means, stop by, say hi, and let's chew over designs. Also, I'm going to be giving a presentation on Lotus Connections, along with Bill Looby, we'll be talking about customization across the entire product, touching things end users c [read] Keywords: connections
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Detailed guide on setting up Lotus Connections in a network deployment.
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:07a David A Brooks On the Lotus Connections Wiki, the IBM system verification team has provided some sample deployment scenarios for Lotus Connections. These deployment scenarios are based on actual environments configured during the product testing phase. They include common combinations of software products that have been tested and reviewed. If your looking to setup Lotus Connections in a clustered environment, these are great step by step reference guides with many details around tuning, ssl, sso, and many [read] Keywords: connections
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Glue for Lotus Connections
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:07a Suzanne O Livingston I love how many cool clients have been developed for Lotus Connections status updates! Here's a new one I recently came across and decided to give a try. Glue for Lotus Connections is an Adobe Air client that allows you to update your status, view status updates and responses from across your network and your organization. They have a unique feature as well that allows you to view and download Connections Files - very handy! -------------------- From the Glue team (follow them @connections [read] Keywords: connections
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Developing Software Socially
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:07a Suzanne O Livingston Awhile back we gave you a link to a video describing Mainsoft's integration efforts of Lotus Connections and Rational Team Concert. Well, not too long ago, more information was released in InfoWorld, CMSWire, Search Software Quality, and more regarding Mainsoft's press release on the topic. One of the benefits of this type of integration is the context it provides for engineers and for project stakeholders. For example, during my development experience, I can recall a number of occasions where [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM.com has been upgraded to Connections 2.5
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 10:48a Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Check out the IBM.com/communities site, which has been updated with the latest release of Lotus Connections, version 2.5. With this new version, your IBM.com communities have many more capabilities, such as file sharing, activities, and more, and you may start to see communities you are a member of adopt some of these new services. As a community owner, you will see the new palette of drag and drop features to use, shown below. Also check out microblogging in the profile and the new files and [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Knows screen saver
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 3:05p Baan Slavens You asked for it and now its here... the Lotus Knows screen saver for windows is available for download. ENJOY! Screen saver for Windows -- download (730K) here: Link: The Collaboration Soapbox: Lotus knows you need a screensaver > [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Lotus Connections Design Article Published
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 2:25p Ethan Perry If you are interested in learning more about the user experience design of Lotus Connections, check out this new article on the ibm.com web site. We have a featured story in the IBM Design Software gallery. The article includes a description of the team and the design challenges we identified and focused on. We also discuss some of the process we go through to create the user experience designs for Lotus Connections - including how we use social software to create our social software designs. An [read] Keywords: connections
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New book on Social Networking for the Enterprise
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 10:28a Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Check out this new IBM Press book: Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise: Guidelines and Examples for Implementation and Management Within Your Organization by Joey Bernal This book provides hands-on, start-to-finish guidance for business and IT decision-makers who want to drive value from Web 2.0 and social networking technologies. IBM expert Joey Bernal systematically identifies business functions and innovations these technologies can enhance and presents best-practice patter [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-ins are now live
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 3:25p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi The Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-ins are now live on our Business Catalog: IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal (NEW) IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for IBM Lotus Sametime IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Business Card (NEW) IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for Microsoft SharePoint (NEW) We also delivered plug-ins into Notes 8.5.1 (eGA October 12), including an updated Activities sidebar & t [read] Keywords: connections
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What kinds of education do you need for Lotus Connections?
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 2:06p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Our team is thinking about our breadth of education materials that we offer and looking to see what's missing. We currently have a set of information available online and for free, such as Product Documentation / InfoCenter - Includes planning, installation, deployment and basic usage The Lotus Connections Wiki - Covers a variety of development and administration topics, security, getting started using Connections, Lotus Connections Reviewers Guide - An in depth look at the features and how th [read] Keywords: administration
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Customers using Lotus Connections 2.5
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 2:06p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi You'll find a new press release hitting the wire today on the Lotus Connections 2.5 release. Today's release is a little different, more focused on customers and value in addition to features and capabilities. Here's a snapshot of what you will find in the release: For Lotus Connections beta program participant Sogeti, a Capgemini subsidiary specializing in technology services, there was a great need to connect the firm's 20,000 people spread across 200 offices in 14 countries. Following an [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM hosts a Smart Work Jam
Tue, Sep 15th 2009 6:47p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano will be joined by other IBM executives and business leaders at this Jam tomorrow and are ready to hear your feedback on how to create a smarter planet: I’d like to personally invite you to join me tomorrow for a global discussion on how to create a smarter, more productive work environment. Forward-thinking IBM customers, expert thought leaders from around the world, and top IBM executives will be sharing ideas and setting direction for future investme [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM is its own open-source lab for social software
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 2:26p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi From http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10345493-16.html: Most vendors must guess what customers want to buy, and how they'll use it. For IBM, however, with about 400,000 employees, it has the potential to be its own best laboratory, one that becomes even more potent when mixed with active participation in open-source communities. That potential, as I discovered in an interview on Friday with Jeff Schick, IBM's vice president of social software, isn't a "gimme," but is powerful if you can enab [read] Keywords: connections
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ReadWriteWeb on Lotus Connections
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 12:26p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi From ReadWriteWeb: Reports of an update for IBM's Lotus Connections software have been circulating since early 2009. Many analysts talked of a major upgrade that would instill the suite with some substantial social functionality for the first time. After surveying the new Lotus Connections 2.5 that was released today, we can confirm those reports. Read more here [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Reviewers’ Guide Now Available
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 2:46p Baan Slavens Great news... the Lotus Connections Reviewers Guide is available on developerWorks. The Reviewers Guide provides an in-depth look at all the Lotus Connections Services, especially our two new services Files and Wikis. The guide also highlights the new features and functionality in Lotus Connections 2.5. [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Overview Webcast
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 2:26p Baan Slavens I wanted to share a recent webcast that Chris Lamb and I presented to the Lotus Greenhouse Community. The session focused on exciting new capabilities from IBM Lotus Connections 2.5. Lotus Connections has been enabling customers to leverage the knowledge of many. In this session you will get a closer look at the new features of Lotus Connections 2.5. See how we've taken Communities to the next level, how we've integrated the services, and how we've enabled you to better understand what is hap [read] Keywords: connections
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Vote for Lotus Connections at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco!!!
Fri, Aug 21st 2009 10:07a Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Do you want to see Lotus Connections at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco? ME TOO! All you have to do is vote for us! Go to http://www.e2conf.com/sanfrancisco/ and click on the button on the left that says: Then, head over to pages 6 and 8 and vote up the Lotus Social Software / Lotus Connections sessions! Look for my name on them. Two of our designers - Marty Moore and Ethan Perry - have a session on page 8 - vote for them as well! And do check out all the other IBMers presenting! L [read] Keywords: connections
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Ascendant Technology offers iRise for IBM Lotus Connections
Thu, Aug 20th 2009 2:08p Salvatore Mazzotta Check out a new addition to the Lotus Connections catalog! iRise for IBM® Lotus™ Connections is a pre-configured set of visualization templates that gives organizations a unique way to visualize new community and social networking applications based on IBM WebSphere Portal and social stack solutions. By visualizing before building, organizations can dramatically cut implementation time and delivery cost of the resulting solutions. iRise for IBM Lotus Connections Offering [read] Keywords: connections
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Check out the Lotus Connections iWidget Development Guide
Wed, Aug 19th 2009 10:27a Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Check out the newly created iWidget Development Guide here! IBM® Lotus® Connections 2.5 provides the ability for third-party developers to integrate iWidgets into the Lotus Connections user interface for use in the Communities, Home page, and Profiles features. An iWidget is a Web application that allows you to add content to the Lotus Connections user interface. In Lotus Connections 2.5, many areas of the user interface are constructed using iWidgets. Developers and administrators can ext [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 - Get Ready!
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 11:46a Bob Bojanek Today, IBM announced the planned availability dates for Lotus Connections 2.5 which are as follows: August 28, 2009 (electronic software delivery). September 18, 2009 (media and documentation). Among the new features in this release are the following: A new personal file sharing service permits files to be uploaded and securely shared with others. Files can be tagged so they can be found more quickly. Recommendations and comments can be added to files. A new wiki service allows cont [read] Keywords: connections
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Consistency â hobgoblin of the small minded or value?
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 3:26p Joseph Russo I'm currently thinking about designs for Connections membership and how to make it consistent across the applications. There are cases here where just changing something to be consistent is not worthwhile. In particular I am thinking about Activities â today in Activities the list of members is displayed on the left side bar and in a linear fashion. One feature of this is as you're looking at your activity you have a handy roadmap to who is doing what, and you can click on someone to quickl [read] Keywords: connections
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Real-Time Social Networking â Integrating Sametime and Connections
Mon, Aug 10th 2009 2:47p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi Here is the link to our new article on Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime integration on The View: Integrating the capabilities of IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Connections leads to powerful social networking, helping users find people and communicate with them faster and more efficiently. Discover how administrators can add some Connections features to Sametime with the Lotus Connections 2.0 Plug-in for Sametime. Plus, learn how you can enable a Web page to reference the Connections bus [read] Keywords: connections
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How to get started with Lotus Connections 2.5
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 8:09p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi I reposted a blog entry from the Lotus Connections Blog the other day pointing to the instructional videos for Connections 2.5. Today, I saw that the socialsoftwareblog had a nice summary of links and icons to all of them. Here they are, reposted in case you missed them on their blog. Homepage Communities Profiles Files Blogs Activities Wiki Bookmarks / Dogear [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines noted in the BrandBuilder blog
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 7:28p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi From the BrandBuilder Blog: You might not expect a corporate juggernaut like IBM to lead the way when it comes to creating effective social media guidelines for its employees, yet here we are: IBM was one of the first enterprise-size companies to not only recognize the need for such a document, but also to deliver an adequate set of guidelines within it that made sense and allowed its culture to spread. IBM recognized that treating its employees like responsible adults rather than dangerous [read] Keywords: document
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Learn how to use Files and Wikis (repost from LotusConnectionsBlog)
Wed, Aug 5th 2009 5:27p Suzanne O Minassian-Livi From our friends over at the Lotus Connections Blog: Getting started with Files and Wikis As the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 comes ever closer, it's time to get up to speed with the new features that will be available in the latest version. Two of the most significant enhancements are the new features, Files and Wikis: [Screenshot taken from the Lotus Greenhouse] IBM has just released videos to help explain how Files and Wikis will work within Connections 2.5: F [read] Keywords: connections
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Chapter from our book available
Fri, Jul 31st 2009 10:11a Suzanne O Minassian If you are interested in reading a chapter from our new book, check out InformIt which has posted a sample! The chapter posted is on the basic use of Lotus Connections 2.0 (will be update for the 2.5 version of the book due later this year / early next). The rest of the book goes into architecture, API, and deployment content. InformIT: Using Lotus Connections A Day in the Life Using Lotus Connections [read] Keywords: connections
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Breaking News!! Lotus Connections featured on CNBC!!
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 9:47a Suzanne O Minassian If you were watching CNBC this morning, you may have caught a glimpse of Lotus Connections. That's right! We were featured on a brief social computing segment, and our very own Irene Grief was interviewed on the role of social media in the enterprise. Yours truly was shown on there as well with one of my demos of Connections! It's short, but it's great, and it estimated to have been viewed by over 330,000 people! If you want to see it, click this link and look for the "Play Media" link in th [read] Keywords: connections
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Our book is now available on a kindle!
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 1:06p Suzanne O Minassian See larger image IBM Lotus Connections 2.0 (e-book): Planning and Implementing Social Software for Your Enterprise (Kindle Edition) by David Brooks (Author), Stephen Hardison (Author), David Byrd (Author) What's this? No customer reviews yet. Be the first. Digital List Price: $27.99 What's this? Kindle Price: $15.39 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet You Save: $12.60 (45%) Due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections connects IBM Partnerworld
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 9:26a Suzanne O Minassian The press is all over the news on IBM's Partnerworld Communities based on Lotus Connections for later this month. From http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=2395 IBM just announced that it is launching its own social network called PartnerWorld Communities later this month. The goal is to help the computer giant’s 100,000 worldwide partners share ideas and work together to make sales. The site will feature profile pages, user blogs and forums, virtual training courses, collaborative [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus uses Twitter to tell its Lotus Connections story
Wed, Jun 10th 2009 7:45a Sal Mazzotta In her recent book, '"The New Language of Marketing 2.0", Sandy Carter, IBM’s vice president of SOA and WebSphere marketing, strategy, and channels, tells us why it is necessary to use social software and how to use it to market successfully. In Chapter 10, "The New Vessles", she extolls Lotus for its use of Twitter in a conversation with some of you at a conference. pp 209 Because IBM Lotus also drives to raise the brand's legitimacy and relevance in the world of Web 2.0 - maki [read] Keywords: connections
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NPR’s Marketplace - Social media gets the job done at work
Mon, Jun 1st 2009 11:48a Suzanne O Minassian A great story from NPR's Marketplace: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/29/pm_facebooking_workers/ In many workplaces, watching YouTube or browsing Facebook is a no-no. But some companies like IBM are starting to encourage employees to use social media while on the job. Devin Dwyer reports. TEXT OF STORY KAI RYSSDAL: If you've got a desk job, you're familiar with the temptation. In between writing reports or working on a spreadsheet, you click over to Twitter or Facebook t [read] Keywords: ibm
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New BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections, May 8th
Wed, May 6th 2009 12:45p David A Brooks Hot off the IBM press: "The next generation BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections, developed by RIM and available May 8, will meet a need in corporate human resources to help manage an increasingly mobile workforce through social networks with blogs, activities, communities and tag clouds. Now, employees can form communities adding new contacts at conferences and other meetings while inventorying skills and expertise in the process. In addition, tag clouds help drill down through informatio [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Launches World’s Geekiest Social Network, My developerWorks
Fri, May 1st 2009 3:46p Suzanne O Minassian From the ReadWriteWeb. Also appeared on: Tech News AM, Social Median, Real HS Tech News, i-penny, Tech Fuga, Veri, Tumblr Social Network, We Love Crowds, GroupHelp.Net, Economics Projects Many a neutech hipster looked askance at the huge IBM-plex situated front and center at this year's Web 2.0 conference. No one could deny the hardware/software/services giant's place in tech history (their first plant is now almost 100 years old), but what does it have to do with the glassy, streamy [read] Keywords: ibm
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Jeff Schick, VP Social Software, on Microblogging
Thu, Apr 30th 2009 3:07p Suzanne O Minassian Our Social Software Vice President, Jeff Schick, was recently featured in a technology blog discussing microblogging in the enterprise. So I asked Jeff the only question worth asking: Is twitter, and microblogging, here to stay? His answer, after the jump, was pretty interesting: "I have two views on it. There's this narcissistic dimension to microblogging that says 'everything I ever think about, someone should find interesting.' Now that may be fleeting. But let me tell you how I use it, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Social Software Guidelines
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 12:26p Heidi Votaw Have you considered providing social software guidelines within your organization? Have you ever wanted a starting point to begin that process? Well if so you’ll be interested to follow this link http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html. This is a link to the social software guidelines we provide to our IBM employee’s. In addition, we have provided this publicly in the event it is useful to our customers to give them a good starting point. These guidelines grew out of IBM [read] Keywords: forms
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Web 2.0 Tools Gain Enterprise Acceptance
Wed, Apr 15th 2009 11:46a Suzanne O Minassian eWeek discusses how enterprises are accepting Web 2.0 technologies. “Document-centric collaboration by itself just isn’t enough. You need to have something people-oriented right alongside it,” said Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research. Gartner analyst Carol Rozwell said businesses are clamoring for this kind of software, which straddles the categories of social networking and enterprise learning. “There is pent-up demand among learners for easy-to-use too [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Identity Theft, Social Networks, Behavior Prediction - The Facts & The Fiction
Tue, Apr 14th 2009 10:06a Sal Mazzotta I have read two books, one fiction - "The Broken Window" by Jeffery Deaverâ, and the other nonfiction - "The Numerati" by Stephen Baker, that are based on the same underlying reality of Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Identity Theft, Social Networks, Behavior Prediction. I didn't know they were connected until after I had read them. "1984" by George Orwell move over. The Broken Window is a Lincoln Rhyme mystery novel by Jeffery Deaverâ This is a mystery about identity the [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Research featured in BusinessWeek
Mon, Apr 13th 2009 10:05a Suzanne O Minassian You can view the full article here. Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be. Workers who have strong communication ties with their managers tend to bring in more money than those who steer clear of the boss, according to a new analysis of social networks in the workplace by IBM (IBM) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research, released this week, even assigns a dollar value to e-mail interaction with an employee's managers. Among the group studied, several thousand c [read] Keywords: connections
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SXSW Session Notes on Community Management
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 6:30p Suzanne O Minassian I attended 2 different panel discussion that were about community management. This blog entry is an attempt at collapsing some of the lessons from both sessions. The first panel was on Sunday and included Heather Champ - Flickr, Mario Anima - Current TV, Matthew Stinchcomb - Etsy Inc, Jessamyn West - MetaFilter and Micah Schaffer - YouTube. The second panel was on Tuesday and included Ken Fisher - Ars Technica, Alexis Ohanian - reddit.com, Drew Curtis - Fark.com, and Erin Kotecki Vest - BlogH [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Book for community managers
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 6:09p Suzanne O Minassian I met Patrick O'Keefe, the author of Managing Online Forums, today. He gave me a run down of what is in his book. While I haven't read the book yet, it does look interesting and useful in general for community managers, not just forum owners. He wrote the book based on personal experience with forums, blogs, and other communities he's managed or participated in; however, the strategies apply to the other media types being shared - i.e. groups, chat rooms, etc. I asked him to tell me what he [read] Keywords: policies
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SXSW Session Recap - Championing Social Media Projects
Fri, Mar 13th 2009 5:28p Suzanne O Minassian I'm down in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), and sessions began this afternoon. My first session was a panel discussion on how to pitch social media projects to executives. The panel discussion was interesting, and included Peter Kim and a social media project owner at the American Heart Association among others. Some of my favorite discussion points are below. For a full recap, check out my other blog here. Will social media make money? Does it make sense? Does a successful [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Connecting People Recap from Lotusphere
Mon, Feb 23rd 2009 1:09p Baan Slavens Now that things have finally slowed down I wanted to introduce myself and let people know about the session I did at Lotusphere. I am one of the three Lotus Connections Product Managers and have been on the job for several months. I had the pleasure of meeting a bunch of customers and partners while at Lotusphere. Two of my colleagues and I presented "How to expose People to People and People to Information" at Lotusphere. The session was focused on Profiles and Communities within Lotu [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Software in the Irish Times
Mon, Feb 9th 2009 10:49a Suzanne O Minassian Check out a new article in the Irish Times! Great job Mike Roche! Networking makes the right connection http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0206/1233796244364.html IBM's networking software developers in Dublin are spearheading a "social search" feature that returns search results incorporating relevant sites that friends, family or colleagues within an organisation To the surprise of many sceptics, social networking is moving to the workplace, writes Karlin Lilling [read] Keywords: ibm
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Controversial Facebook App Promises Riches
Sun, Feb 1st 2009 11:29a Suzanne O Minassian This is a repost of a blog entry from my personal blog at http://minassian.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/controversial-facebook-app-promises-riches/ Last night I received an invite from someone in my social network to look at the new Facebook app called "Chat-to-text". Curious about it, I watched the video provided by the company. To my surprise, the video was more about how you can make money using this application than actually about the application itself. There was a description of what the ap [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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IM leads to a more productive workplace; so can social software
Thu, Jan 29th 2009 5:26p Suzanne O Minassian I saw this blip recently in the Delta Sky Magazine of all places. Instant messaging can lead to a more productive workplace, two researchers have concluded. Rather than phoning or walking into someone’s office, workers tended to send a quick IM, R. Kelly Garrett of Ohio State and James N. Danziger of UCLA, Irvine, discovered. “The technology allows users to control how and when they communicate with co-workers,” says Joyce Gioia, a futurist and CEO of The Herman Group (w [read] Keywords: ibm
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New article from Techcrunch: When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter
Thu, Jan 29th 2009 11:48a Suzanne O Minassian I was very pleased to see this article posted to Techcrunch! I had the pleasure of meeting the author, Jeff Widman, at Lotusphere when I was showing some of our customers this project, known as Social Networks & Discovery (or SaND for short). I was later glad to see Ido Guy from the Haifa Research team, creators of SaND and some other projects which have been productized in Lotus Connections, giving him a more thorough tour of SaND. From Jeff: "I was surprised to see IBM is also tacklin [read] Keywords: connections
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In the Boston area on March 31st? Let’s meet!
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 12:26p Suzanne O Minassian I've attended sessions of the Boston KM group before and have met some very interesting people through it. If you are in the area and have an interest in learning about or sharing your experience on the value of social software to an enterprise, come discuss with us! Here's a link to the invitation: http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=253 And some of the description and logistics: Boston Knowledge Management Forum at Bentley College A Symposium on Leveraging Knowledge Tuesday March 31, 2009, [read] Keywords: connections
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All I really want to do is be friends with you
Tue, Jan 27th 2009 11:28a Suzanne O Minassian A colleague pinged me this morning to ask about how to handle friend requests in Lotus Connections and other tools he uses. "Why would someone in Connections or Facebook friend you if you have no idea who they are? It seems that by saying you're a friend that isn't really true. I don't understand the behavior of requesting someone you don't know to be a friend when there is no likely friend or business connection." It extends not only into the people you don't know, but also the people you [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Iâll take my Connections to-go please
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian Ok all you iPhone users out there. This one’s for you and everyone else using a mobile device with a browser – Lotus Connections goes mobile. You’ll have access to all the Connections services on your device, giving you something to do when you are between meetings and hanging out at the airport. You can interact with the data in Connections, for example, checking off the to-dos in your Activities or making a call from someone’s profile. [I need to make a discla [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Social File Sharing
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian Now individuals can share files with each other, either publicly or with specific individuals and groups / Communities. You can upload a file of any type and allow other people to upload new versions or keep control on the file yourself. You can also allow others to share the file outward or keep the list to only who you specify. People can comment and rate your files and subscribe to your files as well. Version control is enabled so you can keep copies of previous versions and revert to them a [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Introducing the Lotus Connections Wiki
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian We are please to announce that Connections will include a wiki service. The wiki is a major service in Lotus Connections along with Profiles, Activities, Communities, Blogs, and Dogear. Anyone can create a new wiki space, which is a named, dedicated set of pages with their own administration settings and access control. In the wiki, you can collaboratively edit pages, view changes between versions of a page, and revert to previous versions. You can comment on pages and also rate them. We’ [read] Keywords: administration
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Stream of News in the Home Page & Subscriptions
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian The Home Page has become aggregation central and provides you access to Lotus Connections updates in one stream. The main stream includes what’s happening in and outside your network, but you can also filter this stream in a number of ways. Recent Updates. Updates includes feeds of everything you are interested in, which we determine based on a number of things. Each of these elements that make up your updates can be filtered using the additional tabs in the home page as well, so y [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Social Profiles
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian It’s all about you, and it should be! You want to keep your Lotus Connections network completely informed on your whereabouts and daily happenings. But more importantly, you want people to be able to converse with you, whether it’s about a meeting in the afternoon or about your recent trip to Brazil. So we’ve added a few things to the Profile we think you will enjoy. You can now add your own status messages, a la Twitter / Facebook / others. When you update your status, [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - New services in Communities
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian We’ve integrated all of the Lotus Connections services into Communities so that every Community can leverage Connections services and maintain membership and access across them. While Communities in previous version have had open/moderated/private membership with member API, bookmarks, a forum, and feeds, here are some of the new capabilities we’ve added. Community Blog. Now, you can create a blog right from your Community. Owners of the Community or the members can be authors [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 Preview - Customizable Communities
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:26p Suzanne O Minassian A common request we hear is that many of your communities have different needs. You need community tools which are flexible and can provide different functionality to different communities. We’ve completely redesigned the Community pages to adhere to this type of flexibility. Let’s start with the Widgets. Lotus Connections Communities in 2.5 will have a widgetized user interface which allow for Community owners to choose the widgets they want to be used in the Community. Using the [read] Keywords: connections
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A preview of Lotus Connections 2.5
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:07p Suzanne O Minassian We’re in Orlando this week at the annual Lotusphere conference showing off the latest and greatest from our labs. This week we are announcing a new release of Lotus Connections. I am very excited and pleased to be telling you about what we are planning for Lotus Connections in mid 2009. As with all our releases, we base our product plans off of the feedback of you, our customers, partners, and users. The next few entries are a sampling of some of the feedback we heard loudly from you a [read] Keywords: connections
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Your Lotusphere Social Software Session Cheat Sheet
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 2:46p Suzanne O Minassian The social software team put together this great list of all the sessions, times, and locations that you may be interested in. There will be hard copies of this session sheet available at Lotusphere, but you may want to print this cheat sheet out in case you don't get your hands on one! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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T- 4 days to Lotusphere General Session
Thu, Jan 15th 2009 1:49p Suzanne O Minassian This year, I became a bit more involved in the demo preparations for the Lotusphere Opening General Session. Last year, I was honored to represent Lotus Connections and the social software portfolio on stage with demo guru Ron Sebastian, and this year I officially joined the team and started working with them early on preparing the demos. There is a great team of people who work really hard to get the systems set up, configured, build networks, install code, master hardware, and, in the end, ha [read] Keywords: connections
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Persistent Systems offers Google OneBox for Lotus Connections
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 12:24p Suzanne O Minassian Check out a new addition to the Lotus Connections catalog! Google OneBox for Lotus Connections Enterprises can leverage the powerful and yet easy-to-use search capability of Google Search Appliance (GSA) to uncover the social collaboration information residing in their in Lotus Connections in a secured manner. Google OneBox for Lotus Connections provides ability do fetch real-time data from Lotus Connections every time a Google search is fired. Features: Searches real-time content wit [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Adrian Spender on Social Software at IBM
Tue, Dec 2nd 2008 8:08a Suzanne O Minassian Congrats to one of our lead developers (and guest Synchronous blogger!) Adrian Spender who was recently featured on the news in Ireland to discuss IBM's social software. From Adrian's Blog: RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, visited IBM Dublin on Monday 1st December for a piece on social software within the enterprise. It went out on the News On Two programme the same day. Yours truly is included in a couple of arty shots and a quick vox-pop. Featured is the internal IBM research p [read] Keywords: connections
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LoLA - day .0
Sun, Sep 21st 2008 7:08p Joseph Russo the first day of LoLA...well, pre-LoLA. Got up and tried to run, the heat was just too oppressive, so I did a little swimming. Then off to a "inner sanctum" meeting with some of the hardcore Connections customers, where we had lunch and spent 5+ hours discussing the next wave of features, discussed feedback, pain points and more. The crowd was really interactive and it made for lively, great discussion. We had so much material, we didn't get to give it all enough justice even in this marathon [read] Keywords: connections
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iWidget Specification Version 1.0 is Available
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 8:28p Sal Mazzotta The iWidget specification that forms the foundation of the iWidgets in IBM Mashup Center and the iWidgets on the Lotus Connections Homepage and Profiles page is available. IBM Lotus software delivers iWidgets for the Lotus Connections Homepage and Profiles page with the product. 3rd parties can also develop iWidgets for use on the Homepage or Profiles page integrating their solutions into Connections.This is the specification to which they must be written. Note however that Lotus Connections [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Software Adoption Tips
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 9:31a Suzanne O Minassian For many companies, enterprise social software is more than a technology change - it's a business and culture change as well. Kathryn has worked with many customers on developing their adoption strategies, and today she shares with us her top tips to ensure success. 1) Make sure you are engaging the right people when getting started. At an individual level, you need to find individuals who are well connected, well regarded, and who know how to communicate new applications in a way in which [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Salute to Google’s Sponsored Links for Lotus Connections
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:28a Suzanne O Minassian I hadn't noticed before, so maybe you haven't yet. The other day I was Googling the focus of my work, Lotus Connections. Usually, I keep my eyes focused on the left hand side of the page, deliberately avoiding the 'Sponsored Links' - who wants to scroll through ads. But this time I was momentarily distracted and my eyes wandered to the right where I saw that companies are sponsoring links on Lotus Connections. I found Connectria, a business partner, who hosts Lotus Connections. And Promi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Wainhouse Research Report on IBM’s Approach to Social Networking
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 2:50p Suzanne O Minassian David Dines of Wainhouse Research published this fantastic report on IBM's Strategy for Taking Social Networking to the Enterprise. In the report, Wainhouse states, "IBM was the first major enterprise software company to recognize the potential of SN for enterprises and deliver Lotus Connections, a platform offering to deliver SN functions in a corporate IT environment." What I like about this report is that it isn't a feature brief. The report does a brief overview of the product and then di [read] Keywords: connections
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Now available: Sametime Plugins for Lotus Connections 2.0
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 12:12p Suzanne O Minassian Sametime and Connections continue to live in blissful integration with a new set of plugins for Lotus Connections 2.0. You can download the plugins here at the Lotus Connections Catalog. The plugin allows you to view profile information and save chats to Communities and Activities. It also includes the new save broadcast chat to Communities feature. Here's a snapshot of what the plugins do from the download page: Activities Sametime Feature 2.0: Use this feature to save chats to activitie [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections Redwiki project is getting started!
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 3:09p Suzanne O Minassian There is newly formed team gearing up to write a Redwiki on Lotus Connections! If you are familiar with Redbooks, this is another style of information offering that they produce. You can view the Redwiki and check in on its progress here. The team has decided (so far) to make this a publically viewable wiki even while they are working on it. Since it isn't complete, it isn't being "promoted" yet (except by me) so you will have to Dogear (or bookmark if you don't have Connections yet) tha [read] Keywords: collaboration
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