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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 meeting, but, we plan on meeting more during this week and it will give us a good direction for 2.5. |
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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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Lotusphere Sessions from the Connections Team
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 8:49a Suzanne O Minassian
Yes, it is that time of year! Lotusphere sessions are published now. Here are some of the sessions from the team: JMP 306: IBM Lotus Connections: Up and Running Jay Boyd & David Brooks With Social Networks being one of the hottest topics in the market today, many are wondering what it takes to get one up and running. This session is focused on taking the mystery out of installing and configuring your Lotus Connections environment. By taking a straight forward approach, the developers of [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus 911 - Deployment Specialists in the Catalog
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 11:27a Suzanne O Minassian
Check out a new addition to the Lotus Connections catalog! Lotus Connections Deployment Specialists We have cornered the market on acquiring the best Lotus guru's around, and our commitment to providing top-notch consulting services for Lotus software continues today as we help our customers implement and integrate the latest Lotus solutions such as Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal. Lotuscript API for Connections This is the 0.8 beta version of the Lotuscript API for Connec [read] Keywords: connections
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Integrating Lotus Connections into your Websphere Portal deployment
Mon, Sep 22nd 2008 10:49a David A Brooks
Are you running Websphere Portal 6.0 or newer? Want to integrate the full Lotus Connections web experience into your Portal environment? Now you can add Lotus Connections into your Portal navigation menu without writing any portlets. Web Application Integrator for IBM WebSphere Portal allows external applications like Lotus Connections to surface links in your Portal navigation and can enhance the Lotus Connections navigation headers to maintain the Portal navigation bar when browsing your [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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Lotus wins over Microsoft, again and again
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 9:29a Suzanne O Minassian
You would think I was still talking about the shootout at E2.0 last month, but I'm not. I'm talking about the newest article that highlights how big huge companies as well as small ones are turning to Lotus products and rejecting the Microsoft-way. "The Lotus software business outgrew Microsoft by winning millions of customer seats worldwide in direct competition with Microsoft." There were tons of customers mentioned in the article as either directly choosing Lotus over Microsoft or making [read] Keywords: administration
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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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Review the Connections presentation from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference IBM/Microsoft Deep Dive Session
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 12:48p Suzanne O Minassian
Remember the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston last month? If you missed the IBM Lotus Connections and Microsoft Sharepoint Deep Dive, you can catch a good portion of the IBM presentation here in a webinar that goes over what I showed. It's about 50 minutes long, which is less time than we had in the session, so I cut out a few things. In general, it gives a pretty good idea of what I covered and shows an introduction to the Lotus Connections services. [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2 Reviewer’s Guide
Fri, Jul 18th 2008 3:45p Suzanne O Minassian
If you are interested in learning how to use all the new capabilities in Lotus Connections Release 2, you should check out the new Lotus Connections R2 Reviewer's Guide we've recently written. It will help you learn how to use Connections, including new features, and walks through user examples with screenshots. [read] Keywords: connections
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Congrats to Ted Stanton, the new Connections Sales Advocate
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 1:48p Suzanne O Minassian
Congratulations goes out to my partner in product management crime, Ted Stanton, who recently took the role of Sales Advocate for Lotus Connections! Ted has worked with me for the last year and has been a great asset to the product team. It's great that he's continuing to stay with the product in his new role and will continue to work with customers and partners. Here, Ted talks about his upcoming role and what he'll be up to in the next few months. About Ted I joined IBM in 2002 as a so [read] Keywords: connections
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A paper on IBM’s Social Software
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 11:03p Suzanne O Minassian
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Heidi and I on Lotus Connections and Enterprise 2.0 
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 11:03p Suzanne O Minassian
So I'm a little late in the blogging, but I wanted to point out that Stuart McIntyre and Neil Burston interviewed Heidi Votaw, the Social Software Program Director, and I on the latest release of Lotus Connections and the Enterprise 2.0 event last month. This was a great opportunity to share some of our thoughts. Thanks Stuart and Neil! Listen to the podcast here! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Confluence Plugin posted to the Catalog
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 11:03p Suzanne O Minassian
Check out the Atlassian Confluence plugin for Lotus Connections. For detail on how to install and use it, be sure to check out the InfoCenter section on Confluence. With the Confluence wiki plugin for Lotus Connections, you can now provide your Communities with their own wiki. Every Connections Community can optionally choose to create an associated wiki space where the members of the community can collaboratively author and share information. Associated wiki pages will be fully readable, includ [read] Keywords: connections
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Deep dive on Connections in the App Gap blog posted today!
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 10:45a Suzanne O Minassian
Bill Ives wrote an entry today in one of his blogs, the App Gap, on Lotus Connections 2.0! Check it out! Bill has worked with Fortune 100 companies in knowledge management, portals, and learning for over 25 years. For several years he led the Knowledge Management Practice within the Human Performance Service Line at Accenture and was an advisor to their internal KM group. Currently he is focusing on business applications of web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 and working with a number of clients in this [read] Keywords: connections
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Synch.rono.us Wordled
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 11:08a Suzanne O Minassian
This is a word cloud from the project Wordle, another fine creation from Jon Feinberg (aka Mr. Feinberg). Jon also created Dogear, now part of Lotus Connections. Make your own cloud or browse the gallery. [read] Keywords: connections
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Extending Lotus Connections to your everyday tools
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 3:49p Luis Benitez
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Don’t forget to visit Fix Central after installing Lotus Connections
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 3:09p David A Brooks
A quick reminder to those who have started to install Lotus Connections 2.0 that we have released a number of interim fixes on IBM Fix Central to resolve issues that you might hit in your deployment. Don't forget to review these fixes and install those that impact your environment. We will also be pulling together a cumulative fix pack soon that includes both the already posted fixes and some additional updates for your Lotus Connections 2.0 system. [read] Keywords: connections
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Social bookmarking and tagging at today’s Boston KM Forum meeting
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 6:01p Suzanne O Minassian
Today I attended a meeting of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum where the topic of the day was "Categorization and Tagging: Where's the Beef". The majority of the discussion fell into a few 'categories' of its own. Bill Ives was our first speaker and gave a great talk about the concept of emergence in enterprise 2.0. He quoted Andrew McAfee: "The dominant verb for IT in the 80s and 90s was IMPOSE. The new verb for enterprise 2.0 is EMERGE." Not surprisingly, discussion arose on bridging [read] Keywords: dogear
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Firefox 3 - Life at the Bleeding Edge
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 12:00p Adrian Spender
----------------------------------------------------- Special guest author, Adrian Spender! I'm a software engineer in IBM's Dublin lab and am the technical lead on the new Home Page component of Lotus Connections 2.0. 2008 is my tenth year in IBM and previously to Connections I worked on the development of various middleware products including WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. I hold a degree in Information Systems from the University of Leeds in the UK. - [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.0 is here
Sat, Jun 14th 2008 12:09p David A Brooks
The day has arrived, Lotus Connections 2.0 is now available for download. Everything you have seen since the first peeks at Lotusphere 2008 to the latest success at Enterprise 2.0 Social Computing "bakeoff " are now ready for you to roll out. You can start by exploring the new Homepage where you can get a consolidated view to what is happening within your network, to our new social search functionality where you can discover what others in your organization are finding most valuable on a spec [read] Keywords: connections
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Thanks for the blog postings and tweets at Enterprise 2.0 Social Computing "Bakeoff"
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 8:20p Suzanne O Minassian
If you joined today's session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, thanks for coming! I hear the overflow room was full and people were getting turned away - sorry to hear that. I'd like to take a moment to thank the people who covered the event in their blogs and point to some of their thoughts: Luis Benitez (IBM) Ed Brill (IBM) Tony Byrne Handly Cameron Stephen Collins Doug Cornelius Scott Gavin Mac Guidera (IBM) David Hobbie C. G. Lynch Chris Reckling (IBM) Me [read] Keywords: connections
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My thoughts on today’s session at Enterprise 2.0
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 6:53p Suzanne O Minassian
Thanks to all who attended today's 3 hour deep dive on Lotus Connections versus Microsoft Sharepoint. It's not often we have the opportunity to demonstrate Connections in such a head-on manner, and I thank Mike Gotta from the Burton Group, Lawrence Liu and Venky Veeraraghavan from Microsoft, and of course, my co-presenter, Heidi Votaw for coordinating and putting together today's session. I have to admit, when I was first asked about doing such a session, I didn't think Sharepoint versus Con [read] Keywords: connections
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New Video: IBM Lotus Connections Tech Talk
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 10:38a Suzanne O Minassian
Douglas Spencer hosts this first Tech Talk interview about IBM Lotus Connections, the motivation for it, and our strategy. I posted it to YouTube and Viddler, of course: [read] Keywords: connections
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Some great accolades for Lotus Connections
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 3:07p Suzanne O Minassian
Melanie Turek posted this blog entry a few days ago and had this to say about Lotus Connections: "I’ve long felt that IBM is the leading vendor for enterprise social networking technologies, and the demo I just got only strengthens my opinion. Today, more than 500 companies are using profiles, wikis & blogs, bookmarks and other tools to change the way they do business. One of the more interesting things is how varied the use cases are–everyting from outbound customer servic [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections Demo Video Buffet
Wed, May 14th 2008 4:00p Suzanne O Minassian
I've just finished posting several demo videos of Lotus Connections release 2.0. They are all less than 10 minutes in length and cover the basics of the services. There are a few more in the works, but for now, here's the set. Overview Demo (9:05m) - YouTube -or- Viddler Profiles Demo (7:08m) - YouTube - or - Viddler Activities Demo (9:49m) - YouTube - or - Viddler Communities Demo (5:19m) - YouTube - or - Viddler Dogear Demo (4:33m) - YouTube - or - Viddler Home Page (5:01m) - Yo [read] Keywords: connections
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Blackberry Client for Lotus Connections Now Available
Mon, May 5th 2008 6:04p Suzanne O Minassian
Lotus Connections is now available for Blackberry users! Go to www.blackberry.com/go/lotusconnections to download the new Blackberry Client for Lotus Connections that RIM recently developed and provided for download from their site. Here's some information from their page: Now enterprise organizations can take the best collaboration tools out of the office. BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Connections gives mobile professionals the ability to connect wirelessly with colleague [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New page in developerWorks on Connections 3rd party integration
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008 8:22p Suzanne O Minassian
A new page has been added to the IBM developerWorks wiki to include pointers to documentation on how to integrate Lotus Connections with 3rd party applications. So far, it includes the following, and will grow over time with future integration options: Extending and Integrating the Business Card Portal Integration Through WebSphere Portlet Factory Portal Integration Through the Lotus Connections Portlet Lotus Connections Solutions Catalog Sametime Integration via the Connections REST API [read] Keywords: connections
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Stop Talking, Start Connecting
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 1:40p Suzanne O Minassian
We just launched a new television ad which will be featured at the Masters! The "Connecting" TV ad is one of 10 different advertising spots that will be rotating during the Masters to US audiences and then to broader audiences. To view the ad check out www.ibm.com/connecting, where you can also access several Lotus, GTS and GBS offers and find more information by clicking on the "Collaboration" link. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Facade
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 11:48a Joseph Russo
Someone, I don’t know who, said we all go through life with different masks. We wear masks for different people, masks we show our workmates, masks we show our family, etc. With social software, we put up a representation of ourselves, for people to learn about us. It’s another one of those masks. What’s interesting about this though, is we are, in some way, giving up a little control of our masks. We can create a profile of ourselves, but, we’re not completely certain of [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Fifty ways to leave your bookmark: An experiment in social authoring
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 2:03p Suzanne O Minassian
A new article has been posted to developerWorks today. "Fifty ways to leave your bookmark" is an experiment led by Frank Jania where 11 people (myself included) posted code in a variety of programming languages to create bookmarks in Dogear using our Atom Publishing Protocol based API. "The ultimate goal of this experiment is to have a group of people contribute the content for a developerWorks article, in the span of one day, that shows how to use Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) from as ma [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections Profiles Demo Video
Fri, Apr 4th 2008 4:32p Suzanne O Minassian
Here it is - demo #2 on Lotus Connections. This video focuses on the Profiles service, and it goes into some of the new features we're releasing in the next version of Connections. You can also use this and future videos as training tools on how to get started and learn to use new features. [read] Keywords: connections
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Policies for corporate social networking behind the firewall
Fri, Apr 4th 2008 10:22a Suzanne O Minassian
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Lotus Connections Activities Demo Video
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 8:36p Suzanne O Minassian
This is the first in a series of demo videos on IBM Lotus Connections. This video focuses on the Activities service, and it goes into some of the new features we're releasing in the next version of Activities! You can also use this and future videos as training tools on how to get started and learn to use new features. [read] Keywords: connections
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Internship Opening
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 11:35a Suzanne O Minassian
We recently posted an internship opening on our social software team! We're looking for someone to build business case around a competitive strategy for the Lotus division. The business case would include proposed product packaging, competitive analysis, and pricing analysis. The position will involve research, business case analysis, and client facing work to test & validate proposed solutions. We're looking for someone with experience in business case development, business model analysis [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free report: introduction to social media for business
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 9:45a Suzanne O Minassian
Trevor Cook & Lee Hopkins posted a free report on enterprise social media on their sites here and here. It's an introduction to a variety of social software tools and how they are applicable to enterprises. It provides a good overview and is something I would recommend to those who are just getting started thinking about social software in a corporate setting. [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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Customer presentation on Lotus Connections
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 9:25a Suzanne O Minassian
Dave Bailey, Sr. Manager of Collaboration Services at Imerys, posted a great presentation on how Imerys is using Lotus Connections. Check it out! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Charitable eBay Auction for Lotusphere Staff Shirts
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 8:06p Suzanne O Minassian
Mary Beth posted this entry a few days ago. If you didn't get a Lotusphere shirt and you want one, here's your chance! From Mary Beth's blog: I am pleased to announce the Lotupshere 2008 T-shirt auction for charity! We have 17 OFFICIAL IBM LOTUS STAFF shirts to auction, and each is listed as a separate e-bay auction item as a fund-raiser for Doctors without Borders (medecins sans frontiers). Here are links to a few, or you can search e-bay for Lotusphere '08. Notice that each listi [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotusphere Comes to You
Thu, Mar 13th 2008 10:00a Heidi Votaw
Have you ever wanted to meet the Product Management team for Lotus Connections? Well you have the opportunity as we are covering a variety of local events over the next few months. Our first event is called Lotusphere Comes to You. Be sure to check the website (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lcty2008/) for information on how you can register for the events. We are going to be covering the session specific to Lotus Connections. This session will talk about some of the things [read] Keywords: connections
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Charlene Li presents Real World Business Social Software stories at SXSW2008
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 9:45a Suzanne O Minassian
Charlene Li of Forrester presented at SXSW on the topic of business social software examples. You can view her slides at http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks. Charlene opened up presenting a concept (and a new book) called “Groundswell”, which she defines as a social trend in which people use technologies to get things they need from each other rather than from traditional institutions. She then said making revolutions stick require frameworks [read] Keywords: collaboration
, policies
, community
, email
, facebook
, ipod
, sharepoint
, social software
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Talking about community best practices at SXSW2008
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 8:52a Suzanne O Minassian
On my first full day of SXSW 2008, I attended a great panel session on real world online communities, how they got started, and best practices in retaining and growing them. The panel was hosted by Smallworldlabs.com. Here are the profiles of the 4 organizations that were on the panel and their community stories. Dan Benner, Founder GINDIE GINDIE is a social networking site for independent film makers. Their goal in starting Gindie is to raise visibility and accessibility of talent and re [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connect
, community
, google
, network
, networking
, office
, profile
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Q&A on Connections
Mon, Mar 10th 2008 3:43p Suzanne O Minassian
I’ve been on the road a lot lately presenting Connections to customers and conferences. I have been getting a string of questions that fall along the lines of “I heard Connections doesn’t do X….”. Here are some of those questions and answers to them. Gia Lyons, thanks for your contributions to these. Any other rumors out there? Q: I hear Connections is not a fully-integrated platform. It runs on top of Websphere application server you will need Websphere Applic [read] Keywords: administration
, connections
, dogear
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, quickr
, sametime
, aix
, application
, applications
, database
, integration
, interface
, linux
, microsoft
, office
, outlook
, server
, sharepoint
, social software
, tivoli
, websphere
, websphere portal
, wiki
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Activities in Connections 2.0
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 2:02p David A Brooks
In Connections 2.0 we have taken great lengths to re-focus on enabling Activity Centric Collaboration. What does that mean? The high level goal is to organize work around the activities people do rather than the tools they use. Think how you get your work done. Lets say you receive an email about an opening in your department. You read through this email and initiate a instant message conversation with your Director. You and your co-worker each begin drafting a posting that describes the p [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connections
, document
, applications
, email
, instant message
, instant messaging
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Grabbing your attention
Fri, Feb 22nd 2008 6:46p Suzanne O Minassian
----------------------------------------------------- Special guest author, Adrian Spender! I'm a software engineer in IBM's Dublin lab and am the technical lead on the new Home Page component of Lotus Connections 2.0. 2008 is my tenth year in IBM and previously to Connections I worked on the development of various middleware products including WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. I hold a degree in Information Systems from the University of Leeds in the UK. - [read] Keywords: connections
, dogear
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, ajax
, application
, development
, email
, enterprise
, network
, server
, social software
, websphere
, widget
, widgets
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Grabbing your attention
Fri, Feb 22nd 2008 5:42p Adrian Spender
----------------------------------------------------- Special guest author, Adrian Spender! I'm a software engineer in IBM's Dublin lab and am the technical lead on the new Home Page component of Lotus Connections 2.0. 2008 is my tenth year in IBM and previously to Connections I worked on the development of various middleware products including WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. I hold a degree in Information Systems from the University of Leeds in the UK. - [read] Keywords: connections
, dogear
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, ajax
, application
, development
, email
, enterprise
, network
, server
, social software
, websphere
, widget
, widgets
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Lotus 911 Releases a Lotuscript API for Connections
Mon, Feb 4th 2008 1:04p Suzanne O Minassian
If you were at Lotusphere, you may have heard rumblings about a Lotuscript API for Lotus Connections. Nathan Freeman and team from Lotus 911 (creators of the new BleedYellow.com site) have been busy working on this and have the API ready for play here. From that page "(The Lotuscript API) uses LS2J to broker ATOM transactions through the Apache Commons HTTP Client. Future versions will use LSX to conduct HTTP communications. It is designed to work only with Notes 8.0.0 and higher." I'm look [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, lotusphere
, lsx
, notes
, bleedyellow
, bleedyellow.com
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Lotus Connections 2.0 at Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 23rd 2008 4:23a David A Brooks
Lotusphere is now wrapped up and lots of exciting news about Lotus Connections was announced. RIM demonstrated Lotus Connections on the Blackberry device - more info here. A business partner, Lotus 911, has deployed a public social networking site powered by Lotus Connections. And at OGS, the release of Lotus Connections 2.0 was announced with a number of its new features demonstrated on stage by Suzanne (great job). Connections in 2.0 will get translated to many more languages including A [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, lotusphere
, quickr
, blackberry
, integration
, network
, networking
, rim
, widgets
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Agile Development in the real world 
Mon, Jan 21st 2008 11:08a Joseph Russo
I want to take this opportunity of having your eyes to talk about agile development. Some of you may know intimately, the details of agile development, or have heard of it, or have no idea what in the world it is. So, those of you in the know, bear with me for a minute... Agile development is simply stated, a software development practice to go from idea, to design, to working code, to user, to user feedback and iteration on the design based on that use and feedback, in as small a cycle as possi [read] Keywords: development
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How to get the most out of your community
Fri, Jan 18th 2008 12:59p Joseph Russo
Ok, now you’ve gone ahead and created a community or you found one and joined it…how can you get the most out of that community? Let’s examine this from two perspectives. First, as a producer of information that is relevant for the community, and second, as a consumer of that community’s information. Producer You created a community or joined one where you have a lot to offer. Could be a community for “Secrets of Good BBQ”, “AJAX programming methods̶ [read] Keywords: connect
, connections
, dogear
, forms
, javascript
, mashup
, ajax
, applications
, bookmarklet
, bug
, community
, development
, firefox
, tag cloud
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Integrating IBM Lotus Connections with Microsoft SharePoint and Live Communications Server
Wed, Jan 16th 2008 10:07p David A Brooks
Luis Benitez wrote a great article on developerWorks about integrating Lotus Connections with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Live Communications Server. He gives step by step instructions on how to add the Lotus Connections' person profile cards to existing share point pages and adding LCS presence awareness to Lotus Connections Profiles. Learn how here. [read] Keywords: connections
, ibm
, lotus
, microsoft
, profile
, server
, sharepoint
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When to use a community
Mon, Jan 14th 2008 1:00p Joseph Russo
What is a community? A community is a group of people. The grouping occurs because of some factor, like; 1. a common interest a. people who are interested in Chess 2. a unifying property a. people working on the Lotus Connections Project 3. a shared goal or outcome a. planning and producing a film In collaboration software, the community can take on many forms. 1. community interest groups (like google groups or yahoo groups) – these [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connect
, connections
, forms
, lotus
, community
, google
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Knowing who’s watching
Mon, Jan 7th 2008 5:00a Suzanne O Minassian
In physical life, people tend to act according to their surroundings (well, we hope many do). At work, I don’t blast my music. At a movie, I don’t talk on my cell phone. It’s fairly easy to distinguish appropriate behavior in our physical world, as we have learned through social interactions which shaped us into people who act and react ‘accordingly’. Why should any of this be different online? For starters, knowing ‘where you are’ and knowing you are id [read] Keywords: community
, social software
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Lotus Connections in a 3-D world
Wed, Dec 26th 2007 6:00a David A Brooks
EWeek recently wrote an article on the integration of Lotus Connections into 3D-Worlds. The article talks about experimenting with the visualization of social data using three dimensions, but I am still trying to get a handle on how one would best leverage this data more effectively in this world vs the two dimensional world of a web browser. I see many possibilities if we start talking about two way communication where it isn't only visualization in the 3-D world but also leveraging interact [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connections
, forms
, lotus
, blogging
, community
, integration
, social software
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How alive is your social network?
Mon, Dec 24th 2007 5:00a Suzanne O Minassian
“I saw on Facebook that you are in Stamford. Are you going through New Haven on your way home? I just moved here! Stop by!” I’m horrible at keeping in touch with friends. I had a new year’s resolution once to contact friends and family at regular intervals to see how they were doing, and that lasted 2 months. I’m always looking for new tools to help with this problem, though nothing really has. I started using Friendster and Tribe in 2003. I found that only a handfu [read] Keywords: facebook
, myspace
, network
, networking
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Mashup Over Easy
Fri, Dec 21st 2007 5:00a Joseph Russo
I wanted to do a mashup to demonstrate a few things, the power of mashups, how easy they can be, how well Lotus Connections supports mashups, and, well to have a little fun. So here we go. What are we gonna do? Since I am a designer on Communities, guess what? We’re gonna focus on communities, getting more value out of the features that Communities offers. Out of the box, Communities allow members to post bookmarks to the community, tag them etc. These bookmarks are community bookmarks, ow [read] Keywords: connections
, designer
, dogear
, lotus
, mashup
, mashups
, ajax
, community
, profile
, web2.0
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When disaster strikes, create an Activity! 
Thu, Dec 20th 2007 5:00a Suzanne O Minassian
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Announcing Atlas for Lotus Connections!
Tue, Dec 18th 2007 11:35a Suzanne O Minassian
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, connections
, lotus
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5 Weeks until Lotusphere 2008!
Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:15a David A Brooks, Suzanne
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The story of Lotus Connections
Mon, Dec 17th 2007 5:00a Suzanne O Minassian
A little known fact about Lotus Connections is that it was developed from applications that have been in use inside IBM for years. When I joined in 2003, the company had been using a profile service where each employee had a page with information about their job, location, background, picture, organization, and more. It provided a place to run searches for people based on those attributes, helping me identify those who might be interested in my work, people who could help with my project, and te [read] Keywords: connections
, dogear
, ibm
, lotus
, applications
, blogging
, community
, office
, profile
, social bookmarking
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Reaching Critical Mass
Fri, Dec 14th 2007 5:00a Joseph Russo
In my last entry I talked about two kinds of critical mass that is needed for a social software suite to achieve in order to demonstrate value. Critical Mass of Information Critical Mass of active PeopleWe could just put the software out there and see what happens, things will eventually get going. But we can do better. Just consider this analogy. You have a garden, and you want to grow some great stuff in it. So you work on the garden. You till the soil, you add nutrients and put up a small bo [read] Keywords: administration
, connections
, dogear
, lotus
, blogging
, community
, social software
, tag cloud
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Critical Mass
Wed, Dec 12th 2007 11:00a Joseph Russo
The Connections V1 software set is composed of 5 applications. Profiles – the person centric application (known by all here as Bluepages) Activities – the tool for organizing and managing your day to day work Blogs – what can I say, blogs Dogear – social bookmarking Communities – groups centricThese fab five operate in two categories. First, there is the pure, out of the box raw application value; Profiles – connect users to the data sitting in your director [read] Keywords: connect
, connections
, dogear
, application
, applications
, social bookmarking
, social software
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Tips & Tricks: Putting a "Post to Dogear" button on your site
Wed, Dec 12th 2007 7:00a David A Brooks
Do you like seeing links like this on public sites: How about adding a "Post to Dogear" button on your intranet site. It is rather simple. As of Lotus Connections 1.0.2 we provide a javascript library that enables you to add a script include in the document head and a single javascript snippet to your site where you want the button to show: (example updated on 12/17/07 from feedback in comments) That's it, a button will now show. Also, you can override the form fields in the [read] Keywords: connections
, document
, dogear
, javascript
, lotus
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Have ideas for Lotus Connections?
Tue, Dec 11th 2007 1:45p Suzanne O Minassian
If you haven't seen IdeaJam, you should definitely check it out. IdeaJam is an application which lets you enter in new ideas for Lotus products, vote on them, and comment on them. There is a category dedicated to Lotus Connections, which means if you have ideas for Connections, here is where to put them. Other people can vote you up (or down!) in points, and you may even generate some interesting discussion or debate on a feature! What's even most helpful to us on the product team is that we [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, application
, ideajam
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What?s so useful about user generated content?
Mon, Dec 10th 2007 5:00a Suzanne O Minassian
There was a time when companies tried to encourage workers to share their knowledge by offering financial rewards or making knowledge sharing part of the performance review. Companies desperately wanted to collect knowledge, yet to workers the idea of sitting at an application for every project and checking off new skills learned or filling out extensive surveys was a turnoff. (I've felt the pain of those surveys, have you?) Companies were motivated to collect knowledge, but workers were not mot [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connections
, lotus
, application
, applications
, community
, google
, social software
, wiki
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Using Atom for feed syndication and publishing
Thu, Dec 6th 2007 9:19a David A Brooks
In building Lotus Connections 1.x we made a conscious decision to support Atom as our web syndication format. Atom is an XML document format describing a feed which contains a collection of entries based on the specified request parameters. In addition to Atom Syndication, the Atom publishing protocol is also supported by Lotus Connections, enabling two way communication using a single document format. Atom enabled us to meet our goal of consolidating on a single standard based format that a [read] Keywords: connections
, document
, ibm
, lotus
, blogger
, community
, wiki
, xml
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Welcome to our new blog!
Mon, Dec 3rd 2007 6:00p Suzanne O Minassian
Welcome aboard to a new blog from the Lotus Connections product team! Synch.rono.us will bring together social software viewpoints from several aspects of product development - technology, user experience and customer value. Our intent is to educate our readers on how Connections works, how to use the capabilities most effectively, and learn how Connections is bringing value to our customers. Tips and tricks, ways to extend the capabilities, and case studies are some of the topics we have i [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, synch.rono.us
, development
, social software
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