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Lotus Connections going mobile with Blackberry
Last week at Lotusphere I was pleased to help announce that RIM will be providing a mobile solution for Lotus Connections. Lotus Connections helps you build out your social networking inside your company and now you can extend your capability to mobile devices. It has always made sense, and really only a matter of time before a mobile solution was available for Lotus Connections. With Lotus Connections profiling service, you can quickly and easily find experts and resources across your company. Viewing someone's profile allows you to find out more information about that person such as projects they are working on or have worked on. You can surf up, down, and across the reporting structure and find all the business relevant information to contact them. I can't tell you how many times I've been on my mobile device and wish I had profile access to my entire corporate directory. Well guess what, now I will with RIM's solutions as I can easily search by name, job, keywords to find the right people and start an email or phone call with them.
Dogear, our social bookmarking service can also be leveraged from Blackberry devices. I love to use Dogear as I can easily manage and find my bookmarks as well as others regardless of the machine or browser I use. Now I can use my Blackberry device to get access to my bookmarks when I'm on the go. I am extremely excited to be working with RIM on their solution.
For more info - read RIM's press coverage at http://www.rim.com/news/press/2008/pr-23_01_2008-01.shtml
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: [ blackberry | connections | mobile | rim ]
Jan 28 2008, 04:24:13 PM EST
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Lotus making investiments in SMB
Today IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Net Integration Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of software server solutions based in Markham, Canada. Net Integration Technologies will become part of the Lotus business and extend our leadership in the SMB space. "Small businesses need superior collaboration technology as much as large companies do," said Michael D. Rhodin, general manager, IBM Lotus Software. "The difference is that it must be an affordable turnkey package that doesn't require a large investment in on-site IT expertise and resources. Net Integration Technologies meets that need for our SMB customers and represents a terrific business opportunity for IBM's business partners." Net Integration Technologies develops easy to deploy, essential solutions for small and medium businesses that help simplify file management, directory services, e-mail, backup and recovery, and other business tasks. The solutions are designed for small business customers with little or no in-house technical expertise.
You can read more about today's announcement in the press release on ibm.com.
Ted
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Jan 18 2008, 09:19:22 AM EST
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*NEW* Social Software Space
For the last couple of months, IBM developerWorks has been launching group and expert spaces. Group spaces focus on a specific technical topic and may
be led by multiple administrators and editors. Visitors to a group
space can request membership to the space to stay informed with the
group. Expert spaces are owned by experts in the developer community and
include links to each expert's favorite resources, including blogs,
forums, podcasts, and more.
For those of you interested in social software, come view and join the social software group space.
Ted
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: [ connections | social_software ]
Jan 14 2008, 08:07:46 AM EST
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Social Software sessions at Lotusphere
As expected, this year there will be some great product announcements and features related to Lotus Connections during Lotusphere. It's been about a year since we first announced Lotus Connections and about 7 months since we released the first version. With thousands of customers using or trying Lotus Connections, we have gotten great feedback and are building that into the next version of Connections. I don't want to spoil the fun down at Lotusphere so to get the latest information, you'll just have to wait a couple more days.
| Session Topic | Speakers |
JMP401 QuickStart: Warp 9 -- Getting Up to Speed on Social Software and IBM Lotus Connections
What is social networking, and why should you be paying attention?
You'll learn why businesses are embracing it to enable improved
innovation, connect far-flung corners of their organizations, and make
a new generation of professionals feel right at home. In this session,
you'll hear an overview of the difference between social and
collaborative tools, some general thinking in the field of social
networking and some of the opportunities (and pitfalls) that can arise
as social technologies proliferate. You'll also learn about the
capabilities of Lotus Connections, some of the technical best practices
for deploying Lotus Connections -- such as planning, architecture,
tuning, and maintenance. |
Ted Stanton
Gia Lyons |
INV105 IBM Lotus Connections Strategy and Roadmap
IBM was the first to introduce social software for business, Lotus
Connections, but we are continuing to set the strategy and direction
for this emerging market. This session will highlight our current
progress in the market as well as the details around our current
release. In addition, we'll provide you a glimpse of the new ideas and
directions we are taking Lotus Connections through 2008 -- and beyond.
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Heidi Votaw
Ronnie Maffa |
AD101 Building Social Software Solutions for Your Applications
The IBM Lotus Connections REST-style API allows integration with
applications across your organization. Come to this session to learn
how you can use the API and to build customer applications and mash-ups
featuring the power of social software. We'll include a discussion and
demonstration of the Lotus Connections plug-in for IBM Lotus Notes as
one example of using the API. |
Miguel Estrada
Mike Roche |
AD102 Expand and Extend Your Investments with IBM Social Software and Web 2.0
Learn how to exploit the capabilities of IBM Lotus Connections to
improve and extend IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM WebSphere
Portal, Microsoft Office and your existing applications. You'll
understand how mash-ups, REST, ATOM and widgets allow you to connect
people in new ways through a myriad of applications technologies. This
will include a discussion and demonstration of the APIs and
technologies used for Lotus Connections plug-in for Lotus Notes as an
example of how you can tap into personal interactions and information
in Lotus Connections from other applications. |
Ted Stanton
Joe Russo |
ID502 Lotus Connections - An in depth view of the next release
Last year, we announced Lotus Connections, social software that enables
customers to leverage the knowledge of many, share content and
expertise, and complete work faster using a set of interactive
services. In this session you will get a premiere look at the new
features being planned for the second release of Lotus Connections. See
how we've taken the Communities and Activities components to the next
level, how we've extended Lotus Connections to tap into your customer
networks, how we've increased your social productivity and
connectivity, enhanced user profiles, and unified your social
experience by providing services and features that span all of Lotus
Connections. Be the first to see these new features in action. |
Suzanne O. Minassian
Scott Prager |
ID506 Driving customer loyalty and revenue growth with IBM Lotus Connections
Come learn how you can leverage social software for B2C scenarios.
Transform your corporate web site and allow your customers to connect
with other customers of similar interest, build communities, and
provide innovation to help create new products and services. |
Christopher Lamb
Ajamu Wesley |
ID507 How Communities of Practice can get the most out of IBM Lotus Connections and social software
Within every organization there are a variety of practitioners who have
their own special responsibilities, techniques and concerns. Social
software can serve as the "glue" that brings the communities of
practice together. Learn how the information sharing and social
communication capabilities of Lotus Connections can enable employees to
leverage each other's tacit knowledge and past work products. |
Brendan Crotty
Ethan Perry |
ID508 IBM Lotus Connections Architecture and Deployment Best Practices
Lotus Connections has been deployed in organizations around the world
and in industries from automotive to telecommunications. In this
session you will learn the technical best practices for deploying Lotus
Connections from the people who ran these projects. Topics to be
covered include planning, architecture, tuning, maintenance and
integration with existing systems and much more. |
Jay Boyd
Morten Kristiansen |
ID509 Why "Activities" are Critical to Your Business
Business collaboration is purpose driven, yet technologies force us to
distribute and fracture our work among existing tools. The Activities
component in IBM Lotus Connections is the Lotus approach to
transforming collaboration to directly support agile, purpose-driven
work. With the Activities service, people, information, and tools are
organized around specific activities, where actions can be guided,
planned, or adapted to changing situations. Further, work can be
captured, and reused, amplifying the transfer of people's knowledge and
experience. In this session, we'll explain the research supporting
Activities and take you through business scenarios showing how
Activities can transform business work. We'll also show how Activities
integrates with your existing applications. |
Suzanne Minassian
Marty Moore |
HND303 Build IBM Lotus Connections Mashup applications
Lotus Connections services support the Atom Publishing Protocol as the
common public API. Lotus Connections Atom API enables developers and
technical end users to easily create mashups, plugins, and extensions
in a variety of clients. In this lab, you will be introduced to the
Lotus Connections Atom APIs and you will learn some of the many ways to
take advantage of the Lotus Connections services. You will build a
browser-based mashup aggregating several Lotus Connections services.
In this mashup, you will provide the ability to create and edit Lotus
Connections services data without having to leave the current web
applicationand assign a task in an Activity. |
David Brooks
Joe Russo |
BDD104 Connecting to Social Software -- Extend Your Business with IBM Lotus Connections
The social software market is exploding and IBM is in the lead. Attend
this session and see how you can catch this wave and attack this market
to dramatically increase revenue in 2008. You'll also see how existing
system integrators and software vendors are doing that today with Lotus
Connections. |
Brandon Smith
Curtis Ryan |
BP111 Tips, Tricks and Traps for Deploying IBM Lotus Connections – Best Practices in a Real World Implementation
It doesn't matter if you’re new to Lotus Connections or an old hand,
the world changes quickly and you need to keep up. Using experience
from many successful engagements, this presentation discusses the
lessons learned in each of the stages of gathering requirements,
designing and implementing Lotus Connections. With lots of take away
hints, tips and traps to avoid, we’ll share our deployment experience
with Lotus Connections services. We’ll also discuss case studies from
several groups that are using social software with portal today to
increase productivity and customer satisfaction. You'll get a checklist
of steps to take to ensure a successful deployment along with any
issues to watch out for based on early real world deployments. |
Abhijeet Nakhwa
Sunil Hiranniah |
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: [ connections | lotupshere2008 | socialsoftware ]
Jan 10 2008, 07:51:58 AM EST
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UX Books for the Holidays
I've been meaning to post some books about design and user experience (UX)
that I thought you might be interested in. There are many fine books
out there that you can read about UX and many that I have not read
myself - feel free to post your own suggestions here. My intent is not
to make you a designer, but to provide you with some materials that
will make your development projects better, whether you are inclined
towards design or you are a developer.
more...
Chris
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Dec 10 2007, 08:12:12 PM EST
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Sametime 8 Ships
I have backlog of blog topics to do, but it's been incredibly busy. The
pace is likely to get faster leading up to Lotusphere since I'm on the
(Opening General Session) OGS demo team. That's a topic for another day
and another tease since I can't really tell you what will be in it.
For now, congrats to the Sametime team for delivering Sametime 8.
more...
Chris Reckling
Program Director, MA UX Design Studio, Lotus Software
(cross-posting to the "other" Inside Lotus blog)
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Dec 01 2007, 07:23:51 PM EST
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The Merging of Virtual Reality, Social Computing
For those of you interested in where IBM is taking social software
IBM Lotus programmers and engineers from IBM's research groups are currently working on ways to employ virtual reality technologies with Lotus Connections social computing software, said Jeff Schick, vice president of social computing for IBM.
Read the full article on eWeek.
Ted
Categories
: [ 3d | connections | second_life ]
Nov 28 2007, 04:30:04 PM EST
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Is this thing still on
I apologize, it's been a while since I've posted a blog entry. I have been extremely busy as the product manager for Lotus Connections. With Lotus Connections being the newest member to the Lotus family of products, most of the team have been heads down working on the product. The marketing, sales, and development team can't grow as fast as the demand for enterprise ready social software. I am surprised at the number of customers we have deploying Lotus Connections. I will admit, I had some doubts that company's would be so quick to deploy facebook, linkedin or myspace type solution for employee's. Luckily for me I was wrong.
I speak with about 6-10 customers a week. Every customer I speak with is aware of Lotus Connections and are extremely interested in understanding the use cases. I always laugh to myself when I hear that because of the customers I work with that have deployed socials software, just about all of them are using to solve different business problems. However, we have compiled some case studies that I'd like to share.
Ted Stanton
IBM Product Manager - Lotus Connections
Lotus, Portal, and Collaboration Software
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: [ connections | customer | use_case ]
Nov 25 2007, 08:35:22 PM EST
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Google/IBM Cloud Computing Announcement
This week Google and IBM announced an initiative to promote the open standards and new software methods that will drive the growth of the next generation of the Internet. The initiative aims to help students and researchers address the challenges of internet-scale applications in the future.
The objective of this initiative is to help students build advanced skills and tools to develop next-generation computing infrastructure and applications to drive the Internet’s next phase of growth. Google and IBM have built a virtual IT lab based on the Cloud Computing model and released a complete suite of open source-based development tools for writing massively parallel applications. IBM and Google are teaming up to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons. With their combined resources, the companies hope to lower the financial and logistical barriers for the academic community to explore this emerging model of computing.
More informatino here.
Ted Stanton
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: [ google | ibm | internet ]
Oct 10 2007, 04:05:02 PM EDT
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Social software for your Portal
This week I'm down in Orlando, FL for the WebSphere Portal Technical Conference. This is my first time attending this conference and I'm very impressed. Coming down from Boston, this is real treat for me as the weather has been great. The opening session with Larry Bowden and Chris Crummy set the stage for the week as we are going to see how the newly announced IBM Accelerators were going to accelerate the time to value across the Lotus portfolio of products.
The current set of IBM Accelerators consist of:
IBM Dashboard Accelerator
IBM Self-Service Accelerator
IBM Content Accelerator
IBM Collaboration Accelerator
IBM Enterprise Suite Accelerator
For me, I'm more focused on the IBM Collaboration Accelerator which consists of Sametime 7.5, Quickr, and Lotus Connections. I've already presented one session on "Delivering the Value of Social Software to Portal Users with Lotus Connections" and hosted a BoF on "Social Networking: Will it work in your organization?" Both were well attended and I was extremely surprised to see how many Portal customers wanted to bring social software solutions into their Portal environment. Many saw great value in using the content in Lotus Connections to build out personalization. For example, one customer had plans deploy Lotus Connections and use the personalization builder to better target employee content.
For example, John is an sales rep at Renovations. Currently when he logs into Portal, he receives sales related content. However, John is a sales rep that only focuses on kitchen designs. John uses Lotus Connections to blog about ideas and projects he has worked on related to kitchens. He also bookmarks may URL's related to kitchen renovations, has created a community related to that topic, and tagged himself with kitchen redesign. Using the personalization builder, Portal can now get more information about John so now when he logs into Portal, he receives sales related information related to kitchen redesigns.
Ted
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: [ accelerators | collaboration | connections | portal ]
Oct 09 2007, 11:00:40 AM EDT
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
Another sign of the times, where the rest of the world is coming to
understand what we've known all along - collaboration is important! I
wonder if it was a cultural or generational barrier that prevented such
widespread adoption of collaborative technologies. In the early days,
we used to talk about how to incent employees to share information, how
to roll out Notes to organizations most effectively. You had to
convince C-level execs that there really was business
value in collaboration - improve the productivity of employees and
improve your bottom line; stop reinventing the wheel; start...
more...
Chris
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Oct 02 2007, 11:23:58 PM EDT
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Collaboration without boundaries
Throughout that last 2 or 3 years, you have probably seen a shift in focus on user experience and simplification from the Lotus portfolio of products. I think it first started with the 6.5.1 product releases. This is when Lotus aligned many of the products in the portfolio and provided seamless integration between the products. I was fortunate enough to work on an IBM Redbook about installing, configuring, and integrating Release 6.5.1 of IBM Lotus Domino and the Extended Products. They are no longer extended products, but instead enterprise ready software solutions that fits into our Lotus product strategy. This brings me to the point of this blog which is tight integration between Lotus products. Click on the image below to hear from the Lotus VP of Development and view a live demo from our Lotus Executive Evangelist.
By the way, Happy belated Birthday to developerWorks.
Ted
Categories
: [ collaboratoin | connections ]
Oct 01 2007, 04:44:44 PM EDT
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Symphony Kudos
Lotus Symphony
has been getting a lot of attention in the last week. My team worked on
the user interface improvements to the Open Office editors that we are
using (which first appeared in the Workplace Client - you remember that
one, right?). I think one of the excellent changes is the addition of
the properties panel to the right (see below).
more...
Chris Reckling
Program Director, MA UX Design Studio, Lotus Software
Categories
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Sep 28 2007, 09:29:45 PM EDT
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