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Lotus Connections

IBM Lotus® Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and that helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners, and customers. Version 2.5 includes an enhanced Communities experience with new features and capabilities in these integrated components: Home page, Profiles, Communities, Activities, Files, Blogs, Wikis, and Bookmarks.

Customizing Lotus Connections 2.5 with Lotus Widget Factory and Google gadgets

Customizing Lotus Connections 2.5 with Lotus Widget Factory and Google gadgets
Learn two different approaches to accelerating and simplifying the development of widgets for Lotus Connections. More

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	Lotus Connections 2.5 iWidget development guide Learn how to create iWidgets for Lotus Connections 2.5 and integrate them into the user interface for use in the Communities, Home page, and Profiles features.

	Driving Lotus Connections adoption: A case study Without a clear adoption strategy and compelling business use case, even the best intended pilot programs can fail. Review the lessons learned by some customers.

	How to configure SSO with LTPA for Lotus Connections 2.0 Configure single sign-on with Lightweight Third-Party Authentication for Lotus Connections. Learn basics of SSO and LTPA, details for configuring SSO in stand-alone mode.

	Integrating Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Quickr in an enterprise Learn how to use the IBM Community Collaboration offering to unify your diverse and distributed workforce.

	Riding the rails with IBM Lotus Connections Use Ruby on Rails to build a Web application that communicates with a Lotus Connections Dogear server to retrieve and display bookmark information using REST services.

	Deploying Google gadgets for Lotus Connections Home page Learn about the iWidget specification and its different aspects through a practical example, which shows how to implement an iWidget that acts as a wrapper for a Google gadget.