New Blog Design Domain
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 4:27a Adam Brown Welcome to CollaborationBluePrint.com.au my new blog design and place to talk about what I am doing and thinking! I had been using the older brownblog for the last few years and I decided it needed a facelift. I also wanted to refocus my blogging to what I am really doing which is helping our clients to better collaborate.
I have this idea of a collaboration blueprint. A map or detailed design if you like of what business and people need to enable collaboration. In fact not just collaboration fo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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CRN LotusLive Article
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 11:58p Adam Brown Just found this (http://www.crn.com.au/News/167834,lotuslive-free-for-partners.aspx) article on CRN with a nice mention for ISW.
ISW is creating a service offering around migrating users to LotusLive from competitive offerings. I think one of the biggest challenges for LotusLive is how do we get there and that is what ISW's offering will solve. We are also offering hosting services for Notes/Domino applications to go hand in hand with LotusLive Notes.
Pretty good article but I have to say [read] Keywords: domino
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CRN LotusLive Article
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 10:18p Adam Brown Just found this (http://www.crn.com.au/News/167834,lotuslive-free-for-partners.aspx) article on CRN with a nice mention for ISW. ISW is creating a service offering around migrating users to LotusLive from competitive offerings. I think one of the biggest challenges for LotusLive is how do we get there and that is what ISW's offering will solve. We are also offering hosting services for Notes/Domino applications to go hand in hand with LotusLive Notes. Pretty good article but I have to say [read] Keywords: domino
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Pre-Populating Lotus Connections Tags - A manual test run!
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 6:28p Adam Brown I am working with a client implementing Lotus Connections 2.5 and they want to look at ways of pre-populating some tags for the user profiles. After digging around the database structure you can see there is a table called PEOPLE_TAG. This is the table that stores all of the tags.
The columns are PROF_TAG_ID (This is simply a UUID randomly generated), PROF_SOURCE_KEY (This is the user that created the tag), PROF_TARGET_ID (This is the user that the tag is assigned to), and lastly the PRO [read] Keywords: admin
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Pre-Populating Lotus Connections Tags - A manual test run!
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 10:12p Adam Brown I am working with a client implementing Lotus Connections 2.5 and they want to look at ways of pre-populating some tags for the user profiles. After digging around the database structure you can see there is a table called PEOPLE_TAG. This is the table that stores all of the tags. The columns are PROF_TAG_ID (This is simply a UUID randomly generated), PROF_SOURCE_KEY (This is the user that created the tag), PROF_TARGET_ID (This is the user that the tag is assigned to), and lastly the PROF [read] Keywords: admin
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WildFire! 1.0 Released on OpenNTF
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Adam Brown How many social networks are you a part of? Got Sametime and Connections? Maybe you have multiple of each. Got Twitter as well? Facebook? Wordpress? Bebo? Tumblr? etc etc etc. I bet you have work related networks, personal networks, Yellowverse networks even!
Well I am very pleased to announce the release of WildFire 1.0 our free Notes 8.5 sidebar plugin just in time for Lotusphere!
Most of us have many social networks that we try and keep up to date but it is getting harder every day w [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections x 4
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Adam Brown Every now and then I like to set myself and ISW a short term target around specific offerings. In November last year I set a personal target of ISW working with 4 clients to review and decide to implement Connections before Xmas. Well we nearly got there with 3 out of 4 sales completed before xmas. Pretty good but not the 4 out of 4 I was aiming for.
Well I have just found out that we just received the order for the 4th order on Friday so I am wrapped.
The customers come from a range o [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Connection x 4
Sat, Jan 16th 2010 10:10p Adam Brown Every now and then I like to set myself and ISW a short term target around specific offerings. In November last year I set a personal target of ISW working with 4 clients to review and decide to implement Connections before Xmas. Well we nearly got there with 3 out of 4 sales completed before xmas. Pretty good but not the 4 out of 4 I was aiming for. Well I have just found out that we just received the order for the 4th order on Friday so I am wrapped. The customers come from a range of di [read] Keywords: collaboration
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WildFire! 1.0 Released on OpenNTF
Mon, Jan 11th 2010 10:00p Adam Brown How many social networks are you a part of? Got Sametime and Connections? Maybe you have multiple of each. Got Twitter as well? Facebook? Wordpress? Bebo? Tumblr? etc etc etc. I bet you have work related networks, personal networks, Yellowverse networks even! Well I am very pleased to announce the release of WildFire 1.0 our free Notes 8.5 sidebar plugin just in time for Lotusphere! Most of us have many social networks that we try and keep up to date but it is getting harder every day with [read] Keywords: connections
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To Mac or not to Mac?
Sun, Nov 29th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown So that wonderful time has come, at the end of 3 years, where it is time to get a new laptop. I have stuck with IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 15 years but here I am considering a change to a Macbook Pro 17 inch. Why am I thinking about changing? To be honest I don't think I have a compelling business reason to do so. Partly it is because I am sick of Vista however I moved to Windows 7 about a month ago and have been pleasantly surprised so that really isn't a reason to move. Partly I see it [read] Keywords: connections
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To Mac or not to Mac?
Sun, Nov 29th 2009 5:47p Adam Brown So that wonderful time has come, at the end of 3 years, where it is time to get a new laptop. I have stuck with IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 15 years but here I am considering a change to a Macbook Pro 17 inch. Why am I thinking about changing? To be honest I don't think I have a compelling business reason to do so. Partly it is because I am sick of Vista however I moved to Windows 7 about a month ago and have been pleasantly surprised so that really isn't a reason to move. Partly I see it [read] Keywords: connections
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Real world outcome of Domino Designer becoming Free.
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 5:07p Adam Brown I was just working with a client to optimise their IBM software maintenance which is coming up in Dec. Amongst other things they are currently licensed with Lotus Notes Collaboration and Domino Enterprise Servers and also have 4 Domino Designer licenses which were all up for renewal.
I explained to them the recently announced changes with Lotus Notes licensing, in particular that come Feb next year their Lotus Notes Collaboration licenses will convert to Domino Enterprise CALs and that as pa [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Real world outcome of Domino Designer becoming Free
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown I was just working with a client to optimise their IBM software maintenance which is coming up in Dec. Amongst other things they are currently licensed with Lotus Notes Collaboration and Domino Enterprise Servers and also have 4 Domino Designer licenses which were all up for renewal. I explained to them the recently announced changes with Lotus Notes licensing, in particular that come Feb next year their Lotus Notes Collaboration licenses will convert to Domino Enterprise CALs and that as par [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Starting up Lotus Connections automatically
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 8:52a Adam Brown Having installed Lotus Connections using WAS Network Deployment to start the Lotus Connections servers up I do the following:
restart the server (This also starts the Deployment Manager as a Windows Service)
Start the Node Agent - D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin\startNode.bat
Once the Node Agent has started I can start the Connections servers (I have server1, server2, and server3) from the Deployment Manager Integrated Solutions Console.
I want to change this process so [read] Keywords: agent
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Starting up Lotus Connections automatically
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 12:00a Adam Brown Having installed Lotus Connections using WAS Network Deployment to start the Lotus Connections servers up I do the following: restart the server (This also starts the Deployment Manager as a Windows Service) Start the Node Agent - D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin\startNode.bat Once the Node Agent has started I can start the Connections servers (I have server1, server2, and server3) from the Deployment Manager Integrated Solutions Console. I want to change this process so [read] Keywords: agent
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Connections 2.5 - Step 5 - INSTALL CONNECTIONS!
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 12:03a Adam Brown Right so we should have all the pre-install steps completed. WASND installed, Dmgr running, server1 profile created (unmanaged node, not running), security setup (using LDAP federated repository in this case), DB2 installed, databases created, TDI installed, Profiles database populated. So now we can install Lotus Connections 2.5 But before we do...one more thing. Sometimes when you install Connections we can get a SOAP time out error. In order to avoid this error we need to increate the t [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 - Step 1 - What you need for install.
Sun, Sep 27th 2009 10:03p Adam Brown Ok so I am installing Lotus Connections 2.5 to add to one of our Portal sites.
Here is the list of everything you need to install Lotus Connections 2.5
Required parts To install Lotus Connections 2.5 on Windows, you need to download the following parts:
Download Number
Part Number
Description
Download 1 of 12
CZ4SHML
Lotus Connections 2.5 for Windows
Download 2 of 12
CZ4SKML
Lotus Connections 2.5 wizards for Windows
Download 3 of 12
C88SPML
IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 f [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 - Step 2 - WASND
Sun, Sep 27th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown Installing WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
Ok. So the first major step to setup Connections 2.5 is to install WebSphere Application Server. In this case I have a relatively small number of users so I plan to install on a single Windows 2003 Standard server. Now IU could just use WAS in a stand-alone deployment however this would make it difficult to later move to a more clustered approach or to have the different Connections services running on different profiles/nodes if needed [read] Keywords: admin
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Connections 2.5 - Step 3 - Databases
Sun, Sep 27th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown So I am going to use DB2 Enterprise Server that is provided as part of the Connections license. You can install this on the same server as your WAS for a small site however I am going to install onto a separate server.
Now note that the Software Requirements tell us we need either DB2 9.1 FP6 or 9.5 FP3. So once again we go to Fix Central and download the fix pack. Interestingly (as CuriousMitch points out) it seems the FP3 appears to be a full install rather than a fix so I have downloaded t [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 - Step 4 - Install TDI
Sun, Sep 27th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown So once the Database server is ready and the Lotus Connections databases created the next step is to populate the Profiles database with your user information. To do this we use Tivoli Directory Integrator and run a the provided TDI script that will pull the data from your ldap directory and populate the Profiles database.
Now the Lotus Connections Info Center tells us that we need at least TDI 6.1.1 with Fix Pack 6. This can again be downloaded from Fix Central. Do a search for the Fix ID "* [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 2.5 - Step 5 - INSTALL CONNECTIONS!
Sun, Sep 27th 2009 10:00p Adam Brown Right so we should have all the pre-install steps completed. WASND installed, Dmgr running, server1 profile created (unmanaged node, not running), security setup (using LDAP federated repository in this case), DB2 installed, databases created, TDI installed, Profiles database populated.
So now we can install Lotus Connections 2.5
But before we do...one more thing. Sometimes when you install Connections we can get a SOAP time out error. In order to avoid this error we need to increate the t [read] Keywords: connections
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Recent Contacts View
Sat, Sep 26th 2009 5:20a Adam Brown I have had a few customers that have migrated to 8.5 about the fact that contacts seem to be automatically added to their Contacts database. Some people love this feature but others seem to not like it so much.
There is a new view called "Recent Contacts" as per the following screen shot. There is also a view "My Contacts".
Basically the My Contacts view should contain just those people you have actually added yourself to your contacts. The Recent Contacts View will show everyone that you [read] Keywords: domino
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Customising a WebSphere Portal Theme - Remove Signup & Edit My Profile Link
Sun, Sep 13th 2009 7:26p Adam Brown I have recently had the requirement to customise a Portal Theme a couple of times and every time I do it I fall for the same gotcha's so I thought I would document the process so I can remember next time. I recently modified a Theme to remove the Signup and Edit My Profile Links. Dave Hay shows us one way of doing this using XMLAccess however sometimes modifying the theme is required for other reasons as well.
The main reference on how to do this is the Info Center (http://publib.boulder.ibm. [read] Keywords: document
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Your Demoted!
Fri, Aug 21st 2009 8:36a Adam Brown It is interesting looking thru some of the voting on the Lotus Knows Ideajam. Having so many ideas come thru is just great but I find it interesting when some ideas that seem to have merit are demoted. I guess everyone has an opinion but I think when someone has made a real effort to explain their idea common decency says that if you demote it then maybe you should leave a comment as to why.
I have no problem with ideas being demoted, as that is the power of the system and how the good ideas [read] Keywords: domino
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Official Lotus Legends Awards
Wed, Aug 19th 2009 9:09a Adam Brown IBM should have annual awards for customers. Official Lotus Legends!
In addition to Beacon Awards for partners lets have Official Lotus Legends awards for customers that have created amazing solutions with Lotus Technologies. These Awards would promote both organisations and individuals for their success at achieving real business outcomes with Lotus software.
Lets make business users proud of their achievements and help them stand out from the crowd. This should be a testimony to the excelle [read] Keywords: domino
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TripIT and Lotus Notes 8.5 Federated Calandars
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 1:37a Adam Brown I have been using the Notes 8.5 beta for a month or so now and one of the best features is the federated calendars.
Essentially this feature allows you to overlay additional calendars with your own. For example you might want to add some of your colleagues calendars or you might have an events calendar for your organisation. Well with Notes 8.5 you can simply select which calendars you want to overlay with your calendar. On the left hand panel of your calendar go to Show Calendars and you can [read] Keywords: document
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IceTV Guide Via Notes Sidebar
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 1:26a Adam Brown I just purchased a BeyonWiz DP-S1 PVR. It is a Dual HD receiver with 250 GB drive, wireless access, etc etc. For those in overseas etc reading this it probably isn't a big deal but PVR's are relatively new devices in Australia. In particular ones with downloaded TV program guides. The great thing about the BeyonWiz is that it supports IceTV's Interactive service which allows you to program the recorder via a web site. The Beyonwiz then periodically connects to the IceTV service and downloads the [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime Status - Invisible
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 5:41a Adam Brown Just a thought that it would be great to have a sametime status of Invisible for all those times when you still want to log on but don't want people to see you. ie You might want to access a sametime bot or just do some work at night without being hassled.
Idea Jam link [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr 8.1 New Features
Tue, Mar 18th 2008 7:23p Adam Brown Quickr 8.1 has just been released. The announcement letter is here.
The new features are:
New features in Lotus Quickr Standard 8.1
Usability enhancements to the browser experience:
Improved navigation and breadcrumbs throughout
Streamlined context menus
Simplified check-in/check-out and version control
Single-page member management
Note: These usability enhancements apply to Lotus Quickr services for Domino
Lotus Connections integration:
From a Lotus Quickr place, access an indivi [read] Keywords: connections
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Google Charts API & Lotus Notes
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 4:49p Adam Brown If you havn't seen the [Google Charts API] then you should have a look. It really is a clever service that enables you for form a simple URL and the service will return a PNG image of the according chart. In forming the URL you simply add a series of parameters to define the chart format, colours, axis titles etc. You also pass your data set in the URL and wammo a cool looking chart is returned.
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So I thought this was pretty neat as I was planning on imple [read] Keywords: ibm
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Clear Your Desk!
Mon, Dec 3rd 2007 5:29p Adam Brown A few more IBM end user marketing videos.
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Notes 8 Video
Thu, Nov 22nd 2007 11:11a Adam Brown IBM seems to have really taken to YouTube for promoting Notes & Domino 8 with another new video.
This one is about the Notes 8 client. It is quick but does highlight some of the new features in Notes 8.
[] [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes & Domino 8.0.1 Web & Mobile Access
Sun, Oct 14th 2007 2:20a Adam Brown Here is a good video showing the new features to be released next year with Domino 8.0.1.
Shows the new features of Domino Web Access (and the new Light version) as well as the new Push Email for Windows Mobile Devices.
[] [read] Keywords: domino
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Blackberry Pearl
Thu, Jun 21st 2007 3:23p Adam Brown Well it is time to upgrade my phone and after considering the Nokia N95 (which appears to have poor battery performance) I have been convinced to give the Blackberry Pearl a try. There are so many positive reviews on the product that I figured I would give it a go. Fortunately Total Communications has offered to loan me a brand new unit for a week so I can trial the Pearl. It certainly has a great form factor and is very small which I like. The key will be how easy to use the Multi-Tap input is [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Workplace Forms integration with Domino
Tue, May 8th 2007 10:34p Adam Brown Well I know it has been ages since my last post but wow we have been busy.
I have recently been working on a great Workplace Forms project and we have progressed integration between Domino and Workplace forms dramatically. I know this is a short post but hopefully in the next week I will have an excellent Workplace Forms demo site built that I can show everyone! [read] Keywords: domino
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Double Right Click in Notes 8
Tue, Mar 13th 2007 8:55p Adam Brown When I first installed Notes 8 Beta I almost freaked when I realised Double Right Click to close a document/database/view etc was not supported. I searched preferences trying to figure out how to turn it back on. After a while I looked at the Notes 8 Beta discussion forum and found that it wasn't supported but Mary Beth Raven had committed to bringing it back.
But then why wait!!! Nathan Freeman has posted on how to bring it back now! That is what I call a righteous hack! Well done Nathan. [read] Keywords: document
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Notes 8 Beta is now available
Mon, Mar 12th 2007 9:13p Adam Brown While I am sure many have already realised the Notes 8 beta is now available.
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/getnd8now
While there seemed to be some download problems early on due to the rush it seems to be fairly speedy now. I am off to install the beta now:) [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime 7.5.1
Wed, Jan 24th 2007 6:06p Adam Brown Sametime moved ahead in leaps and bounds in 2006 and it is good to see this is going to continue in 2007. I know that our organisation is leveraging Sametime 7.5 in many ways and it has now become a core part of our everyday toolset. Some neat new features coming on Sametime 7.5.1 announced at Lotusphere:
Tabbed Chats - How many time do you have 3-4 open chat sessions on the fly. Starts to crowd your screen eh! Well Sametime 7.5.1 has the answer. Tabbed Chats. As you can see from the screensh [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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WebSphere Portal Express 6.0
Tue, Jan 23rd 2007 4:52p Adam Brown A Lotusphere announcement that I missed (thanks Dave) was WebSphere Portal Express 6.0. We have looked at previous versions of Websphere Portal for a number of our clients in Australia in the past however as most of the Australian market is SMB it really was too big. We looked at Workplace Services Express however it didn't quite have the flexibility of the full Portal. So with the announcement of WebSphere Portal Express 6.0 it is great to see IBM continual commitment to the SMB space.
We ha [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotusphere Buzz
Mon, Jan 22nd 2007 5:21p Adam Brown While I managed to get to Lotusphere the last 2 years running due to other commitments I couldn't do it this year. It is however fantastic to have so many people blogging about the latest and greatest so you can still get a great feeling for what is going on.
A couple of points I have noted so far:
IBM publically announced that they had a 30% growth in Notes/Domino for 2006. This is a huge figure and certainly lays to bed the comments that Notes is no longer growing.
IBM also started t [read] Keywords: connections
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LinkedIn.com
Mon, Sep 18th 2006 3:29a Adam Brown You really should have a look at linked in. Another great example of social networking/internet collaboration. With little effort I have created 11 direct connections, 200+ 2nd degree contacts, and over 16300+ 3rd degree connections, and it is pretty early days.
It really is pretty amazing concept. Everytime I get another connection I quickly find that I already know quite a few of the people. Combine this with an expertise capability and it is a powerful tool.
http://www.linkedin.com [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Sametime Server on Linux
Mon, Aug 14th 2006 10:34p Adam Brown IBM has announced that they will soon be porting Sametime server to Linux. So with the release of the Sametime Linux client (due in Sept with Sametime 7.5 and now in beta) and then in the first half of next year, the release of Sametime server on Linux enterprises will be able to adopt a pure linux instant messaging environment if they so choose. I am not aware of any other vendor that has offered IM support on Linux. Choice is such a great thing and definately puts IBM ahead of its competitors. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes on Linux
Mon, Jul 10th 2006 9:27p Adam Brown IBM have just announced the release of Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux. This offers a real alternative for those sites that use Windows only because they want the Notes client. I know of a couple of clients that have wanted to do this for many years so it is great news.The software will be downloadable via Passport Advantage starting on July 24, 2006. Those organisations already licensed for a Lotus Notes client get it for free. Another exampe of IBM adding real value with Notes 7.
Some more info [read] Keywords: ibm
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New SMB/Express pricing for IBM Workplace Forms
Fri, Jul 7th 2006 7:58p Adam Brown This is great news. IBM Workplace Forms now has an Express pricing model for SMB business. We have been looking at Workplace Forms with a number of clients but the licensing has been a little on the steep side for a couple of them. Well the new express pricing should make it an acceptable proposition.
IBM Workplace Forms Express http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/formsexpress
IBM Workplace Forms Express V2.6 enables small and medium businesses t [read] Keywords: designer
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Are you a Lotus Notes Nomad?
Wed, Jun 21st 2006 10:59p Adam Brown Are you one of these users that wants to access Lotus Notes from everywhere? Don't like the browser interface to your Notes Apps and would much rather use a Notes client when on the road. End up lugging around your Laptop when on holidays so you can still access Notes?
Well here is a great innovation from IBM with Lotus Notes 7.0.2. Notes on a USB memory stick install . With Notes installed onto your USB memory stick you can just plug it into a computer and wammo you have Notes. When you leav [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime 7.5 Beta Demo Site
Wed, Jun 21st 2006 6:22p Adam Brown Have a look at the Sametime 7.5 Beta Demo Site. IBM have put up a demo server so you can look at the new features on Sametime 7.5 web conferencing. Note that it is a Beta and has a list of known limitations. Also IBM have stated that features may change/be added/be removed as it is still in Beta.
I for one am looking forward to upgrading our Sametime server. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime 7.5 Podcast
Thu, Jun 15th 2006 4:14p Adam Brown Still awaiting with much anticipation the release of Sametime 7.5. Since Lotusphere in Jan we have grand plans for developing plugins for Sametime 7.5 so are very keen to get our hands on it.
Anyway here is some more tidbits of information. Get the podcast here. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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More Sametime 7.5 features
Sun, May 14th 2006 6:37p Adam Brown The more I see the more I want it.
Ted Stanton has continued his Sametime Sunday posts showing the great new features. Here are his two latest:
Sametime Meeting Screen Sharing - This is essentially the same as past verison of Sametime however the interface for doing so is more usable and makes more sense. One of the problems in the past of the Screen Frame and the Entire Screen options was the fact that your Sametime Chat screen might pop up while you are in the meeting and if you have fri [read] Keywords: sametime
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Office 2007 Blog Posting.
Sun, May 14th 2006 6:24p Adam Brown As evidence of how main stream blogging has become Microsoft have added a feature to Microsoft Office 2007 that allows blog posting directly from Microsoft Word. In the past there were all sorts of headaches with HTML conversions etc however they have apparently overcome this. They have integrated into some of the Microsoft blogging systems such as MSN Spaces, SharePoint 2007 as well as with services that support the metaweblog API or the ATOM API.
Joe Friend has posted some screenshots of h [read] Keywords: blogging
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Sametime 7.5 Feature Blog
Sun, Apr 30th 2006 5:44p Adam Brown There is a neat Sametime 7.5 blog running over at IBM developerWorks. Ted Stanton has been posting Sametime Sunday (I am guessing this in on the same theme as Show N Tell Thursday). There is some great insites into some of the new features coming in Sametime 7.5.
I particularly like the Click to Talk (VOIP), and the automatic changing of your status depending on what you are currently doing is also neat. An example is Can't Chat Now, In a Meeting. When you are in a meeting it automatically ch [read] Keywords: ibm
, sametime
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Using a Wiki for Workflow
Thu, Apr 27th 2006 4:15p Adam Brown searchSMB has an interesting article on using Wiki's for tasks that used to be done using basic workflow.
Wiki's are becoming far more common place and organisations are starting to accept them for corporate applications. An example given is the instance of a group meeting where notes are taken which are then sent around everyone in the meeting for approval/correction. With 4-5 people this might take a few days with normal sequential workflow. Put it in a wiki and everyone can update it when [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, workflow
, applications
, wiki
Lotus Notes Integration with MindManager
Mon, Apr 17th 2006 4:09p Adam Brown Just noted on Bruce Elgort's blog that MindManager 6 SP1 now has doclink integration with Lotus Notes. By all accounts Eric Mack is responsible for this effort. We have been talking about this for a while. When we saw the MindManager had integration with SalesForce.com a few months back, we considered doing a similar thing for our Lotus Notes CRM BusinessWorks. The idea would be to use MindManager to diagramatically show all of those relationship links/grey links between various people and organ [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, integration
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Collaboration, even simple collaboration, seems to make people feel closer
Tue, Apr 11th 2006 7:11p Adam Brown We have a Aussie Rules Footy tipping competition running for the company. The system is a Domino database that allows our customers to register for the competition (the prize is an iPod) and then tip on a weekly basis. Each week reminder emails are automatically sent out and people need to submit their weekly tips before the cut off date and time. They can then see what everyone else has tiped and where they are on the ladder etc. It is a pretty simple system that was just whacked together but i [read] Keywords: collaboration
, connect
, domino
, sametime
, database
, email
, ipod
, office
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Sametime 7.5 New Features Tour
Mon, Apr 10th 2006 11:34p Adam Brown I just can't wait for Sametime 7.5 to be released. Since IBM announced the new features etc at Lotusphere in Orlando this year I have been looking forward to the beta release. As soon as it is available we will be into it.
As well as the 100's of new features the most exciting news is the fact that it is built on the Eclipse Framework. As such the Sametime client will be extensible. In simple terms this means that 3rd parties, such as us, will be able to build plugins for the product and exte [read] Keywords: collaboration
, ibm
, lotusphere
, sametime
, applications
, eclipse
, integration
, interface
, microsoft
, office
, server
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Quality of Wiki contents
Mon, Apr 10th 2006 7:55p Adam Brown An often asked question regarding Wiki's is:
"So if anyone can update the content what stops people putting up misleading comments or incorrect information on a topic?".
It is a really good question that I also thought about. Today I noticed a great example of what prevents this kind of abuse happening. On wikipedia.org there is a topic about Lotus Notes. It has heaps of info on the history, use, and future of the product. It was noted however that some people had been rather negative and [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, wiki
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A blog? Did you say wiki? Is that something to do with Cricket?
Wed, Apr 5th 2006 4:59p Adam Brown I was chatting to a good friend last night and mentioned that I had started bloging. I was chatting away talking about what I was doing and then realised that there was a look of "what the hell is a blog?" on my friends face. I guess I was initially surprised but then after thinking about it realised that in Australia bloging really hasn't taken off yet. I guess in IT circles it is becoming well know but it certainly isn't mainstream yet.
So anyway I went on to explain the concept of a blog a [read] Keywords: wiki
