The "Yellow Bubble," or the
most vocal people that you see on PlanetLotus,
has me perplexed. Not only that, but you can add some percentage of the
total Notes users (somewhere around 140 million). IdeaJam
is a good site for an example. From what I have seen, and there are others
can be much more specific, it appears to me that the same people contribute
and vote. I understand that there is no closed feedback loop from IBM/Lotus,
but why aren't more people contributing to IdeaJam? Specifically, there
are ideas there, in the LS09
Best Practices Sessions IdeaSpace,
that could affect the attendees of Lotusphere. Why is the most popular
idea getting only 34 votes? Especially since both Mac
and Rocky
have TOLD people that they are looking at the voting? Is it too difficult
to vote? Too difficult to add ideas? Apathy? As for adding your own idea,
is it a sense of fear that you are putting yourself out there, where your
idea could be criticized?
While there are 140 million (or so) people using Notes, and I know that
many of them would never, ever, contribute to any forums anywhere, why
do we see the same people speaking out about Lotus? According to PlanetLotus,
there are 295 Lotus Notes/Domino bloggers. And yet, a proposed Bloggers
Lounge, spearheaded by Keith
Brooks, has generated very
little interest on Bleedyellow's
Activity site (login required).
If there is more activity on Facebook, great, but I'll say, without creating
a Facebook account to confirm, that Keith isn't seeing a lot of input.
Why so little interest, even from the bloggers? I expected more from
us, especially for a specific space dedicated to us, our readers, and the
Lotusphere speakers from our midst. Is it Keith? Is it the lack of official
backing from IBM? Apathy? "All of the Above?"
Upwards of 6,000 people (or more) attend Lotusphere, where they have the
opportunity to be exposed to IdeaJam, Planet Lotus, Taking Notes, OpenNTF,
Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., and still, there are only a few that take the
time to contribute. Should we be posting links on Notes.net? Chris
Blatnick, at the recent NEOLUG
meeting, kept mentioning Twitter. 35-40 people in attendance, and we only
have 2 people sign up for Twitter and follow some of us. Two. Twitter has
probably the lowest barrier of entry of any social network and only two
people get around to creating an account. Or is what I am seeing only the
few that care? And if that is the case, why does Lotus care about 290+
bloggers in the Yellow Bubble? Especially if only the Yellow Bubble is
reading/commenting, creating an echo chamber? While those comments and
blog posts hit the internet, where anyone can find them, I am talking about
a number so low (in the grand scheme of Lotus customers/Business Partners)
that, frankly, what does it matter?
I recently heard an idea where a person, or persons, uses the Dolphin rotunda
as a platform to talk about Lotus/Lotus-centric sites/Twitter/etc. Get
up on the edge of the fountain, or up on a box, and expound on a topic.
After hearing that, I thought "Heck, why limit yourself?" Have
a platform between the Dolphin and Swan or on the bridge to talk about
stuff. Maybe engage people during the Welcome Reception, instead of hanging
out with other bloggers? My kids know that I will talk to anyone at anytime
on nearly any subject. I have no problem walking up to complete strangers
and engaging them in some sort of Lotus Web 2.0 Community conversation.
In any event, the result should be awareness of something else is out there,
places where you can find answers, places where you can make a difference
in the Lotus community and, quite possibly, with the software itself.
I guess that I just don't understand people in the Lotus space. I'd love
to know why so few people are voting for proposed content at Lotusphere
2009. I'd like to know why there is so little participation in the Blogger's
Lounge idea (and, for the record, Microsoft seems to have a kick
ass Blogger's Lounge at their
conferences). Finally, I'd like to know why, in this brave new Web 2.0
world, we still have so few people joining in the conversation.
IBM Whitepaper: Administering IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 servers for beginners
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 10:40p Gregg Eldred IBM Lotus has published a whitepaper on administering Domino 8.5. From the abstract:
This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus® Domino®, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of [read] Keywords: admin
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Redbook: Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino 8.5.1
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 11:00p Gregg Eldred This IBM Redbooks wiki has the following objectives:
Provide guidance on Best Practices for Domino Web Development, with emphasis on the new XPages design element. This wiki introduces the key new features of XPages and discusses how and why these features are meaningful within the context of Domino Web Development.
Provide hands-on tutorials and sample code, which give you the opportunity to work with XPages and to understand the improvements in Domino 8.5 Web application development. As a fou [read] Keywords: domino
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The Husband Store
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 10:10p Gregg Eldred A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to t [read] Keywords:
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PCQuest: Preview: Lotus Notes/Domino vs MS Exchange/Outlook 2010
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 1:00p Gregg Eldred The first of several installments from PCQuest where they compare and contrast IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 and Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2010 has been published. The initial article looks at licensing and a high level view of features.
Email servers have evolved considerably over the years. From being basic solutions that send/receive emails, they've become full-fledged platforms that enable unified communication in an enterprise, allow social networking, and even enable workflow auto [read] Keywords: domino
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Number One Son: Marine
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 4:00a Gregg Eldred Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
Number One Son is now a United States Marine.
After 13 weeks of only communicating with him via letters, on March 4 we finally saw and spent time with Number One Son.
March 4 was Parent's Day at Parris Island. It started by arriving at the Parade Deck at 7:00 AM to watch the start of the Motivational Run. At that hour, all of the recruits [read] Keywords: wiki
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Overheard
Sun, Mar 7th 2010 10:50p Gregg Eldred Tech1: "Oh, man, they include the
web address of their Exchange server in the presentation. Webmail.RNCHQ.Org/Exchange,
expect the hacker onslaught any minute now."
Tech2: "Why bother? They already ruined a perfectly good machine by
putting Exchange on it."
Thanks, Matt. [read] Keywords: exchange
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University of Dayton: Moving Students from Lotus Notes to Gmail?
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 11:31p Gregg Eldred I'm not sure why, but I am enjoying the discussion that is occurring at the University of Dayton concerning e-mail. Currently, all students and staff are on the university's Domino servers. But that will probably be changing. I've talked about UD twice, once about the students forwarding their Notes mail to more familiar messaging systems and then about a paragraph in a Letter to the Editor. Now, the student newspaper, Flyer News, is reporting that the university is evaluating a move from Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Big Bang Theory: Vanity Cards
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 10:20p Gregg Eldred Silly me. I have been DVR'ing/taping/recording (whatever you want to call it these days) Big Bang Theory primarily so that I can stop the recording to be able to read the vanity cards that close every episode. Little did I know that they were available on the internets. For example, here is the one that appeared after this evenings episode:
I worked for Stan Lee twenty-five years ago at Marvel Animation in Los Angeles. My favorite memory is sitting in his office with the legendary Johnny Carso [read] Keywords: office
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