The Red Cross Launches their Social Network with Lotus Connections
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 7:23a Luis Benitez pToday, the a href="http://www.cruzroja.es/"Spanish Red Cross/a announced their go live of a href="http://www.mundocruzroja.org"World Red Cross/a (Mundo Cruz Roja in spanish), their social networking site powered by a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a./pimg src="http://blog.lbenitez.com/images/MundoCruzRoja.jpg" width="379" height="428" /br /
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pThe Red Cross is all about communities helping communities. As such, they felt that a social netwo [read] Keywords: connections
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LinkedIn widget for Lotus Connections
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 8:25a Luis Benitez pimg align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://blog.lbenitez.com/images/LinkedInProfiles-20100222-082018.jpg" /On Thursday, one of my favorite Lotus Connections developers, Ronny Pena, released the new IBM a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a widget interface to a href="http://linkedin.com"LinkedIn/a. The a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/search/label/widgets"widget/a, which has been availa [read] Keywords: connections
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Easily Search Lotus Connections from Google Chrome
Fri, Feb 19th 2010 12:26p Luis Benitez pLately, I've been using a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"Google Chrome/a as my default browser to see if I can get used to it. I always considered myself very productive using a href="http://www.getfirefox.com"Firefox/a, and I've heard so many good things about Chrome that I decided to give it a try. The features that I relied the most on Firefox were the a href="http://www.getfirebug.com"Firebug/a plugin and a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2008/09/opensearch-integration-for-lotus.html"sear [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections Status Updates comes to Microsoft Sharepoint
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 12:28p Luis Benitez pI'm currently preparing for a demo of Lotus Connections for a customer who uses Microsoft Sharepoint heavily. One of their requests is that they want to be able to access Lotus Connections data directly from Sharepoint so that users don't have to jump back and forth between the two applications. By now, you've probably seen my a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2009/05/demo-lotus-connections-plugin-for.html"demo of the out of the box integration capabilities between Lotus Connections and Microsoft [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections Glue: A New Twitter Client for Lotus Connections
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pimg align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="http://connectionsglue.com/topleft.jpg" /Since late November, a new microblogging client for both a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a and a href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a has been available. You may remember that I some time ago I had blogged about another a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2009/09/microblogging-client-for-both-twitter.html"microb [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere Tweet Up - Details for your calendar
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pFor the 3rd year in a row, the Lotus Social Software Community will be getting together at Lotusphere. I'm going to be co-hosting the event along with a href="http://twitter.com/bocurran"Brian O'Curran/a, a href="http://twitter.com/lotuseducation"Sonia Malik/a, and a href="http://twitter.com/bilaljaffery"Bilal Jaffery/a. If you'll be at Lotusphere, be sure to join us at this year's event:/p
pbWhat/b: Lotusphere Tweet Up/p
pbWhere/b: Meet @ the playground between Grotto Pool and position N in th [read] Keywords: lotus
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Track usage in Lotus Connections with Google Analytics
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pLately, I've been working with many customers that are deploying Lotus Connections in the extranet. One of their common interests is being able to see and report on usage, page views, unique users, etc./p
pOne easy, and free, way to do this is by using Google Analytics. And, as it turns out, it's very easy to add Google Analytics tracking to Lotus Connections. To do so, follow these instructions:/p
ol
liOpen an account with a href="http://www.google.com/analytics"Google Analytics/a/li
liGet [read] Keywords: connections
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I'll be speaking at Lotusphere 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pLast week I got a call from a href="http://twitter.com/dvdstphns"David Stephens/a to ask whether I would be willing to join them on stage on session a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2010.nsf/sessionabstract?openformamp;sessionid=BP301"BP301 - How Top Companies are Getting "Out of the Box" with Lotus Connections 2.5/a./p
pimg style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px #000000 dotted;" src="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2010.nsf/LookupElementsImag [read] Keywords: connections
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Change the default login page in Lotus Connections Homepage
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pToday is a short blog post to share a cool customization that I've been asked about a lot recently./p
pOne of the most common questions that I get these days is how to configure Lotus Connections so that the default page after login is the 'My Page' tab of the Homepage instead of the 'Updates' tab. The 'My Page' tab is the one that contains the widgets and that was the default in the v2.0.x days. In v2.5, the development team added activity streams and that's what's shown immediately after logi [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections Upgrade and Migration Webcast on Jan 13th, 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pNext week, I'm going to be one of the panelists at the bConnections Upgrade and Migration Webcast on Jan 13th , 2010/b. The event is free and is open to everybody./p
pHere's some information on the event:/p
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pspan style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"bAbstract/bbr /
IBM Development and Support are hosting a Tech Exchange webcast and call on the topic of "Upgrade and Migration From Lotus Connections V2.0 to V2.5". There is no charge for participating.br /
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Updated: 10 principles for Enterprise 2.0 implementations
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pAbout 19 months ago, I worked with the founder of a href="http://www.binaryplex.com/"BinaryPlex/a and creator of HiveMind, a href="http://twitter.com/timbull"Tim Bull/a, to put together the a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2008/06/ten-architectural-principles-for-social.html"10 architectural principles for an Enterprise 2.0 implementation/a. Based on our experience since then, we have updated these principles. You'll notice that now we've removed 'architectural' from the title and now formally u [read] Keywords: mashup
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Lotusphere 2010 Recap
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pAs you may have heard, I had to bail out on Lotusphere 2010 because my son was suddenly hospitalized. Shortly after the opening keynote on Monday, I boarded a plane back home. Therefore, this recap is pretty short./p
pOne of the great things about the keynote is that I got a chance to see it from the "blogger's couch". That means that I witnessed the entire keynote up close and personal from the very first row. Here's a picture taken from my iPhone:br //p
pa href="http://twitpic.com/ynjo8" titl [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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On my way to Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pIn about 24 hours I'll be getting into a plane to go to a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2010/"Lotusphere 2010/a at Walt Disney World. As you know, a href="http://www.lbenitez.com/2010/01/i-be-speaking-at-lotusphere-2010.html"I'll be speaking/a at a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2010.nsf/sessionabstract?openformamp;sessionid=BP301"BP301 - How Top Companies are Getting 'Out of the Box' with Lotus Connections 2.5/a. The session is Wednesday at 4:1 [read] Keywords: connections
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Terms Conditions for Lotus Connections Login page
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pRecently, I was working with a customer who wanted to ensure that their users agree to some terms and conditions before being able to log on to Lotus Connections. It turns out that this customization is not too bad. I had heard from a href="http://curiousmitch.com"Mitch Cohen/a that jQuery was a nice library to do this./p
pI did some searching online to see if someone had done something similar. I found this awesome article: a href="http://www.jensbits.com/2009/08/10/modal-confirmation-dialog-o [read] Keywords: connections
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Download Lotusphere presentations from Dropbox
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pVia a href="http://twitter.com/alanlepo"Alan Lepofsky/a's a href="http://alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf"blog/a I discovered that Volker Weber has setup a shared a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQwMTIzNDA5" target="_blank"DropBox folder/a for downloading Lotusphere presentations. The idea is to make it easier to download presentations for Lotusphere by crowdsourcing the process of putting all presentations into a single place. If you want to sign up to help, a href="http://vo [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Three books you should buy
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Luis Benitez pAs we get ready for a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2010/"Lotusphere 2010/a, I thought I would make you aware of a couple of books that have been published recently and I recommend you buy./p
pFirst, there's a href="http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Lotus-Connections-2-5-Implementing/dp/0137000537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1262882015amp;sr=8-1"IBM Lotus Connections 2.5: Planning and Implementing Social Software For Your Enterprise/a. This book was written by a s [read] Keywords: connections
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Bookmark simultaneously to Lotus Connections and del.icio.us
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 9:00a Luis Benitez pEarlier today I received a ping from one of my favorite customers. He showed a href="http://quixapp.com/"QuixApp/a a nice a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet"bookmarklet/a that basically lets you do whatever you want. He thought this would be a good idea, for example, to create a bookmarklet that would simultaneously bookmark a page both in a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/"Lotus Connections/a and in a href="http://delicious.com/"del.icio.us/a./p
pI [read] Keywords: connections
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Going to Lotusphere? Tune in to the Lotusphere podcast
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 8:00a Luis Benitez If you are going to Lotusphere on January 17-21, 2010 you MUST subscribe and listen to the Lotusphere podcast. Currently, there have been 6 episodes posted. In each episode, Stuart McIntyre interviews guests and gets them to share their tips and stories on attending Lotusphere.
In episode 5, I join Stuart to share my own view of Lotusphere. Want to know my favorite parts of Lotusphere? My tips on what to do? And what's worth waking up at 6am on Thursday for? Then go on and listen to the podcas [read] Keywords: ibm
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Microblogging plugin for Lotus Notes and Lotus Connections
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 7:58a Luis Benitez It's finally here! Super awesome IBMer Jessica Wu Ramirez created a Lotus Notes plugin that basically allows you to update your status and follow conversations that are happening in Lotus Connections directly from your Lotus Notes client. Jessica created this within 24 hours of Lotus Connections 2.5 being out and has been continuously updating the client making it better in every iteration.
The client also lets you update your status in Twitter. And even if Lotus Notes is minimized (or you are [read] Keywords: connections
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Updating your Lotus Connections microblog programmatically
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 1:58p Luis Benitez This post is very techie. It comes as a reader recently asked me to share the code that I use to programmatically update my microblog (or status) in Lotus Connections. The following code is using Java and Abdera, but should be easily portable to other platforms like Adobe AIR. The Lotus Connections Profiles API documentation was helpful when I was trying to figure this out.
Initialize the Abdera library
// Initialize the Atom Client to update the status in Connections
Abdera abdera [read] Keywords: connections
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Tri-State LUG: Extending Lotus Connections to Domino with TDI
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 10:59p Luis Benitez As I mentioned last week, on Monday I participated in my first LUG: Lotus User Group. I was cordially invited to participate in the Tri-State Lotus User Group meeting. I could only stay for the morning. I got to enjoy Bob Picciano's keynote before my session. You can find a summary of Bob's keynote in Chris' blog.
My presentation was about using Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) with Lotus Connections and Domino. TDI is a free piece of software that's included with both Lotus Connections and Dom [read] Keywords: connections
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Live in NY, NJ, or CT ? Join us on Nov 9th for the Tri-State LUG
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 1:03p Luis Benitez On November 9th, I'lll be in New York visiting one of our customers and will also get a chance to speak at the Tri-State Lotus User Group (LUG). I've never been to the a LUG before, let alone speak at one. Needless to say, I'm a bit nervous about the event.
The keynote speaker for the event is Bob Picciano and my session is right after his, which of course adds to the pressure. Looking at the agenda, I noticed that my time slot also puts me going head-to-head against John Head. Luckily, I'm goin [read] Keywords: connections
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Opening bookmarks in a new window
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 8:00p Luis Benitez Today I got to enjoy Toronto again. I was here 3 weeks ago setting up an environment for a potential customer. Last time I was here, they didn't have a Notes 8.5.1 which was released just 16 days ago. It's interesting to see the customer's perception of Connections with Notes 8.5.1. They are completely loving the integrated suite of products all working together in harmony. The 4 hours that I was there, they just wouldn't stop congratulating me for the work that we've done integrating Notes, Sam [read] Keywords: connections
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Collecting usage metrics in Lotus Connections 2.5
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 10:58a Luis Benitez Last year, I posted a blog with sample reports & metrics collected by Lotus Connections v2. Since that's one of the areas that was improved in 2.5, I've been getting a lot of questions as to how these reports look like.
Here, I've included a couple sample screenshots. Do note that most reports are longer than 1 page and thus don't fit in one page screenshot. If you would like to learn more, let me know.
Activities
Blogs
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Cool new plugin for Lotus Connections
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 10:56p Luis Benitez For some time now, we've had a plugin available internally that enhances the navigation experience within Lotus Connections. It actually requires Firefox, so if you are still using Internet Explorer, well, don't. It's an archaic browser and all it does is reduce your productivity.
Ok back to topic. The developer of the plugin, Brett Johnson, has decided to make it available via userscripts.org. What does it do? Well, the plugin injects a drop-down menu in the top navigation bar. The menu 'discov [read] Keywords: connections
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October is the month for Lotus Knows Bus Tour
Thu, Oct 1st 2009 8:56a Luis Benitez It's almost October and that means it's tour time! Here's a map of the cities that the Lotus Knows Tour Bus will be visiting during this month. It looks like I'll get to see it first when it goes to the LA area which is the same week I'll be at the Portal conference in nearby San Diego.
View Lotus Knows bus in a larger map
Shortly after I get to check out the bus in Los Angeles, the bus heads to the Las Vegas. And as Bilal points out, it looks like it's going to show up at the Sharepoint conf [read] Keywords: lotus
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New Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-Ins Available for Free Download
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 1:00p Luis Benitez Today, new plug-ins were made available in the Lotus Connections Solution Catalog for Lotus Connections 2.5+. Some are updates to previous plugins, and some are new like the Sharepoint plugin. As before, they are free so go ahead and download them:
Plugin for Confluence (update)
Plugin for Quickr (update)
Portlet for Activities, Blogs, and Profiles (new!)
Plugin for Microsoft Sharepoint (new!)
Plugin for Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Windows Explorer (update)
Enjoy! [read] Keywords: connections
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Virgin Atlantic Commercial: Lotus Knows how you travel
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 11:00a Luis Benitez If you are not following Ed Brill, well you should, but also, that means that you missed this link that he posted. It's a new commercial that's being shown in-flight Virgin Atlantic flights. I thought it's pretty cool.
Enjoy! (and yes, I've been posting a lot of videos lately, but that's because Lotus Knows I Like Videos.) [read] Keywords: atlantic
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What's the best rating system for social content?
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 8:00a Luis Benitez Some time ago (probably over 2 years ago), our internal blogging system changed their rating mechanism. Now, instead of giving 1-5 stars to a particular entry, you could only give it a star or not. In other words, we went from having 6 choices, to two choices (to give or not to give a star).
At the time the decision was explained with some internal metrics.. basically, a "big majority" of people were rating content with 5 stars or none at all. It was mostly a binary decision.
More and more this [read] Keywords: blogger
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Demo: Sametime's Broadcast Chat and Communities
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 4:57p Luis Benitez Here's a nice demo of the Sametime Broadcast Chat capabilities. Broadcast Chat capabilities are part of Sametime Advanced and integrate very nicely with Lotus Connections Communities. I think the video does a very good job demoing the need for real-time collaboration, which is often missed by the social tools. That's one reason I like this functionality so much. It adds a sense of real-time communications to existing social software platforms.
Enjoy! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Checking for viruses in Lotus Connections
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 8:56a Luis Benitez I'm working with a customer right now that wants to deploy Lotus Connections externally (i.e. outside of the firewall). I got an interesting question for them and didn't see the answer documented in the InfoCenter. Therefore, I decided to post it here in case I need to reference it later (or in case it's valuable to you).
The question was around viruses in file uploads. Since this will be available in the internet they were concerned about users who may inadvertently (or knowingly) upload a file [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Overview Presentation
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 8:57a Luis Benitez Here's a nice presentation that my good friend Stuart McIntyre told me about recently. It goes through at a high level the new features that were added last month in Lotus Connections 2.5. Additionally, it contains some great customer quotes based on their experience with the software in this short period of time.
Additionally, you'll get to see our customers' new favorite features. Take a quick peek; I'm sure you'll like it.
Enterprise Social Software from IBM
View more present [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows I Like Videos
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 8:58a Luis Benitez One of the tools that I love to use with my customers is video. Specially videos that tell a story about the business value of social software. Yo may remember that in the past 2 weeks I've posted two videos on the business value of blogs and Lotus Connections. Yesterday, Lotus launched their Lotus Knows campaign.
There are a bunch of videos available. Some are specific to Lotus products. Some encompass two or more Lotus technologies. This is one of the videos that I liked:
Lotus Connections g [read] Keywords: connections
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Microblogging Goes To Work By Delphine Remy
Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 3:55p Luis Benitez A colleague, Delphine Remy, put togethers this wonderful presentation that explains the business value of microblogging both inside and outside of the firewall. It starts by talking a bit about Twitter and its importance in external communications.
One of the things that I liked about the presentation is that it actually provides 5 different ways to use microblogging. Additionally, it provides examples of how IBM is using tools like Twitter and Lotus Connections and how we are embracing microblo [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Software and the Government
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 10:58a Luis Benitez I'm going to be speaking at the IBM Federal Mashup Day Event on October 22, 2009. The topic? Social Software inside the Government.
Below is some information on the event. If you are near the Washington, DC area, I strongly encourage you to register and attend this event.
Unlock data sources, transform information and assemble mashups.
Learn how to unlock and easily view a wide range of information from multiple sources. In just minutes you can simply point-and-click, using a visual, browser-ba [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Connections and SuccessFactors Webcast
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 8:57p Luis Benitez Earlier this year IBM announced a partnership with SuccessFactors to combine social-software (i.e. Lotus Connections) with SuccessFactors' talent management solutions. The Lotus Greenhouse is going to host a webcast on October 1st to show how these two solutions work together. Here's some information on the event:
Drive top results in Talent Management with SuccessFactors Business Execution Software and IBM Lotus Connections
IBM and SuccessFactors have joined forces to provide a unique talent m [read] Keywords: connections
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Are you ready to Jam ?
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 4:58p Luis Benitez Lotus is currently running the Smart Work Jam as part of IBM's Smarter Planet Initiative. The business climate is changing rapidly, and the onus is on you and your organizations to respond quickly and effectively. To optimize business performance you can't work harder or spend more on resources. You need to work smarter. Smart Work is about creating a collaborative and connected business environment that empowers your people, embraces change and ultimately increases productivity. Please join us [read] Keywords: ibm
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Looking for some unofficial feedback on Lotus Collaboration
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 1:57p Luis Benitez A colleague of mine is looking for some unofficial feedback from our customers. If you are a Lotus Collaboration customer, I'm sure he would appreciate if you could take 5-7 minutes of your time to answer the following survey:
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/turbo/open/route/view/start?formName=eJ1nkYHOLi3y1tKh1252849601321
Thanks! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Story: The Enterprise Value of Internal Blogs
Mon, Sep 14th 2009 11:55a Luis Benitez This is another great story from Jean-Francois Chenier on the business value of internal blogs for an enterprise.
If you missed Jean-Francois' first video, you can find it here. I think these videos with real use-cases are essential for promoting adoption of social software in the enterprise. Therefore, feel free to use them as you plan your roll-outs of Enterprise 2.0 tools in your organization.
I wonder who Jean-Francois meant as the "guy who knows about cool things" ? [read] Keywords: application
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Great Week with Lotus Connections 2.5
Fri, Sep 4th 2009 12:03p Luis Benitez This week I had the pleasure to set up 3 different Lotus Connections 2.5 environments, and assist in a migration of a 4th.
The most interesting install was at a customer site where they wanted to integrate Windows Authentication with Lotus Connections (a.k.a SPNEGO/Kerberos). The idea is that each morning an employee logs on to their Windows desktop and authenticates against an NT domain. Then a user launches Connections and magically they are automatically signed on!
I hadn't done a SPNEGO / Lo [read] Keywords: connections
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Microblogging client for *both* Twitter and Lotus Connections
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 8:56a Luis Benitez Have Twitter? Have Lotus Connections? Want to microblog in both at the same time from one single place ? Starting today, you can!
You may remember that I gave a preview of this client back in June. At that point, Lotus Connections 2.5 was still in beta. Now that Lotus Connections 2.5 is officially available, Bluto, has been released to the world. Yes, even non-IBMers can download and use it with their own Lotus Connections server.
I don't want to make this blog post long, so I'll just share a qu [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections Easily Trumps Other Vendors
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 12:57p Luis Benitez Through the magic of Twitter and Google's BlogSearch, I stumbled upon a blog entry from a company that uses Lotus Connections and why they chose Lotus Connections over other Enterprise 2.0 platforms such as Microsoft Sharepoint. The key differentiator? Here's what they had to say:
One of the big advantages of Connections is that it is people centered and not document centered, like Microsoft Sharepoint. You can tag about everything, including people so that it becomes very easy to find experts [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Is Now Available For Download
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 6:52a Luis Benitez It's now been 3-4 months since the last version of Lotus Connections was released. And now, as in, right now, Lotus Connections v2.5 is available for download and accessible to all customers and business partners. The momentum behind the product is incredible, and even while the product was in beta, it was so good that we were able to win head-to-head competitions against other Enterprise 2.0 vendors. In fact, I've also talked recently to vendor-neutral Enterprise 2.0 consultants and their feedb [read] Keywords: connections
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Take your social bookmarks offline
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 11:55a Luis Benitez With Lotus Connections 2.5 only 3 days away and Apple trying to steal our thunder, I've learned some good news for mobile workers who depend very much on their bookmarks. The OpenNTF consortium has just published a new plugin for Lotus Connections Bookmarks created by Hanspeter Jochmann. The plugin allows Lotus Notes users to view their bookmarks directly from Notes and take them offline so that they are accessible while on the go! You can also create bookmarks later and synchronize them later ( [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Release Date Announced
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 5:54a Luis Benitez This morning the annoucement letter for Lotus Connections 2.5 was made public in ibm.com.
A description of all the features is included in the announcement letter. So that I don't spoil the surprise, I'm not going to include the release date here, however, here's an excerpt of some of the new features:
Files: A new personal file sharing service
Upload files and securely share them with others
Tag files so they can be found more quickly
Add recommendations and comments to files
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Get Smart with Hot Technologies, Cool Solutions: Social Software
Fri, Aug 14th 2009 10:59a Luis Benitez On September 9th IBM's VP of Social Software Development will be hosting a conference titled: Get Smart with Hot Technologies, Cool Solutions: Social Software. Here are the session details:
Speaker: Jeff Schick, VP, Social Software, Lotus Software
IBM Lotus Connections social software is designed specifically for business. Lotus Connections can help an organization’s people better access the expertise and knowledge they need to accomplish their business goals by providing a forum for build [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Knows Idea Generator -- Register Now!
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 9:55a Luis Benitez On August 19th, the Lotus Knows IdeaJam will launch and run for 72 hours.
It's the precursor to a bold, new advertising campaign from Lotus called Lotus knows.
The jam is designed to capture some of the great ideas IBMers and our external Lotus communities in four key areas:
“Lotus knows working smarter depends on great technology…” - Cool features of Lotus technology that you can't live without or aren't widely known.
“Lotus knows marketing is key to technology adoption [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Connections Communities get some Ruby love
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 8:52a Luis Benitez Sacha Chua, one of IBM's Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist, recently blogged how she used Lotus Connections Communities to award members. Specifically, she wanted a quick way to recognize people's voluntary contributions to community discussions. She took a two step approach.
First, she used Ruby and the Communities API to extract all the members with email addresses and number of posts (along with information on their first line manager).
Next, she created her own Lotus Notes Mail Merge app from Excel [read] Keywords: connections
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Another Facebook Plugin for Lotus Connections
Mon, Aug 10th 2009 8:53a Luis Benitez A while ago, two developers took on the task of creating a new plugin for Lotus Connections for Facebook. I've heard a lot of interest of simplifying the process of getting and staying up-to-date with all social network updates. You may remember that a while ago I blogged on how to integrate Lotus Connections and Facebook in less than 25 seconds. That's a pretty nifty integration point for the Lotus Connections Homepage.
Others wanted to see more integration with someone's profile.To that end, A [read] Keywords: connections
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Enterprise 2.0: We Need More Execs Like Bob Picciano
Fri, Aug 7th 2009 9:57p Luis Benitez One of the things that I really regret is not attending the Blogger Q&A that was put together for Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees. I had a customer meeting during the conference that I just couldn't get out of. And I wasn't sure of how much I had missed until I read the latest highlight from the conference written up by "the other Luis", Luis Suarez.
In the blog entry, Luis tells us how Bob Picciano, General Manager of IBM Lotus, uses the different social software tools to more effective [read] Keywords: connections
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And Now We Have An Official Widget Catalog!
Fri, Jul 31st 2009 4:54p Luis Benitez The Lotus Greenhouse team recently announced the availability of a new widget catalog. This catalog will contain widgets for both Lotus Notes as well as iWidgets that you can add to Lotus Connections and Portal. Some have even called it an App Store for Lotus Connections.
As you may know, I have already created iWidgets for Lotus Connections that let you easily integrate with MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Flickr, iNotes, and others. These iWidgets will now be hosted inside of Greenho [read] Keywords: connections
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CNBC's Squawk on the Street Features IBM Lotus Social Software
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 3:00a Luis Benitez IBM Lotus Social Software was just featured in CNBC during this week's series on Social Networking. Irene Grief, IBM Fellow, talks one on one about the benefits of enterprise social software. And our super awesome Suzanne Minassian makes a cameo as well.
CNBC starts the clip by saying that "in business there's nothing more important than relationships, but now say goodbye to face-to-face networking". There are two things that I want to highlight there. First, the value of relationships. As I blo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Elguji launches IQJam
Mon, Jul 27th 2009 3:00p Luis Benitez Elguji Software, the creators of IdeaJam have just launched IQJam a new social space where users can ask, answer, tag, and rate questions. IQJam is a nice tool for those that want to capitalize on the knowledge of their employees. The concept is amazingly simple - people ask questions and other people answer them (think of streamlined, lightweight forums)IQJam, built on the new XPages technology in Domino, lists questions and their answers can be voted up or down. Voting allows the IQJam communi [read] Keywords: connections
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Kevin Spacey tries to explain Twitter to David Letterman
Wed, Jul 22nd 2009 2:57p Luis Benitez I caught this on Twitter earlier today and I immediately shared it with the rest of the Twitter crowd. In case you missed it, I wanted to share it here as well. This video was originally posted in George Dearing's blog.
This video reminds me of another video where Jon Stewart tries to explain Twitter.
Enjoy! [read] Keywords: application
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IBM: By 2011 Social Networking will be More Popular than Face-to-Face
Collaboration
Wed, Jul 22nd 2009 7:58a Luis Benitez I'm not really sure how I missed this one, but 2 months ago, the following IBM video appeared on YouTube. The video itself contains various business statistics such as the one highlighted in the title of this blog post: By 2011, Social Networking will be more popular than face-to-face collaboration. Interesting, right ? And just think that 2011 is only 2 years away. Social networking is no longer fad, but here to stay.
The video positions social networking as a great way to improve productivity [read] Keywords: collaboration
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I'll be at the Portal Conference... as a speaker!
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 8:02a Luis Benitez Today, I got a note telling me that I've been selected as one of the speakers for this year's Portal Conference in San Diego. The conference takes place October 12-15 and it will be my first time in San Diego. If there are any San Diegoans (not sure if that's how you say it, but I think that's how "they" said it in Anchorman) out there, I would love to get a couple of recommendations as to what to do.
So what will I be talking about? Well, I'm actually going to partner with my colleague David Ro [read] Keywords: connections
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Using Social Software to Market Yourself Inside and Outside the Firewall
Mon, Jul 6th 2009 10:58a Luis Benitez I recently found this presentation created and shared internally by my colleague Ian McNairn, Program Director Web Innovation & Technology. In this "short" 45-slide presentation, Ian walks through why we need to use social tools (hint: partly in part to low trust in advertising), problems and risks of social software, and best practices for marketing 2.0.
Ian also shares some stats on IBM social software adoption inside of the firewall. I truly believe one of the business value for Enterpris [read] Keywords: ibm
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Embracing Social Media To Win Customer "Mindshare"
Thu, Jul 2nd 2009 10:58a Luis Benitez A colleague sent me a link yesterday to a report recently released by Social Media Academy titled: Mindshare Report. The report, generated by students of the Academy, used publicly available data available on the social web to analyze the social media status of global enterprises such as: Dow Chemical, New York Life, Toyota, and Vodafone.
The report outlines how social media is used by businesses in all industries, but also that it poses a significant threat to companies who do not understand ho [read] Keywords: ibm
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GigaOM ranks Lotus Connections #1
Wed, Jul 1st 2009 8:58a Luis Benitez Last month a blog entry from one of the vendors in the social media space came into my feed reader because I subscribe to everything the world is saying about Lotus Connections. In it, Lotus Connections is called the "Big Daddy of enterprise collaboration software". And being the Red Sox fan that I am, I don't mind being called Big Papi..
But the blog entry was really about a report recently released report by GigaOM called Social Media in the Enterprise. The report is authored by Rachel Happe, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Demo on Enterprise2.0 TV
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 10:57p Luis Benitez Suzanne Minassian was interviewed earlier today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. In this 16 minute interview she tells us about IBM research and goes through a demo of Lotus Connections 2.5 (already running internally at IBM). Here's a preview of what Suzanne walks through:
LinkedIn integration announced at Lotusphere
New iPhone interface available for Lotus Connections (which also works on Symbian devices)
New Files component
New Homepage layout
As you watch the interview an [read] Keywords: connections
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Alias and Anonymous Comments in Blogs
Mon, Jun 22nd 2009 2:57p Luis Benitez Recently, I was at a customer who wanted to implement our blogging solution for their internal knowledge workers. They had some interesting requirements in terms of how users could comment and moderate blog entries.
The use case required the system to allow a central group to moderate blog entries before they get formally published. Additionally, blog authors could have the power to specify whether or not comments would be forced to anonymous. If comments were not forced to be anonymous, then us [read] Keywords: connections
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This Is Why It's So Hard To Calculate Social Software ROI
Thu, Jun 18th 2009 1:57p Luis Benitez Captain's log... June 16th: It was a hot night outside in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; I was working diligently in my hotel room. I was doing a dry run for a very important demo that I had to do in 9 hours. I wanted to verify everything was set. As I prepared my laptop bag, I noticed the unthinkable. The VGA adapter that I need to use to project from my MacBook Pro was not there. I had left it at home, 2100 miles away.
I scrambled. I sent text messages, emails, and BlackBerry Instant Messages to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Upcoming Talk: Using Twitter and Blogs To Generate More Revenue
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 7:54a Luis Benitez I was recently invited by the Small Business Association of Puerto Rico (Asociación de Pequeñas Y Medianas Empresas / ASOPYMES) to give a talk on Using Twitter and Blogs To Generate More Revenue. I believe I'm very passionate with this topic, and I am very excited to get this opportunity to share some of my success stories with the local community. Here are the details for the event:
What: Using Twitter and Blogs To Generate More Revenue
Where: Universidad del Este - Carolina
When: June [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Quickr Desktop Application for Windows/Linux/Mac
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 1:59p Luis Benitez This is way cool! Rob Novak, aka Lotus Rock Star, just released a new Adobe AIR-based app for you to easily access all Quickr places from your desktop without ever needing to open a browser (well, except to download Rob's new app ). I've been using the app now for about a week and I really like it a lot (specially since I'm on a Mac and I didn't have a "Quickr connector" available to me).
And you know me.. anything that lets me use my applications without a browser, gets my love.
So go ahead an [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration Matters Podcast - The Twins Go At It!
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 10:54a Luis Benitez And now for the English version (a spanish version of the podcast review is available here)! A while back, I participated in a podcast recording with my 'twin brother' Luis Suarez , and Stuart McIntyre and Neil Burston, IBM business partners who run the Collaboration Matters blog. In this podcast we tackle our favorite topic social software and enterprise 2.0.
Here's a quick timeline of the podcast:
1:00 - Welcome
1:20 - Review of Connectr session (stuartmcintyre)
4:50 - Microsoft spies an [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Los Gemelos Atacan - Podcast de Collaboration Matters
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 9:54a Luis Benitez Hace un tiempo grabé un podcast con Luis Suarez (mi 'gemelo' dentro de IBM desde Gran Canarias) y Stuart McIntyre y Neil Burston que son business partners y corren el blog el llamado Collaboration Matters. En este podcast tomamos nuestro tema favorito: el software social! Hablamos un poco de como el software social nos ayuda a colaborar desde Puerto Rico hasta Gran Canarias. Además, discustimos como estas herramientas de software social hacen que la colaboración presencial fluya mucho mejor y [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Sessions at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Wed, Jun 10th 2009 2:54p Luis Benitez The Enterprise 2.0 conference is just around the corner (2 weeks away) and I thought it might be a good time to share with you IBM's plans for this year's conference. This blog owes a majority of its readership to the Enterprise 2.0 conference last year. After I reported on the Microsoft / IBM face-off, I got a lot of new readers and subscribers.
This year IBM is a Diamond sponsor for the conference, and that means that they'll be everywhere! Very timely, Stephen Londergan just published a summa [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Recap from IBM's Smarter Planet Event in Puerto Rico
Wed, Jun 10th 2009 12:54p Luis Benitez As I announced two weeks ago, yesterday was the local IBM Smarter Planet event in Puerto Rico. The attendance at the activity was very good and it included business partners, (potential) customers, and representatives from the government of Puerto Rico. In fact, Juan Eugenio Rodriguez de Hostos, the newly appointed CIO for the government of Puerto Rico, was one of the speakers there. He talked about Puerto Rico's effort to move towards Government 2.0. The new CIO office (created just 5 months ag [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Puerto Rico Startup Weekend
Mon, Jun 8th 2009 4:51p Luis Benitez This past weekend was the first Puerto Rico Startup Weekend. You may have caught my live tweets from the event. I had never been to one of those events before and it was great to meet other forward thinkers from the area. I was actually impressed by the number of awesome programmers that turned out for the event. 4-5 ideas were generated from the event and I actually joined one of the teams.
The idea of Startup Weekend is to try and launch a company during the weekend. While I don't think any co [read] Keywords: connections
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Microblogging in Lotus Connections with Adobe AIR
Thu, Jun 4th 2009 2:52p Luis Benitez Remember how I blogged about microblogging in Lotus Connections from ping.fm 2-3 weeks ago? Well, I decided to take a different approach and instead develop a microblogging client for Lotus Connections that lets you cross post to various services.
Now, I want to emphasize that this is something that I developed in my own time and is not something officially supported by IBM. In fact, most of the code already existed and all I did was enable it to work with Lotus Connections using its microbloggi [read] Keywords: connections
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Advising Your Clients on Web 2.0: International, Privacy & Security
Considerations
Thu, Jun 4th 2009 7:51a Luis Benitez Seems like June is the month of the briefings. You may remember that last week I mentioned I'll be doing a collaboration with social software one in Puerto Rico. Yesterday, I told you about Jeff Schick's briefing in New York. Today, I learned about a new briefing that's coming up in a couple of weeks called: Advising Your Clients on Web 2.0: International, Privacy & Security Considerations.
Regardless of you talk about web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, social software, etc, these capabilities are cha [read] Keywords: collaboration
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June 10th Briefing in NY with Jeff Schick
Wed, Jun 3rd 2009 8:57a Luis Benitez If you are in the New York area on June 10th, you should definitely go to a briefing that's happening next week with Jeff Schick, VP of IBM Social Software. Gemini Systems is hosting this briefing called: Real Customers, Real Impact with Lotus Social Software. Key customers will be participating and sharing their story. If you are still in the fence about Enteprise 2.0 and the benefits of social software inside the firewall, come learn how real businesses are finding tangible benefits from their [read] Keywords: ibm
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Demo: New BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections
Tue, Jun 2nd 2009 2:54p Luis Benitez Last month, there was a press release announcing the new version (2.0) of the BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections. While the press release was a bit confusing, it announced that the new client would be available on May 8th. What wasn't clear is that it was only going to be available to select customers.
Earlier today, I stumbled upon this great demo by Fred Clarke which gives a tour of the new client capabilities.
One of the most distinctive changes in this new client is that we now have nat [read] Keywords: connections
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Teach For America Demonstrates IBM Social Software
Mon, Jun 1st 2009 2:53p Luis Benitez Gemini Systems, an IBM business partner, has been working with the Teach For America organization. Specifically, Gemini has been helping Teach for America deploy an extranet portal with the Connections and Quickr capabilities very nicely integrated with each other.
One of the things that I really like about this particular demo is that you can't really tell what's Portal, what's Quickr, and what's Connections. As you know, I'm a big advocate for integration. I truly believe that the best route t [read] Keywords: connections
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Free Puerto Rico Leadership Forum
Wed, May 27th 2009 7:54a Luis Benitez In two weeks, I'm going to be presenting at the Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico at IBM's Free City Tour of Building a Smarter Planet. The event takes place on June 9th and is open to the public. Here are the details for the event:
My session is called "Smarter Work: Collaboration Approaches for a Connected World". I'll be talking about how to embed collaboration and social software into existing processes to improve efficiency, and reduce costs from by improving productivity in the workplace.
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Time to get back to business!
Tue, May 26th 2009 6:52p Luis Benitez I just got back from a week vacation (10 day total including the two weekends) and I feel energized. I got a chance to spend some time with my family in a local resort down here and celebrate my birthday. The vacation was mostly free thanks to all the hotel points I have accumulated over the past several months. And because I'm such a road warrior, I got this great birthday gift.
My favorite part of the vacation would definitely have to be spending time at the beach with the baby. While he had a [read] Keywords: blogger
Use Lotus Mashups To Create Custom Reports for Lotus Connections
Thu, May 7th 2009 7:53a Luis Benitez Seems like Lotus Mashups is a popular topic in my blog. You may remember that last week, I introduced you to a wiki article that describes how to create a simple mash-up that leverages the Lotus Connections Profiles Reports-To Chain. Well, today I'm also going to talk about using Lotus Mashups together with Lotus Connections.
You see, recently, I was asked by a customer how to retrieve the total # of active users in Lotus Connections at any given time. Out of the box, Lotus Connections ships wit [read] Keywords: connections
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More Lotus Connections Widgets Available
Wed, May 6th 2009 7:54a Luis Benitez I'm often asked what our customers are doing in terms of adding widgets to the Lotus Connections Homepage. By now, you are probably familiar with the Lotus Connections widget catalog that I'm hosting. That catalog should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of integration our customers are doing. And as you'll see the possibilities are endless.
Today, I got notice that one of the Lotus Connections v2.5 Beta Partners, Eniac, has also done some work in developing their own widget catalog. As y [read] Keywords: connections
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Easily Mash It Up with Lotus Mashups and Lotus Connections
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 8:51a Luis Benitez Last week I saw a very cool blog entry internally. It was from a colleague in the UK who had no development experience, yet wanted to create a mashup between data stored in a spreadsheet and Lotus Connections. The use case is where someone has a list of employees in a spreadsheet and would like to see an employee's Report-To Management Chain when that employee's row is selected. The Report-To Chain is easily available via the Lotus Connections APIs.
What caught my eye was how easy she made it so [read] Keywords: connections
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How To Add The Lotus Connections Person Card to Confluence Wikis
Mon, Apr 27th 2009 8:50a Luis Benitez Last week, I posted an article to the Lotus Connections Wiki. I typically like to share How-To's here in my blog, but I thought this one would be better served in a community place because I'm expecting that it would need changes as time goes by.
Anyway, you may recall that a couple of posts back I showed you a demo of the Lotus Connections person card running in Socialtext wikis. Well, thanks to a customer who brought it up, I noticed that I never shared the code on how to add the person card t [read] Keywords: connections
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My First Lotus SalesTalk
Fri, Apr 24th 2009 7:51a Luis Benitez As I had hinted last week, earlier this week I had the chance to present at my first Lotus SalesTalk. The topic was: New Features In Lotus Connections v2.5 Help You Close Deals Easier. We had 100 attendees and some great questions both via the teleconference as well as through Unyte. I co-presented with Larry Oglesby and Stephen Londergan. They actually went through the actual 6-7 slides and I got to do the cool stuff: the actual demo!
If you are an IBMer, check the internal version of this blo [read] Keywords: connections
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Business Value of Social Software for SMB
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 11:51a Luis Benitez (I originally wrote this article for Sowre , a Lotus Connections business partner in Spain, and was posted originally here. I also posted it in this blog here. This is a translation of that post.).
A lot of friends come up to me wondering what I really do. They are amazed as to how much time I spend with social software. They want to know what benefit, if any, I get from using these tools. Usually, I tell the story of how easy it is to find expertise within IBM, a company with 350,000+ employees [read] Keywords: connections
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My Second 24 Hours With Lotus Connections
Tue, Apr 21st 2009 10:54p Luis Benitez (This is a delayed post from a post I did internally to evangelize Lotus Connections 2.5 to IBMers -- posting here cause I think this is just way TOO cool.)
Yesterday, I summarized My First 24 Hours With Lotus Connections 2.5. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I was going to summarize the second 24 hours with Lotus Connections.
Our super awesome product designer posted in his status that he got first dibs into a "tool" developed by an IBMer that leveraged the new 2.5 APIs. That's righ [read] Keywords: connections
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My First 24 Hours With Lotus Connections
Tue, Apr 21st 2009 11:55a Luis Benitez (This is a delayed post from a post I did internally to evangelize Lotus Connections 2.5 to IBMers -- posting here cause I think this is just way TOO cool.)
My first 24 hours with Lotus Connections 2.5 inside IBM were AMAZING. Ok, I know you all think that I'm biased.. but I'm not.. ok maybe I am.
I woke up Thursday at 4am for some reason. I initially thought it was a bathroom break, but when I went back to bed, I couldn't sleep. I decided to check whether the environment had been upgraded to 2. [read] Keywords: connections
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The Value of Social Networks
Fri, Apr 3rd 2009 1:53p Luis Benitez Last week, I hinted at a new research publication by IBM, MIT, and NYU where they scientifically proved the value of social networks for the enterprise. Now, we actually have the research to back ROI discussions of social software!
Many studies on social networks have been published to show that certain types of networks are optimal, but there has never been a large-scale study that shows what the real dollar value of social networks is. And literature on networks within a single organization te [read] Keywords: connections
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Beneficios de Software Social para PYMES
Fri, Apr 3rd 2009 12:50p Luis Benitez (I originally wrote this article for Sowre , a Lotus Connections business partner in Spain, and was posted originally here. I'll be translating to English in a future post).
Ya varias veces se me han acercado colegas y conocidos que quieren saber mas de lo que yo hago. Ellos saben que yo trabajo con software social y se preguntan que beneficio yo le saco. Usualmente, les cuento como se ha hecho super fácil encontrar expertos dentro de IBM, una compañía de mas de 350,000 empleados. Además, co [read] Keywords: connections
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