by Chris Miller at 11:11:11 AM on Friday, August 28th, 2009
I ran across BPM Blueworks a while ago but didn't sit down to play with it until now. It is built around Business Process Management and using collaboration to work with others, in an almost crowd-source way to get best practices and accelerate development.
Inside was quite the listing of experiences, broken down into smaller sections. The disappointment was the emptiness of each topic. It was asking for ratings on pages that had no content or had never been viewed before. Everything I clicked in the Experience area was empty. Quite disappointing.
I headed next to Collaborate and there was only a Blog link there. The blog itself has many postings but I am not sure where the collaborate function fit in. You could submit to collaborate but I am not sure where it went.
The Learn link had sections for podcasts ,papers, webcasts and demos. I chose to view all content so I could get a feel for what was there. I found some presentations and webcasts, all submitted by IBM.
I think they are trying to build a new area of the site, but there isn't much outside participation or growth yet. I am not sure of the overall goal as the linking of collaboration, content and experience don't seem to flow. They seem like separate silos in one site which doesn't work well for what you need.
Inside was quite the listing of experiences, broken down into smaller sections. The disappointment was the emptiness of each topic. It was asking for ratings on pages that had no content or had never been viewed before. Everything I clicked in the Experience area was empty. Quite disappointing.
I headed next to Collaborate and there was only a Blog link there. The blog itself has many postings but I am not sure where the collaborate function fit in. You could submit to collaborate but I am not sure where it went.
The Learn link had sections for podcasts ,papers, webcasts and demos. I chose to view all content so I could get a feel for what was there. I found some presentations and webcasts, all submitted by IBM.
I think they are trying to build a new area of the site, but there isn't much outside participation or growth yet. I am not sure of the overall goal as the linking of collaboration, content and experience don't seem to flow. They seem like separate silos in one site which doesn't work well for what you need.
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Category: LotusLive Tags :LotusLive BPM Blueworks |
  Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 11:03:56 AM on Thursday, August 27th, 2009
In this August 2009 issue, I cover the following topics:
* From the Editor: Chris's 0.0160760 AZN
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Sources for DAOS Documentation
* Sync Tool for Lotus Notes Contacts
* Quick Tip: Customizing the Lotus Notes Install Kit
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Reverse Proxy and iNotes 8.5 (The Conversation)
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Category: E-Pro Articles Tags :LotusUserGroup Sys Admin Tips |
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by Chris Miller at 01:24:08 PM on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Once again Collaboration University will be in Chicago and London in September. Where else will you see:
All in one place with the top partners that implement, customize and manage these environments. Attendees get huge benefits including:
To keep up to date on news about Collab Univ follow the stream on Twitter, or any of the speakers!
- Lotus Connections 2.5
- Sametime 8.5
- Quickr 8.2
All in one place with the top partners that implement, customize and manage these environments. Attendees get huge benefits including:
- First hand experience with Quickr 8.2, Connections 2.5, and Sametime 8.5, plus valuable tips on prior versions, upgrades and coexistence
- Access to three additional webinars over the next year to keep current
- One-on-one time with the gurus - solve your problems in minutes, not months
- Best practices in development and administration, including brand new methods for working with the APIs and admin consoles
- EXCLUSIVE early looks at R&D in mobile platforms (including some very exciting news), API development and Lotus software futures
To keep up to date on news about Collab Univ follow the stream on Twitter, or any of the speakers!
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by Chris Miller at 09:57:07 AM on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
In an amass of links, emails and leftovers from Lotusphere, the whole Work Smarter thing generated a bunch of information for a very short time. Including a long list of videos. The above video was one of them on Lotus Software. It seems Lotus Knew.
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by Chris Miller at 09:17:57 AM on Thursday, August 20th, 2009
You can find this also on the aggregator page as one of the sections. Either way it is how I am keeping up on the pulse from all around. It seems that a core group of people is inputting ideas and voting. How do we get more people involved in the process with only 2 days left?
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Category: Domino 8 Tags :LotusKnows |
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by Chris Miller at 04:30:00 AM on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
With all of the blogs, tweets and feeds coming out about LotusKnows, I went ahead and created an aggregator as shown in this screenshot. All of the feeds are RSS except for FriendFeed which is real-time and updates as new posts come along.
You can view the site right here at http://LotusKnows.IdoNotes.com
You can view the site right here at http://LotusKnows.IdoNotes.com
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by Chris Miller at 11:40:00 AM on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Simple enough for anyone to understand and be curious about. My single entry into the jam.
I am keeping up with the rest, and there is a ton of it out there, at the aggregator. Bless FriendFeed for real-time reporting
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by Chris Miller at 07:29:17 AM on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
I have the chance to sit with Mary Beth Raven, the UI Design goddess at Lotus, and cover her "What's New in 8.5.1" session she presented at IamLUG. We definitely cover enhancements in calendaring, mail, widgets, policies and plug-ins. As well as touch on xpages in the Notes client
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Category: Technology Tags :podcast 8.5.1 calendar plug-in widgets |
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by Chris Miller at 02:16:50 PM on Monday, August 17th, 2009
Sorting through huge amounts of e-mails - Animated Explanations
Let's see a LotusKnows animation on this topic, even thought they use Outlook in it and say email is not right for urgency, to-do's and discussions.
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by Chris Miller at 08:29:00 AM on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
It is great to work with the team over yonder yet again!! This year I tossed something new into the mix to have some fun and stretch our imagination. Here is my abstract which I will be presenting at UKLUG in October"
The idea is to gain control of the information around you, maximize your invested time and present you with new places and ways to expand your knowledge. Sure there will be some Domino ways in here, but plan on a majority of tools, tips, ideas and planning to be shown.
Getting benefit out of your social connections
Getting a grasp on all of the social technologies and how to use them with your everyday Lotus work style is a struggle. Sit with Chris, and wish you had longer, as he runs through how to use tools outside of the Lotus world to not only be more productive, but find answers and knowledge holders. Chris will take you on a journey through his social workflow and show you what has worked and hasn't while maximizing value of everyone in the room around you.
The idea is to gain control of the information around you, maximize your invested time and present you with new places and ways to expand your knowledge. Sure there will be some Domino ways in here, but plan on a majority of tools, tips, ideas and planning to be shown.
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by Chris Miller at 08:32:00 AM on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
As an early adopter of Bluehouse, I posted thoughts on it and even had a great podcast interview with the product managers. Anticipating the growth, I tried to build my contacts up in Oct 2008 by announcing and then connecting to tens upon tens of you (not the number was not hundreds in there yet). Yes, I was excited to grow my network while we were testing and working away in learning the system.
At Lotusphere2009 they announced the formal name change and had everyone accessing files for Lotusphere through LotusLive. It seemed we were on a path of understanding how it would fit into the SaaS model and how customers and partners both could take advantage.
The wall came crashing down today. Through some work, we will be using LotusLive yet again for a project. I know my previous personal and corporate account went from free to not free soon after Lotusphere. No issue , no problem and no foul. However, they seem to remove all files, all connections and all traces of your account from their system. Which means my company profile, user account, previous Activities, files and everything are totally gone.
Now reading through the Terms of Service and more, I could find no reference of total removal and deletion of all account records! I know files are heard to keep, with backups, disk costs, etc. Trust me, we do this and I know. But a simple record entry with pointers of connections is nothing. A minor few lines of text that is coded to be read. I even understand removing the avatars for space, as small as they must be.
I knew it must all be a mistake so I went to the screen to reset my password. It says it reset it, so I waited. I reset it again with the message saying the email was being sent. I knew it was in there. Had to be. Then the dooming email from not one, but two people. It is gone. Officially not there any longer. NO word on when, why or how long they keep accounts after someone gets closed. If I was in the SaaS model I sure as heck would want to get some data out or back, even with a cost. I found that you can delete your own account, but no time limit of how long one is kept in the FAQ or wiki.
Humorously sales for LotusLive has now just called me asking if I wanted to register a test account and what I needed. I said now isn't the time.
At Lotusphere2009 they announced the formal name change and had everyone accessing files for Lotusphere through LotusLive. It seemed we were on a path of understanding how it would fit into the SaaS model and how customers and partners both could take advantage.
The wall came crashing down today. Through some work, we will be using LotusLive yet again for a project. I know my previous personal and corporate account went from free to not free soon after Lotusphere. No issue , no problem and no foul. However, they seem to remove all files, all connections and all traces of your account from their system. Which means my company profile, user account, previous Activities, files and everything are totally gone.
Now reading through the Terms of Service and more, I could find no reference of total removal and deletion of all account records! I know files are heard to keep, with backups, disk costs, etc. Trust me, we do this and I know. But a simple record entry with pointers of connections is nothing. A minor few lines of text that is coded to be read. I even understand removing the avatars for space, as small as they must be.
I knew it must all be a mistake so I went to the screen to reset my password. It says it reset it, so I waited. I reset it again with the message saying the email was being sent. I knew it was in there. Had to be. Then the dooming email from not one, but two people. It is gone. Officially not there any longer. NO word on when, why or how long they keep accounts after someone gets closed. If I was in the SaaS model I sure as heck would want to get some data out or back, even with a cost. I found that you can delete your own account, but no time limit of how long one is kept in the FAQ or wiki.
Humorously sales for LotusLive has now just called me asking if I wanted to register a test account and what I needed. I said now isn't the time.
by Chris Miller at 08:21:00 AM on Monday, August 10th, 2009
I have the chance to sit with Paul Steel, Technical Services Manager for North America at RIM, and cover his BlackBerry Futures session and BlackBerry development session he presented at IamLUG. We are joined in the middle by Rob McDonagh a/k/a Captain Oblivious for his commentary.
We definitely cover BlackBerry futures, their Sametime client version, xpages and using GPS in applications
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by Chris Miller at 09:42:00 AM on Friday, August 7th, 2009
We were having an issue with certain BlackBerry devices not being able to turn on integration features on the updated Facebook application. In short, the new Facebook app should allow you to integrate messaging, calendar synchronization and contact matching. However the calendar and messaging option was grayed out on our BES devices, but enabled for those not BES server connected. So off we went to the BES server policies. A sample of what we saw on the devices is below.
What we discovered after reading a ton was there was no policy that controlled the options, only for a BES 4.x server. There is a new policy in BES 5 that let's the administrator control how Social Applications interact with devices that have applied policies from BES servers. It not only controls Facebook, but has very special settings for Lotus Connections individually. It definitely shows how Lotus and RIM are working together.
So what did we do for the BES 4.x server?? BlackBerry just released a downloadable policy update for BES 4 servers. You import the policy update, make the necessary changes, apply the updated policy to the users and they are almost instantly able to work with the new features.
The new policy area allows the BES administrator and to control data access on the device for social networking applications. You can read about the policy update from this technote . It will also point you to a secondary one where you should download the additional policy.
What we did notice missing was the same integration for Lotus Connections. It would be nice to have profile information, including pictures, pulled in to match my address book like the Facebook application. Also, the ability to bring Activities into the calendar would be of huge benefit. Moving into Bookmarks (Dogears) and having those sync to the Blackberry would make Connections a seamless integration point as well.
I'm just saying.
What we discovered after reading a ton was there was no policy that controlled the options, only for a BES 4.x server. There is a new policy in BES 5 that let's the administrator control how Social Applications interact with devices that have applied policies from BES servers. It not only controls Facebook, but has very special settings for Lotus Connections individually. It definitely shows how Lotus and RIM are working together.
So what did we do for the BES 4.x server?? BlackBerry just released a downloadable policy update for BES 4 servers. You import the policy update, make the necessary changes, apply the updated policy to the users and they are almost instantly able to work with the new features.
The new policy area allows the BES administrator and to control data access on the device for social networking applications. You can read about the policy update from this technote . It will also point you to a secondary one where you should download the additional policy.
What we did notice missing was the same integration for Lotus Connections. It would be nice to have profile information, including pictures, pulled in to match my address book like the Facebook application. Also, the ability to bring Activities into the calendar would be of huge benefit. Moving into Bookmarks (Dogears) and having those sync to the Blackberry would make Connections a seamless integration point as well.
I'm just saying.
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Category: Blackberry Lotus Connections Social Networking Tags :Facebook Blackberry Lotus Connections |
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by Chris Miller at 09:04:00 AM on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
As you can see from above, I am pulling in the stream from the entire event with any picture that was tagged with IamLUG. There is also a group on Flickr you can participate in and share!
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by Chris Miller at 06:59:00 AM on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
I sit with Kevin Cavanaugh and Ed Brill of IBM/Lotus talk about the launch of "Lotus Knows" from IamLUG. This will be a huge marketing push by IBM and I hoped for a fell amount of telling from Kevin and Ed on what Lotus Knows.
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by Chris Miller at 04:11:00 AM on Monday, August 3rd, 2009
So you want to keep up with the #IamlUG hastag traffic on Twitter and Flickr? Well the above embedded wall (which can go fullscreen for you, is ready to go! You can participate 3 ways:
- send any tweet with #IamLUG inside it
- tag any photo on Flickr with IamLUG
- send a SMS message to the number 87884 and say "@loca9128
"
Not only will we see it, but it will be shown for everyone. Oh and so no one gets silly we can remove and moderate your posts :-)
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Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
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Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Weapons/Equipment:
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- At home a plethera of 6 machines with various Windows versions and Red Hat on a wired/wireless LAN
- A Wii
- An 8830 Blackberry
- A Toshiba E740 with 802.11b (yes geek toy)
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- An EBook (REB1100) also for travel (Love that darn thing)
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Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
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- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
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