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Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of

by Chris Miller at 12:37:06 PM on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

I received a PR email from Lotus announcing widgets for both LinkedIn and TripIt. I was happy to see they made it out of internal IBM testing and to the public.

So the LinkedIn widget is for Lotus Notes 8.01 and higher and sits in the sidebar. Here is what it does:

It sits in the sidebar
It does not match up to your current contacts
It does not show in business cards for Sametime
It does not give all the function of LinkedIn, just some updates
It shows my profile picture, my title and the number of connections I have
It does allow me to click anyone's name and see their profile and I can drag the link to their profile into an email
It does not allow me to email that person or match that to my NAB

So in saying all of this I was hoping for some tight integration to really bridge the gap between the public social networks and my contacts. This is still missing from my personal address book and Connections. But before I rant there, when installing the widget it does take a HTTPs connections, so you users will get a cross certificate prompt. Something to be aware of before you force this out via the Widget catalog in your environment.
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1) Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
Created by Mellow Yellow at 7/16/2009 2:52:19 PM email |

Someone had to say it - Thank You. I agree that the LinkedIn widget is a great idea but leaves much to be desired. Hopefully the next release will be better.

2) Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
Created by Richard at 7/16/2009 4:16:33 PM email |

I got very excited when I received the email and after the install and about 10 minutes of play, it became a very disappointing experience. I've signed out and hidden the panel for now. I wish both parties, LinkedIn and IBM, had spent a few more cycles creating a kickass offering.

3) Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
Created by Keith Brooks at 7/16/2009 4:35:02 PM email | website

Thanks for the points and help on the phone.

Indeed I had to reinstall the linkedin widget to get it to work as you described above.

I had only seen what would seem to be a browser window for linkedin which didn't match your description.

Unfortunately a side effect is the widget has popped open IE(I use FF so not sure why IE has come up) and it keeps trying to open some window for Linkedin, up to 100's.

More strange but true stories from the Wild.

4) Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
Created by Ports at 7/16/2009 4:40:59 PM email | website

Remember this is just a beta release.

5) re: Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
Created by Chris Miller at 7/17/2009 12:58:45 PM email | website

I saw that it said 1.0 beta release but no hint of what was coming either or how we will update (being a widget and not plugin). Just items that you would see when it was announced instead of the PR newsletters that went out announcing it

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