IdoNotes (and sleep) Lotus software administration and industry reviews covering Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime, Quickplace, Workplace and tons more http://www.IdoNotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/ en-us Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:59:09 -0500 IdoCheckIn discussion posting Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:59:09 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm Lotusphere Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm
Q. Stuart McIntyre - you can't leave comments on that post - seems a great idea. Will the usual BrightKite interfaces work - I assume so...
A. All the usual Brightkite interfaces will work.

Q. Olufsphere - Looks exciting. Will it work for us 'foreigners' as well? (Unlike twitter, where we are bound to PC-clients)
A. Yes there is an international code for sending text but while in the US the code for here should work unless I am wrong.  I am checking this

Q. MattWhite - Very cool, hopefully it will cut down on lots of shouted "I'm by the rotunda" phone conversations :-)
A. That is the goal for sure and to be able to quickly scan for large groups as well as find those people you only known names and not faces or how to find them ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoCheckIn-discussion.htm?opendocument&comments Announcement: IdoCheckIn for Lotusphere2009 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:15:00 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm Lotusphere Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm Twitter to Facebook to LinkedIn, you are still in the dark on the location of people and finding new contacts.

IdoCheckin (website launch this week) will allow everyone to better communicate and locate each other around Lotusphere and other events.

Remember the first time you went to a conference when you did not know anyone or could not find anyone?  Imagine you are one of those new people this year.  You wander around with no way to easily be in touch or locate another attendee.  You will be able to communicate and locate anyone that participates, even total strangers through IdoCheckin.

IdoCheckin allows you to broadcast your location via SMS or web browser where you are around Lotusphere and be able to see everyone that checks in at different areas.

I partnered with Martin at Brightkite (an incredible location service) to make this happen.  We knocked out a nice listing of key areas for this first year launch.  While I realize there are even more locations we can list, I created the majority of prime places, even ones like Jellyrolls.  I will blog the full listing of locations and more detailed instructions tomorrow.

So here is how it works:
  • you do NOT have to register with Brightite if you do not want to, but I would strongly suggest it
  • your phone number is NEVER exposed at any time.  You could always just use the web interfaces
  • if you choose not to register an account, you get almost all functions and assigned a jdoeXXX name until you set one
  • you will simply send a simply formatted SMS to their service and it "checks you in" at that location
  • you are able to see who is at locations through notifications (if registered) or on the public 'wall' through a browser.  I will cover the wall this week
  • if registered, it can also link your location to Twitter for your followers, as many of you often see me do.
  • standard text messaging (SMS) rates will apply based on your carrier and phone plan if using the SMS interface.  IdoCheckin has NO fees associated with it.
Look for more postings starting tomorrow outlining all the spots established around Lotusphere, more instructions and videos. ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-IdoCheckin-announcement.htm?opendocument&comments How we in the Lotus world make fragmented islands, not communities (evolving document) Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:16:22 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12182008121706PMCMIPFA.htm Lotusphere Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12182008121706PMCMIPFA.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12182008121706PMCMIPFA.htm
Lotusphere has brought that out even more with the beginning of support from IBM on the Twitter account I created last year (that was brushed aside as a communication channel) a new LinkedIn group and another blog for Lotusphere itself.  Yet none of the blogs (myself temporarily included) uses some of the commenting systems like IntenseDebate or Disqus (that then integrates with things like FriendFeed and Plaxo and Seesmic for video comments).  Your RSS feeds can even utilize flares inside of Feedburner to show numbers of comments dynamically and aggregated.  
Just today there were new conversations started on LinkedIn that are good Lotusphere information.  But if you have not joined that group or go back and watch it, you would never know. Even the LotusUserGroup site has weekly forums that fragment the discussions on Notes.Net.  Not to mention the ones that take place inside isolated business partner and company forums.  So where do you go to keep up?

Then we get into the multiple Lotus Connections sites popping up.  From Greenhouse to Paxos (for partners) to BleedYellow, yet more links, blogs and other information is fragmented once again.  Of course, none of these interact with each other and RSS is not a fully acceptable answer since we would have to still log in and out everywhere to actually participate and not just read.

We won't even get into how all of us bookmark.  With LinkJam, Dogear, Diigo (my favorite), Delicious, Magnolia and the 250 other ones.  How to we all get aligned?  We start be trimming down the sites we utilize.  From bookmarks, to shared RSS feeds, to communication channels to comments and conversations.  We begin to include and mix technologies instead of isolating.  We ask what people think of sites and items and if no one has an idea, we go test.  From there we might begin to bring a lot of this together.  I run into Lotus people all over the world that have no clue about the blogs, PlanetLotus or anything else but Notes.Net (LDD).  How do we start including these people in the conversations? ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/12182008121706PMCMIPFA.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12182008121706PMCMIPFA.htm?opendocument&comments Lotusphere2009 Award Winners Announced Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:58:05 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-Lotus-Award-Winners.htm Lotusphere Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-Lotus-Award-Winners.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-Lotus-Award-Winners.htm
Category
Business Partner
GEO
Best Industry Solution e-On Integration S.A iEnterprises Ascendant Technology Best Lotus Energy and Environment KLG Systel, Ltd Alphalogix Enterprise Information Management Best Mid-Market Solution iEnterprises Pavone AG Nortel Best Philanthropy PSC Group, LLC Teamcentric Technologies ITM Associates Best Portal or IBM Mashup Award Ascendant Technology Alacrinet Edifixio Best Tool and Utility Solution Award Permessa Software Sherpa Software iEnterprises Best Total Lotus Solution Award Trilog Group Ascendant Technology Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited Best Unified Communications and Collaboration Solution Award Avistar Communications Group Polymorph Permessa Corporation



Here is the link to the 2008 winners. ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/Lotusphere2009-Lotus-Award-Winners.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/Lotusphere2009-Lotus-Award-Winners.htm?opendocument&comments Rumor mill - Lotus Foundations Wild Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:35:43 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12162008113624AMCMINMV.htm Lotus Foundations Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12162008113624AMCMINMV.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12162008113624AMCMINMV.htm
Well on the call they mentioned a new Foundations Wild that would allow you to run a Domino server on the Nitix backend wihtout all the integration issues currently faced.  Just thought that was interesting. ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/12162008113624AMCMINMV.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12162008113624AMCMINMV.htm?opendocument&comments Want Blueman Group at Lotusphere? Carl can help! (fundraising inside) Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:50:14 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/keep-carl-bald-and-blue.htm Lotusphere Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/keep-carl-bald-and-blue.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/keep-carl-bald-and-blue.htm in his comments he could do it for Gurupalooza at Lotusphere 2009 if we raised enough.  So I went ahead and started a fundraiser project for a great cause I work with here in town.  So I know it goes to a great cause, autism treatment and services.    The organization is called MO FEAT and provides the following:
An organization of parents and professionals throughout Missouri with headquarters in St. Louis. Our mission is to provide advocacy, education, and support for families and the autism community and to support early diagnosis and effective autism treatment.


So jump in and spread the word! ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/keep-carl-bald-and-blue.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/keep-carl-bald-and-blue.htm?opendocument&comments IdoNotes Episode 54 - Lotusphere track manager Carl Kriger aka not Ed Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:16:01 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoNotesEpisode54.htm IT News Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoNotesEpisode54.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoNotesEpisode54.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/IdoNotesEpisode54.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/IdoNotesEpisode54.htm?opendocument&comments Lotus Connections Proof of Technology (PoT) review Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:19:29 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12042008011958PMCMIQNQ.htm Lotus Connections Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12042008011958PMCMIQNQ.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12042008011958PMCMIQNQ.htm
A proof of technology to me is not just two laptops running the Lotus Connections servers in the room with everyone doing the labs from another laptop.  They rolled so fast through deployment architecture everyone was left reeling.  While some diagram pictures should a bunch of servers, they never really let you know to do a large scale implementation would not only take tons of man hours, but tons of hardware.

I know the time was consolidated, it just seemed this was more of a listing of technology and proof of end user.  The presenters did a fine job of giving their own insight into easing the install, and answered many questions, there was far too much more than needed explanation for those that were new to the product and social networking in the enterprise as a whole. ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/12042008011958PMCMIQNQ.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/12042008011958PMCMIQNQ.htm?opendocument&comments Admin2008 Europe -Amsterdam picture stream here Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:09:30 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008010930PMCMIQGH.htm Conferences Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008010930PMCMIQGH.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008010930PMCMIQGH.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/11262008010930PMCMIQGH.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008010930PMCMIQGH.htm?opendocument&comments Lotus Connections Proof of Technology hits St Louis Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:33:15 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008093315AMCMIL9D.htm Lotus Connections Chris Miller http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008093315AMCMIL9D.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008093315AMCMIL9D.htm
The IBM® Lotus® Connections Proof of Technology (PoT) provides a hands-on experience for those needing to understand how social software can foster innovation in the business environment. Participants will gain an appreciation of how Lotus Connections software helps business people with common work objectives or professional interests to find each other and share what they know. Offering an integrated set of five Web 2.0 based components -- Profiles, Dogear (for social bookmarking), Communities, Activities, Blogs -- Lotus Connections opens new channels for productive relationships. It helps users enlarge their collaborative, knowledge-sharing networks, enables businesses to tap the collective intelligence of their people, and facilitates faster, more agile business execution

A full day on the 2nd and a half day on the 3rd. ]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dxcomments/11262008093315AMCMIL9D.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/11262008093315AMCMIL9D.htm?opendocument&comments