My Developer’s Greenhouse Bleeds Live Lotus Yellow
Tags :Lotus Connections
I spent some time today discovering what a pain it was to build a network of friends and business relationships across the Lotus Connections network. This is all production code, so we are not talking beta issues. I am talking about the process. If I want to find you I do a search. That works great. Up come results by name, keyword (which includes organization) and even Advanced searches. Once I find your listing:
- Click once to view your card
- Click again to add you to my network
- Click again to send you an email
- Then search all over again since it takes me to my profile and not the search!!!
There are a few things missing:
- A one step, one click add or window that allows me to add right from the search results
- The ability to be taken back to the search results after adding
The other part missing is the inherent ability to search my current contacts from my address book, my Gmail, my LinkedIn, my Facebook, my 50 other social networks, whatever and attempt to match it up with what is inside Connections environments. Ahh wait again. Natively there is no hooks in in profiles to other social networks to match identities.
Lastly all of this means nothing since I have mentioned it many times that these are all separate communities instead of one global Lotus Connections mega-community (outside of BleedYellow which I don't expect since it is partner run and not IBM).
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On Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by Chris Miller
