http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/My thoughts, views, and experiences on Socialization and Collaboration. How it relates to individuals, groups, and the enterprise.ennoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Sun, 13 May 2012 05:09:24 PDTBlogger http://www.blogger.com79125http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/Lu6GwqWtEj8/latest-with-notes-traveler-mic.htmllotus_traveleribmnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:12:35 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-3972581482515077134<p>You are invited to join an Open Mic Webcast on the topic, "What's the Latest with Notes Traveler?" " After a presentation, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions directly of IBM developers and support engineers. You can post questions in advance of the call as a response to <a href="http://www.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedWeb/dfa5740b3916cb45852579b80046bee0?OpenDocument"><u>this entry in the Notes/Domino/Traveler forum</u></a>.<br>The event will take place on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 11 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC or GMT -4) for 60 minutes. <p><b>Bookmark Webcast Technote #7024152</b> <ul><b>Title:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What's the Latest with Notes Traveler? - 24 April 2012<br><b>Doc #:</b>&nbsp; 7024142<br><b>URL: </b><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27024152">http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27024152</a><br><b>Before the call, the technote will include:</b> <ul> <li><b>NEW: </b>An iCal attachment so you can add this event to your calendar <li>Details on how to join the call and web conference <li>The slides that will be presented during the session</li></ul><br><b>A few weeks after the call, the technote will be updated to include:</b> <ul> <li>A recording of the session <li>A written Q&amp;A transcript</li></ul><br>To be notified when the Webcast technote is updated, subscribe to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/support/einfo.html">IBM My Notifications</a> and select "Webcasts" as a document type of interest.</ul> <p><b>Web Conference URL</b><br><b>Web conference: </b>Join an IBM SmartCloud Meetings (formerly LotusLive) web conference to view the presentation: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/meeting/join?id=6784422">Conference 6784422</a><br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/meeting/join?id=6784422">http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/meeting/join?id=6784422</a> <p><b>Dial-in Information</b> <ul><b>Dial-in passcode: 1624413​​</b><br>USA/Canada Toll Free Number: <a href="tel:%28866%29%20803-2145">(866) 803-2145</a>​<br>USA/Canada Toll Number: <a href="tel:%28210%29%20795-1099">(210) 795-1099</a>​<br>Non-US phone numbers: In the table below<br><b>International phone numbers:</b> <ul>ARGENTINA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>0800-777-0483</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>ADELAIDE:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-8-8121-4875&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>BRISBANE:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-7-3102-0977&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>CANBERRA:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-2-6100-1977&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>MELBOURNE:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-3-9010-7746&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>PERTH:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-8-9467-5256&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRALIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>SYDNEY:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>61-2-8205-8111&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>1-800-993-891</ul> <ul>AUSTRIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>43-1-92-80-299&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-005-020</ul> <ul>BELGIUM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>32-2-403-1045&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-4-9978</ul> <ul>BRAZIL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>0800-8911977</ul> <ul>CHILE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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</ul> <ul>8088-6033</ul> <ul>ESTONIA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>800-011-1111</ul> <ul>FINLAND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>Land Line:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>106-33-142&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0-800-1-13084</ul> <ul>FINLAND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>Mobile:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>09-106-33-142&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0-800-1-13084</ul> <ul>FRANCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>LYON:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>33-4-26-69-12-92&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>080-510-1036</ul> <ul>FRANCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>MARSEILLE:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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</ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>1-800-80-2326</ul> <ul>MEXICO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>001-866-886-2374</ul> <ul>NETHERLANDS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>31-20-718-8518&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-020-1250</ul> <ul>NEW ZEALAND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>64-9-970-4753&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-446-096</ul> <ul>NORWAY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>47-21-59-00-54&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>800-10097</ul> <ul>PANAMA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>011-001-800-5072068</ul> <ul>PERU&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>0800-53780</ul> <ul>PHILIPPINES&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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</ul> <ul>800-120-4336</ul> <ul>SLOVAK REPUBLIC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>421-2-322-422-32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul><br><img border="0" alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=080fe62fe8&amp;view=att&amp;th=136c63da36628e6d&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=emb&amp;zw&amp;atsh=1" width="1" height="1"> <ul>SOUTH AFRICA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>080-09-98844</ul> <ul>SOUTH KOREA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>82-2-6744-1067&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>00798-14800-6849</ul> <ul>SPAIN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>34-91-414-29-40&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>800-098-585</ul> <ul>SWEDEN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>46-8-505-78-553&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0200-890-172</ul> <ul>SWITZERLAND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>41-44-580-7529&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-001-028</ul> <ul>TAIWAN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul>886-2-2795-7363&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>00801-137-710</ul> <ul>THAILAND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>001-800-1206-65645</ul> <ul>UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>BIRMINGHAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>44-121-210-9032&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-376-8334</ul> <ul>UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>GLASGOW:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>44-141-202-3232&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-376-8334</ul> <ul>UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>LEEDS:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>44-113-301-2132&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-376-8334</ul> <ul>UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>LONDON:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>44-20-7108-6315&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-376-8334</ul> <ul>UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>MANCHESTER:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>44-161-601-1432&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul>0800-376-8334</ul> <ul>URUGUAY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>000-413-598-3406</ul> <ul>USA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul><a href="tel:1-210-795-1099">1-210-795-1099</a></ul> <ul><a href="tel:866-803-2145">866-803-2145</a></ul> <ul>VENEZUELA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>0800-1-00-3751</ul> <p>Restrictions might exist when accessing freephone/toll free numbers using a mobile telephone.</p></ul> <p><b>Upcoming Events</b><br>Visit our <a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Scheduled_tech_exchanges/Software/Lotus/Lotus_brand_support_(general)">Lotus Support Technical Exchange Events</a> page for additional upcoming events. <p><b>Subscription Information</b><br>You are receiving this invitation because you contacted IBM Support in the past. To unsubscribe, send a message to <a href="mailto:ndinfo@us.ibm.com?subject=subscribe">ndinfo@us.ibm.com</a> with "unsubscribe" in the subject line (be aware that doing so will also unsubscribe you from periodic Portal Support Content Highlights newsletters). If you know of others who want to subscribe, have them send a message to <a href="mailto:ndinfo@us.ibm.com?subject=subscribe">ndinfo@us.ibm.com</a> with "subscribe" in the subject line.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-3972581482515077134?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2012-04-19T12:12:35.150-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2012/04/latest-with-notes-traveler-mic.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/UXzyLEnOFpM/websphere-plugin-key-password.htmlconnectionswebspherequickrportalibm_connectionsibmsametimenoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:38:50 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-7171476493866783634<p><strong>Accelerated Value Announcement:&nbsp; WAS Alert affecting ICS Products ! </strong></p> <p><strong>WebSphere Plugin Key &amp; Password Expiration 4/26</strong></p> <p><strong>Overview:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WAS Support posted two Flash Alerts to customers about Expirations on 4/26.&nbsp; These expirations could have significant impact to production environments if not addressed. The following alert applies to all products that are built on top of WebSphere Application Server, for example: Portal, Sametime, Connections, and Quickr J. </p> <p><strong>ACTION:</strong>&nbsp; Make sure that your customers are aware of these items and the April 26th date . </p> <p>1)The password to the Plugin-key.kdb file&nbsp; that is shipped with the WebSphere Plugin install will expire on April 26, 2012: <br>&nbsp; <br>Please refer to the following link for additional details.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21588312">http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21588312</a> </p> <p>The impact&nbsp; of the "password expiration issue in the above flash" is that the https transport between the WebSphere plugin and back-end AppServers will stop working, if not resolved.&nbsp; It means that the Plugin-key.kdb (and the personal &amp; signer certificates in it) will not be loaded during the plugin initialization and the https transport will not be used. </p> <p>2) The personal certificate&nbsp; called "WebSphere Plugin Key" within the plugin-key.kdb that is shipped with the WebSphere Plugin install will expire on April 26, 2012: </p> <p>Please refer to the following link for additional details.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21577327">http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21577327</a> </p> <p>This will affect those WebSphere AppServers that are configured to require SSL client authentication (SSL mutual authentication) and that are using the default WebSphere plug-in key.&nbsp; Most of our customers did not configure WebSphere AppServers to use SSL mutual authentication between the plug-in and WebSphere AppServers. </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-7171476493866783634?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2012-04-19T11:38:50.209-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2012/04/websphere-plugin-key-password.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/08UMkDDQCfk/we-can-move-from-sharepoint-to-ibm.htmlconnectionssocialsharepointwcmibm_connectionsibmnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:30:48 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-3540532054788560497<p>So I have not posted for a while, and for good reason.&nbsp; I have been working almost exclusively with the same customer since November on a really cool project and it is finally reaching a point that I can talk about it… a bit.&nbsp; We (Ascendant) partnered with IBM and T-Systems to bring to fruition a working content migration utility that can take content FROM SharePoint and populate it into Connections / Quickr / WCM.&nbsp; (Yes… any or all of the three mentioned have a native connector for the utility from T-Systems now thanks to our project.)&nbsp; Beyond just grabbing the content, transforming it, and then pushing it into the correct content area, we are able to maintain content ownership and impersonate other users at migration time without impacting those users.&nbsp; This is truly a first of it’s kind solution to the best of my knowledge.&nbsp; Hats off to the whole team we have been working with.&nbsp; I know I am excited to be part of this, as I am sure most of the other team members are as well.&nbsp; This brings real choice to the market as people now have the availability to move their content between platforms.</p> <p>Thank You everyone that made this possible!</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-3540532054788560497?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2012-04-09T10:30:48.673-04:001http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2012/04/we-can-move-from-sharepoint-to-ibm.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/kGhTUr9fLEE/sametime-applets-to-expire.htmlsametimenoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:36:01 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-6971875921977558948<ul><b>Sametime Meeting applets certificate expires March 19; updated applets available</b><br>The Sametime Meeting Server applets are signed with a certificate that expires on 19 March 2012.&nbsp; If you administer a Sametime 8.0 server or a Sametime 8.5.0 environment that uses the Classic Meeting server, you should download and apply updated Sametime applets to prevent your users from seeing a warning about the expired certificate.&nbsp; For more details and links to the updated applets, refer to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21580492">"Sametime applets signer certificate expires on 19 March 2012" (#1580492)</a></ul> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-6971875921977558948?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2012-02-10T14:36:01.923-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2012/02/sametime-applets-to-expire.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/hOpoLEJwtSc/quickrd-bug.htmlquickribmnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:33:53 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-2739256392320914312<p>A while back, I was made aware of an issue where the Notes client will increase the size of fonts in emails when sent back and forth multiple times.&nbsp; This link points to the problem description:</p> <p><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21201323">https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21201323</a></p> <p>The work around is to add a few variables to your servers notes.ini to address this.&nbsp; So what does this have to do with Quickr?</p> <p>I was recently discussing a Quickr 8.x &gt; 8.5.1 upgrade when this was encountered.&nbsp; If you have implemented the work around as listed in the above technote, it will break the Quickr login page.&nbsp; The rendered HTML will be malformed, and you will not be able to use the Quickr login page which allows for non-directory members logging into the server / places.</p> <p>Took a bit of figuring and a PMR, and I suspect this is a rare combination of circumstances, but if this can help anyone else, here it is.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-2739256392320914312?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2012-01-20T11:33:53.939-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2012/01/quickrd-bug.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/WesgplpNum0/messaging-and-collab-slideshare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:02:56 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-4170888349479757897<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mediamutt/ibm-messaging-and-collaboration-details-and-whats-new-in-v853">http://www.slideshare.net/mediamutt/ibm-messaging-and-collaboration-details-and-whats-new-in-v853</a></p> <p>Came across this on Twitter today and figured some of you may not have seen it so thought I would put it here where it was a bit more permanent.&nbsp; Good stuff!</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-4170888349479757897?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-12-27T17:02:56.280-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/12/messaging-and-collab-slideshare.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/hPPMIp-Qfhs/ios-51-coming-soon.htmlmobileApplenoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:53:07 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-6722459289374126625<p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2128504/apple-seeds-ios-51-developers">http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2128504/apple-seeds-ios-51-developers</a></p> <p>I personally had a lot of success with upgrading my 3GS to 5.0.1.&nbsp; It fixed a lot of the response issues I experienced with 5.0.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-6722459289374126625?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-11-29T09:53:07.548-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/11/ios-51-coming-soon.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/Q8vgKju40oA/this-looks-promising.htmlconnectionssocialibm_connectionsnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:16:25 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-6033688849660056801<p><a title="https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&amp;documentId=447ED472AC7169588525792D0064F44C" href="https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&amp;documentId=447ED472AC7169588525792D0064F44C">https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&amp;documentId=447ED472AC7169588525792D0064F44C</a></p> <p>Community Backup/Recovery (Archiving) tool!</p> <p>Found this today while working on something else and thought I would share.&nbsp; Published to the solutions catalog just yesterday, I can see a lot of promising use cases for this particular utility.&nbsp; If you try it, please share your experience and thoughts.</p> <p>I suggest you read the notes, as there is an important point about what is backed up vs. what can be automatically restored.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-6033688849660056801?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-11-09T10:16:25.821-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/11/this-looks-promising.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/b0DkEsRAV3s/ls12-abstract-submission-still-open.html#ls12lotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:53:46 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-1582694414218513352<p><strong>Call for abstracts still open: Lotusphere 2012 - Business Made Social. Don't miss this opportunity</strong>.<br><br>Here's your chance to be a part of Lotusphere and the IBM Connect 2012 conferences with the best seat in the house--the one on stage, together with your customer. The Lotusphere 2012 content team is now accepting proposals to speak at Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012.</p> <p><br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/partnertools/p.wss?cmd=ctt&amp;country=US&amp;a=EC4RRRULKA">Submit your abstract here</a>. Work with your customer and develop an abstract in which you share your joint experience leading to a successful social business solution. If your expertise is technical, come forward ready to deliver a detailed "Show 'n Tell." Join an elite group of professional, top-notch speakers: customers, Business Partners and industry experts, all sharing best practices, solutions and the expertise needed to help organizations design and deliver services that drive unique client value and competitive advantage.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-1582694414218513352?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-11-07T12:53:46.572-05:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/11/ls12-abstract-submission-still-open.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/SfsbZBTltQM/connect-to-compete.htmloff_topicinternetnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:58:22 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-9203368883648897830<p>Announced today by the chairman of the FCC, an initiative called Connect to Compete is being launched in conjunction with Microsoft, Best Buy, careerbuilder.com and monster.com to try to increase the broadband footprint in America.&nbsp; The intent is to improve internet literacy and general computer skills for students and working individuals.&nbsp; This will come in the form of support from Geek Squad providing classroom training in conjunction with groups like Goodwill, Boys and Girls Club, and a few others; Microsoft offering free training and certification on-line; and the career sites providing job skills training, resume writing, and other job related training online for free.&nbsp; The most positive byproduct that I can personally connect with is the intent to also increase funding for public libraries and school computer labs to provide the means for after class time training.&nbsp; </p> <p>Being a technologist, I would love to see greater computer skills training, but is this really just a ploy to get more potential buyers into Best Buy stores and online to support Microsoft’s initiatives?&nbsp; I hope those involved remain true to the spirit of this initiative and give us reason to applaud these efforts as they progress.&nbsp; Good luck guys…</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-9203368883648897830?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-10-12T07:58:22.816-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/10/connect-to-compete.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/gikpdVE2HHY/announcements.htmllotus_dominolotus_connectionslotus_noteslotus_traveleribmlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:49:31 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-5365712657967407060<p>As many of you are already aware, IBM announced ND8.5.3.</p> <p><a title="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/nd85.html" href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/nd85.html">http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/nd85.html</a></p> <p>Beyond the typical fixes, we now have access to Connections Profiles and Files as Domino customers.&nbsp; This is all in an effort to help businesses on their road to becoming social businesses.&nbsp; This is great because there are Notes plugins for these features, bringing this content to the users at no additional cost.</p> <p>We already have access to Portal at no additional cost if it is used to drive content for Notes clients and not a Portal implementation.&nbsp; (limited use for ND customers)</p> <p>What about Activities?&nbsp; I would love to see activities added to the list of entitled software, but we need to take these things one step at a time.&nbsp; Thanks IBM!</p> <p>ND 8.5.3 also brings us an improved Traveler experience for the Droid community.&nbsp; With greater attention to the Android platform, we now have support for newer devices and better overall security through feature leveling across platforms like partial device wipes.</p> <p>It has been hinted that this is likely the last major release in the 8.5.x code stream.&nbsp; This means it will soon be time to look for ND9?</p> <p>We also heard that IBM has a new offering, the XWork Server.&nbsp; This is an application only (XPages driven) server that allows you to deploy up to 4 applications (not just 4 NSF files, mind you) within the limits of this flat fee license.&nbsp; This means that there is no abacus required as you try to calculate your PVUs.&nbsp; Ed Brill covered this in a recent blog post.</p> <p><a href="http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/introducing-ibm-xwork-server">http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/introducing-ibm-xwork-server</a></p> <p>There are numerous applications that I can think of for this server.&nbsp; I believe this could be a good thing for IBM.&nbsp; This reminds me of a recent conversation on LinkeIn where someone had suggested that IBM separate apps from mail in the Domino product line-up.&nbsp; Offering an applications only approach to maybe embrace (SHUDDER) another email platform along side of Domino as your RAD environment.</p> <p>Buried in the Inbox, besides these important announcements, LS12 is ramping up.</p> <p><b>Heads up: Get out your social calendar.&nbsp; It's time to add Lotusphere 2012 to your agenda!</b><br>Lotusphere, IBM's premier collaboration event, kicks on on Sunday, January 15, 2012.&nbsp; As in past years, Lotusphere 2012 promises to be content-rich.<br>Whether you are interested in Social Business strategy or product features and capabilities, the event promises to offer something for just about everyone.&nbsp; Attend and:<br>- Listen in on over 300 sessions<br>- Pick up technical tips and tracks<br>- Hear about best practices and see live examples<br>- Tour the Solutions Showcase and see real-world solutions firsthand<br>- Socialize with your peers, Business Partners and IBMers<br>Are you ready to expand your social circle?<br>Register for Lotusphere 2012 today: <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/conference/index.html">http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/conference/index.html</a><br>I look forward to seeing you in Orlando! <p>Did we already start collecting session abstracts?&nbsp; Where have I been?!? <p>Well, kids… this is definitely a very short summary of this busy week in the Lotus camp.&nbsp; Good luck, and happy socializing.&nbsp; </p> <p><img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" alt="Smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-c4v8fUK0ab8/Toy0ynbmNSI/AAAAAAAAAT0/AXYn4unv8WM/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800"></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-5365712657967407060?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-10-05T15:49:31.395-04:002http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/10/announcements.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/ks8m8-_JVp4/beacon-awards-nomination-time.htmlibmbusiness_partnernoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:37:05 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-1774144706124280289<p>Fellow BPs… if you have not heard yet, the time to act is now!</p> <p>Dear IBM Business Partner,<br><br>The IBM Beacon Awards were established more than a dozen years ago to recognize IBM's Business Partners globally for their excellence and innovative solutions based on IBM technology. More than 25 awards will recognize Business Partner achievement across a wide-range of solution areas, including Smarter Computing, Smarter Planet Solutions, Smarter Industries and Technical Excellence. <br><br>Beacon Award winners and finalists are an elite group of IBM Business Partners who have delivered unique and innovative solutions that raise the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction. Winning a Beacon Award puts your firm in the spotlight for industry recognition and on a path to greater opportunity through increased visibility and promotional opportunities. <br><br>Past winners have said the awards help create competitive advantage, drive more business and raise their profile in the industry. The IBM Beacon Award is your opportunity to shine the spotlight on your business as a true innovator. I encourage you to nominate your solution(s) for this prestigious award. Nominations must be submitted by November 1, 2011, at 11:59 p.m., US Eastern Daylight Time (New York).<br>The IBM Beacon Awards are synonymous with excellence and innovation. I hope you'll consider nominating one or more of your most innovative solutions of 2011. Visit PartnerWorld for Beacon Award details and to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/partnertools/p.wss?cmd=ctt&amp;country=US&amp;a=EC4PGTYWH9">nominate your solutions</a>. <br><br>Regards,<br><br>Wilfredo Sotolongo<br>Vice President<br>IBM Business Partners and Mid-Market Sales<br>IBM North America</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-1774144706124280289?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-09-22T13:37:05.890-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/09/beacon-awards-nomination-time.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/fRtgs0Ag6e8/lotuslive-vs-office365-test-3-im.htmllyncLotusLiveoffice_365sametimenoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:06:01 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-62908699284648893<p>Both LotusLive and Office365 offer instant messaging capabilities.&nbsp; They are also both built on their respective vendor’s enterprise IM platform, Lync 2010 in the case of Office 365 and Sametime 8.5.x in the case of LotusLive.&nbsp; Both vendors make their clients available for download as well.&nbsp; The installation of Lync was very straight forward.&nbsp; Simply click through the series of Next through Finish until you are done.&nbsp; To find the installer, it is a link right off of your portal landing page.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rJM0i7EDiyw/ThTb-GNMl2I/AAAAAAAAARg/cDyyRyvTpWs/s1600-h/image4.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8WkDi7ts9HY/ThTb_Ug3IrI/AAAAAAAAARk/YDYlsAGf69c/image_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" width="503" height="401"></a></p> <p>Click through to select your language and chose either the 32bit or 64bit installer as appropriate for your system.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-71BUqsKU5yo/ThTcAV2t96I/AAAAAAAAARo/bd9HkEt9AYI/s1600-h/image8.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DnbgXdH6B4o/ThTcBMT_EkI/AAAAAAAAARs/IUyYU_SJDUM/image_thumb4%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="397"></a></p> <p>After it is installed and you launch it, you are presented with the following window:</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0iB3DDlJ1F4/ThTcBr-a9mI/AAAAAAAAARw/oFglzLxPvgE/s1600-h/image12.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lXg3WvIIeZA/ThTcCL_5FyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/-kwHQIw_Lzo/image_thumb6.png?imgmax=800" width="220" height="436"></a></p> <p>For LotusLive, they also have an installation link right from the landing page, however theirs is labeled Downloads and Setup.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-lYFYN1IIGJw/ThTcCvsMxOI/AAAAAAAAAR4/mfyVFtK3pf0/s1600-h/image16.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Z7fYG6ozFWg/ThTcDT3Rl5I/AAAAAAAAAR8/HMkxFNlaid0/image_thumb8.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="397"></a></p> <p>Click through, and you are taken to the Downloads page where the first link is for Sametime.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2XMByfjHc8s/ThTcEKIQhpI/AAAAAAAAASA/SeULXbF5_Hk/s1600-h/image21.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-s2J-7O0rPlQ/ThTcEsYjCLI/AAAAAAAAASE/5PH9L3FtTug/image_thumb11.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="407"></a></p> <p>Click the link to View Sametime Instant Messaging options.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BwejthheZaQ/ThTcFGmASYI/AAAAAAAAASI/PeYdMF3uBVY/s1600-h/image25.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DPMq3lG-N5Q/ThTcFzjKoFI/AAAAAAAAASM/0B8L7C1O1HU/image_thumb13.png?imgmax=800" width="509" height="440"></a></p> <p>Then under #2, you have the option to install Sametime for either Windows, Mac, or RPM-based Linux operating systems.&nbsp; *NOTE* The linux installer is therefore for distributions like Fedora or RedHat, and excludes Ubuntu unless you use something like Alien to repackage the installer as noted <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RPM/AlienHowto">here</a>.</p> <p>After you download and unpack the zip file, run the installer and follow the series of Next though Finish.&nbsp; You launch Sametime and now are presented with this window:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rTOKlOr-xSg/ThTcGzqvGKI/AAAAAAAAASQ/hibs-Fc9iQs/s1600-h/image29.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ZYYtXiPkwu4/ThTcHMKSarI/AAAAAAAAASU/QdTVX2F-RtI/image_thumb15.png?imgmax=800" width="188" height="460"></a></p> <p>This may be where the similarities end.</p> <p>Let’s first take a closer look at Sametime.&nbsp; The product ships with Outlook and Office integration features, but they are not installed or turned on by default.&nbsp; The process is documented fairly well in the wiki article <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/10.1_Integrating_Lotus_Sametime_with_Microsoft_Office">10.1 Integrating Lotus Sametime with Microsoft Office</a> and continued in <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/10.2_Integrating_Lotus_Sametime_with_Microsoft_Outlook">10.2 Integrating Lotus Sametime with Microsoft Outlook</a>.&nbsp; With these features enabled, you will be able to look up users to determine their presence, save chat transcripts to Outlook, and should be able to start a chat from Outlook.</p> <p>Working with Sametime is relatively intuitive if you have ever used other chat clients (like <a href="http://www.pidgin.im/">Pidgin</a>) as they have buttons to add new contacts, start a chat, and most features you look to initiate from your chat window.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jw2lXYRhEtU/ThTcHpNUVvI/AAAAAAAAASY/6c9f967E_e4/s1600-h/image5%25255B1%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2i-vJCV7PKk/ThTcIGpkd-I/AAAAAAAAASc/kAaHvwxOxPg/image_thumb2%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="192" height="461"></a></p> <p>Lync also integrates with Outlook.&nbsp; It provides you with a tighter integrated experience, as you would expect.&nbsp; Presence indicators show up next to users’ names in the Inbox </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-NY3xrkUO5rE/ThTcIqhp8wI/AAAAAAAAASg/zLTg3dWE8Wk/s1600-h/image9.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-aiCCifvlh2Q/ThTcJbw5R5I/AAAAAAAAASk/r01O3_x_O6I/image_thumb4.png?imgmax=800" width="414" height="294"></a></p> <p>Manipulating your buddy list is somewhat different between these two platforms.&nbsp; To manage your buddy list in Sametime you need to access the New Contact dialog by either selecting the buddy icon, and then select New Contact.. or simply right click in the group you want to add the user and select Add Contact…</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SzQm-E4YaT8/ThTcJ244k6I/AAAAAAAAASo/V5uAvXGb-qg/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Nus_nfFglbU/ThTcKgA_fwI/AAAAAAAAASs/ULArCPVciOs/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="398" height="357"></a></p> <p>You will then be presented with the dialog to search for contacts to add to your buddy list.&nbsp; *NOTE* Your contacts need to be active to be found when you search for them.</p> <p>In Lync, it was not as intuitive to me at first, but the search bar for finding contacts .&nbsp; You need to have a portion of the name which you want to add and start by searching for the name.&nbsp; You can not easily browse a list of all of the users.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JP3auU7EAcE/ThTcLSHjwAI/AAAAAAAAASw/sfbi0LT_Hlc/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-btstDMtpEPo/ThTcLthlGkI/AAAAAAAAAS0/wJUMlmpzIKk/image_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="314" height="288"></a></p> <p>Once you find the user( s ) you can use the “+” button to add the contact to your buddy list.</p> <p>Initiating a chat with a contact is the same in both clients, you can double click the contact you wish to start a conversation with.&nbsp; The chat windows both look similar as well.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hQSyfB88ITM/ThTcOjBnXzI/AAAAAAAAAS4/-sT60nnaQe0/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-UMkma0Oe484/ThTcQY_pLuI/AAAAAAAAAS8/vGhtexjluy4/image_thumb%25255B7%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="318" height="280"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-oa3AYvCR9kw/ThTcQmgZCoI/AAAAAAAAATA/bJIdfCKm-1A/s1600-h/image%25255B24%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-TzjVVmNo63A/ThTcRew2LTI/AAAAAAAAATE/HIu1s0jm8Js/image_thumb%25255B11%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="320" height="269"></a></p> <p>As you can see, the chat systems are very similar in function.&nbsp; They both are integrated into their respective mail clients very well and the web interfaces.&nbsp; The biggest gap I have seen is the Outlook integration with Sametime, but this is expected given the vendor difference.</p> <p>I personally like both of the interfaces.&nbsp; The Lync client does not have an intuitive way to shut down the client that I can find.&nbsp; It is not in the menus of the interface, and actually has to be done with the system tray icon.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4WOAVhrE-ek/ThTcRvI23nI/AAAAAAAAATI/E7CBQq5h4kk/s1600-h/image%25255B28%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OtcZEAgoam4/ThTcSBLmbTI/AAAAAAAAATM/ntnJYny40uU/image_thumb%25255B13%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="166" height="177"></a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-62908699284648893?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-07-06T18:06:01.565-04:004http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/07/lotuslive-vs-office365-test-3-im.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/ZIpHqdw1SH4/icann-opens-up-custom-tlds.htmltech_newsDNSinternetnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:38:52 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-369130295404280257<p><a title="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/ICANN-Approves-Custom-Generic-Top-Level-Domains-775234/" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/ICANN-Approves-Custom-Generic-Top-Level-Domains-775234/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/ICANN-Approves-Custom-Generic-Top-Level-Domains-775234/</a></p> <p>I wonder if this will be the next IPv6, or if companies will seriously invest in their own custom top level domain.&nbsp; I would expect the larger guys like IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc. to jump on this.&nbsp; Anyone with a product that is delivered via a browser definitely seem to me to be likely candidates for early adoption.&nbsp; But what about the smaller guys?&nbsp; I am not so sure we will see the like of .salesforce and definitely doubt we will see .bobshardware.&nbsp; (Maybe .lowes or .hd/.homedepot?)</p> <p>It was inevitable that we would exhaust all reasonable TLD names before we exhausted the demand for them.&nbsp; Given that ICANN has a directive to try and prevent similar sounding domains from being registered, I do not that I think they have been overly successful historically, but have definitely improved.&nbsp; For example, it was common knowledge that whitehouse.com had nothing to do with the US capitol, but it has since been snatched away from the porn industry and is now a pointer to house.com.&nbsp; Google has registered gogle.com and googl.com as pointers to them selves, but someone else owns gogle.com (which triggered my antivirus program the second the page loaded).</p> <p>ICANN stated that they are setting the initial price high enough to prevent squatters from trying to snatch up desirable domains with unscrupulous intentions, and intend to put a screening process in place that will evaluate all applications for TLDs.&nbsp; This should help prevent .facebook from becoming a bargaining chip in the war for social supremacy, but I don’t think it will help the likes of mySpace become any less tawdry in the public eye.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-369130295404280257?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-21T09:38:52.854-04:001http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/icann-opens-up-custom-tlds.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/GvoHHot5QDE/lotuslive-vs-office-365-trial-2-email.htmlLotusLiveibmoffice_365Microsoftnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:58:13 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-1847151251489738820<p>Now that I have my five test users in both Office 365 and LotusLive, the first thing I would expect an organization to want to do is start communicating.&nbsp; With the exception of maybe the most advanced social businesses, the dominant mode of business communication today is still email.</p> <p>Both offerings provide you with a link to access your web based email in just one click from the landing page after signing in.&nbsp; Their interfaces are similar enough in that you have an Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items, Trash, and Spam/Junk on the left side in the typical location.&nbsp; The main pane opens to your Inbox in a list format.</p> <p>Office 365 displays a preview of the selected message, in just the same way that Outlook does.&nbsp; LotusLive does not have a preview from the list view by default.</p> <p>LotusLive provides tab style links at the top of the user interface to quickly access your individual Contacts, Calendar, and Preferences.&nbsp; There does not appear to be any facility for ToDo’s within your Mail.&nbsp; (This functionality can be performed elsewhere in LotusLive.)</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ff_vMzQJz88/Tfu9_a4PedI/AAAAAAAAAPM/qkxnx0zf6rU/s1600-h/image3.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wgJ2NfvzOKA/Tfu-AOQIiZI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/rTI4JwsPx1M/image_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="279"></a></p> <p>Office 365 also provides quick access to your Calendar and Contacts, but in line with your other left-hand navigation.&nbsp; In addition to the common features, Office 365 presents the users with Tasks (or ToDo’s) right in the mail interface, just like their rich client. (Outlook)</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5adurwbrQ0U/Tfu-AS0dfFI/AAAAAAAAAPU/XzXvh_tC-6g/s1600-h/image8.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-I99Jz_L4YUg/Tfu-BYT6MnI/AAAAAAAAAPY/55l3LTwm230/image_thumb4.png?imgmax=800" width="503" height="440"></a></p> <p>Web-based email has become more feature rich, both in on-premise products and in freely available products.&nbsp; We expect common features like flag for follow-up, spell checking, folder management, search capabilities, attachment handling, and others I am sure to be missing.&nbsp; This list of features is present in both solutions and intuitive enough to use, in my opinion.</p> <p>That said, web based email is not realistic for laptop users who need access to email while off-line or disconnected.&nbsp; Both LotusLive and Office 365 state they support Outlook as a rich client, so I will try to configure Outlook 2010 to access both and contrast the experience.</p> <p>Here is the video of setting up Outlook for Office 365.&nbsp; </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:a7c8c8ad-8347-41a9-9370-1d109862d773" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="58f227f7-5a10-47fc-8108-fd4c48d8246d"> <div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmiiHBOdRtA&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" alt="" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-EBGvcEpa2O8/Tfu-Bt0ex_I/AAAAAAAAAPc/TbzcN_Mxa3s/video6afd44c36034%25255B17%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('58f227f7-5a10-47fc-8108-fd4c48d8246d'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &quot;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width=\&quot;489\&quot; height=\&quot;275\&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=\&quot;movie\&quot; value=\&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/bmiiHBOdRtA?hl=en&amp;hd=1\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/bmiiHBOdRtA?hl=en&amp;hd=1\&quot; type=\&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&quot; width=\&quot;489\&quot; height=\&quot;275\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/embed&gt;&lt;\/object&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;;" galleryimg="no"></a></div></div></div> <p>Before I started configuring Outlook for LotusLive, I found the help documentation to explain how to do it <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bhwiki.nsf/dx/Outlook_2010">here</a>.&nbsp; The instructions indicated you needed to supply your IMAP/SMTP server information in the format of <em>yoursiteID-smtp.mail.lotuslive.com</em>.&nbsp; This was not very intuitive to me, but fortunately, IBM supplies this information in the Administration section of LotusLive.&nbsp; To locate your server information, log into LotusLive and enter the Administration area.&nbsp; Click on iNotes on the left hand side, and locate your server information at the bottom of the page.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-W0DmPYSld5k/Tfu-Bw_N9CI/AAAAAAAAAPg/KZTC8X1eKlQ/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2cv9RhOMA_4/Tfu-CSEhsLI/AAAAAAAAAPk/TiK1R1z0opw/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="332"></a></p> <p>Armed with the nitty-gritty, it was time to get to work.&nbsp; Here is the video of me configuring Outlook for LotusLive.</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:054b44ad-d267-4353-aeff-5850891d7b02" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="fa394038-4dc0-4022-8405-d4e072e412b8"> <div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrQZTPlKVs&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" alt="" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EWr2uVEbsQ0/Tfu-Cr69ncI/AAAAAAAAAPo/H2OoEkdIcNc/videoc23ccae1c350%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('fa394038-4dc0-4022-8405-d4e072e412b8'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &quot;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width=\&quot;501\&quot; height=\&quot;281\&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=\&quot;movie\&quot; value=\&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/UmrQZTPlKVs?hl=en&amp;hd=1\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/UmrQZTPlKVs?hl=en&amp;hd=1\&quot; type=\&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&quot; width=\&quot;501\&quot; height=\&quot;281\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/embed&gt;&lt;\/object&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;;" galleryimg="no"></a></div></div></div> <p>Both solutions support Outlook 2010 as advertised.</p> <p>Office365 provides your organization with GAL features like an on-premise deployment of Exchange would, where LotusLive does not.&nbsp; You still have access to personal contacts, and calendaring with both services.&nbsp; I would imagine the delegation of email and calendaring to function when using Office365, but it does not work when using LotusLive as your back-end.&nbsp; This is because LotusLive simply provides IMAP (inbound) and SMTP (outbound) basic services for the Outlook client, while Office365 is powered by Exchange.</p> <p>For basic email functionality, taking your own email off-line, and the ability to use Outlook (which may already be on your system), either service is sufficient.&nbsp; If you are looking for a similar experience to running Exchange within your organization, but do not have the facilities or skills to do so on your own, Office365 gives you a very viable alternative.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-1847151251489738820?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-17T16:58:13.680-04:007http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/lotuslive-vs-office-365-trial-2-email.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/Fq94jSl-eDA/lotuslive-vs-office-365-trial.htmlcloudLotusLiveibmoffice_365Microsoftnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:04:18 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-5529930324392057106<p>In the posts I published today ( <a href="http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/office-365-user-registration.html" target="_blank">Office 365</a> | <a href="http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/lotuslive-user-registration.html" target="_blank">LotusLive</a> ), I set out to register for both LotusLive and Office 365 for a small group of 5 users to pilot the features of these competitive products.&nbsp; Initial reactions were:</p> <p>Office 365</p> <ul> <li>Simple and intuitive interface.</li> <li>Straight forward set of features, Document Sharing, Email, Calendar, Instant Messaging, and Online Meetings.</li></ul> <p>LotusLive</p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive set of features.</li> <li>Excellent list of native and third-party tools available for the trial.</li></ul> <p>The immediate contrasts that I recognized were:</p> <ol> <li>Office 365 only gives you the basic services, while LotusLive immediately makes a LARGE number of applications available to you during the demo.&nbsp; LotusLive gives you Activities, Forms, and Charts which seem extremely useful in a business deployment.</li> <li>LotusLive only allows you to use their sub-domain while Office 365 gives you the ability to make a custom sub-domain to personalize your experience in a unique way.</li> <li>LotusLive has a more prominent link to their help to get you started.</li> <li>Office 365 appears to make ActiveSync available to trial members, while it seems mobile email access would be achieved through IMAP or POP3 for LotusLive’s trial.</li> <li>Branding of the LotusLive interface is well documented in the product help.</li> <li>Office 365 immediately presents you with links to help configure your native PC applications (Outlook, Office, etc.) to work with their service.&nbsp; LotusLive has documentation on configuring local applications to interact with their service, but it requires more steps and user intervention.</li> <li>LotusLive has content tagging built intuitively into their offering.&nbsp; Office 365 does not have as comprehensive of a content tagging system.</li> <li>As one would expect, the social aspect of LotusLive (Connections) is much more prominent, while Office 365 is very centered around document based collaboration and simplicity of access to common office computing facilities like email and calendaring.</li></ol> <p>In all, it is obvious to me that these are competitive products.&nbsp; The experience similarities of the common features like email, calendaring, etc. is what you would expect of rival products from IBM and Microsoft.&nbsp; The largest difference to me is that IBM’s solution gives organizations more tools or applications.&nbsp; Integrating with third party CRM solutions, document signing/validation, and so many other apps gives an organization a full spectrum solution in which to run their business.&nbsp; Office is really focused on bringing Office content to users everywhere and anywhere a browser or smart phone can reach.</p> <p>The documentation, videos, guides, wikis available and easily accessible for LotusLive are as comprehensive as their offering, but you could argue that it needs to be.&nbsp; Without some guidance, I can see how someone looking for just the office basics could be lost.&nbsp; LotusLive does give an administrator the ability to shut off or unsubscribe from applications they do not intend to use which will certainly clean things up for the users, but out-of-the-box… everything is turned on.&nbsp; Office 365 feels lacking to me in the documentation department, but arguably, its simplicity and smaller set of features enables users to more easily just stumble through the service with little need for hand-holding.</p> <p>I like both offerings.&nbsp; Office 365 does make it a bit easier to get a whole group up and running as it provides an interface for importing a list of users in a few simple steps as I discovered, and LotusLive does not allow for multi-user registration without seeking the intervention of an IBM representative.</p> <p>When evaluating these two products, it seems to be a good idea to seek some references.&nbsp; Ask for opinions of others who have already adopted each solution and see what features they like/use the most.&nbsp; What do they not like.&nbsp; These opinions, when filtered through what your organization finds to be important, canl make for an easier time navigating these two different approaches to cloud delivered enterprise tools.</p> <p>Other considerations I see include:</p> <ul> <li>Migration Process</li> <li>Costs (which I understand to be comparable)</li> <li>Accessibility for Users</li> <li>Existing IT Assets to Integrate with</li></ul> <p>I personally like both offerings, each for their own strengths.&nbsp; I hope this insight helps.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-5529930324392057106?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-16T16:04:18.916-04:002http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/lotuslive-vs-office-365-trial.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/Og_lAlfGsXk/lotuslive-user-registration.htmlcloudLotusLiveibmlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:37:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-2706063917921694137<p>I signed up for a 60 day trial of LotusLive to test drive the features and user experience.&nbsp; The registration process was simple enough to navigate.&nbsp; The only hiccup I experienced was upon completion of my registration, there was no intuitive way to progress.&nbsp; The next step was actually to wait for an email to complete my registration and setup my password.&nbsp; This was not clearly defined as the path and I felt abandoned on the completion page.</p> <p>Once I confirmed my registration, I was presented with My Dashboard.&nbsp; First impression is that the LotusLive suite of tools available to me is very comprehensive.&nbsp; It is way more than just email, chat, meetings, and file sharing.&nbsp; We will spend some time on these features in another post.&nbsp; The first step, just like I decided was the initial step for Office 365, is to register my users.</p> <p>From My Dashboard, I selected the Administration link at the top of the page.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J50ktPwrbfI/TfpNLVB5DlI/AAAAAAAAAOM/CDlqq1jy-sU/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-zITSJRmxgQo/TfpNMBmV3pI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/5l-jqHUCDSw/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="393"></a></p> <p>I then selected User Accounts from the left side of the Administration page.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/--fEf1C1Zagk/TfpNMVe3AZI/AAAAAAAAAOU/OySF9FqsMPQ/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xwbP_-RtQQ4/TfpNM42898I/AAAAAAAAAOY/FNNi03MqDus/image_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="401"></a></p> <p>From here, I clicked on Add User Account.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-c1hKojqqlpk/TfpNNrzAOfI/AAAAAAAAAOc/U0le7LKU2AM/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-uGCZufYbQQE/TfpNOHyEllI/AAAAAAAAAOg/QXw27bV10AU/image_thumb%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="393"></a></p> <p>The form that was presented asked me for the necessary information to setup the user and map this ID to my available licenses and applications.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-K3zATK4S3EA/TfpNOWCo9WI/AAAAAAAAAOk/22UpcNdMtfY/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mkassFEGimc/TfpNO1S4CwI/AAAAAAAAAOo/8llNHiSDbms/image_thumb%25255B8%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="511" height="397"></a></p> <p>You must reach the bottom of the form to find the field to setup the user’s email address in LotusLive.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vav-gF1wO7c/TfpNPqieW4I/AAAAAAAAAOs/ZbwxAf2o40g/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3Lea89xQXS4/TfpNPwp-zMI/AAAAAAAAAOw/Sdu1UncEBS8/image_thumb%25255B10%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="507" height="394"></a></p> <p>The completion indication takes you back to the User Accounts summary and informs you of the ID creation status and the number of available IDs you have left to license.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CYtGDz6JUTo/TfpNQR4JDHI/AAAAAAAAAO0/28LHfQ69KoI/s1600-h/image%25255B24%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8AspS_tb5Bo/TfpNQ5M3n7I/AAAAAAAAAO4/xs3Me5iDyKY/image_thumb%25255B12%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="510" height="396"></a></p> <p>I then proceeded to locate the facility to allow me to import a list of users for my trial.&nbsp; I did not find anything intuitively, so I clicked on the Administration help guide.&nbsp; The User Registration help read:</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-P-RkAzzdq_M/TfpNSDI3K3I/AAAAAAAAAO8/_oBrQCvktpg/s1600-h/image%25255B28%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ijt7VBjCgnE/TfpNSwAGPZI/AAAAAAAAAPA/3w-ZPHQW1oU/image_thumb%25255B14%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="509" height="393"></a></p> <p>So there you have it.&nbsp; As a trial, you can only register users one at a time.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-2706063917921694137?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-16T14:37:00.186-04:003http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/lotuslive-user-registration.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/IkHKkxndAME/office-365-user-registration.htmlcloudoffice_365Microsoftnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:40:11 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-3210865476288026697<p>After filling out the necessary information to start my Office 365 Beta, the first thing I wanted to do is add my users to my subscription.&nbsp; You can either enter users one at a time, or generate a CSV file to perform a bulk upload.&nbsp; I walked through the process to manually setup a single user, and it is extremely straight forward.&nbsp; The process to add bulk users was not difficult, but seemed worthwhile to document.</p> <p>The first step would be to log into an administrative account.&nbsp; This is typically the first account setup when the organization was setup.&nbsp; I pointed my browser to <a href="https://portal.microsoftonline.com">https://portal.microsoftonline.com</a> and logged in with my credentials.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-oHzFE2iRQpk/TfpFdDZ3HBI/AAAAAAAAAM0/qMcjxdeZ3_I/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wP6YQffjuoY/TfpFd07PdzI/AAAAAAAAAM4/Zli68hTsI4c/image_thumb%25255B8%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="404"></a></p> <p>There is a link on the overview page to Add Users, but that takes you to the form to add an individual user.&nbsp; Click on Users in the navigation pane on the left.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mtq3u1g5ESc/TfpOBUOYU5I/AAAAAAAAAPE/I_BAcAlOOqM/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_2GDDBlJOzM/TfpOCTH9BUI/AAAAAAAAAPI/XNlwmUpz8pw/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="404"></a></p> <p>From the New menu, select Bulk add users then select the link in the middle of the page to download the CSV template.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-K7NQ-ydrXBw/TfpFfUSj04I/AAAAAAAAANE/6h3hBu06IeE/s1600-h/image%25255B30%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4pNoFVra75Q/TfpFfu52SWI/AAAAAAAAANI/JDCuZGSsIng/image_thumb%25255B14%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="507" height="404"></a></p> <p>Typical download dialog will appear based on the browser you are using.&nbsp; I am using IE8 for this exercise.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-a4zau1smjcg/TfpFgK9XKTI/AAAAAAAAANM/MJ3dTqGYWyw/s1600-h/image%25255B33%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4k4k4bDIPyI/TfpFgU9zRiI/AAAAAAAAANQ/-RD-u2IXEME/image_thumb%25255B15%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="244" height="175"></a></p> <p>Using Excel, I populated the columns with the information I had available for each user.&nbsp; The only two required fields are <strong>User Name</strong> and <strong>Display Name</strong> when importing users with this method.&nbsp; The User Name field should be the Office 365 email address you intend to assign to the user, and the full name can be simply First Last.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J0lEDS9LS3E/TfpFhEzydZI/AAAAAAAAANU/tolkETD_g0I/s1600-h/image%25255B37%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-j4WaZtzpUgE/TfpFhnYLmNI/AAAAAAAAANY/BdGTh1mWM8o/image_thumb%25255B17%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="507" height="151"></a></p> <p>Once I completed filling out the CSV with the information necessary, I saved the modified CSV (using save as… maintaining the csv format) under a different name.&nbsp; I then went back to my portal page to upload the completed file.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6wmsg3uYzEM/TfpFh84e96I/AAAAAAAAANc/B9h0msvWN44/s1600-h/image%25255B42%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wPqfi6TY9l8/TfpFo4WUUfI/AAAAAAAAANg/TeRWqzDtXOY/image_thumb%25255B20%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="505" height="411"></a></p> <p>I used the Browse button to find the CSV and upload it to the site.&nbsp; Office 365 validates the CSV before taking action with it.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-kLYgBgMKbfk/TfpFpzkbOyI/AAAAAAAAANk/hJHL5cokZt4/s1600-h/image%25255B49%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iH5WajMQbHY/TfpFqLtZdvI/AAAAAAAAANo/XqzU3hAyASg/image_thumb%25255B23%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="405"></a></p> <p>You will then have to select the users’ disposition as to are they allowed to sign in, and then specify their location.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CyRprIBq8LE/TfpFqn_baxI/AAAAAAAAANs/GvThZeOMLRA/s1600-h/image%25255B54%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1gf2hh6VeZs/TfpFrC254RI/AAAAAAAAANw/y1Ulp3GS6LU/image_thumb%25255B26%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="505" height="411"></a></p> <p>Next you will need to assign your available licenses for the application that are part of your organization.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_PxxVgOtDPs/TfpFrq3xVOI/AAAAAAAAAN0/__9zxAwPvR8/s1600-h/image%25255B58%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dQZ1Cn39q5s/TfpFsAxljKI/AAAAAAAAAN4/zxNtVYZhL54/image_thumb%25255B28%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="503" height="401"></a></p> <p>The results of the operation will be emailed to you.&nbsp; Validate your email address and click Create to complete the operation.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-XLVq18ktvLQ/TfpFsYKStFI/AAAAAAAAAN8/75jFAGp2PgA/s1600-h/image%25255B62%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lYBItYPhBGg/TfpFs0qvUbI/AAAAAAAAAOA/TDy1q-HvyDQ/image_thumb%25255B30%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="404"></a></p> <p>The results page will display the users email addresses and their temporary passwords.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7c5QvPXvMr4/TfpFtVpI2cI/AAAAAAAAAOE/mLsb2YiRxFY/s1600-h/image%25255B66%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LXmMMPS3EfY/TfpFt6ijZ2I/AAAAAAAAAOI/PrrwaZ4bM34/image_thumb%25255B32%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="508" height="405"></a></p> <p>I have found this process to be rather intuitive and simple to navigate.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-3210865476288026697?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-16T14:40:11.173-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/office-365-user-registration.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/jOETFatZPNA/ibm-100.htmlibmnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:04:52 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-5844590798292031885<p>Interesting article.&nbsp; Give it a read:</p> <p><a title="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0627/focus-sam-palmisano-watson-christensen-ibm-at-100.html" href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0627/focus-sam-palmisano-watson-christensen-ibm-at-100.html">http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0627/focus-sam-palmisano-watson-christensen-ibm-at-100.html</a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-5844590798292031885?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-10T10:04:52.249-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/ibm-100.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/HpCoaFVkGME/data-in-mobile-world.htmlmobilepolicynoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:13:34 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-5779171064278686973<p>I have been part of multiple discussions with customers lately that center around mobile computing.&nbsp; The dramatic enhancement to features and functionality we are seeing in the tablet devices, relatively low cost of smart-phones, increases in mobile network speeds and other factors are all contributing to this renewed interest many are expressing in mobility.&nbsp; The dominant communications method among mobile users is still email, but we are also seeing social capability and functions in every major vendor’s smart phone and tablet.</p> <p>Freeing the workforce from the physical constraints of an office environment has many benefits.&nbsp; I am sure we can find case studies on employee satisfaction, productivity, etc that all speak favorably about mobile computing and enabling multiple means of access to corporate data and services.&nbsp; This freedom, however, cannot sacrifice the security you have developed around your sensitive data.</p> <p>Increasing demands and restrictions on data security is an ever present concern among security officers in the industry.&nbsp; They always need to know who is seeing what information, and should they be seeing it.&nbsp; Mobile devices make it easier for data to be stolen by simply lifting the device or eavesdropping on someone’s screen.&nbsp; I can’t tell you how many times I have noticed someone in an airport concerning them selves with the goings on of someone else’s laptop close by.</p> <p>So how do we address this concern?</p> <p>The answer is not to ignore mobility.&nbsp; If you try that approach, your users will find ways to work around your security measures and gain whatever level of mobility they can.&nbsp; This could be far greater of a risk as you will have no governance over the devices or data, nor will your users be educated about handling the responsibility you are now entrusting them with.</p> <p>The balance of accessibility and security is an age old issue facing IT professionals.&nbsp; The approach needs to be a strategic and logical one.&nbsp; I would suggest generating a data security matrix, outlining the disposition of each type of data your organization deals with.&nbsp; You may already have such a document, but unless it includes a few data points specifically related to mobile access, I would consider it incomplete.</p> <p>I would setup the matrix to include the following, at least, as an example:</p> <ul> <li>Data Owner (Who is responsible for the content and access to it?)</li> <li>Data Maintainers (Contributors to the content that may not be the owner.)</li> <li>Proprietary Yes / No?</li> <li>Confidentiality</li> <ul> <li>Scope of Confidentiality (Individual, Role-Based, Groups, Organization Wide?)</li></ul> <li>Regulated Data (What regulations and requirements are put on the data?)</li> <ul> <li>Penalty of Infraction</li></ul> <li>Storage Requirements</li> <ul> <li>Encryption / Encoding</li></ul> <li>Data Expiration / Maintenance Cycle</li> <li>Elimination Procedures</li> <li>Recovery Procedures</li> <li>Scope of Access (On site, Remote, etc.)</li></ul> <p>As this data matrix is developed, I aim to address as many use cases as possible.&nbsp; I think about the users and their roles, where they work, the devices they use, and the type of interaction they have with the data.&nbsp; Paying particular attention to the sensitive and regulated data.&nbsp; As the use cases become more defined and the sensitivity of the data is established, appropriate procedures for handling the data becomes evident.</p> <p>I find this logical approach to allowing alternate means of access to enterprise data a very intelligent use of time and resources.&nbsp; Remaining ahead of user demands in this area often discourages users from finding means of working around the restrictions in place and posing a greater threat than necessary to your organization.</p> <p>As with almost any security initiative, as most will agree, there is no real substitute for end user training and education.&nbsp; Empowering your mobile users with the knowledge and tools necessary to keep them selves and your data safe as they roam about the world is another critical component to a comprehensive approach to this demand on your IT organization.</p> <p>I hope this has given my readers a few useful pointers, or at least opened up the discussion a bit more to help keep everyone safe.&nbsp; As a leading airline says, “You are free to roam about the country!”</p> <p>- Happy and Safe Travels!</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-5779171064278686973?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-06-01T13:13:34.653-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/06/data-in-mobile-world.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/veX9T_sVRIA/june-is-learn-xpages-month.htmllotus_dominolotus_notesibmlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Tue, 24 May 2011 07:14:22 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-5985675617438131724<p><a title="http://xpages.info/Internal/home.nsf/dx/Learn-XPages-Month" href="http://xpages.info/Internal/home.nsf/dx/Learn-XPages-Month">http://xpages.info/Internal/home.nsf/dx/Learn-XPages-Month</a></p> <p>If you have not heard, pass the word!</p> <p>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li><strong>OpenNTF.org XPages Contest</strong>, win an iPad:<br> <a title="http://contest.openntf.org/" href="http://contest.openntf.org/">http://contest.openntf.org/</a></li> <li><b>Free XPages Workshop, sponsored by TLCC on June 2nd and 3rd</b> - Join TLCC's instructors in this free two hour webinar designed for Domino Developers with no (or very little ) XPages experience. This webinar will have hands-on activites to get you started with XPages! There are two identical sessions planned for June 2nd at 3:00 PM (EDT) or June 3rd at 8:00 AM (EDT). <br><a href="http://www.tlcc.com/admin/tlccsite.nsf/pages/xpages-webinar">Click here to get more information on the Free XPages Workshop</a></li> <li><b>XPages Guru Webinar on June 1st</b> - This webinar is a great way to learn what XPages can do for you. Six XPages experts will discuss what XPages are, case studies, the benefits of XPages, migration to XPages, the roadmap to getting to XPages, and resources for XPages developers. The date is June 1st at 11:00 AM Eastern time.<br><a href="http://collaborationgirl.com/2011/05/13/xpages-guru-webinar-date-announced-for-jun-1-2011/">Click here to sign up for this webinar</a></li></ul> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-5985675617438131724?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-05-24T10:14:22.894-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/05/june-is-learn-xpages-month.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/mZq-9KFsBmY/ie9-support.htmllotus_dominoibmlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Thu, 05 May 2011 11:59:15 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-8059930021990774336<p>So it would seem support for Firefox was already addressed by Lotus iNotes, and they are projecting IE9 support in the forthcoming release Domino 8.5.3.&nbsp; The current target for the release is Q3 2011.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-8059930021990774336?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-05-05T14:59:15.229-04:000http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/05/ie9-support.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/F-FIeH9z8Ho/inspirational-webadmin.htmllotus_dominoibmlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Mon, 02 May 2011 06:37:26 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-2425970541873986417<p>I don’t often have a need to use the Domino WebAdmin interface, but Friday I found a need to do so.&nbsp; I logged in and was greeted with the following:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_VS0UKwRnPHo/Tb6zlY7TLVI/AAAAAAAAAMs/6IiK2hIlr0Y/s1600-h/image8.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_VS0UKwRnPHo/Tb6zlp-k-MI/AAAAAAAAAMw/O3ur3T5G4TU/image_thumb4.png?imgmax=800" width="327" height="91"></a></p> <p>I had no idea IBM was so flattering… it made me chuckle, so I had to share.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-2425970541873986417?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-05-02T09:37:26.957-04:001http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/05/inspirational-webadmin.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/DUZTd5D_zR8/tungleme-joins-rim.htmlsocial_computingnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:55:27 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-4345506531280395559<p>Hit my inbox today… <p>Wow.&nbsp; What a ride it has been!&nbsp; And it’s about to get wilder. <p>Today, we’re excited to announce that Tungle has been acquired by RIM. <p>What does this mean for you?&nbsp; It means that Tungle is about to get even better.&nbsp;&nbsp; <p><a href="http://link.tungle.com/c/443/742bc421aeef79e167a78db26a5c422c33c6d4914bcda32c9012a002ca135532">Learn more about this announcement and the future of Tungle.me &gt;</a> <p>We couldn’t have done this without you, our customers.&nbsp; Your support, encouragement and feedback have helped us get to where we are today.&nbsp; <p>And we intend to keep you at the forefront of our plans as we move into this new phase.&nbsp; We’ll now be even more focused on integrating Tungle into your everyday lives. <p>Thank you for being with us throughout this journey, and hold onto your hats for what’s to come! <p>Sincerely, <p>The Tungle.me (now RIM) team&nbsp; <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-4345506531280395559?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-04-27T14:55:27.513-04:001http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/04/tungleme-joins-rim.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Socialaboration/~3/Z-bsdApL-Ks/what-is-traveler.htmllotus_travelerlotusnoreply@blogger.com (D.Greenstein)Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:50:03 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770229321875844491.post-6968710148662785007<p>It may seem a bit late in the game to publish content like this, but lately I have been asked this question by more that one customer.&nbsp; What is Traveler exactly?&nbsp; Now granted, they are most often looking to replace a BES and the associated costs, but the explanation needs to be made just the same.&nbsp; In the event anyone else also happens to find them selves answering this question frequently, I shared a small and simple slide deck for easy copy-paste operations to expedite the inclusion of this information in any deck.&nbsp; The content came from the Traveler web site information, and I just formatted and doctored it up to be nice on a slide.</p> <p><a title="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3mwsYQdo7tTZTU1NDVlMzQtYmFmNy00NzZiLWE5ODMtNTYzNzA1NjY3NmJk&amp;hl=en" href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3mwsYQdo7tTZTU1NDVlMzQtYmFmNy00NzZiLWE5ODMtNTYzNzA1NjY3NmJk&amp;hl=en">https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3mwsYQdo7tTZTU1NDVlMzQtYmFmNy00NzZiLWE5ODMtNTYzNzA1NjY3NmJk&amp;hl=en</a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770229321875844491-6968710148662785007?l=socialaboration.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2011-04-26T22:50:03.379-04:001http://socialaboration.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-traveler.html