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 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:25:27 -0500 http://feeds.feedburner.com/Idonotes?format=skinLotus,Notes,Domino,Websphere,Sametime,Quickplace,Workplace,Portal,Hannover,WilikiTechnology/Software How-ToTechnology/GadgetsIdoNotes@netscape.netChris Miller - IdoNotesChris Miller - IdoNotesnoLotus,Notes,Domino,Websphere,Sametime,Quickplace,Workplace,Portal,Hannover,WilikiA guaranteed monthly, with podcastlet updates, information sweep covering the LotusUserGroup.org Sys Admin Tips newsletter plus whatever else comes to mind of importanceA guaranteed monthly, with podcastlet updates, information sweep covering the LotusUserGroup.org Sys Admin Tips newsletter plus whatever else comes to mind of importanceIdonoteshttp://feedburner.google.com Google sent me a letter - migrate from Lotus Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:25:27 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/uRVI5ipzE2o/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm Domino 8 IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm
Image:Google sent me a letter - migrate from Lotus

The inside was even more interesting.  The first thing you get when you open it is a flap that reads:
Replicating yet again made me go to Google


From there the inside goes into cost figures, administration and how intuitive it is.
For $50 a year, each user gets 25GB inboxes, built-in disaster recovery, and integrated anti-spam/anti-virus protection.  Google Apps Premier Edition is an email, calendaring, IM, online document sharing, and Web publishing suite..
]]> http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/11132009112526AMCMINFG.htm The #Poken splash at #TriStateLUG (and coupon) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:07:43 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/glN_BL5fDQI/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm Conferences IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm
  • Those that gave me a "high four" (term for sharing info across devices) I am instantly connected to, no business cards laying around
  • I was able to tag you with the conference and any other pertinent information
  • I am able to see your network updates as they happen now
  • I can download your vcard and place it into systems like Gist for full management and interaction (I hope they integrate something like this later)
  • I get your picture along with your card, strengthening my recognition of you again later
  • No more freakin paper business cards laying around in stacks with no good way to quickly input

    • After using the device (and E via web at another) I am finding that I am happier and making more meaningful connections since I get all of your social context.  Most people carry a business card for where they work, not a personal card showing their blog and other information that I can better associate with.  For example Jim, who I had known by name and some of previous work,  shared his info and now I see his Twitter stream, LinkedIn, mobile #, location, tags, instant messaging accounts and more.  I was not connected to him before and got this instantly instead of poking around the social networks.

    This is the type of connectivity we need for Lotusphere and more to better connect.  So since we can guess Lotus is not tossing one of these in every bag (let me know if they want to and I know the right people), I am giving you a discount code and link to get your hands on one or many.  Imagine handing some of these out pre-populated with your company information?  Yeah, catch up, that is what I did to those at TriState LUG

    You can visit the whole "Zoo" right here.  There is also the possibility to brand and find more customized ones I found out.  Jim brought along a USB one that was sleek and had a simple logo.

    So use the coupon code for another 10% off right here  -------> PWUODPALWTJCMTCPOO4O

    Image:The #Poken splash at #TriStateLUG (and coupon)  
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/the-poken-splash-at-tristatelug.htm     Bluto - Lotus Connections and Twitter in one client Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:48 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/LnuqNc_CqTs/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm Lotus Connections IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm Twitter itself and the new capabilities in Lotus Connections, you needed a consolidated client.  A while ago, Bluto was pointed out on the web by Luis and I never took the time to play with it.  By all means it is a fair Adobe Air application for doing the basics in Twitter and seeing the stream for Connections.  It in no way competes with a client for power users of Twitter, like Mixero, but for a normal user that also has Lotus Connections, this might be for you.  A great way to test this is with your Twitter account and the public Lotus Greenhouse.

    Bluto has a few capabilities and can be downloaded here:
    • customizable pop-ups
    • cross posting to both services, or one at a time
    • retweet and reply in both services
    • Follow and Unfollow Twitter usersFriend and Unfriend Connections users

    Image:Bluto - Lotus Connections and Twitter in one client

    Things like lists, groups and more don't exist, but this was not meant to be that type of client.  Just an open project that turned out nicely done.  Did I forget to mention it is free?
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/bluto-connections-and-twitter.htm     DAOS Estimator 1.5 for #tristatelug Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:44:27 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=DAOS-estimator-15.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/5aDWWBTB_ac/DAOS-estimator-15.htm Domino 8 IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/DAOS-estimator-15.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/DAOS-estimator-15.htm Paul Mooney does his song and dance on DAOS (yes he does ding, but not dance very well), he mentioned the new estimator version 1.5 that was released.  Due to lack of Internet where he was standing, 20 feet away, I am blogging it for you.

    Dan Silva did a fantastic drive explaining it, so I would visit his posting while it downloads.
    I had been testing this new version internally during it's "beta" and all I can say is that it improves VASTLY the performance.  I had run this one a very large mail server, with around 3,500 mail files (~900GB of data).


    You can download the new version right here
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/DAOS-estimator-15.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/DAOS-estimator-15.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/DAOS-estimator-15.htm     Live Blogging: Bob P keynote at #TriStateLUG Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:45:28 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=tristatelug-keynote.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/X3tENNYaVLY/tristatelug-keynote.htm Sametime IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/tristatelug-keynote.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/tristatelug-keynote.htm
    Bob P - "There is never a better time to be involved with collaboration"

    If something meaningful happens it affects people, companies, institutions and man and nature systems.  IBM is driving Smarter Planet thorugh four categories:
    • New Intelligence - data exploding and in silos
    • Green and Beyond - efficiency
    • Smart Work - helping people work smarter together
    • Dynamic Infrastructure - responding faster with cheaper and more flexible infrastructure
    Investment was needed to let people know what the Lotus brand stands for.  It was iportant to have a top level cmapaign to let people know what Lotus has to offer.  The backdrop of the campaign is LotusKnows.  Some of us were the behind the scenes ideas of what went into the campaign.

    Bob gave examples of what the LotusKnows ad showed and what it meant in their marketing thoughts.  Like situation awareness when the LotusKnows campaign talks about knowing about recent news event.  
    Me - Does the public get this message however? I saw this in the cab on the tiny screen and while it was a cool ad the message was lost as to what I would get

    This campaign is being invested in for multiple years in multiple markets.  
    me - It is agreed that the general business partner reaction is high to have marketing surrounding LotusKnows.


    You can now obtain and modify LotusKnows marketing for your own needs through Partnerworld.  Drive your message and customized collateral for internal company needs and business partners.  1439 new customers were added in 4th quarter. with 16,859 new customers since Domino 8 was launched.  Lotus Connections is the fastest growing software product in Lotus history.

    The solution delivery strategy is cloud/online and on premise/appliance for all of messaging, communication, connecting and integrating.  Whether that is plug-in, mashups or a portal.

    LotusLive is the launchpad of the cloud strategy.  it began with web conferencing, into collaboration and now email.  Click-to-cloud is being offered for not only company to company collaboration, but as ways to create support for communities to include file sharing, meetings and activities.  The goal is to be able to integrate services, such as Sametime in the Click-2-Cloud services to maximize value and consumability.
    me - It will be difficult to offer provisioning, integration and policy management between the two worlds.

    Email is coming back to being the collaboration console.  With the future of email being Lotus Notes.
    Bob P - Panasonic is a recent announcement of a full migration from Exchange to Notes.  They are starting with a few thousand users and then moving down the migration path. The largest company has 2 million mailboxes on LotusLive and grow by 20k a day?

    The press is loving the movement and showing it off in press articles and covering the movement.
    me - but isn't that largest customer actually an ISP that was purchased as part of Outblaze and not a Lotus collaboration customer in general with each person being unique and not as a single organization?

    Lotus Foundations is a growing market as a solution.  Xerox is on board, as seen at Lotusphere, in integrating services and layers on top of Foundations.
    Current customers moving to Lotus - Bank of NY Mellon, KBC, Continental, PNC, Ineos

    The current product pipeline before we move to live demo by Chris Crummey - Sametime 8.5 (coming shortly), Notes 8.5.1 and Quickr 8.5.  In plans is Connections Next with more netowrk building, compliance, deeper integration and LotusLive integration.  Portal 6.1.5 and Mashups 2.0 with more customization, analytics, Connections portlets and end user page creation.

    We will see some new paradigms in collaboration at Lotusphere 2010 (we can't ruin any surprises though)  Bob did a great whirlwind job of running through the strategy and handed off to Chris Crummey for live demos.  Copies of the presentation will be available.

    Chris starts out by focusing on the Business Card feature.  This is showing across al of the products and shows more than just a name and picture.  it drives self service with title, location, phone (Sametime UC), microblog status and links to all of your Connections information.  The person can go to your items through your card instead of having you interact.  For example knowing you keep files on Connections, clicking your card and going right to your shared files.

    Chris jumped into the unified phone book and phone/ip audio connections.  You don't know how the end user wanted to be contacted, the system uses their current preference and makes the connection.  You can then transfer the call to one of your other numbers or another not in the system.

    Chris moves on to widgets, sidebars and the coolness of how they can work together before how IBM does customization.  Of course, Ron Sebastian made a cameo in the demos via VOIP and a business card.
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/tristatelug-keynote.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/tristatelug-keynote.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/tristatelug-keynote.htm     October 2009 Sys Admin Tips is out (oops almost forgot) Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:59:58 -0500 http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/uBe45o35Qyw/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm Technical IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm October 2009 issue I talk about the following, and pay special attention to the editor comments section:

    * From the Editor: CHRIS' 8.86624 XOF
    * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: The ID Vault and Lotus Notes 7.0.2
    * To Package or Not Package My Client Deployments
    * Quick Tip: Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Calendar Drag
    * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Sametime Gateway Sizing

    Don't forget to visit CertFX from the banner above and use the coupon code "IdoNotes" to get up to 25% OFF YOUR EXAMS
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/october-2009-sys-admin-tips.htm     Tri-State LUG and what I want you to bring Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:06:58 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/0WaPJiGJrrA/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm Conferences IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm Tri-State LUG (the third state in the Tri always eludes me) will be happening on Monday Nov 9 2009 in New York at the IBM Building, of course.  I know big shots like Mooney, Balaban and Novak will be there.  I am sneaking in a session modified from Colalboration University on all the acronyms and making them work together.

    What I want you to bring is, of course,  tons of questions.  But more importantly I want to start sharing and collecting social contact data with everyone. An impromptu discussion on being socially connected is welcomed and then the ability to actually connect is better.

     You have time to do this, so grab a Poken and stop using all these dang business cards that stack up and are hard to find.  Let us connect and then tag, sort and find you faster.  Between my Poken and Gist while at BlogWorldExpo and the Social Media Business Summit the past few weeks I managed to collect a good hundred viable connections and their information.  I gave you the banner above, so grab one.  I might even bring a couple extras for those that did't read this.

    There might even be a couple other announcements made there.
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Tri-state-lug-Ill-be-there.htm     Day 1 with OS5 on the BlackBerry Storm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:20:49 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/-ukm1aAq3U8/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm Blackberry IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm
    When typing email in landscape mode, the SureType takes a whole new look and feel as shown here (fuzzy but I couldnt capture and use the SureType together so we took a nasty picture instead):

    Image:Day 1 with OS5 on the BlackBerry Storm

    I can say it made the Storm even more useful and user friendly.  One of those times where you say they would have gotten better press if it had come out the door like this.

    UPDATE: I have had only one application issue and that was Google Voice with the new 1.6 that crashed.  Otherwise everything else seems to be working great and just as fast, if not faster for some, as before.
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/day-1-with-os5-on-storm.htm     AppCentrist - the IBM/Lotus AppStore pre-launches Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:02:00 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/dmLaEPaVZS8/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm Announcement IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm AppCentrist.  The catalog is being populated.  All from free to paid.  The site isn't showing is all yet.  But, it is being asked that anyone that wants inclusion gets in touch.

    I do know they will allow reviews and ratings on each entry in the catalog as well.
    ]]>     http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/AppCentrist-prelaunch.htm     A swirlie from my 8.5.1 task bar Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:46:05 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Idonotes/~3/I5lDdLVxTko/10142009104604AMCMILHC.htm Domino 8 IdoNotes@netscape.net (Chris Miller - IdoNotes) http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/10142009104604AMCMILHC.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/10142009104604AMCMILHC.htm
    Image:A swirlie from my 8.5.1 task bar

    The arrows at first looked to say it was replicating.  But when hovering over it it, I was prompted to click to see the status.  Of course, I did.  Out slid the Eclipse Update window reminding me to restart.  A the little things
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