Bruce Elgort

Kids Cancer Pages

The Childrens Cancer Assocations Kids Cancer Pages is the first-ever national resource directory on childhood cancer, recognized by the National Cancer Institute as “the most comprehensive guide for families currently available.” For families battling ...

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Monday, August 31st, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Coming to IdeaJam V1.6 (Fall '09)

Here is a partial list of some things to look out for in the forthcoming version of IdeaJam: IdeaJam XPages version upgraded to run on Domino 8.5.1 only. This dramatically improves performance under XPages mode and also makes the application more ...

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Where oh where to put the button?

Situation: IdeaJam V1.6 (coming in the next few weeks BTW along with IQJam) Feature: Follow an IdeaSpace - receive email notifications when new ideas get added to an IdeaJam IdeaSpace UI Challenge: Where to put the button and/or link on the UI to allow ...

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Comments (6) | Google it!

I sure hope not...

From my inbox: Hi Bruce, We have a solution for you to reach your competitor’s prospects using Lotusphere January 2009 attendees list. We have a total of 8,658 contacts targeting Lotusphere January 2009 attendees who have attended in this year? If ...

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | Comments (1) | Google it!

IBM Software Helps Army Take Soldiers Out of the Line of Fire

Just came across this press release about Lotus Forms of which I am hearing more and more about: With IBM's breadth and depth of product and service offerings including portals and e-forms, delivered by partners like EIM, IBM continues to help ...

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Finally Camtasia Studio for the Mac

Techsmith the makers of two of my favorite Windows programs Snagit and Camtasia have just released Camtasia Studio for the Mac. After only a few minutes playing with the Mac version I am extremely pleased with it. Now I no longer have to fire up a VM to ...

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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Lotus Knows IdeaJam on Your iPhone or iPod Touch

From Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch navigate to http://lki.ideajam.net to access ideas, comments and votes in the Lotus Knows IdeaJam. A full text search is also ...

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

David Allen Weighs in on Lotus Knows

David Allen the world recognized productivity expert and creator of the Getting Things Done methodolgy and has joined the discussions going on at the Lotus Knows IdeaJam. Of particular interest is this comment he left on this idea: Lotus needs to be very ...

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 | Comments (1) | Google it!

The 1352 Report: Lotus Knows that there are iPhone crickets in the Foundations

After months of a podcasting hiatus The 1352 Report is back with Episode 12 whereJess, Sean, Carl and I talk about iPhones, Lotus Knows, Foundations Reach, Tivoli Foundations and a talk with our special guest David Leedy of the "Notes in Nine" screencast. Oh, ...

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Introducing the IQJam JSON API

A few weeks back I blogged about the IQJam Web Services API. Well now it's time to introduce you to the IQJam JSON API that will ship with V1.0 of IQJam. The following methods are ...

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

The Most Talked About Lotus Knows IdeaJam Ideas

To view the ideas on the Lotus Knows IdeaJam that have the most comments, go to the All Ideas Theme and click on the Most Comments link to the right of the Popular ideas view. To see the ideas in a particular Theme with the most comments first select the ...

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | Comments (1) | Google it!

12 hours of Lotus Knows IdeaJam Jamming

Twelve hours into the Lotus Knows IdeaJam we have the following stats: There are some truly amazing ideas and discussions going on in the jam and it's really cool to see so many IBM'ers participating. Two more days to ...

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Appearing on the www.lotus.com home page

Matt pointed out to me this morning that the Lotus Knows IdeaJam is on the home page of ...

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Intranet Journal: Lotus to Launch 'Lotus Knows' Campaign

John Roling writes about the launch of the Lotus Knows campaign on Intranet Journal: In the next few months, you'll be seeing a lot more from the IBM Lotus Marketing department. Yes, I did say Lotus and marketing in the same sentence. One of the ...

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Monday, August 17th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

OpenNTF Mail Template Rewind

Today in my email I received an inquiry about the OpenNTF Mail Template - talk about a blast from the past! It's inspiring to hear that there are still companies out there using this template in one version or another. So after responding to the email I fired ...

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Monday, August 17th, 2009 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Some (Lotus) Yellow Facts

We are currently preparing some very cool adverts and literature for some upcoming events and needed to know what the exact Lotus "yellow" color was for our Photoshop and Illustrator work. Well here is the lowdown: PMS - 116 coated, 115 ...

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Monday, August 17th, 2009 | Comments (5) | Google it!

The paradiddle-diddle

A paradiddle-diddle's is a great drumming rudiment to use around the drum kit. The sticking starting with the right hand is RLRRLL RLRRLL and when starting with the left hand LRLLRR LRLLRR. Take a look at this vdieo to see some excellent examples of using ...

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

The most excellent New Orleans drumming by Stanton Moore

You won't believe it....

It's no secret that we at Elguji do a lot of demonstrations of our products IdeaJam, LinkJam and now IQJam.. One thing that has suprised us all lately is the sheer number of Lotus customers who are running Lotus Connections. I wouldn't hesitate to guess that ...

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | Comments (5) | Google it!

The DominoPower Interview

We interview Bruce Elgort on IQJam, Notes 8.5.1, and his dog Domino In this latest installment of our venerable series, The DominoPower Interview, I had the opportunity to interview one of the Lotus community's favorite sons and two-time DominoPower ...

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Lotus Knows how big your kit is

What are these things you call "tags"?

During a recent Skype call with Julian we were talking about web 2.0 tagging and whether or not the typical office/business person understands what they are. I asked the Twitterverse and got some interesting responses. What has your experience been with ...

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Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Comments (9) | Google it!

A must see video by Caleb Sasser: Coda Confidential

Caleb Sasser is one of the Co-Founders of Portland, Oregon based Panic Software. Panic makes some killer Mac software including Transmit (FTP client) and Coda (editor). Of particular interest to me was the way in which Caleb designs his mockups in Photoshop ...

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Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Comments (1) | Google it!

You need to tell your customers about it....

Yesterday both Ed Brill and Bilal Jaffrey blogged about the upcoming "Lotus Knows IdeaJam" starting August 19th. I suspect that many of you will be participating in this IdeaJam which is very cool. What you should really be doing is sending the Lotus ...

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Introducing the IQJam Web Services API

IQJam has a set of web services (SOAP) that will allow developers to read data from and post data to an IQJam. The way this will work is through a security token that each user is assigned in their Profile along with an ACL Role that allows the API access. ...

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Monday, August 10th, 2009 | Comments (0) | Google it!

We are looking for ten of you...

As the development of IQJam wraps up we are looking for 10 people to sit through a 45 minute product demonstration. We are specifically looking for feedback on the overall product functionality and user interface and it would help us if you weren't one of ...

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Monday, August 10th, 2009 | Comments (13) | Google it!

Oh yes it's true...

Yes it's true that IBM Lotus is partnering with Elguji Software, LLC to bring Lotus customers, Business Partners and customers a 72 hour "Lotus Knows Jam" using Elguji's flagship IdeaJam product. Participants in the jam will be able to use their IdeaJam.net ...

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Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | Comments (8) | Google it!

In 7 hours...

We will be picking Matt up from the airport and will be heading out to Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast for a company retreat. All I can say is "I hope Matt likes Abba!". Cannon Beach was the internal code name for the soon to be released ...

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Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | Comments (3) | Google it!



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