If you could build your IT systems and operation from scratch today, would you recreate what you have? ... Bechtel's employees are demanding business software that is as intuitive as popular Web sites. The company doesn't have time to train end users ...

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

TaskJam is coming soon and it will be free and built on XPages. Stay tuned for more ...

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

IdeaJam now supports German. Simply login, edit your profile and select German from the dropdown list. Have ...

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Back in July 2007 I blogged about "The State of the Lotus ISV" and I thought it was time to revisit this topic. Ed recently had a blog entry "Extending the value of Notes via partners" that inspired me to write this blog entry sooner, rather than later. So ...

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

This 45 second video demonstrates the internationalization features of Elguji's IdeaJam idea management software. The Lotus Community IdeaJam site now has English (GB), English (US), Italian and French language support enabled. Give it a try. The ...

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Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | Comments (9) | Google it!

You can now set your default langauge for IdeaJam to Italian. To do this login, click on "My Profile" and then "Edit.My Profile". Then select "Italian" from the "Choose what language you want to use" dropdown. Click "Save Profile" and your IdeaJam UI will ...

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Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

The reality of the Lotus installed base is inevitably one of legacy integrations and point release installations in large institutions - the idea that Lotus Notes drives collaboration will produce a dry chuckle from those currently using past iterations of ...

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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Comments (11) | Google it!

This three minute and thirty three second video shows how easy and quickly you can deploy LinkJam, Elguji Softwares Web 2.0 social bookmarking application in your existing Lotus Notes/Domino ...

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Today Calvin, our dog Domino Designers' uncle went to doggie heaven. He was fifteen years old. We will miss you ...

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Over the weekend we launched the "Take a Tour of IdeaJam" page. This page contains screenshots and video demonstrations of all things IdeaJam. A similar page for LinkJam our social bookmarking tool for Lotus Notes/Domino will soon be launched as ...

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Pass It Along is a stand-alone Web application built internally at IBM that combines various Web 2.0 features to facilitate learning and sharing among participants. The application has been available on alphaWorks, IBM's premier site for emerging ...

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

This may have come in handy for Lotusphere session abstracts: SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the ...

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Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

This past weekend I had the opportunity to setup and use the new Lotus iNotes Ultralite on my iPhone. The only thing that needed configuration on my Lotus Domino 8.0.2 server was to setup and configure the Domino Web Access Redirect database and to create a ...

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Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

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Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I managed to hit a bit of a wall with my IdeaJam on XPages development this week. Up until now I haven't really needed to write any client side JavaScript which is impressive in itself compared to how much client side scripts we have in IdeaJam classic. But ...

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Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Take a look at the end of the URL: Granted phpBB is being used for the support forums within inside of Bluehouse but still, you would have thought it would be something else built by Lotus running on say WAS :-). [Thanks Paul ...

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Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Just a quick blog entry to inform you of the last four Taking Notes Podcasts in case you missed any of them: SharePoint and Lotus Notes with Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen Ed Brill and Dwight Morse from IBM talk about Notes 8.0.2 Writing Free Notes Apps ...

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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

If you have not entered the Elguji Software "If you thought Elguji was a _____ - Think Again" contest then take a minute to submit your contest entry. We are giving away an iPod Touch, iPod Nano and an iTunes gift card. Elguji Software Contest ...

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Lotus users aren't as committed as WordPress end users are as you can see by this young ladies tattoo. This photo was snapped by Aaron Hockley at last weeks WordCamp held in Portland, Oregon. What is WordCamp you ask: WordCamp is a conference ...

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

It's been a very busy time of the year for both Gayle and myself. In September we did some traveling to Cleveland, Ohio and Baltimore, Maryland. In Cleveland we participated in the Northeast Ohio Lotus User Group (NEOLUG). At the meeting I participated in ...

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Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

This December will mark five years since Danielle passed away. It was at this time of the year when Dani's brain tumor started to really affect her. It first began with seizures at school which resulted in EMT/ambulance calls. Many people didn't know that ...

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

A small local company that uses Lotus products has the need to connect their Sametime users with Yahoo IM users. This customer also has a legal requirment to log all of the chat transcripts that flow through the Sametime Gateway. I did some quick research ...

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Following the Lotus blogosphere meme that Mr. Mooney started here is Gayle and my home office setup: I use the 24" iMac and Gayle used the Macbook with the external 23" Cinema display. We obvisously don't work in the office at the same time having ...

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Joyce Davis IDC Program Manager and her team at IBM who are responsible for the all of the technical information for Lotus on Lotus developerWorks have setup an IdeaSpace on IdeaJam. "Lotus Technical Information" is a new IdeaSpace is intended for people ...

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!