Bruce Elgort

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Hot (pockets) Topic

Seventeen comments and counting... ...

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Votes by Idea Space

Thanks to the brilliant and talented Mark Barton Idea Jam is now sporting some graphs: See more Idea Jam Statistics here. Soon we will have the Idea Jam blog up and running and these types of posts will appear on that ...

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

What's Hot (and I'm not talking about you Paris)

Now you can see which ideas on Idea Jam are currently "hot", which ideas were hot yesterday, which ones were hot over the last 7 days as well as over the last 28 days using the new "What's Hot" page. "Hot(ness)" is currently based on the number of votes and ...

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

The ecosystem begins

Nathan has come up with a very cool way to extend Idea Jam by creating "Idea Battle". Idea Battle utilizes the embedded blog code that I wrote last week, an XML feed from Idea Jam and some of Nathan's magical Area 51 code. We plan on offering many ways for ...

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Monday, November 26th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Idea Jam for the IBM Lotus Community Launches

With over 450 ideas submitted, 1,400 comments and 9,000 votes cast, Idea Jam has been taken out of beta and is now available to the IBM Lotus Community. While the current Idea Jam site is geared towards Lotus developers there are plans to make a site ...

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Monday, November 26th, 2007 | Comments (3) | Google it!

I like Andrew's Idea

Embed an idea on any web page

Based on an idea over on Idea Jam users wanted a way to include an idea on a web page and in particular a blog. Well I am happy to report that now you can copy and paste the "embed" code located at the bottom of any idea on Idea Jam and slap it onto your ...

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Idea Jam comes out of beta

Today Idea Jam came out of beta testing and is now available for all in the IBM Lotus Community. The press release will hit the wires early next week. Many thanks again to Matt, Sean, Kelly and Gayle for their hard work and dedication to making Idea ...

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Busted

Gayle - "Bruce can I use the iMac for a few things" Bruce - "Sure honey - not a problem." Twenty minutes ...

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Friday, November 16th, 2007 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Some new Idea Jam features

Email notifications - Choose whether you want an email sent to you when somebody comments on your idea. To access your profile login and then click on "Your Profile" in the upper right. Top Ideas - In the right hand column we used to show the Top 30 ...

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

10.5.1 lands via Software Update

Thad Jarvis Rocks

Ths episode had to be my favorite South Park ever. How about ...

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Using Idea Jam to get input for your Lotusphere 2008 session

Check out the Lotusphere 2008 Idea Space on Idea ...

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Taking Notes Episode 70 - Lotusphere 2008 with Sandra Marcus from IBM

Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere" Marcus tells us all about what to expect at Lotusphere 2008 -- only 2 months away! She talks about things like: Attendance is up so much that they have to split the opening session into 2 groups (just like old times). The ...

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

From the referrers

Rob do you own a secret drum company that we don't know ...

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

From the inbox

This morning I received an email about Idea Jam that read something like this: What version of IIS/.Net does Idea Jam use or is it LAMP with MySQL or MS SQL? Need I say more about making Domino applications not look like "Domino" applications? Make ...

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Monday, November 12th, 2007 | Comments (11) | Google it!

Idea Jam graphs in the works

Idea Jam will soon be sporting some snazzy graphs thanks to the help of Mark Barton. Stay tuned. The data points being shown in the graphs are sample data at this time and do not reflect current Idea Jam ...

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Monday, November 12th, 2007 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Sister

Sister - By The Dave Matthews Band Passing time with you in mind It’s another quiet night Feel the ground against my back Count the stars against the black Think about another day Wishing I was far away Wherever I dreamed I was You ...

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Sunday, November 11th, 2007 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Popular Ideas

How to see popular ideas for an idea space on Idea Jam: Select an Idea Space from the drop down Click on "Popular" See list of Popular ideas I have seen the question appear a couple of times and I am wondering if the UI is not clear ...

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Can anybody guess what this is?

Lotusphere 2008 Sessions

At Lotusphere 2008 I will have the honor of presenting with two outstanding people who I greatly admire and respect - Chris Blatnick and Kevin Pettitt. Here are the sessions we will be giving: Yikes...It Looks Like That?! - UI Worst ...

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Monday, November 5th, 2007 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Chris Blatnick and I need your help...

Taking Notes podcast turns two

Who would have thought that after two years of podcasting that Julian and I would have sixty nine episodes under our belt (don't even go there gang) and a loyal listener base of thousands of Lotus Notes, Sametime, Quikr and Domino users. On Saturday November ...

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Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Traction

42 users were logged in on Friday afternoon on Idea Jam Idea Jam usage is going up, up, ...

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Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Not such good ideas

But maybe it is... Get involved with Idea ...

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Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

LinkedIn

Last night after an inspiring conversation with Henry (The Project4Domino guy) I signed up on ...

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Thursday, November 1st, 2007 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Time Machine Tip

You must have your laptop plugged into a power source before Time Machine will start working ...

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Thursday, November 1st, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!



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