Idea Jam is a site where users of IBM’s Lotus software products can exchange ideas on how to improve Lotus products. Others can help promote and/or demote ideas, as well as, providing feedback through comments. Popular ideas will rise to the top. The Idea Jam, unlike blogs and discussion forums, allows a single place for the Lotus community to share and promote ideas and suggestions on how to improve IBM Lotus software.
Ideas are grouped into “idea spaces” – which currently include IBM’s Lotus Connections, Lotus Notes and Domino, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Symphony and Websphere Portal. Additional idea spaces for OpenNTF and Idea Jam itself will also be available.
Idea Jam includes many features that make the site easy and fun to use:
- Tags – All ideas can be “tagged” with one or more tags. Users can then use tag clouds to see which tags are popular.
- RSS – Idea Jam provides RSS feeds for idea spaces, a specific idea, a user or for any given tag.
- User Profiles – Users can view their ideas, their comments, and the ideas they voted on.
- Views – Ideas can be viewed by popularity, recent ideas, most comments, recent comments or others. Each view also has an associated RSS feed.
- Unvoted – Users can easily review ideas that they have not voted on.
- Random – Users can be presented with a random idea to promote or demote.
The Elguji Ideas software will be made available for purchase during the first quarter of 2008. Inquires should be made to OpenNTF and also host of the popular Taking Notes podcast. Visit www.elguji.com for more information.
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Comment posted by Rob McDonagh10/15/2007 05:06:17 PM
Homepage: http://www.CaptainOblivious.com
W00t! Congratulations on a job very well done. 
Comment posted by Phil Randolph10/15/2007 06:06:24 PM
Homepage: http://philrandolph.com
Awesome Bruce!!! Congratulations on the upcoming release!
Comment posted by Bill Kron10/15/2007 07:18:01 PM
Not to get ahead of you, but when you sell the software, is CoexEdit built into the license?
And yes, congratulations and kudos to you and your team. The site looks great.
Comment posted by Bruce10/15/2007 07:39:05 PM
@Bill,
An option to purchase the software with CoexEdit is in the works. A version without CoexEdit will also be available. How many would you like to order? 
Comment posted by Bill Kron10/15/2007 07:55:45 PM
That may depend on how generous you're feeling. ;)
Thanks for the quick response.
Comment posted by Bruce10/15/2007 08:03:07 PM
@Bill,
You know where and how to find me
Comment posted by Simon Scullion10/16/2007 01:28:19 AM
Homepage: http://www.simonscullion.com/
Congratulations to all involved, and good luck with it for the future.
I'm looking forward to it going live and being able to get involved!
Comment posted by Keith Brooks10/16/2007 08:11:25 PM
Homepage: http://www.vanessabrooks.com
Very cool, but I could not register to submit my ideas. Like why can't I use a bmp/jpg or anything else for a db icon?
Comment posted by Bruce10/16/2007 08:43:54 PM
@Keith,
On November 20th (or maybe sooner) you will be able to register and post your ideas .
Comment posted by Mike Green11/24/2009 01:09:31 AM
Homepage: http://www.picktorrent.com
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers.
Comment posted by Nedar12/12/2009 12:51:21 AM
Homepage: http://www.globalcanadameds.com/
Cool. Good news 
Comment posted by David Miller01/20/2010 04:15:09 PM
Homepage: http://www.badcreditmobilecontracts.co.uk/
Hi - thanks for the link to the The Elguji Ideas software. Was looking for more info - looks great
