Jonathan Distad

Can’t make it to Lotusphere 2011?  Not a problem, get the next best thing for $30 $35 – IdoSphere February 15-16, 2011  Get some of the best minds, pulled together by Chris Miller of Connectria, talking about topics like: Debugging Notes Java Agents with Eclipse VMWare 201 – Getting Past 1st Base Sametime 8.5.1 – […]

Not necessarily a Portal or Collaboration specific post but Mashable’s Shane Snow wrote up a nice piece on the redesign of Thrillist.com – a 12 million user website.  At the end, this is a good case on design in general and provides emphasis on creating great user experiences to attain website and application goals.  This […]

The new version of Sametime (8.5.1) has a lot to offer but has the Domino Admins who have supported what is now Sametime Classic a bit weary about the WAS component of a deployment.  For good reason, not a lot of pre-8.5 shops have migrated over.  My advice: Don’t Sweat It!   I have come […]

Salesforce.com announced that licensed users of Chatter can now invite non-licensed users to join Chatter – for FREE.  Great marketing move but I am hearing  the laptops being thrown by security and governance people.  Isn’t the whole point of these “internal social networks” to allow risk-free communications within the firewalls?  Yes and no.  Initially the […]

Yesterday I read about a rule within FORD that if you can’t solve an issue within 24 hours you bring it to the masses/team to help solve.  This seems simple.  You may have always heard the rule that you return calls or emails within 24 hours – that’s simple.  But when it comes to ideas, […]

Today Perficient released a White Paper I co-wrote with DeeDee DeMulling (@ddemulling) on Mobile Best Practices.  Its a really exciting time in mobility and specifically around the future of mobile experiences.  To-date there has been a great deal of buzz around apps and whether a business has an “app for that”.  Going forward businesses need […]

Lotus just announced the release of Connections 3.0.  For those who have Connections 2.5 and/or were waiting for 3.0 to come out – today is a good day.  IBM has come a long way and listened to their customers and partners around gaps and wishes for enterprise collaboration.  You get sub-communities, security enhancements, social analytics […]

A timely article in the Harvard Business Review around collaboration is about choosing a CCO – Chief Collaboration Officer.  Who takes the lead in being the champion for collaboration in your company?  They go through a number of people like the CIO, CMO and CTO – even the CFO.  But depending on your organization sometimes […]

I came across this video done at TED by Steven Johnson about where ideas come from.  Its 17 minutes and worth a look.

In Wired this month, Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson talk about where ideas come from.  That ideas and innovation rarely come about through isolation of individuals.  Ideas are more than your idea alone, but about bringing everyone to your idea.  Its amazingly simple.  But there is a myth about the lone inventor who pops up […]

Is it a perfect storm?  Mobile bandwidth, hardware capabilities and demands on a mobile workforce may be the impetus but I venture to guess that many mobile users just want to tasks that they do at home and work on their phones.  That is what drove pioneers like RIM and Palm to dream and engineer […]

Luis Benitez, IBM Social Evangelist, wrote about how Lotus Connections is moving to the mobile space with the launch of an iPhone App.  I think its great and has some great functionality for v1 of an App.  More information can be found on IBM DeveloperWorks Perficient is doing a WebEx on Portal Mobility on October […]