Michael Porter

Overall, the process of changing Lotus Connections is easier Deploying changes to markup or style sheets is easier.  If you are really familiar with style sheets, CSS is the way to go to change your look and feel. There is a new getting started page on the homepage The header and footer now support JSP […]

Yes, this is a bit of shameless self promotion but if you are at Lotusphere, I’m speaking tomorrow (Wednesday).  The official title is, “Using Portal Governance to Create a Better Web Experience” It may sound a bit dry but governance is about correctly engaging all people who are involved in the portal and thoughtfully mapping […]

I attended a session by Larry Bowden, VP of their exceptional web experience effort and the guy who is key behind IBM’s whole vision for Northstar.  That vision is slowly taking shape and coalescing into specific plans that will result in product enhancements to meet that vision.  Here’s a synopsis of what he said: Key […]

I attended a session by Larry Bowden, VP of their exceptional web experience effort and the guy who is key behind IBM’s whole vision for Northstar.  That vision is slowly taking shape and coalescing into specific plans that will result in product enhancements to meet that vision.  Here’s a synopsis of what he said: Key […]

So who doesn’t love a good demo………or two…….or three.  IBM highlighted a lot of new and upcoming features that supports the Social Business Theme.  Here are some highlights: Notes Lotus Notes is incorporating the whole idea of doing more work from within the client.  You can view video, approve tasks from a workflow engine or […]

I’m at Lotusphere and IBM threw a great opening session with a great band, Kevin Spacey to speak, and a look at what they are releasing and where they are going.  The theme is, “Get Social, Do Business”.   The key terms of this include: Social Business Web Experience Work Experience It’s actually a pretty unified […]

I tend to like these kinds of presentations because it gives me insight into cause and effect. It also gives me insight into the trends that are driving the portal, social business, collaboration, and other technologies.  This is going to be all over the board, hence a bulleted approach. Collaboration itself is growing at 11% […]

File this under shameless self-promotion but it’s my blog so you’ll get a little bit of that now and again. I’m at Lotusphere which is IBM big event in Orlando.  If it has to do with portals, collaboration, and messaging for IBM, this is the place to be.  The theme is all about social business […]

It’s no longer about intranets but social intranets. Social Text, along with Forrester and AHA have a webinar about their view on it. Given the number of companies who have asked me, “Can I make social software become my intranet?”   My typical answer is, “Depends”  It depends on what you want to do and […]

While the CMS Wire article is a little lite on the details, we do know that the latest version of WebCenter is out and that Enterprise 2.0 is now Customer Experience Management. At the same time though, Oracle knew they were going to bring them all together at some point (converge). And that’s what they […]

I found this article by Joe Shepley at CMSWire interesting both in how applicable the resolutions are to many who aren’t using Sharepoint but instead use WebSphere Portal, Oracle WebCenter, Liferay, JBoss Enterprise Portal etc.  I also like some of Joe Shepley’s more in depth discussion on where Sharepoint works compared to ECM or Social […]

So I’ve seen a lot of people change up how they use these two terms.  In my minds, they are very different although the base technologies used as people going about networking and working the social media may have a huge overlap. social media: the use of tools like twitter, facebook, blogs, etc to both […]