Posts Tagged ‘connections’

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

In my previous post, Integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections – Part 1, I talked about getting started integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections, specifically single sign on, branding, and product integration. In this part, I will address approaches for integrating a shopping cart and account services.

I was recently asked by IBM if we have integrated WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections. I don’t believe to date we have done this but it really got me thinking as to how exactly we would do it. Currently I have been leading an effort where we are integrating Commerce with a traditional J2EE / […]

When you offer a social networking tool to the market.  When your market is geared towards businesses that have to worry about security, policies, and government regulation, you cannot just copy consumer oriented tools.  Mac Guidera and Joseph Liu spent some time walking through some of the capabilities from a compliance and auditing perspective in […]

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 […]

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 […]

One of the key trends you see within IBM is the concept of connectors.  You shouldn’t be forced to use a web interface to use a web based tool when you could connect to it from email, Office, Windows, and other platforms.   Suzanne Livingston on the Connections Blog just posted on the refresh of their […]

For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?”  Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages.  IBM released a white […]

More and more, I am reading great articles on Social Collaboration within the enterprise.  Not only in tech-driven websites like CIO.com and Mashable.com but here is a recent article, one of many recently, in Forbes.com about Enterprise Collaboration. In this interview, Jeff Schick of IBM explains some core components of collaboration: knowledge management, process discovery […]

So Lotus showcased support for Mobile in a fairly big way. They stated that they have developed and will continue to develop mobile UI from the ground up to provide the best user experience for all their applications (Portal, Notes, Connections, Quickr.)  Here is a list of what I heard regarding Mobile: 1. RIM (Blackberry) […]