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Wow, wow, wow.... 2008-08-09 06:50:00 By now, you've probably already watched the 29th Olympics Opening Ceremony. I'm sure you will agree that it was spectacular! Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday's grand opening:
The whole thing was simply jawdropping. Just amazing. If you missed it, you have to get a friend who TiVo'ed it and watch it. Here are my favorite things:
The 500 foot long LED TVThe 2008 drummersThe 15000 pe
Universities set social computing guidelines 2008-08-08 07:41:00 Social Computing Guidelines are the craze now a day. Ever since 2005, IBM has made its Social Computing Guidelines public. Recently, through the magic of Twitter, I learned that other companies are following suit:
SAP (I couldn't find the link)
SUN Guidlines on Public Discourse
Now, some universities are also setting up their own guidelines. The interesting thing, in my opinion, is that the Read more:Universities
Who says social networking is a waste of money? 2008-08-07 06:59:00 Social networking
, of course, is nothing new. In fact, several self-help books encourage social networking as a way to grow your career, generate new ideas, etc. Moreover, I think it's safe to say that social networking has been recommended for at least the last 20 years.
What's new is all these new social software that's out there. It helps us network faster, easier, and more conveniently. It eve Read more:waste
Mas compañías boricuas se unen al software social 2008-08-06 23:00:00 Estos dos días, mas compa
ñías boricuas
se han unido al software social. Será a lo mejor porque vieron que WAPA lo hizo primero y ahora no se quieren quedar atrás? Bueno vamos al mambo:
El Nuevo Día - ahora tiene presencia en Twitter bajo el ID de @elnuevodia
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (BPPR) - Hoy lanzó su primer Blog y el beta del nuevo Mi Banco
Para mi sorpresa, uno de los 'blogg
Awesome: Mac search now indexes Lotus Notes! 2008-08-06 15:44:00 When I was a Windows user (seems so long ago now), I relied heavily on Google Desktop Search to search across my Sametime chat transcripts, Notes
mail, Notes replicated databases, and other documents on my local computer. When I migrated to Mac, I quickly discovered Spotlight, but it couldn't index my Lotus
Notes databases .
That all changed today! I discovered in an internal forum that the latest Read more:Lotus Notes
A couple of changes here... 2008-08-06 14:51:00 Based on feedback from @ITSInsider and @elsua, I've gone ahead and started to create a brand for myself. Therefore, I'm now broadcasting from www.lbenitez.com. If you still go to the old address, you'll be re-directed to this new one. Unfortunately, it'll probably take Google a couple
of days/weeks to replace the old address with the new one.
I also wanted to call your attention to a new feature i Read more:changes
A PoC that went downhill 2008-08-05 07:00:00 Last week, I received the sad news that the social software PoC (Proof-of-Concept) at a customer in the West coast has failed. For all vendors involved!!
I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed, but not surprised. Tried as we might, the customer didn't want to follow our recommended practices. Reasons for the PoC to fail became clearer as I read the explanation from the customer. Let me give yo
Need your opinion: My new business card 2008-08-01 07:00:00 So I'm thinking of getting a new business card, and this is what I have right now. Notice that I am NOT including an email address, instead the address to my blog (which tells outsiders how to contact me). I hope that this makes Luis Suarez proud.
Is this too radical? Should I include both my email and the address to my blog ? Are there any guidelines about this ?
or I can be traditional and rad Read more:opinion
Lotus Connections RedWiki Residency starts 2008-07-31 07:00:00 This past Monday (yes, I know I'm late, but Monday was a holiday and I took Friday off too) the remote Lotus
Connections Customization RedWiki was officially kicked off with a call at 7:30am EDT(to accommodate our international team).
According to the ITSO team, this has been the most popular residency so far, in terms of applicants. A residency had never had so many applicants in so little time b Read more:Residency
WAPA está en Twitter! 2008-07-31 05:23:00 Anoche me enteré, por nada mas y nada menos que Twitter
, que ahora WAPA TV tiene su propia cuenta en Twitter. Esto me causa mucha alegría porque hasta ahora, con todas las compañías que he hablado en Puerto Rico, todas le tienen miedo a adoptar software social.
Mucho de los miedos que tienen es que piensan que sus empleados "no necesitan otra herramienta mas como para perder el tiempo"! Es mas
I'm sexy in New York 2008-07-30 07:00:00 Last Monday, I took the last flight into New York
for a 10am meeting on Tuesday with a customer in Manhattan. That meant that I got into the hotel at about 1am . After checking in, I got into the elevator with two other women who looked like they were just coming from a big party. They were going to the 14th floor. I was going to the 19th floor.
As the door closes, one of them asks me if I'm worki
My "Why I love..." social software series 2008-07-25 09:07:00 I've realized that I have a lot of "Why I love..." entries as part of my social softwareseries
and it may be hard to find them (even though I'm trying my best to tag them consistently).
I intend to use this blog entry as the catch all for all of my success stories and plan to continuously update it as new stories come up. Enjoy:
Why I love Feed Readers
Why I love Dogear
Why I love Commun
How to add Atlas 'Reach Me' link to Lotus Connections Person Card 2008-07-24 09:16:00 This is a "repost" (is that the right term) of How to add a Microsoft Sharepoint MySites link to the Lotus
Connections Person card, but for Atlas
for Lotus Connections. Once you follow these instructions, you are going to integrate Atlas for Lotus Connections with whatever application renders the Peson Card: Lotus Connections, Confluence, SocialText, Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint, SAP Portal, WebSp Read more:Reach
Linux/Mac users: Hack Lotus Notes 8 to Add the Activities Sidebar 2008-07-23 07:34:00 Linux and Mac users
, if you've been missing your Activities side shelf, I've discovered a hack! Follow my instructionis below to hack LotusNotes
8 and add the Activities sidebar even if you are a Mac or Linux user!!!!!
How? Well, I simply looked at the Eclipse internals and figured out what plugins are needed and copied the plugins from my Windows Lotus Notes 8 Public Beta 1 client into my Mac. H Read more:Linux
, Sidebar
Lotus Notes 8 on my Mac helps me collaborate without email! 2008-07-22 07:00:00 Weird, huh? How can a mail client help me collaborate without email ? That's the magic of composite applications!
First, a little history. When I joined IBM 6+ years ago, my goal was to always have a "no-scroll inbox" meaning that the inbox within my mail client (i.e. LotusNotes
) could not scroll (even when the application was maximized). I had to read an email and file it immediately into its pr Read more:Lotus Notes
Microsoft should buy Google 2008-07-18 10:16:00 You all know how Microsoft
is trying to buy Yahoo for its search capabilities. Last night, I was looking at the traffic sources for my blog. The reporting engine tells me that 28% of my traffic for the given time period comes from search engines. As I expand the report to view more details, here's what I see.
Of that 28% of traffic, 99.26% comes from Google
and only 0.50% comes from Yahoo. At firs
What's the best way to use social software ? 2008-07-17 19:35:00 Right now, there's a heated debate going on internally at IBM over what's the best way to use one of the social features of Lotus Connections. I won't go into detail here, mainly because I don't want to distract you from the point that I want to make. Ready?
Don't you hate it when you get an email with an attachment that's 200TB? I think you will all agree and say yes. It's annoying. So how do we
Giving the tools to millenials and letting them innovate 2008-07-16 16:46:00 Today, I spent the whole day at Bank of New York, one of our public references for Lotus Connections. They have partnered with CMU and have interns during the summer whose sole responsibility is to bring Web2.0 capabilities into their existing products. By leveraging Lotus Connections and other Lotus products, they are building new mashups to help Bank of NY employees collaborate more effectively. Read more:Giving
, innovate
How to install Lotus Connections FixPack 1 2008-07-15 06:48:00 Yesterday, it was widely announced the availability of Lotus
Connections v2 Fix Pack 1 on FixCentral. Unfortunately, the Fix Pack was released before the instructions (oops! ) .
In any case, here's how to install
the fixpack. First, since this is a fix pack and not a fix (don't ask me!), you can't use the wizard that comes with the Lotus Connections Update Installer. Instead, you must install the
Does the lack of browser support drive you crazy? 2008-07-14 14:23:00 The other day I discovered PlanetLotus via Twitter. By the way, if you are a Lotus employee, evangelist, tech sale, seller, user, fan, etc, you HAVE to bookmark PlanetLotus. The creator of this site is Yancy Lent who has his own external blog.
As I read Yancy's blog, I found an entry called: "A screenshot of your web page from 64 browser
s and 4 OS's" and in it I learned about browsershots.org!
The Read more:drive
Why I love Quickr Entry... 2008-07-11 16:14:00 Ok, this would have to be part 6 (I think) of my "Why I love..." series. Today, I finally get Quickr Entry
! (See, sometimes you have to use social software to really understand its value. So let me tell you a brief story.
Several weeks ago, I was asked by a co-worker to present to the TechSales / Lotus Connections community on the Microsoft disaster at Enterprise 2.0. As a good worker bee, I poste
I'm the Top Blogger within IBM... for a day! 2008-07-10 17:33:00 One of the cool things of Lotus Connections Blogs is that you can recommend a blog entry by simply clicking one button. By simply clicking on the + sign you mark the blog entry as one of your favorites and the recommendations count increases by one. By recommending a blog entry this way, you can easily go back to your favorite blog entries by going to 'My Recommendations'.
Here's how it would look Read more:Blogger
, within
, IBM
Are socializers simply anti-Microsoft ? 2008-07-09 07:00:00 Everybody who starts their own site usually sets up a counter to see how many visits they are getting. If the site is popular, it's a good motivational element. Though it could also be a turn off if they see they are only getting 1-2 visits per day.
For those of you who don't know, I have another blog and in both that blog and this one, I'm using Google Analytics to count visits to my blog. Simila Read more:Microsoft
, simply
Firefox makes subscribing to RSS feeds extremely easy! 2008-07-08 14:54:00 I don't know how I missed it. Not sure why it never ocurred to me. Maybe it was too obvious ? Too easy ? I don't know. The important thing is that I discovered it and I want all of you to be in on the fun!
So you all use Firefox
, right ? (I think only my father in law uses IE, but perhaps that's another blog post). And since you are all fans of social software (or somewhat interested in it), then Read more:makes
Another competitor to Dogear: Ma.gnolia! 2008-08-22 12:10:00 Ma.gnolia
has just announced that they are going open source! In this morning's Gnomedex in Seattle Ma.gnolia announced their plans to throw away their current code, and re-write the system entirely from scratch. While they do this, they will also re-architect, re-brand, and re-package ma.gnolia so that it can be distributed as open-source!
This means, that our beloved Dogear is about to get some Read more:competitor
I'm officially part of GONAD 2008-08-22 10:18:00 Now, don't go out searching the web for what a GONAD is, I didn't know what it was either. I didn't know there was a whole club of GONADs out there. I didn't know it existed until I ran into this tweet in Twitter. (BTW, if you think I'm connected to Twitter all day long, you are wrong!! I subscribe to Twitter search results via my feed reader ).
Anywho, after meeting @dominoyesmaybe , and expandin
Banco Popular launches new website and e-account 2008-08-21 21:15:00 Earlier today I announced via Twitter that I was going to Banco Popular's (the largest bank in the island) new web site launch party. You may remember that a couple of weeks back, I was the first to announce Banco Popular's new online account management site. The site went into production early this month in a quiet beta were only certain people were invited (plus those that saw my original post Read more:website
Approving blog entries through a workflow in Lotus Connections 2008-08-21 08:14:00 Genaro Nieto, a colleague from IBM Spain, sent me a link to this presentation and integration he created and I thought it would be valuable to share it with you.
A couple of weeks ago, you may remember that I talked about adding workflow to social software. In that blog entry, I talked about how a customer wanted to create a set of approvals before a forum topic or a blog entry would go live. I ar Read more:Lotus
IBM earns award from CIO.com for Social Tagging 2008-08-19 14:01:00 In this month's issue of CIO magazine IBM
is listed as one of its CIO 100, a list of 100 organizations that over the past year have "generated business value through creative and cutting-edge uses of technology. IBM's submission for the award ? A social tagging service built on top of Lotus Connections Dogear!
I've said it before, and I'll have to say it today. I love Dogear!! It's my favorite sea Read more:Social
, Tagging
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