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With over 600 people at the guest list, 70+ for Lotus Software only, it’s gonna be hard forgetting IBM Software Forum – but, just in case, it’s TOMORROW (Thu), at Cinema City.
The event will start at 15:00, with some social networking and refreshments, and at 15:45 we’ll break into the six sessions. The Lotus session will include three speakers – myself, Niv Calderon and Amir Belferman from Amidar Housing. Here’s what’s planned for Lotus:
See you all tomorrow 🙂
Intranet Journal published this super article, on how Lotus Software can help you and your company reduce expenses and navigate through the rough economy. My friend Ed Brill posted about this earlier this week. John Roling outlines nine actions you can take, that will help you weather this economical crisis, including: moving to Lotus Symphony, upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5, deploying Lotus Sametime for IM and web-meetings and others:
As we’re all painfully aware, the current economic climate is far from wonderful. Businesses are looking for ways to cut corners and reduce costs whenever possible, and many times that leads to belt-tightening in your IT departments. I want to share with you some ways that products from Lotus can help you reduce costs in some obvious, and not-so-obvious ways.
Links:
Intranet Journal – Surviving the rough economy with Lotus Software
Ed Brill
Dvir Reznik – Now’s the time to deploy IM
IBM and Radvision has a long-lasting partnership in the IM space, with IBM’s Lotus Sametime and Radvision’s Scopia Desktop solution. In Lotusphere 2009 a month ago, Radvision introduced a new plug-in for Lotus Sametime, which adds high definition video conferencing to Sametime environment. The following post was written by guest blogger Sagee Ben Zedeff from Radvision.
I am a big fan of desktop video conferencing, and of RADVISION’s High Definition Scopia Desktop in particular. The ability to communicate with others directly from my laptop wherever I am in High Definition (REAL High Definition @ 720p) is priceless. Add to this the fact that it supports desktop, room system and mobile handset endpoints, and you can truly video conference from anywhere with anyone.
And now Lotus Sametime users can enhance their collaboration and communication experience using Scopia Desktop in Lotusphere 2009. Among the recent exciting announcements, RADVISION unveiled a unique plug-in for Sametime, based on Scopia Desktop, which seamlessly adds high definition video conferencing to Sametime’s environment.
RADVISION’s conferencing platform, SCOPIA, has been supporting IBM’s unified communication and collaboration platform for a long time now. However, using the new Sametime plug-in, Sametime users can now enjoy
The plug-in is simple and fully integrated into Sametime, centrally managed and deployed without any complex installation issues or licensing fees. You just click on the video icon in Lotus Sametime or Web Conferencing and you are ready to go.
In fact, Sametime users don’t need to change anything in their hardware or software. They can still use the same PC and webcam, yet enjoy the new HD services. The plug-in uses PC resources (processor power, network bandwidth) efficiently, allowing for H.264 video with highest quality, sending and receiving HD @ 720p resolution. It will even automatically detect CPU and bandwidth availability, and determine optimal parameters to guarantee the best experience for your setup.
If this sounds too good to be true, you can actually give Scopia Desktop a (free) test right now and see for yourself.
High definition video conferencing is happening everywhere, now is the time to start enjoying it on Sametime.
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Sagee Ben-Zedeff is a technology researcher in the CTO’s office at RADVISION. He has been developing video technologies and video related products for the past decade. He also writes the Video Over Enterprise blog, which deals with video and video applications “with an enterprise slant”.
Tonight we’re on the verge of making history – Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir is nominated for Best Foreign Film in the 2009 Academy Awards (aka Oscars). If you haven’t seen the movie yet, free yourself 90min (the film running time is 86min) to see a powerful movie about war and peace, with strong messages about the ‘situation’. I’ll be watching the Red Carpet of course, but will hear if Ari made history tomorrow morning. Keeping my fingers crossed!
IBM has an excellent presence online, not just ibm.com but also the social space.
Although there’s no official IBM twitter/facebook/blog, there are thousands of IBMers on twitter, facebook, linkedin and other social sites – and hundreds of bloggers as well.
Just in case you’re looking for some IBM bloggers, you can find them (including yours truly) over at ibm.com/blogs. There’s also IBM Social Computing Guidelines, that define how IBMers should present themsleves online – worth the read.
