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Chag Sameach!

It’s been 10 days since I got back from my short birthday vacation, and unfortunately it’s a distant memory. Within 24 hours of returning to Israel, I flew to Madrid, Spain, for a Lotus sales workshop, hooking up with some old (LCTY Israel) and new (IBM South-West Europe) friends.

On the flight back to Israel Thursday night, I realized I didn’t write about my vacation. Relax – I’m not gonna share with you what we did every hour, but some taglined photos would be a nice touch. If someone ever wanted to vacation in Turkey and needs a recommendation. Once I read Jeremiah’s photoblog from his much anticipated vacation to Hawaii – the format was clearer.

Antedon Delux from the air – PR photo, not mine

We knew Turkey (Antalya) is a good spot for this short vacation, as it’s cheaper than going to Eilat (Israel), closer (1.5 hours flight) and you can buy stuff at the Duty Free… 🙂 For $900 we had an excellent vacation for 2 in Antedon Delux Beldibi, all included: flight, transport, food around the clock, soft drinks, alcohol and fitness center. The hotel is not the cheapest one you can find, but those extra $$ assured us we’ll be the only Israelis there. And that’s an important factor (for us at least).

very peaceful and quiet – lots of green

Although formally we had 3 nights, the bottom line was 2 full days – blame it on the charter flights.. arrived late and left early. If you’re planning a similar vacation, go for the 4/5 nights package – more ‘actual’ vacation time.

surrounded by mountains – hiking anyone?

Antedon Delux Beldibi – from hotel to the (private) beach

There are couple of more photos at facebook.

Happy Pesach !

Spent the entire week in Madrid for a Lotus workshop for IBM South-West Europe – understanding how IBM Israel came to be at South-West Europe is a whole new discussion, that I won’t start here.

Since Pesach is upon us (Saturday), I decided to send a greeting to colleagues in Israel, wishing Happy Holidays. But, we do live in a UGC world, so why not record a Happy Holiday greeting?
Sitting at the hotel lobby, spending time until our flight back to Tel Aviv, I took the initiative.
Alex didn’t share my enthusiasm, but this is not in a democracy. After we took the video using my Nokia N95, we found that it’s in MP4 format, and needed to be converted…. 🙁 So, Alex opened a connection to his home PC, running Linux, converted the file and uploaded. Thanks Alex !

So, straight from Madrid, Spain – Chag Sameach and Happy Holidays!

Who is this person ?

I was playing the other day with Lotus Notes Live Text feature, which was heavily discussed in Lotus blogosphere. All you need is some curiosity.. Using a simple built-in Lotus Notes wizard, I created a live text action, that highlights every email address (you@your-domain.com) with a dotted blue line. Double click and a new browser tab opens within my Lotus Notes application, pasting the email in the ‘Search for’ field, changing the ‘Search type’ to ‘Internet address’, and submitting the request.

The final result: a profile page of the person behind the email address. Another simple way how Lotus Notes 8.0.1 can improve collaboration across your business. And it’s not an ‘Enterprise’ solution… Even if your company employs 100 people – do you know every one of them?

Lotus Software up 17% in 1Q 2008

IBM released its financial results for the first-quarter, ended March 31st 2008.
Couple of important points from the report, which is available at ibm.com/investor/1q08:

  • Diluted earnings of $1.65 per share, up 36 percent;
  • Total revenues of $24.5 billion, up 11 percent;
  • Software revenues up 14 percent; pre-tax income up 22 percent;
  • 65 percent of revenues from outside the U.S.; E/ME/A revenues up 16 percent; Asia Pacific up 14 percent; U.S. up 6 percent;

Software revenues were $4.8B, up 14%, with all 5 brands showing Y/Y growth.
Lotus delivered another growth quarter, rising 17% compared to 1Q 2007.
“… revenues for Lotus software, which allows collaborating and messaging by clients in real-time communication and knowledge management, increased 17 percent year over year.”

Sam Palmisano, IBM CEO:
IBM had a very good quarter, and a good start to 2008. These results reinforce our confidence in IBM’s ability to perform well in a dynamic global economy. Our performance is a tribute to the way we have repositioned our company over the past several years, as well as the hard work of IBMers across the globe.

The IBM Social Software story

Israel and Sagi from Blink IT held a workshop earlier this week at TheMarker Com.Vention, focused on Web 2.0 for the business, or Enterprise 2.0.

Blink IT are a Web 2.0 consulting company and IBM BP, working with customers on strategy, web 2.0 adoption, enterprise 2.0 adoption and design. They started off their workshop with some examples of web 2.0 technologies (facebook, twitter, wiki, etc), and then moved on to Enterprise 2.0 best practices – and IBM is leading the pack with several slides.

You can see a social software dashboard on slide 19 (look closely at the picture…), social networking quote from John Rooney on slide 33 and another quote by my close friend Arjan Radder on slide 34. If you want to read more on IBM’s story of Social Software adoption, head over to IBM ‘getting into’ social software case study.

The complete Blink IT presentation (Hebrew/English) is available at slideshare.net.

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