Come Sunday I’m gonna send it to our print house and see how I can make bumper/laptop/window stickers out of it…
After I’ll clear it with Legal/Marketing of course…
Courtesy of Alan
Posts Tagged 'לוטוס נוטס'
Pass it on
Published March 29, 2008 Uncategorized 2 CommentsTags: alan lepofsky, i love, ibm, lotus notes, marketing, לוטוס נוטס
Twitter away…
Published March 29, 2008 Uncategorized ClosedTags: alan lepofsky, bluetwit, ed brill, facebook, ibm, lotus notes, sidebar, twitnotes, twitter, חברתי, טוויטר, לוטוס נוטס, מיקרו בלוגינג, פייסבוק
After 2 ‘silent’ weeks of using Twitter, I decided it’s time to write something about it (much like Ed did). I started with Twitter couple of days before LCTY Israel, after hanging out with Alan for couple of days and seeing how easy it is to update your Facebook/Twitter status on mobile. Blackberrys aren’t that common in Israel, but cellphones are – did you know there are more cellphones devices in Israel than the number of people (population)? Yes, it’s true..
At first I updating my status using text messaging (SMS), until I searched IBM tagged pages (pages other IBMers tagged, using Dogear) and found a super cool extension for Lotus Notes 8.0 – TwitNotes. This super cool extension allows me to update my Twitter/Facebook status, directly from Lotus Notes sidebar. Nice… You can install TwitNotes on your own client here.
I met with some friends the other day and we started talking about this constant updating issue, people twittering all the time, making it easy for ‘big brother’ to follow… One of my friends holds the extreme opinion of blocking anything (even his iPhone BT is set to ‘Hidden’), while I’m more flexible – share more or less, depending on the situation and and body temparture. ‘Resistance is futile‘ I always tell him, but he comes from a strong background of IT Security and Networks, so it’s a dead-end discussion most of the times.
If you’re interested to see how much I do share, become a follower: twitter.com/dvirreznik
IBM’s Commitment to Lotus Notes/Domino
Published March 7, 2008 Uncategorized ClosedTags: alan lepofsky, commitment, future, iphone, lotus notes domino, lotusphere, mac, roadmap, יבמ, לוטוס נוטס, מחוייבות, מפת דרכים
My friend Alan Lepofsky, who’ll be keynoting our Lotus Collaboration Event on March 20th, wrote an excellent post on ‘The Cure for Fear of Commitment‘. Ed Brill also mentioned Alan’s post. Alan posted this in response to a customer’s CIO asking how committed IBM/Lotus is to Notes/Domino family. Instead of sending an email, he posted his thoughts and hard proof on his blog, for all to see and use. Highlights from Alan’s post:
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced:
- The acquisition of Net Integration Technologies leading to the introduction of Lotus Foundations, helping bring Domino to the SMB market.
- Lotus Protector, an integrated suite of messaging security offerings that will augment the security of the Lotus Domino e-mail environment.
- IBM Applications on Demand for Lotus Notes provides Lotus Notes and Domino customers a hosted and managed environment for their mail and collaborative applications.
- The future integration of SAP business processes and Lotus Notes, code named Atlantic
- Lotus Notes 8.5 beta for Apple Mac OS X
- Lotus Notes support for Linux on Ubuntu, Redhat, and Novel SUSE
and
roadmaps*:
- Calendar enhancements including better iCal support and Group calendaring.
- The future Domino Designer running in Eclipse. This will provide developers the modern UI they have been asking for, a ton of new features, including the new XPages design element.
- A new “Web 2.0” makeover for Domino HTTP applications.
- For the Domino server, simplifying Notes Identity management and authentication, options to replace Domino Directory with alternative LDAP directories, optimize and reduce attachment storage, further reduce I/O bandwidth, improved quality of service with the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT), and Dynamic Group Policies.
* All future plans are subject to change!
Head over to Alan’s blog to read the full post.
Alan – see you in Israel next week 🙂
BleedYellow
Published January 20, 2008 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: bleedyellow, collaboration, lotus, lotus connections, lotus911, דביר רזניק, לוטוס, לוטוס נוטס, תוכנות חברתיות
The guys over at Lotus911.com have taken viral marketing to the next level with the creation of bleedyellow.com . Bleedyellow is based on Lotus Connections, and is a place where the Lotus faithful gather to post personal profiles, write blogs, share bookmarks, create communities, track activities, and build applications. You can stroll the site without registration, see the people (Profiles), read the blogs, track favorites (Dogear). To participate, you must register (free).
If you happen to attend Lotusphere right now, I would recommend meeting them – just look for the claws sigh…
IBM vs. Microsoft – Mark Bennett
Published July 16, 2007 Uncategorized 2 CommentsTags: ibm microsoft, mark bennett, notes lotus, יבמ, לוטוס נוטס, מיקרוסופט, תחרות
In the various meetings I attend as Lotus Sales in Israel it always comes down to the same question: what’s the difference between Notes and Outlook? where are the benefits? I’m used to Outlook, why migrate? Most of the remarks are coming from a Microsoft-based companies, that are aware of the limitations Outlook has, in terms of team collaboration and messaging, but they haven’t heard enough about Lotus Notes. As a prefix I’ll explain that Outlook has a very strong hold in Israel, mainly because it was faster to adopt Hebrew in its user interface, which appealed to many businesses.
I read recently an interesting post, from Michael Sampson, a blogger writing about collaboration and effective team management. He interviewed Mark Bennett, the IT manager of a New Zealand based company. Mark has a strong technical background in Microsoft/Citrix technologies and he came right into a Lotus Notes R5 company. His natural instinct was – I’m going to migrate them away from Notes and back to MS Exchange.
- He was horrified, and immediately started talking about an Exchange/Outlook migration. In other words, a classic default position for an IT Manager with a Microsoft background.
Fast forward a few years and he is (a) increasingly convinced of the tremendous value of Notes, (b) increasingly drawn to IBM and repelled by Microsoft, and (c) looking for ways to extend the depth and reach of Notes in the Firm.
How did this transition take place? Mark says, “A little while after I joined, I attended a wider Firm meeting where some of my new colleagues talked about the power of Notes. I kept saying to myself, ‘I didn’t know Notes could do that’. That meeting was a turning point in my appreciation of what Notes could do … and the possibilities for using Notes to Firm advantage.
Lotus Notes is a leading messaging and collaboration software, that enables strong teaming and increases efficiency. You just have to be open for other products, that can bring great value to your business. You can read the full interview here.
