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Talking about Notes 8 GUI

Published June 26, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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It’s been quite a week for me, and it isn’t over yet..
I met with a customer yesterday, presenting Notes/Domino 8. In all fairness I would say that the customer are a subsidiary of an American company, which uses Notes platform, and that’s why they’re considering migrating into Notes. Currently they’re using pop3 format.

After the official part of the presentation I asked the customer his opinion on why Lotus Notes hasn’t succeeded in Israel as it did in Europe and the US. He said that it was the ease of use of Outlook, and the fact that it was available to everyone, as part of the OS (even as Outlook Express). I felt rather pleased with the answer, and I’ll tell you why: the customer didn’t trash the product – in fact he’s aware of the benefits Lotus Notes provide over the competition. It was mostly because the UI (user interface) – which is easy to amend. When I showed them screenshots of Lotus Notes 8 Beta I’m running on my laptop, they were impressed of the improved UI, that is much better than the older versions. That’s good news – the product is better than the competition, and now with the improved UI of Notes 8, it even looks better…
and looks (apparently) does matter… 🙂

And something for the soul – my usual video moment..
There was an SNL-like program (did I just put them on a pedestal or what?!) in Israel, called Eretz Nehederet (=great country). Here’s a short clip I found (on YouTube, where else), from one of the first shows in the last season, based on a hip-hop clip “Here I come”.. enjoy !

Laptop-less, but a survivor

Published June 18, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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It’s hard to imagine being without my laptop. If you own a laptop, and had to be without it (not by choice) – you’ll understand. My ThinkPad T41 is 3 years old in August, and he’s been giving me some problems for some time.. Most were minor (USB related stuff), that had little effect on my daily work, but for the past 2-3 weeks it’s getting worse.. It got stuck coulpe of times, resulting in an abrupt shutdown, using a long press on the power button..
I’ve lost sound as well, on speakers and headphones..

So I had to put it away.. for our tech support..

It’s only been 3 days now, without emails (Lotus Notes 8), IM (Sametime 7.5.1), my 35GB of WPLC related data – and it’s hard.. I do have my favorites at del.icio.us, and used Gmail from time to time, but it’s just not the same.. Google Reader kept me in sync with my feeds, but being away from my data was just too hard. And although many collaboration softwares are available (from IBM and others), I realized I just didn’t use them as much as I like.

Only today I had to give a presentation about Web 2.0 at IBM, using Lotus SW, to a large customer. I realized that all my files are stored on my hard-disk, and I have no remote access to them. There is a security issue, obviously, in putting personal data on a shared spcae, but there are many examples out there of how to make resources available online, shared as well as private.

So, my (new) resolution after this short laptop-less experience is to make a better use of Lotus collaboration software, so I’ll have most of my HOT materials available online, regardless of location and device…

BTW, my laptop is fine – new motherboard, and we’re back to business..

Getting to know the portfolio, web 2.0 style

Published June 12, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, in preparation for my new role. There’s plenty of stuff available at the external software website, and obviously at our internal site, but in the spirit of web 2.0 I’ve been doing some free search, to find out what going outside, with the customers and users.
IBM Lotus Sametime is IBM’s award winning instant messaging collaboration application, which allows for more than just chats.. you can web-conference, voice-conference (VoIP), share and much more – and there are over 15 million users worldwide.. not to mention the security it provides to the corporate business.
My free search also included YouTube (of course), and even there I found this excellent overview video, showcasing Sametime.

There’s also this video about IBM’s latest application in the collaboration era, called Lotus Connections. 5 services in 1 applications, which allows total collaboration for the enterprise.

New challenges ahead

Published June 8, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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It has been quite a week for me, over at work..
For the past 2 years now I have been leading the local IBM Forum team, which serves as the customer and technology center for IBM and its business partners.
Starting July 1st I’ll be responsible for Workplace, Portal and Lotus Collaboration (or WPLC) sales at IBM Software Group. Needless to say I’m very excited about this.

WPLC is not such a diverse field, with Lotus Domino and Notes, Workplace, Lotus Sametime and Websphere based Portal, but it’s highly innovative, and allows for excellent collaboration within the business. Not to mention that WPLC includes almost 50 different products that gives you a wide range of choice, when it comes to building your knowledge platform.

As you know it’s always good to take advantage of technology, so I did some searching using my Google Reader and Google Homepage to find some Notes bloggers. And I found a lot…
So, for my first (and un-official) post at WPLC, here are some bloggers you might want to read. I know I’d like to meet them as well…
Ed Brill, Mary Beth Raven, Alan Lepofsky, developerWorks’ Inside Lotus, Chris Pepin and Rob Novak. There are many many more – drop me a line if you read something you like..

Presentations can make you laugh..

Published April 17, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I’m known to be a fairly good presenter, and I usually lecture on marketing/communication issues at work. Ever since I had to give a lecture about Web 2.0 for Managers, I take great interest in presentations techniques and methods. To stay up-to-date I follow Garr and Guy Kawasaki’s blogs, among others.

This last post from Garr really made me cry from laughter.. it’s amazing how true some of these insights are. I bet most of you have seen, at least once, a slide filled with information, that the presenter just read to you out loud, as if you are 1st graders who can’t read…
You can read the full post and watch more funny videos at PresentationZen.
Life After Death by PowerPoint

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Before I wrap this up, a friendly reminder:
IBM Software Group in Israel will host the SOA by IBM event in May 8th at Avenue. If you want to hear about SOA from business and industry leaders, you are most welcome to attend – it’s free! There are 4 different sessions to choose from, I’m sure you’ll find your spot, and get the answers you need.

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