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Synch.rono.us http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/ en-us Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:34 -0400 Calling those with first hand experiences selecting, prototyping, integrating, and managing IBM products! Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:34 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02122010095334AMSOMKGK.htm ibm Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02122010095334AMSOMKGK.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02122010095334AMSOMKGK.htm Calling all people with first hand experiences selecting, prototyping, integrating, and managing IBM products! We're trying to make our products more cohesive, consistent and easy to integrate in your environment, and we need your help in completing a survey. Your answers will be provide to our development teams to alleviate the problem. The survey can be done on any IBM product, but obviously we would love your feedback on Lotus products!

The survey will take anywhere between 20-30 minutes to complete, and it must be completed in a single browser session (you can't save a partial survey). We know this is a large chunk of your time, but we really do appreciate you participating and offering us your experiences.

To complete this survey, please go to:
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If you need to enter a code, please enter blog_synchronous. Thanks again! ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/02122010095334AMSOMKGK.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02122010095334AMSOMKGK.htm?opendocument&comments Special offer on our book, IBM Lotus Connections 2.5: Planning and Implementing Social Software for Your Enterprise Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:46:14 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02042010084614AMSOMJ6G.htm Suzanne Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02042010084614AMSOMJ6G.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02042010084614AMSOMJ6G.htm
If you haven't purchased our new book yet, you can take advantage of a special offer from the publisher. The book covers many aspects of working with Lotus Connections 2.5, including business considerations (authored by one of our top adoption experts at IBM!), technical considerations, extending Connections, and using it. Here's the official book description and a information on how to get the special offer:

In this book, a team of IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 experts thoroughly introduces the newest product and covers every facet of planning, deploying, and using it successfully. The authors cover business and technical issues and present IBM’s proven, best-practices methodology for successful implementation. The authors begin by helping managers and technical professionals identify opportunities to use social networking for competitive advantage–and by explaining how Lotus Connections 2.5 places full-fledged social networking tools at their fingertips. IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 carefully describes each component of the product–including profiles, activities, blogs, communities, easy social bookmarking, personal home pages, and more. The book contains practical coverage of administering Lotus Connections 2.5 and detailed guidance of integrating and extending Lotus Connections 2.5.

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]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/02042010084614AMSOMJ6G.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02042010084614AMSOMJ6G.htm?opendocument&comments Community Landing Page Experience Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:34:48 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02032010103447AMJRULAC.htm connections communities landingpage design Joseph Russo http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02032010103447AMJRULAC.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02032010103447AMJRULAC.htm
After hearing lots of feedback and comments from customers, I've been thinking about how to redesign this experience and it seems to fall into these categories;

1. New user

When a new user, someone who's not joined any or just a small # (3 or less, or some other reasonable small #) it probably makes sense to give them these default views, first Public and then My...though we could improve this slightly with the addition that When a user is logged in, the default view is indeed My Communities

2. Not so new user

We'd figure this out by something clever, but regardless, in this case, I've been trying to think of why this person would come to the communities page...and I have a few scenarios

a. they want to search or otherwise find a community - so we need to make searching and tag filtering front and center
b. they would love to see a roll up of things that have gone on in their communities, so that they get info at a glance that would help them decide to look further, or not. Today we just have this My Communities page that lists by most recent update

3. Passionate Contributor

This is someone who's interested in one or more topics, in the community (or communities) – they want to get a pulse for what is going on, detailed pulse, in the places they are passionate about. And of course, they especially want to see things going on around contributions they've made.

4. Owners

They need to maintain and manage, as well as encourage their communities. They also want to know how well they are reaching their audience, how well they are serving their members...and they want to seek out new members, find more people that would be interested in their community.

5. Expert advice seeker

This person needs to get content and find people who have useful information around some topic or area this person is seeking.

For each of us, we probably fall into more that one of these categories and I believe that we can do a service to each of these categories with the right kind of landing page experience and actions.

Let's look at the needs in bullet form:

Newbie

1. list of communities (public ones)
2. abstract info (tags, description, perhaps size) about the community
3. what is hot – where is there a lot of action going on
4. needs to be easy/obvious on how to engage – not just being able to join easily but engage (like respond to a forum topic)
5. what is here that pertains to me, what is here that I care about

So this means we need to emphasize;

Public communities – not my communities
Community business card on hover to give feel for how this all works
better detail in list views;
a. logo (mini logo)
b. title
c. description

Encourage people to join from this UI
using the work of SaND (things related to me in some way) emphasize those communities
What is my network doing here – or people in my org, show me those communities

Not so new user

Emphasize
Communities I am a member of
Communities I am following
What my network is doing
what's hot/what's going on in these communities
Doesn't want to see so much detail (meta data, desc, tags) about these communities, but rather, show me the latest action (like last 3 things that happened – of interest, not member junk so much (unless it's someone in my network), show me things like forum/files/activity/wiki actions

Passionate Contributor

So similar to the Not so new user, but the top most things need to be around the stuff I am very interested in...so maybe we need to emphasize the forum topics you've created and has been responded to, or files you've added, and not so much the communities per-se – the list views here may be better served to show content and action on that content, and secondarily show you which communities these came from

Owners

Top most stuff...the communities I own
What's been happening, maybe more emphasis on the amount of stuff that's gone on recently
Also, are there any pressing actions I need to take (like respond to requests to join? Flagged content? Moderation duties?)

Seeker

Give me a search query and result roll up that let's me see relevant content, relevant people and relevant communities, each area and of course, the intersection of these three areas...allow me to learn as much as I can here and then, let me dive into an area (pivot) when it seems like it may be well suited to my needs

Let's look at some simple page layouts that meet these needs

For the newbie, we see the list of Public Communities and each community in the list shows the logo, (in a large size), the community name, description and tags, and then if there are any people in the community this person knows...as well as showing any actions they can take (like join).

Also we show recommended communities and what the people in the newbie's network are doing here in the community space.

For the Not so new user and the Passionate contributor, we have;

Here these users would land on “My Communities”, and instead of seeing an reiteration of the description, etc for each community they instead would see a few of the most recent things that happened in the community. Also, we show a smaller logo, they just need to identify the community, the logo can be less prominent here. They could even hover over one of these action links to see a little more in this view so they could decide to jump into the community to investigate more. Also, this list of most recent would be weighted to show responses to any particular content that was contributed by the user viewing, (i.e., I would see responses to things I said or did in the community).

Now, for owners, we have;

Here, owners would see My Communities view too..and would have a filter to show, “Communities I own” - now, we can't default to this view on landing, BUT, we could do something like save that filter setting (“show just communities I own”) so that when I revisit this page, it remembers that I have that filter checked.

The thing here is we also use the condensed view of the community with smaller logo and just title. Like the previous UI, we show the 3 most recent actions (and weighted to this particular user) – but we also add in two other things. First, some statistics, about membership changes, content contribution and view count. We also let them know if there any outstanding actions they need to address, like membership requests or things like content moderation, or whatever.

Finally, the “seeker” needs to see results for their query, but, we should also wrap that in the same kind of experience where they can discover more...

Here we see a list of results for this query, and we also see the community related to the result (where the user can click to go to the community OR hover to get the community business card to pop) and also the relevant people, with their business cards available as well.

So, now it's your turn. I'd love to hear what you think about this kind of landing page experience for communities.
]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/02032010103447AMJRULAC.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/02032010103447AMJRULAC.htm?opendocument&comments Getting ready for the Lotusphere 2010 Opening General Session Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:46:15 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01162010044615PMSOMTJH.htm lotusphere2010 Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01162010044615PMSOMTJH.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01162010044615PMSOMTJH.htm blog here. It's hard to believe we're only a few days away! ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/01162010044615PMSOMTJH.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01162010044615PMSOMTJH.htm?opendocument&comments Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 with Lotus Widget Factory and Google gadgets Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:30:00 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01102009111108PMDAB6WZ.htm google David A Brooks http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01102009111108PMDAB6WZ.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01102009111108PMDAB6WZ.htm article by Vincent Burckhardt explains, with concrete examples, how to use Lotus Widget Factory as a development tool to create real world widgets. The article also outlines how to leverage the catalog of Google Gadgets to extend Lotus Connections. Enjoy.

Vincent Burckhardt is a Software Engineer at the IBM Dublin Software Laboratory. Vincent has been working as part of the IBM Lotus Connections development team since 2007.
]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/01102009111108PMDAB6WZ.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01102009111108PMDAB6WZ.htm?opendocument&comments Lotusphere awaits Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:01:27 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01082010040112PMJRUSNC.htm lotusphere lotusphere2010 connections UX design Joseph Russo http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01082010040112PMJRUSNC.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01082010040112PMJRUSNC.htm
Also, I'm going to be giving a presentation on Lotus Connections, along with Bill Looby, we'll be talking about customization across the entire product, touching things end users can do to customize Lotus Connections and touching on a scant few of the many many ways developers can customize and extend Lotus Connections. It's under the development track AD301.

See you there!
]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/01082010040112PMJRUSNC.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01082010040112PMJRUSNC.htm?opendocument&comments Detailed guide on setting up Lotus Connections in a network deployment. Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:22:04 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01072010122204AMDAB8BD.htm david David A Brooks http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01072010122204AMDAB8BD.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01072010122204AMDAB8BD.htm Lotus Connections Wiki, the IBM system verification team has provided some sample deployment scenarios for Lotus Connections. These deployment scenarios are based on actual environments configured during the product testing phase. They include common combinations of software products that have been tested and reviewed.

If your looking to setup Lotus Connections in a clustered environment, these are great step by step reference guides with many details around tuning, ssl, sso, and many other important steps for a successful deployment - outlined in an easy to follow guide.
]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/01072010122204AMDAB8BD.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01072010122204AMDAB8BD.htm?opendocument&comments Lotusphere is coming fast! Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:55:21 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01062010075521AMSOMH6P.htm Lotusphere2010 Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01062010075521AMSOMH6P.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01062010075521AMSOMH6P.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/01062010075521AMSOMH6P.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/01062010075521AMSOMH6P.htm?opendocument&comments Glue for Lotus Connections Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:42:25 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009124225PMSOMNS3.htm plugin Suzanne O Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009124225PMSOMNS3.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009124225PMSOMNS3.htm Glue for Lotus Connections is an Adobe Air client that allows you to update your status, view status updates and responses from across your network and your organization. They have a unique feature as well that allows you to view and download Connections Files - very handy!

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From the Glue team (follow them @connectionsglue):

The team behind Glue consists of a few independent developers that are in love with social networking and building things. We have been in and around Lotus products for much of our careers and we originally heard about Connections on the blogosphere.

After using Connections on the Greenhouse we found ourselves wanting more capabilities. We began wondering if there were better ways to microblog within the tool. Being avid users of the TweetDeck application for Twitter, we decided to tackle the challenge of creating a robust cross platform application for Connections that would help organizations stay connected.

Glue makes it easier to microblog within Connections
Glue makes it easier to search profiles on Connections
Glue makes it easier to browse Files on Connections
Glue will soon integrate with Twitter (beginning of 2010)
and.. Glue will continue to grow

When creating Glue we kept the user experience at the forefront of the design. Our goal was to build Glue to make it easier for employees to leverage the power of Connections. We have found that Glue's users are actively more engaged in Connections than others.

We welcome all feedback and we encourage you to join the dozens of organizations that are trying out Glue today.

Jeff is the President of Glue, LTD.

Stephanie is the Lead Product Engineer ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/12242009124225PMSOMNS3.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009124225PMSOMNS3.htm?opendocument&comments Developing Software "Socially" Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:34:18 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009113418AMSOMMFJ.htm suzanne Suzanne O Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009113418AMSOMMFJ.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009113418AMSOMMFJ.htm a link to a video describing Mainsoft's integration efforts of Lotus Connections and Rational Team Concert. Well, not too long ago, more information was released in InfoWorld, CMSWire, Search Software Quality, and more regarding Mainsoft's press release on the topic. One of the benefits of this type of integration is the context it provides for engineers and for project stakeholders. For example, during my development experience, I can recall a number of occasions where a system requirement would come across my desk and I would ask myself where the issue came from or why it was important or how the end user will ultimately leverage the requirement. This type of integration connects the individual tasks and line items required to complete a project with the stakeholders who are depending on their completion, allowing engineers to publish a work item to a community or activity to solicit feedback and interact with request owners or even end users. It goes beyond that as well, providing a means for engineers to interact with each other as well. If you are interested in learning more, you can download the Mainsoft technology preview from their site here. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/12242009113418AMSOMMFJ.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12242009113418AMSOMMFJ.htm?opendocument&comments List of Lotus Connections Sessions at Lotusphere Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:35:03 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12172009093503AMSOMK4Y.htm lotusphere Suzanne Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12172009093503AMSOMK4Y.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12172009093503AMSOMK4Y.htm If you haven't seen it yet, there is a list of Lotus Connections session being developed here in the wiki! Be sure to check them out!

For a list of all sessions, check out the Lotusphere site here. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/12172009093503AMSOMK4Y.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/12172009093503AMSOMK4Y.htm?opendocument&comments IBM.com has been upgraded to Connections 2.5 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:20:23 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11202009102022AMSOMKZA.htm suzanne Suzanne Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11202009102022AMSOMKZA.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11202009102022AMSOMKZA.htm IBM.com/communities site, which has been updated with the latest release of Lotus Connections, version 2.5. With this new version, your IBM.com communities have many more capabilities, such as file sharing, activities, and more, and you may start to see communities you are a member of adopt some of these new services. As a community owner, you will see the new palette of drag and drop features to use, shown below. Also check out microblogging in the profile and the new files and wiki services up there! You can log in with your normal IBM ID and PW.

Image:IBM.com has been upgraded to Connections 2.5

Some of the most popular Communities include

IBM PartnerWorld Community

The Worldwide IBM ECM Community

IBM Tivoli Software Main Community

IBM Service Management community

IBM Cloud Computing community

IBM Security Community

IBM Storage Community

The Collaboration Soapbox

IBM SOA Business Partner Community

Pulse conference community

]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/11202009102022AMSOMKZA.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11202009102022AMSOMKZA.htm?opendocument&comments Congrats to the Websphere Commerce team for launching version 7 - with Lotus Connections intergation! Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:56:59 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11122009105809AMSOMLQ5.htm lotus-connections Suzanne Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11122009105809AMSOMLQ5.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11122009105809AMSOMLQ5.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/11122009105809AMSOMLQ5.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11122009105809AMSOMLQ5.htm?opendocument&comments Lotus Connections and Rational Team Concert Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:44:02 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11052009104359AMDABLG3.htm david David A Brooks http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11052009104359AMDABLG3.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11052009104359AMDABLG3.htm blog. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/11052009104359AMDABLG3.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11052009104359AMDABLG3.htm?opendocument&comments Lotus Knows screen saver Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:55:38 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11042009025538PMSOMRDC.htm baan Baan Slavens http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11042009025538PMSOMRDC.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11042009025538PMSOMRDC.htm

You asked for it and now its here... the Lotus Knows screen saver for windows is available for download. ENJOY!

Screen saver for Windows -- download (730K) here:

Link: The Collaboration Soapbox: Lotus knows you need a screensaver > ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/11042009025538PMSOMRDC.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/11042009025538PMSOMRDC.htm?opendocument&comments IBM Lotus Connections Design Article Published Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:21:29 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10272009022129PMSOMPJG.htm ethan Ethan Perry http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10272009022129PMSOMPJG.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10272009022129PMSOMPJG.htm article on the ibm.com web site. We have a featured story in the IBM Design Software gallery. The article includes a description of the team and the design challenges we identified and focused on. We also discuss some of the process we go through to create the user experience designs for Lotus Connections - including how we use social software to create our social software designs. And there is a detailed demo movie highlighting some of the key design themes in the new 2.5 release.

Let us know what you think of the article and if there are other aspects of the user experience design you would like to learn more about. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/10272009022129PMSOMPJG.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10272009022129PMSOMPJG.htm?opendocument&comments New book on Social Networking for the Enterprise Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:11:40 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10192009101140AMSOMJND.htm book Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10192009101140AMSOMJND.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10192009101140AMSOMJND.htm Check out this new IBM Press book:

Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise: Guidelines and Examples for Implementation and Management Within Your Organization by Joey Bernal

This book provides hands-on, start-to-finish guidance for business and IT decision-makers who want to drive value from Web 2.0 and social networking technologies. IBM expert Joey Bernal systematically identifies business functions and innovations these technologies can enhance and presents best-practice patterns for using them in both internal- and external-facing applications. Drawing on the immense experience of IBM and its customers, Bernal addresses both the business and technical issues enterprises must manage to succeed. He offers insights and case studies covering multiple technologies, including AJAX, REST, Atom/RSS, enterprise taxonomies, tagging, folksonomies, portals, mashups, blogs, wikis, and more. He also presents practical guidance for building robust, secure, collaborative applications by using applications and services from multiple sources with powerful tools such as WebSphere Portal, Lotus Connections, and IBM Mashup Center. The book is at your favorite retailers such as Amazon, BN.com & more. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/10192009101140AMSOMJND.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10192009101140AMSOMJND.htm?opendocument&comments Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-ins are now live Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:17:11 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10152009031711PMSOMQMB.htm plugins Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10152009031711PMSOMQMB.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10152009031711PMSOMQMB.htm Business Catalog:

IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal (NEW)
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for IBM Lotus Sametime
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Business Card (NEW)
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Plug-in for Microsoft SharePoint (NEW)

We also delivered plug-ins into Notes 8.5.1 (eGA October 12), including an updated Activities sidebar & the new Business Card. ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/10152009031711PMSOMQMB.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/10152009031711PMSOMQMB.htm?opendocument&comments What kinds of education do you need for Lotus Connections? Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:37:07 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09282009013707PMSOMNNS.htm education Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09282009013707PMSOMNNS.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09282009013707PMSOMNNS.htm

Product Documentation / InfoCenter - Includes planning, installation, deployment and basic usage

The Lotus Connections Wiki - Covers a variety of development and administration topics, security, getting started using Connections,

Lotus Connections Reviewers Guide - An in depth look at the features and how they work

and a host of information on DeveloperWorks, demos, and articles on specialized topics.

We also have a course you can enroll in on Implementing Lotus Connections. We'd like to know what kinds of classes would you want to take on Connections? Would you favor an online or in person class on the topic you propose? ]]> http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dxcomments/09282009013707PMSOMNNS.htm http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09282009013707PMSOMNNS.htm?opendocument&comments Customers using Lotus Connections 2.5 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0400 http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09222009100826AMSOMJLC.htm connections2.5 Suzanne O Minassian-Livingston http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09222009100826AMSOMJLC.htm?opendocument&comments http://synch.rono.us/social/blog.nsf/dx/09222009100826AMSOMJLC.htm

For Lotus Connections beta program participant Sogeti, a Capgemini subsidiary specializing in technology services, there was a great need to connect the firm's 20,000 people spread across 200 offices in 14 countries. Following an extensive analysis, where all available options were reviewed, Sogeti turned to Lotus Connections for its social networking and collaborative functionality.

“Our people are our only and most valuable asset. We needed a powerful tool to connect our people all over the world, providing them with a social platform that would allow them to share information and collaborate,” said Michiel Boreel, CTO at Sogeti Group. “We chose Lotus Connections because it is a powerful collaboration platform that goes way beyond simple sharing of documents and furthermore, it is people centric instead of project or document centric. We believe that this is the future of collaboration and we want to position ourselves in the frontline of this new trend.”

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