E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for the Mac and Lotus Sametime 8 – Full Integration Nirvana

Last couple of days from last week have been incredibly busy at work and didn’t give me much of a chance to go ahead and create a blog post over here. I guess that being featured on the corporate Intranet Web site to share your story on how you have moved away from e-mail can surely be a hit for various different folks! Well, that’s just what happened last week and still going on this week. Not to worry, I shall be blogging shortly on my take of what has happened last week as far as my new adventure of re-purposing e-mail is concerned.

However, for this blog post I just wanted to share one more thing towards what I call integration nirvana on the Mac! Yes, that is right, if not long ago I mentioned how I was actually quite happy with having Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for the Mac up and running and how a few days later I managed to get working as well IBM’s Lotus Sametime 8 standalone on the Mac, here we go with the next achievement in that integration nirvana on the Mac!

Yes, that is right! That is a screen shot of my Lotus Notes 8.5 beta for the Mac, fully integrated with the embedded version of IBM’s Lotus Sametime 8 and all of that connected to through the main Messaging server we use at IBM. I know that for most folks this may sound like "Well, big deal! So what?", but to me, this surely confirms the commitment that I can now kiss good-bye my Windows environment and welcome the Mac as my new productivity tool to get the job done at work, just as effectively as I could have done it on Windows, or, better, said, ever so much more effectively!

And it works beautifully, too without hindering my machine to a haul whenever I have multiple applications open. In this case the MacBook Pro is rather happy to allow me to keep working without having to go through innumerous issues.

Next challenge? Getting Lotus Sametime Unyte to work on the Mac from a presenter’s perspective to do seamless screen / file sharing! Wooohooo! Full integration nirvana coming through!!

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IBM Lotus Enterprise 2.0 Workshop Event – Madrid, March 2008

One of the things that I have noticed over the course of the last few weeks, is how 2008 is turning out to be that kind of a year where instead of going to some major conference events I keep getting invited to much smaller ones,  where I am much more in contact with my peers at work, as well as with customers and business partners. So far I have been putting together a number of different abstracts to various places and so far only a couple, later in the year, seem to have accepted. However, it looks like every time I get turned down for an event I get invited to two of three different smaller events with a customer exposure.

Thus if yesterday I mentioned that on the first week of March I will be in Zürich presenting at Lotusphere Comes To You, just a few hours ago I got the confirmation as well that I will be participating at a workshop in Madrid, Spain, around the subject of Lotus Enterprise 2.0, taking place on March 14th for over three hours.

This surely is going to be one of those events that I will be looking forward to, since it would give me the opportunity to go through a slide deck, which I’ll be sharing over here shortly, on Social Computing @ IBM, but at the same time I will have enough time as well to be able to demo extensively some of the different IBM social software tools we use both internally and externally and show their value to enhance our various knowledge sharing and collaboration experiences.

So instead of having to rush off through a whole bunch of tools, show how they work and how IBMers are taking much benefit from making use of them, I would be able to spend a good time picking up some of the most popular ones and demonstrate what the fuss is all about and why they are having such a massive impact in our daily interactions. The event is going to take place at an IBM location, so I am sure the network connection would be good enough for me to share some insights on how it actually went.

I am now currently finalising the last few details, but there is a great chance that I will be arriving there Thursday evening, and staying over the weekend as well, so if you fancy getting together for a drink or two, or just hooking up, do let me know or contact me offline. I will also be updating my Dopplr profile, once I get a chance to book everything. Stay tuned …

Tags: IBM, Lotus, Lotus Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Media, Collaboration, Remote Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, KM, Knowledge Management, Learning, Communities, Learning, Events, Madrid, Spain, Dopplr

IBM Lotusphere Comes To You – Social Computing at IBM – Zürich, March 2008

If you are one of the folks who follow me in Dopplr, you would know that I am going to be on the road very soon again. Yes, that is right. March 2nd I will be going to Zürich, Switzerland, once again. This time around to attend IBM‘s Lotusphere Comes to You event where I will be one of the keynote speakers giving a session on Social Computing @ IBM.

This particular conference is part of a series of events that will be taking place over the course of the next few months all over the world, and which tries to extend further the amazing experience of Lotusphere 2008 (Which I have blogged about quite extensively just recently).

In Zürich I will actually be covering a 45 minute long presentation talking about Social Computing @ IBM and how IBM is driving the usage and adoption of social software within the corporate firewall and beyond for its knowledge workers, customers and business partners. Then right after my session Ron Sebastian will be doing another session where he is going to spend some time, and demo, some of the new tools coming out from IBM Lotus, which promises to be rather enlightening getting to find out some more on what was shown during Lotusphere 2008.

My slide deck is now done and although I am not sure whether I would be able to share it openly over here, I am just going to wait for a few days till I find out whether I can do it or not. At the same time, I am hoping that I may be able to record the audio of my pitch and share it as well along with the slide deck. We shall see.

After the "Lotusphere Comes To You" event I am going to stay over there the whole week long in various customer workshops & meetings talking, of course, around the topic of social networking, social software and why businesses should pay attention to it, along with spending some time detailing how some of the most popular social software tools actually work.

This basically means that I will be in Zürich the whole week long, and plan on returning back home on Saturday the 8th of March 2008. So here I am putting together this blog post, so that if you are around and would want to get together for a drink or two, or for hanging out, just get in touch or contact me offline. I will be looking forward to meet up folks while in there, and knowing that the Internet connection will be quite reliable I am hoping to be able to blog or twitter on the event and give you a sense of what will be happening. It will be my first Lotusphere Comes To You event, and I am surely looking forward to it!!

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