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Using Enterprise Microblogging for Q&A

Alan Lepofsky — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:00:35 AM -0400

Hi Graham. Thank you for the question. Instant messaging suffers from the exact same limitations as email:

1. Audience reach. With chat you target the communication by clicking on the name(s) in your contact list) to a specific person(s), rather than conversing openly. You're not interacting with everyone. Take the example above about asking an HR question, how would chat get you the answer?

2. Discovery. The information from instant message sessions is locked away in the chat history, thus only available to the people involved in the chat. Others in the company can not benefit from the knowledge.

Using Enterprise Microblogging for Q&A

Graham Dodge — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:44:06 PM -0500

And this is better than Lotus Sametime because... ?

Animated Tables

Creative ways to use Notes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:52:07 PM -0500

Alan - this is a great posting Thank you!

Is there a way to include hotlinks in the row of text? If I want to have some text in each row (and include a hotlink for more information).

Thanks again!

Not Now, I’m Busy!

Alan Lepofsky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:12:27 PM -0500

I Peter. I suggest contacting your Admin and telling them what version of the client and mail template you are using, and what error is occurring.

Sharing Status Updates Reduces Duplication Of Work

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:58:10 AM -0500

Hi Volker. Thanks for bringing up a good point, one that I did not explain above.

There are dozens of ways of telling people what you're doing. Skype, Gtalk, AIM, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. How internal microblogging differs significantly is that I share different information internally with my colleagues than I do externally with the public, or with my friends/family/followers. For example, I don't discuss information about a customer account externally, but internally I do all the time. For example, if I update my status as "Getting on a call with customer X", someone in Support might reply with "FYI, we're currently working with them on their latest bug report."

I also very rarely update my Skype status, as it is not "in the flow" of the work I'm doing. Since I'm in Socialtext all the time creating content, looking at my activity stream, viewing coworkers profiles, etc... updating my status is simple, I don't have to leave the context of what I'm already doing.

Thanks again for bringing this up.

Sharing Status Updates Reduces Duplication Of Work

Volker Weber — Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:30:30 AM -0500

This does not apply to your Skype status, or does it?

Not Now, I’m Busy!

Peter — Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:51:05 AM -0500

Hi, whet I want to take a "Follow Up - Quick Flag", i get this message: Operation Failed

Can You help me?

Creating a simple HTML signature file

Alan Lepofsky — Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:26:18 PM -0500

Deana, change the line:

to

Link } align=left>

Using Social Software To Accelerate Business Performance

Andrew J. Leer — Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:05:55 PM -0500

I look forward to your posts. I work in an office with alot of old schoolers and they just don't get the value of blogs/close collaboration. Sounds awesome!

Creating a simple HTML signature file

Deana — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:34:09 AM -0500

I am trying to add our company logo to our email signature, but I dont know how to add an image witht the text layout. I wantthe image to appear on top of the text. How do I create this?

Very cool new 3D History Browser Plugin For Notes

Alan Lepofsky — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:48:14 PM -0500

Hiro, thank you so much for the responses. I can't wait to try out the Mac version. Keep up the excellent work.

Very cool new 3D History Browser Plugin For Notes

Hiroyuki Okamoto — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:43:26 PM -0500

Alan,

Thank you for introducing this app.

The app renders graphics using OpenGL to utilize hi speed hardware rendering. (OpenGL is used in many 3D graphic games such as Doom or Quake.) The app uses Sun's JOGL - Java API for OpenGL, that consists of a couple of java .jar files and dll files (or shared libraries). Currently the app contains only Windows dll files. Now Im testing Mac and Linux version of the app. (I needed to modify my source code a little bit to support those platforms.) and actually the Mac version is working on my Mac. So give me a week or two. I will update the version. This app is still young. Please feel free to visit OpenNTF.org and post any questions or comments. I would like many people to try it out, and need to fix bugs and improve the app. That's how the open source project work. :)

Carl,

> Yes the developer can make the install

Yeah. actually that's a bug. Eclipse in Notes has a mechanism to install/update plugins. All I have to do is to fix the feature.xml in the zip file, then should be ok.

> So this plug-in isn't really a history right, it's more a view of your open tabs at the moment?

It displays a list of the application tabs you have selected/switched before (rather than opened) on the current tab. (The app is not a separate app tab.) When you restart Notes, the app still remembers the last 30 tabs you have selected before. (see the animation on { Link } )

mdmadph,

probably there might be many reasons. In my case, I could not include Mac version in the initial release, because the Mac version had a crash problem somewhere in JOGL layer. (Now it is working on my Mac, but Im still testing the app on Mac.) Also, Im still testing the app on some Linux machines. After finishing the test on Mac and Linux, I will release the new version of the app (for Mac and Linux).

Thanks,

Hiro

Very cool new 3D History Browser Plugin For Notes

mdmadph — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:49:40 AM -0500

Yeah, it's usually anything to do with 3D or any kind of composite rendering -- I have the same problem with certain Firefox extensions. They work only on Windows.

Very cool new 3D History Browser Plugin For Notes

Alan Lepofsky — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:41:28 AM -0500

Hey Carl. Thanks, "making native OS calls" makes sense, I get it.

I don't know if it is history or currently open, as I've not been able to use it yet. :-)

Very cool new 3D History Browser Plugin For Notes

Carl Tyler — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:32:31 AM -0500

Yes the developer can make the install so that it only installs on the correct supported version of Notes and OS etc.

Concerning why this stuff is not cross platform, well within eclipse you can still get access to native OS functions, if the developer does that then it won't be cross platform..

My personal peeve with plug-ins, is that IBM often breaks them between releases, for example some plug-ins that work fine on Sametime 8.0.1 break in 8.0.2, things like that are very irritating.

So this plug-in isn't really a history right, it's more a view of your open tabs at the moment?

Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Tweets

Alan Lepofsky — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:50:23 PM -0500

Audrey, we'll add an extra layer to the triangle for you.

View Your Calendar vs. View Your Schedule

Alan Lepofsky — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:14:55 PM -0500

Hi Valerie. Here is the document from the Lotus Notes 7.0 help file:

{ Link }

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

Alan Lepofsky — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:34:16 PM -0500

Go Norway! ;-)

View Your Calendar vs. View Your Schedule

Valerie Andersen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:28:19 PM -0500

We have Lotus Notes 7 at work. I cannot find the Preferences screen where it allows you to change "Access to Schedule." My schedule shows "info restricted" in the group calendar I set up (even to me!). I didn't specifically restrict access to my schedule so I'm not sure why it is showing up this way. Please help me to find the section where I can change my schedule access. Thanks.

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

Tim Haugen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:08:00 PM -0500

Interesting. Being from North Dakota, it always surprised me that it seems like no one knows about the International Peace Garden.

The "stronger economy" comment is in comparison to California....

It reminded me of this piece by another Canadian journalist, Gordon Sinclair - from 1973:

{ Link } (including the link to urban legend site because it clarifies that it is legitimate, but written in 1973, not 2001).

Of course, being Norwegian, I have to point out current Olympic medal counts:

USA -- 26 medals - population 308,745,000

Germany -- 23 medals - population 81,757,600

Norway -- 17 medals - population 4,858,200

Russia -- 13 medals - population 141,927,297

Canada -- 11 medals - population 34,012,000