I had a question regarding WebSphere Portal security the other day which I thought I would share as my answer tries to explain the basics. Customer Question: The services that we are seeking about would fall into two categories: 1. Services that are physically deployed within the Portal (as portlets attached to portlet pages) 2. [...]

I was working with a customer that was experiencing some server crashes. Within the problem record IBM support talk about using LAZA. Unfortunately I didn’t know what this was but Mr Google knew someone who did – Badkdey Corner.  However this information was pretty old so I thought I would see what IBM had to [...]

late night surfing on the web…enjoy Creep Chilli Peppers God only knows – beach boys  Blink 182 The final countdown (the best so far) Tom Cruise Crazy is my fav ) Next time I have time on my hands I might go see what the bagpipe folk are doing!! )

When I think about methods of promotion and social networks my head is stuck in the digital world of blogs, games, Google ads.   I asked myself maybe I should focus on the physical world – a very novel thought I am sure you will agree.  I composed a short list of physical world marketing: [...]

In the post model a social network we looked at how a social network of people interact with each other.  We also looked at the types of measurements that would be useful when measuring the success of a marketing campaign.  In this post we talk about the 12 steps to create a launchpoint for our [...]

If anyone has a pre-exisitng OpenSim Grid in New Zealand and is looking to pilot this technology please get in contact with me and I can pass on your details to IBM Research.

As discussed in this post we are delivering free Lotus Foundations training in Auckland and Wellington on the following dates:

17th March – Auckland, location TBC, 9am – 5pm

19th March – Wellington, location TBC, 9am – 5pm

Lots of great information about Lotus Foundations can be found on Sean Burgess and Bilal Faffery’s blog site.

Please fill in this form if you are interested in attending.

I had a stimulating conversation with a World Wide Marketing manager for a blue chip organisation yesterday where discussed how to we measure the effectiveness of Social Software. As a marketeer the focus was on how these tools effect marketing campaigns, customer service and lead generation.

For many of us the use of virtual worlds such as OpenSim and Secondlife provides business benefit when we can extend the existing collaboration tools such as web-based teamrooms, instant messaging, telephone conference calls etc.

IBM Research has released a demo of a group of meeting participants moving from an online chat conference to a virtual world 3D interface for collaboration.

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