I have been asked a couple of times this week for the comparison between Lotus Sametime Entry (the free one with Lotus Domino) and the Lotus Sametime Standard (the one that you pay license fees for).  Many thanks to Gary Wickham for sending me this matrix document which is very useful in working out the [...]

Lotus Sametime 3D is currently in pilot.  Luckily for me I now have access to the IBM servers so I thought I would quickly  document the install, configuration and first time access to a Lotus Sametime 3D virtual world.   It is really exciting to be able to access the servers, I think this is [...]

Together we can work smarter goes the tag line of this new promotional document from IBM’s collaboration software brand Lotus.    Its a nice document that can be freely distributed to those interested in the types of benefits IBM and Lotus can deliver to clients. Have a read and download form Scribd! We can work [...]

Here is an interview with Chris Brogan about social media.  I lot of interesting points; You should spend 2 hours answering tweet, blog comments and email, this will actually decrease your email and improve your customer relationships. The cost of a full page advertisement in the herald is the same as employing a community manager [...]

A common question is around the mobility strategy – how do you synch Lotus email to a blackberry, symbian and windows mobile. The answers are straight forward: Lotus email synchronisation to Blackberry requires a BES server Lotus email synchronisation to Symbian and Windows requires Lotus traveller To help Clarify the strategy here are a couple of presentations [...]

This document was created by my colleague Kevin Wilson part of my extended team within the Australia and New Zealand Lotus group.  He has created this great document to help customers and business partners understand the business value for upgrading to Domino v8.5.  If you need a editable copy of the document please let me [...]

Here is an overview presentation on Alloy.  Its a general IBM preso so it covers all themain areas including a couple of charts on architecture. Worth a look if you are interested in SAP integration, Alloy – SAP Integration View more presentations from chrissparshott.

As a business partner or an IBM customer you might want to have an instant message conversation to ask a quick question.  You can!  With an IBM id which you get from the IBM web site by registering you can chat to any IBM employee – all you need is their email address! Here is [...]

I have just started a community group on LinkedIn for Lotus folk in New Zealand.  On the discussion forum Mark Bennet from Salvation Army asked what was the most useful feature or extension in Lotus Notes.  Paul Graham from Crossware mentioned SwiftFile. In honour of his liking for the Swift file I quickly recorded a [...]

I have been looking at Alloy of late and I have been asked for some education on the subject. I have a bunch of presentations from ad-hoc education that might be useful. If anyone wants a copy (its quite big) let me know and I will give you an ftp logon to download. In the [...]