The deck is split into three areas:

1. Potential

2. Practicality

3. Reality

Potential looks at what can be achieved using Social Software tools. This section is delivered as a story of my work day flying to Wellington NZ for a customer presentation

Practicality goes into feature function land by demonstrating lots of product features in the form of different usage scenarios e.g. finding expertise, finding colleagues with a common interest etc – all these demonstrations are delivered using pre-built videos.

Reality looks at how you actually deliver all the capabilities discussed including deployment options and support statements.

If you want to get hold of the original then please let me know at chris_sparshott@nz1.ibm.com

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A couple of simple examples would be Google Chrome and the view of your popular web pages and Lotus Notes’ Workplace view.  The visual icon UI interface is really easy to interact with – it just adds an additional emphasis on the icon that you use – an extra navigation ui component.

Here is a video explaining my thoughts.

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Here is a short video explain a UI option within Lotus Notes v8.5.

The application is a dynamic address book that lets you search for people across multiple accounts and social networks as well as in the popular CRM system, Salesforce, Whitepages, Yellowpages, and Yelp. But CallSpark isn’t simply a useful address book service, it also lets you view real-time information about whoever you’re calling. For people, that includes the most recent social networking updates from Facebook and Twitter, while for business listings, there’s even more interactive content available thanks to customizable listings called “RingPages.”

As an SUT user I can now use my desktop to dial out to anybody including my social networking contacts.  If we could hook the Sametime address book with a CallSpark like service we could provide an aggregated address book of all my contacts including social software sites and the corporate directory.

Callspark also pulls real-time information about the person we are about to call into your view think status information from Facebook and Twitter. We have status information in Lotus Connections so an aggregation of this data around the person we are about to call would also prove to be useful.

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What is the status of Lotus Extended Search

Answer

Lotus Extended Search was “end of life” in April 2008.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=807&context=SS5LUA&q1=Lotus+Extended+Search&uid=swg27013012&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8〈=en

If a customer is looking for a search solution that covers multiple directory repositories including nsf databases then you should check out Omnifind.

Does Lotus Notes 8.5 support the setup in a pure Windows Terminal Services environment (without making use of Citrix)?

Answer

No

IBM Lotus Notes Supported configurations and support policy for Citrix products link

Extract from link below

Deploying Notes 6 clients on Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition or Windows Server with Terminal Services alone, without Citrix MetaFrame ICA client, is not a supported configuration.

An enhancement request SPR# RBOD6WG3MP has been submitted to Quality Engineering requesting support for installing and running a Notes client on Windows Terminal Services without the Citrix ICA client. Currently, there are no plans to change this functionality.

What is Lotus Foundations Reach?

Answer

It is an extension to Lotus foundations (linux collaboration appliance) which adds Instant messaging, presence awareness, VoIP. and video chat.

A number of vendors are also integrating to Lotus Foundations Reach

• EnVision Solutions LLC is combining IBM Lotus Foundations Reach with its current suite of applications to deliver an enhanced collaboration package of solutions for the SMB market.
• NEC is creating a version of its UNIVERGE Sphericall communications software that can be downloaded to Foundations to create a complete UC and business collaboration solution specifically designed for SMBs and branch offices.
• NextiraOne Mexico will extend Lotus Foundations Reach with its IP telephony technology to deliver a complete communications and collaboration offering to help growing businesses.
• ShoreTel is incorporating its IP telephony platform with IBM Lotus Foundations Reach to provide a complete unified communications and collaboration solution designed specifically for SMBs.
• Speech Design is combining its Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution with Lotus Foundations Reach to create a Mobile Unified Communications appliance, which offers telephony and presence, FMC, messaging, IM as well as audio and Web conferencing in a single solution for SMBs

Resources

IBM Lotus Foundations reach home page

Lotus Foundations reach Video

Bilal Jeffery

Carl Tyler

eWeek

Collbaoration Matters

You can save forms as custom templates and share them with team members to create several forms that have the same layout and functionality.To create a custom form template:

Create a directory to store your form templates. Save a form into that directory.

To add a custom form template:

1. Click Window > Preferences to open the Preferences window.
2. In the left column, expand Lotus Forms Designer.
3. Click New Form Templates.
4. Click New to open the Browse For Folder window.
5. Browse to the directory of forms you want to use as templates and click OK.You can use template forms saved to your own computer or stored on a shared network drive.
6. Click Apply and then OK. The forms in the directories you have selected will display in the New Lotus Forms Designer wizard.
7. If you want to change the order that the form templates are listed in the New Lotus Forms Designer wizard, click the file to highlight it, then click Up or Down to reposition the template.
8. If you want to remove a directory of templates, select it and click Remove.
9. If you want to use only the default templates, click Restore Defaults.

Click OK to close the Preference window.

How do I get urls in an email to open in an external browser rather than the embedded browser?

Answer

Check out this short video on where this configuration setting is.

Question

Where can i see the availability of my team e.g. their calendars?

Answer

Have a look at this very short video showing group calendars