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Category Collaboration University
Collaboration University is pleased to welcome back the Usual Suspects - Chris Miller, Carl Tyler, Warren Elsmore, Gab & Tim Davis, and the SNAPPS gang, but this year we have also invited some guest speakers to cover a few Lotus Connections topics...

Mitch Cohen from Colgate reprises his role as the guest alumni and customer speaker, where he will dazzle us with IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 deployment tips and best practices.

Stuart MacIntyre of Collaboration Matters and author of just a few blogs will join us for a session on Connections 2.5 customization - including profiles, TDI and custom themes. This is in direct response to a CU 2008 alumni request I received a few weeks ago (the request was for the topics...sorry, Stuart!)

Kathleen McGivney, of we-go-way-back fame (Kat and I were co-authors on a QuickPlace Redbook 8 years ago!) and now a solo consultant will be designing some of our new format Quickr and Sametime labs, and joining us in Chicago to help run them.

Welcome to the gang, Mitch, Stuart and Kat!

More announcements and news about CU 2009 registration, topics and a brand new concept all coming in days...for more up-to-date information be sure to follow @CollabU on Twitter...

Posted by Rob Novak At 3:48 PM Location SNAPPS Glactic Headquarters | Permalink | Comments (3)

Category Governement Social Software
Last week I had the opportunity to preview a now-released paper from the National Defense University by Drs. Mark Drapeau and Linton Wells II, a study of social software for the government titled Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment. The paper is of particular interest to me in my recent work, and has received good coverage in the blogosphere. My friend and colleague Karen Hobert (Connecting Dots) has taken an interest in the paper here, as well as Craig Newmark (of Craig's list fame), Matthew Burton, and perhaps my favorite blog entry title ever at Wired: "WTF? Miitary Web 2.0 Report Actually Making Sense."

While the paper focuses primarily on free software and sites for its examples, the clear classifications of the kinds of sharing enabled by social software leads you to obvious conclusions about where Lotus software might fit into each of the four classifications - Inward, Outward, Inbound and Outbound sharing - if positioned to do so.

Posted by Rob Novak At 2:25 PM Location SNAPPS Glactic Headquarters | Permalink | Comments (0)

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I mean, seriously...
Either Skype is an amazing resource hog or this Activity Monitor application isn't quite right. For those of you not on a Mac, well first sorry, this is the equivalent of the processes tab in Windows Task Manager.

I've been watching this for about 5 days, since I noticed my system tends to get sluggish in the afternoon. When I load Skype in the morning, there are typically a few hundred messages in four group chats (wouldn't YOU like to know), but then it's fairly idle except for the occasional chat with a colleague. It's not like I'm hosting tons of Skype calls, or running full-time video surveillance on Troy or Julian (I have other apps for that). It just seems to creep up and up and up all day.

What's that all about?!?!?

Posted by Rob Novak At 6:31 PM Location SNAPPS Glactic Headquarters | Permalink | Comments (5)

Category Lotusphere videos collaboration channel
I had the opportunity to film a few segments while at Lotusphere - it was a great time, and I was happy to help out. It was very cool to be in the closing video on Thursday. The production folks have made the videos available to us and I thought I'd share one of the segments I did on mergers & acquisitions. Be sure to check out the rest of Lotus's Collaboration Channel on YouTube.



Oh...I suppose if you didn't get to Lotusphere and haven't seen the closing video - here it is:

Posted by Rob Novak At 11:30 AM Location SNAPPS Glactic Headquarters | Permalink | Comments (0)