Smartphone users send or receive emails more than any other business activity. And you may have guessed that accessing calendar information is a close second. We all know how critical mobile access has become in today’s workplace. IBM and WorkFlow Studios invite you to see the great possibilities when you include these mobile devices in your collaboration strategy.
At this session we will discuss and demo various Lotus products on the iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.
The goal is to encourage you to consider including these types of devices in your strategy and to show you how your employees can have access to their mail, calendar, PIM and other applications using these devices.
Discussion Topics:
Lotus mobility solutions for Blackberry devices
Lotus mobility solutions for Windows Mobile devices
iPhone Application development for mobile devices
San Francisco, CA – February 9
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
IBM San Francisco Innovation Center
425 Market Street, Room #20-280
San Francisco, CA 94105
Costa Mesa, CA – February 11
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
IBM Costa Mesa 600 Anton Blvd, 2nd Floor Room #209
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
A few months ago I was one of the lucky ITS @ IBM to get a laptop refresh. I was so very excited, even though it always takes sometime to upgrade, transfer all your files, install all your plugins, and to customize the machine to fit my person demo preferences and make sure I have all the bells and whistles to show my customers what IBM Lotus has to offer. It was great to get hardware refresh.
I was so very surprised to see one piece that I was not expecting. The laptop was shipped to me without MS Office on the desktop. I had Lotus Notes 8.5 of course, Sametime, Connections plugins and SYMPHONY.
So here is my thoughts after the first 90 days without MS Office.
The first thing that I thought was… ok… now I can really cut the cord and use Symphony only. I had been using it for over a year… but not exclusively. IBM has been offering all of our templates, forms and presentations in the Symphony formats, but I was still using the Office Suite. Well really it was the default on my old laptop. But I do have to say that I have been using MS Office since it’s inception, so it is hard to make a complete cut over without taking some action.
To be honest… I am enjoying this much more. The fact that when I do a file save, my machine does not freeze, most of the capabilities are not that different, in presentations I can add animation, manage groups, combine objects, add text effects, so many things that you can do in Powerpoint. My favorite thing is the ease of use (more logical in my opinion) for the Masters – Slides, Notes and Handouts and controlling the Page Layouts. I tend to use presentations the most, but really there are great things about the Document and the Spreadsheet tools as well. Really tables are so much easier, formating is easier too… no pesky hidden code to make you mad and hard to control.
It is also so very easy to save documents into Office formats to share with my customers, and to easily export in one click to PDF / HTML format.
Here is the point: I am just one person and with little to no effort this upgrade saved IBM $350. You can do the math for your own organization and see how much money you can save.
I am really happy… and I have not looked back once! Give it a try yourself for free… BE FREE AND WORK SMART!!
Did I get your attention?? Hmmmm… you are wondering how this is possible?
IBM Lotus is very focused on integration in your environment. We do not believe that you should be locked down with a technology, that you should be able to blend the technologies to create the best work space for your end users. Lotus specifically leaves the door open for you to integrate the technologies that you need. Each of our technologies offer complimentary touch points into and with the Microsoft environments to provide the best capabilities. See for yourself. Interested in learning more? Please feel free to contact me @ holli_konig@us.ibm.com
Lotus Software has long been synonymous with collaboration— and leading the pack in helping individuals and teams create, innovate and become the visionaries they aspire to be. And today, we’re continuing to pioneer the way, shaping how organizations around the world collaborate ‘smarter’ every day.
Announcing a new series of webinar events aimed at helping you and your company ‘Get Smart’, regardless of where you are in the process, or which Lotus software products you’ve embraced.
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I am so excited… I just pre-ordered my own copy…. this is a real treat to have this book published…. and all of the great mentors that invested their time on writing this book… these are the ones to follow!
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Ever wanted to be the big hero and save the company millions of dollars? Well… I have a secret… we have seen drastic calculations regarding saving across the board for evaluating the Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, leveraging what you have in your organization, vs what Microsoft is bundling in their agreenments. IBM offers a site that can help you understand how doing an evaluation of your environment could save you money.
Customers with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements might be able to save up to 40% or more on the cost of their renewal through this “no-charge” evaluation of their current Enterprise Agreement.
If you are interested in setting up a conversation with one of our consultants, please feel free to contact me directly @ holli.konig@us.ibm.com and I will assist in getting you to the right people for your organization.
Carla Gillespie – Understanding Lotus Connections – Profiles and Dogears
Mon 02/23/2009 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Profiles helps you quickly find the people you need by searching across your organization using keywords to identify expertise, current projects, and responsibilities. You can find people based on things like the person’s name, their organization, location, reporting structure and interests. Profiles let you tap into the knowledge capital within your organization, and makes it easy to establish new business contacts. Profiles help you expand your personal network and Profiles help you develop and maintain personal relationships that span obstacles like reporting structure, department, geography, etc. Profiles typically include a person’s photo, reporting structure, name, pronunciation, the time zone the person works in, and information about the individual’s expertise and areas of interest.
Dogear is social bookmarking. Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests & expertise. Dogear gives people a better way to manage their own bookmarks as well as share, subscribe and search the community’s bookmarks. Dogear makes it easier than ever before to share information and accelerate innovation With Dogear, you can discover where people get their information. You go straight to information that a member of your community has already vetted and found appropriate and useful. You can discover information using search-and-pivot browsing: start by navigating by tags or links or people, and, when you find someone who looks interesting, pivot to go to their Profile or their bookmarks.
To Participate:
1. Go to the URL – http://www.webdialogs.com
2. Click ‘Join a Meeting’ button in the top right corner of the page
3. Enter the Conference ID 4732452
4. Enter your name and email address
5. Click the ‘Log In’ button
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