Real World Computing

With Sametime (Chats) out of the way (See: Part 1 and Part 2 ) and the initial user setup done too (see here ), it's time to start building things and getting users engaged in IBM Connections Cloud. From what I've seen, it appears that there are two major features to go; Communities and Meetings. For the time being, I want to focus on Communities.  What is a Community? A Connections community seems to be a "group or topic around which members gather" in order to share and develop ideas. There are lots of things which could be communities; Your company as a whole. Specific Departments (or Business or Functional Groups) Members of a Particular Project A System (For example, your Invoice System).  An Idea, such as "Business Continuity"  A Hobby (such as a pet club, readers club or a movie watchers club). Most communities will probably be business-related but if you're having trouble getting people to use Connections, it might be worthwh...

I know I was going to continue on Domino's BlogSphere but I just had to mention this... Google Blogger just keeps on getting better and better. Today, my RSS feeds gave me a post on Blogger's New Slideshow tool entitled Show off your photos with the new Slideshow . This is very impressive. It allows you to add a layout element that will display your photos from a given folder in Picasa Web Albums . The integration between Google's applications is spectacular. What's more, it's not limited to Google - It works with Flickr and Photobucket too as well as other sites supporting Media RSS. Add this to features like the ability to publish RSS entries of interest directly from your feeds in Google Reader and (sorry IBM/Lotus BlogSphere) Google Blogger is, at least for the moment IMHO, the untouchable king of Blog tools. IBM - If you're reading, this sort of integration is the main reason why you should be putting more effort into integrating your systems (and oth...