Category Archives: Lotus Connections
Clients can monitor site-level Lotus Connections 2.5 metrics including user logins, posts, files, activity, and usage information with the following links: Blogs – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/blogs/roller-ui/servermetrics.do?lang=en_us Activities – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/activities/service/html/servermetrics Bookmarks – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/dogear/toolbox/servermetrics?lang=en Communities – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/communities/service/html/servermetrics Files – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/files/app/statistics?lang=en_US Homepage – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/homepage/web/servermetrics Profiles – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/profiles/html/servermetrics.do?lang=en Wikis – http://<sitename>.phase2.com/wikis/home/statistics?lang=en_US
lifted from Louis Benitez BLOG: Very cool way of directly accessing your Lotus Connections files! Louis describes how to configure Google Chrome to search your Lotus Connections site directly from the search bar. Open Chrome Go to Preferences… Under Basics, you’ll see Default Search set to Google. Click on Manage Click on the + sign to add a new search engine Set the Name to Lotus Connections, the Keyword to lc and the URL to https://<hostname>/search/web/search?query=%s (for example: https://w3.ibm.com/connections/search/web/search?query=%s). It … Continue reading
Logging In Log into Lotus Connections from anywhere with an Internet connection by typing in the URL: YOURCOMPANYNAME.phase2.com 1. Type your Username and Password into the spaces provided Important Note: Your password is CASE SENSITIVE. You must type in capital letters where your password has capital letters. 2. Click the Log In button
One of the key selling features of Lotus Connections 2.5 is the capability to customize your homepage to look and feel the way you would like it. Phase 2 offers many Widgets that can be added to your homepage based on your preference. The process to add the Widgets is very straight-forward: 1. Go to the “Home” tab >> “My Page” click on customize 2. Select the Widget that you would like to add and hit the “Add” button 3. … Continue reading
Along with the new Phase 2 Lotus Connections 2.5 offering, we are happy to announce that customers can take advantage of the Connections 2.5 mobile interface designed for the mobile devices. By simply opening up a browser on the mobile device [like an iPhone] enter the URL: yoursitename.phase2.com/mobile. This provides easy access to all of the features of the Connections 2.5 platform including: Profiles Activities Blogs To Do List With a simple touch of the screen receive current information regarding … Continue reading
With the advent of web2.0 and the ability for average consumers to create and share ideas online, the potential for social networking technologies has grown. Corporations around the world are now asking how they can utilize similar technologies to make their business more efficient, encourage collaboration, and more effectively share ideas. Although this is increasingly becoming a crowded field, there is a single vendor/product that stands out head-and-shoulders above the rest. IBM has invested heavily in the development of their … Continue reading
Luis Benitez is a social software evanglist for IBM. He’s one of the lead thinkers and engineers on the Lotus Connections platform. He recently posted the interview of his colleague Suzanne Minassian recently at Lotus Sphere, the Annual get together for the IBMers, customers, and partners interested in Lotus products. Watch it below, and let us know if you have any questions for the upcoming release.
IBM’s Luiz Benitez is at it again. He hacks up some great apps that run on the Lotus Connections platform. This time, Luis has adapted Bluto – a micromessaging client that will run directly from Connctions 2.5 when its launched in Q3 this year. Bluto will let you cross-post between Connections, Twitter and other micro-blogging services. He’s got more information on his blog about this exciting new addition to Lotus Connections 2.5 – and a screen cast. If you’d like … Continue reading
In our last post, we talked about the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 . We met recently with IBM Lotus Connections expert Dawn Herndon, and learned alot about the new Connections 2.5. First impressions – it rocks! There are so many feature updates, bug fixes, and usability improvements that it almost feels like a new product. Here’s a rundown of some of the new features that caught our eye: Microblogging (a la Facebook status updates) are natively integrated and found … Continue reading
We’ve gotten word from the Lotus team that the new edition of Lotus Connections – Connections 2.5 will be availble Q3 of this year. Our whole staff is very excited for the release of the new version. We’re lucky enough to get a sneak preview of Connections 2.5 later this week from one of their social network guru’s Dawn Herndon. Dawn works as a Lotus Connections implementation specialist. She’s sitting down with us to demo the new features, and to … Continue reading