The Paste-eater

I have a 22 month old son. His name is Ty.  For some time I’ve been concerned that my son would turn out to be “that kid.”  The paste-eater.

After his bath I put baby lotion on him.  Every time he comes he rubs his stomach to get the lotion and immediately sticks both hands in his mouth [...]

The Code

A few thoughts on my personal code of ethics:
1) The customer comes first:
This may sound trite, but  I’ve grown up in the consulting world and when I listen to the customer’s needs I think about what my software can do for them as well as other options that make sense for them.  I refuse to fit a [...]

“Boy Eats Own Face” (a.k.a. How to get my attention)

If you want to get my attention and you really need something done, take a lesson from the micro-blogging world:  Get your MAIN message across in under 140 characters.
If you want me to take action, don’t bury the action items at the bottom of a 3 page email.  Put them at the top!!!  Give me the [...]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Just stumbled on this blog post which quotes a Knowledge@Wharton piece from 2001: Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques.
It’s the date of the article that I find interesting…and to look back and remember that we’ve been struggling with the same attitudes around quantification of the value of collaboration software for so many [...]

Lotus Collaboration Summit – Toronto – October 22, 2008

I attended the Collaboration Summit last year in Toronto and had the opportunity to catch up with and have incredible conversations with people who just "get" collaboration.  Despite being in the Lotus community for many years in Canada, I was amazed at how many new faces there were at that event and I expect we’ll [...]

Bringing back the the voice of the Lotus Community

In my new role as National Technical Sales Manager for Lotus, I’m getting a chance to speak with alot of different customers, business partners, and colleagues that I haven’t had a chance to meet before.
One common question that I hear is: "There’s a ton/tonne of new stuff in Notes and Domino but when do I [...]

Canadian Lotus Geekdinner (Aug 19th, Markham)

C’mon out and spread the word…the summer is short and Lotus Software is HOT!!
This is an Open invitation to IBMer’s,  customers, Business Partners…basically anyone interested talking about Lotus stuff in an informal atmosphere.

Luis Benitez will be in Markham to to deliver a Lotus Connections PoT with our team on Monday and Tuesday so we thought it would be [...]

“Lovable Fool” or “Lovable Star”

Some of you may have seen this grid presented that has four quadrants based on “competence” and “affability” which is based off of this study : “Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools,and the Formation of Social Networks,” by Tiziana Casciaro and Miguel Sousa Lobo in the June 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review.”

Based on the presentations that I’ve [...]

“The medium is the message; The content is the people”

A little spin on Marshall McLuhan’s  famously paraphrased “quotation.”
I don’t pretend to “get” McLuhan…I’m just using the words for illustration.
In a recent conversation about how wikis are NOT a social-computing tool (in and of themselves) I came to understand something:
The medium (the wiki) houses a collection of writing that a bunch of people opt to contribute.  [...]

Wikis Social Computing

Hate everything about “Social Computing?”  Want a tool that is completely anti-social but still allows people to collaborate without ever having to communicate with another human being?
Wikis might be the answer.
Traditionally, the  basic path to how we, as human beings, get to the point of collaborating might look like this:
Discover -> Connect -> Communicate -> [...]