Changing the way that I work.

Inspired, in no small part, by Luis Suarez’s “experiment” of getting away from email at work, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to change the way that I work in order to survive.
Reading Luis’ early blog entries I found myself saying “45 emails a day? I get that many emails over night! I WISH [...]

DAOS Estimator

The Lotus Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) was introduced in Domino 8.5 to help minimize redundant file attachments by utilizing a separate repository on the Lotus Domino server for attachments.
You can now download the Lotus Domino Attachment and Object Service Estimator (DAOS Estimator), a tool for planning the roll-out of DAOS on the Domino [...]

MS Office-less at the office: Week 1

This is going clearly going to be a short segment. 
As I mentioned in my previous post, I completely removed MS Office from my WORK computer.
*shrug*
Not much to report;  No real issus. In fact, I found it a bit more effective having my editors directly in my Notes client as opposed to switching apps.
There has [...]

le mal du siècle

In 19th Century French literature, the term “le mal du siècle” (the malady of thecentury) described a sense of loss, disillusionment, and melancholy.
In the 21st Century, our mal du siècle might refer to the diseases of not sharing our knowledge nor making a personal contribution to dealing with the issues that we all face.
So, what are these “diseases” [...]

Lotusphere 2009: Takin’ Care of Business

This year marked my 10th Lotusphere and I still get as excited and engergized as I did in 1996. Lotusphere 2009 has left me very pumped and ready to really make a difference this year with our customers and business partners. This will be our year in Canada to really show what we’re made of!

Here’s a quick [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Enterprise 2.0 Conference: IBM v MS in the press…IBM clear winner

If you weren’t following the mayhem of E2.0 on twitter, then here’s a little background on the excitement for Lotus Connections this week.  I have YET to see a single comment from an analyst or casual observer that even put MS in the same arena.

Enterprise 2.0 Face-off: Microsoft Lags Behind IBM in Social Software

“While [...]