Lotus Technical Information and Education Team Blog

Cara Viktorov | 21 July 2008 09:39:59 PM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link

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Three new IBM software products released their 6.1 versions today, all with new information centers:

WebSphere Portlet Factory: http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portletfactory/

WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.1 Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpfhelp/v6r1m0/index.jsp

WebSphere Dashboard Framework: http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/dashboardframework/

WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.1 Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wdfhelp/v6r1m0/index.jsp

Lotus ActiveInsight product page: http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/activeinsight/

Lotus ActiveInsight V6.1 Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aihelp/v6r1m0/index.jsp

Jason English | 30 June 2008 10:37:19 AM ET | | Comments (2) | Permanent Link

Overview	The new Lotus Forms wiki and the recently updated Lotus Notes/Domino wiki are now available! In the Lotus Forms wiki you'll find: Best Practices for Form Design - tips and tricks for designing your forms in the best way Deployment Scenarios - detailed deployment scenarios that include network diagrams, hardware specifications, and detailed instructions for setting it up In the Lotus Notes Domino wiki you'll find: Domino installation troubleshooting procedures - provided by Domino Technical Support team Domino administration best practices - provided by the Domino Configuration Tuner Development team Deployment scenarios - provided by members of Notes and Domino Information Development And don't forget about our wiki incentive program that awards $25 Amazon gift cards to external contributors to our product wikis! Please see official rules for more information.
Additional Information	New Wiki Platform Below are some feature highlights: Simple user interface RSS feeds that enable you to be notified when something new has been added to the wiki Tag clouds linked to the main categories to provide easier navigation Technical content resource page that links to additional product content located outside the wiki, such as demos, data sheets, product documentation, community resources, and technical education information All articles are open for editing including articles posted by IBMers Article revision history to easily access earlier versions of an article Easy editing using rich text or HTML to create or edit content. IBMers are asked to use their Notes Client (links below) Identify IBM authors/editors by looking for the IBM logo next to an article Gift Card Giveaway for Contributions Do you have a Lotus Forms best practice to share? Have you recently deployed Notes Domino and want to let others know how you did it? If so, we're providing you the opportunity to share your expertise! Just take a minute to share some of your knowledge and you could be eligible for a $25.00 Amazon gift card!   One Prize will be awarded to the first fifty (50) external contributors who submit a new, original entry of 250 words or more to one of the wikis. Please see official rules for more information.
Wiki Links	Lotus Forms wiki Lotus Notes and Domino wiki WebSphere Portal, Portlet Factory and IBM Mashup Center wikis are coming soon!
Gift Card Giveaway Eligibility	NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Open to legal residents in the fifty States of the United States and the District of Columbia.  Do not enter if you are not located in the United States at the time of entry.  Employees of IBM, Lotus and their subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each are not eligible to participate. Please see official rules for more information. One Prize will be awarded to the first fifty (50) contributors who submit a new, original entry of 250 words or more to one of the IBM Lotus or WebSphere Portal wikis.

Cara Viktorov | 24 June 2008 01:15:00 PM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link

Overview	On June 16th, Lotus is introducing our program to publish product wikis on a new Domino-based platform. Our product wikis are intended to help you find technical product information more easily, as well as allow you to contribute directly to that content. All wiki content is editable by anyone who registers for an account on our dW: Lotus web site. This is only the beginning. Stay tuned for announcements for other Lotus product wikis! In conjunction with the roll-out, we are announcing a wiki incentive program that awards $25 Amazon gift cards to external contributors to our product wikis.
Additional Information	New Wiki Platform Below are some highlights of what you'll find on the wikis: New look and feel RSS feeds enable you to be notified when something new has been added to the wiki Tag clouds linked to the main categories provide easier navigation Technical content resource pages link to additional product content located outside the wiki, such as demos, data sheets, product documentation, community resources, and technical education information All articles are open for editing - including articles posted by IBMers Article revision history  - easily access earlier versions of an article Easy editing - use rich text or HTML to create or edit content. IBMers are asked to use their Notes Client rather than contributing via the web interface. Identify IBM authors/editors by looking for the IBM logo next to an article Gift Card Giveaway for Contributions Do you have a Domino best practice to share? Have you recently deployed Lotus Connections, Sametime or Quickr and want to let others know how you did it? Do you have Portlet Factory samples or a Composite Application you've been wanting to show off? If so, we're providing you the opportunity to share your expertise! Just take a minute to share some of your knowledge and you could be eligible for a $25.00 Amazon gift card! One Prize will be awarded to the first fifty (50) external contributors who submit a new, original entry of 250 words or more to one of the wikis.
Wiki Links	Lotus Quickr wiki Lotus Sametime wiki Lotus Connections wiki IBM Composite Applications wiki The Lotus Notes and Domino wiki is live now and will get its new look next week. WebSphere Portal, Lotus Forms and IBM Mashup Center wikis coming soon!
Gift Card Giveaway Eligibility	NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Open to legal residents in the fifty States of the United States and the District of Columbia.  Do not enter if you are not located in the United States at the time of entry.  Employees of IBM, Lotus and their subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each are not eligible to participate. Please see official rules for more information. One Prize will be awarded to the first fifty (50) contributors who submit a new, original entry of 250 words or more to one of the IBM Lotus or WebSphere Portal wikis.

Cara Viktorov | 16 June 2008 05:15:00 PM ET | | Comments (5) | Permanent Link

IBM recently made available the first release of IBM® Lotus® Symphony™. Lotus Symphony is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.

The Lotus Technical Information and Education Team has developed a comprehensive set of documentation and learning materials to help you get started using this suite of productivity tools. Visit the Help page on the Lotus Symphony Web site to use the following materials to learn all you need to know to be productive using Lotus Symphony:

• Getting Started Tours: Tours are self-running demonstrations introduce the product and its features and show how to create and work in documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Demonstrations: These are short, task-based product simulations that show the user how to complete a discrete task or series of tasks.
• Reference Cards: Reference cards are a two-sided printable quick reference for menu options and keyboard shortcuts for most common tasks in the product and compare how to perform the same task in the comparable Microsoft Office product.
• Tutorials: A tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform common tasks when first getting started using a product. Tutorials typically include sample files to download.
• FAQs: Frequently asked questions about Lotus Symphony

Sharyn Richard | 5 June 2008 10:40:11 AM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link

We're looking for your ideas about improving the information we provide for the WebSphere Dashboard Framework sample applications. Here are some things we're wondering about...

When you start to learn a new development tool, do you look at the sample applications provided? Is there documentation that would help you make the most of sample code provided with the software? Do you like to read about how the application works from a user's perspective or its underlying architecture? Or do you learn only by running the sample application and experimenting with its code yourself? What information format helps you most - text, pictures, multi-media?

We'd like to hear from you!

Kerry Thompson | 29 May 2008 04:45:02 PM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link

Infocenters provide a Search scope feature that allows you to limit searches to particular sections of  infocenter content. For example, in the Domino/Notes infocenter shown below, you could search just the "IBM Lotus Notes 8.0" section.

Please take a moment to vote on the feature's ease of use using a scale of 1 to 10 (1 = easy as pie, 10 = next to impossible). If you have never used this feature and want to try it out, here's a link to the Domino/Notes infocenter (although any infocenter will do).

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp

Thanks for voting!

Kendra Bowker | 15 May 2008 02:37:37 PM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link

I'm planning the content for the security section of the Notes Help (end-user) for an upcoming release. So if you have suggestions for ways to improve it, please let me know.  Thanks!

Kendra Bowker | 25 April 2008 02:39:05 PM ET | | Comments (0) | Permanent Link