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Subscribe via EmailRemember the "www-949" community that was quietly launched back in June on a beta version of the Lotus Connections 2.0 code? It featured some new IBM blogs plus the ability to login using your IBM ID and to collaborate with IBMers in a full Connections environment for those both inside and outside of Big Blue.
Well at that time, it wasn't particularly obvious what the community was to be used for, nor why that strange URL had been chosen, nor indeed whether this would become a full production site rather than just a temporary one.
Well, I'm glad to say that the picture seems to be becoming clearer...
It is a full production site, and as of yesterday is now on the Connections 2.0 released code (though without the FF3 e-fix just now unfortunately). It has a rather spiffing new URL too - www.ibm.com/homepage - isn't that cool? The 5 principal modules are nearly all accessible directly via ibm.com too - www.ibm.com/activities, www.ibm.com/communities, www.ibm.com/dogear and www.ibm.com/profiles. Blogs? Ahh well, there was already an ibm.com/blogs page, so they are on www-951.ibm.com/blogs which is a slight shame, but I am sure we can live with that for now.
This service is open to anyone that has an IBM ID - most of you will already have this anyway, but if not, just register for one. It does seem to have been initially targeted at the Tivoli Systems Management community, but given that it is fully open to all, I see no reason why we shouldn't be using it ourselves. So, if you need somewhere to host an activity, or need a quick and easy blog platform, perhaps this should be the place to head to? That is not to dismiss the great Bleed Yellow efforts, which are fantastic, just that for some things a bleedyellow.com URL might not be what you need. Go take a look...
By: Connections Blog (Stuart McIntyre) | 4 Comments | On: 7 August 2008 05:35:56 | Tags: connections lotus 2.0
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Looks like the Lotus Greenhouse Connections has been updated with the FF3 efix. Finally I can demo Connections internally. Now if the efix is in the greenhouse, why couldnt IBM apply it to this...?
Two comments: First, the URLs above are indeed going to be the URLs for this instance, but they are not ready a "done deal" at this point. We are in the middle of test and deployment. Second, we will not have the FF3 PTF because it was not available when we started the deployment process.
Thanks for the update Scott, its good to know that someone from the team is aware of the issues and is updating the users of the system.
This site has the potential to be a really useful one for the community to use, and a great place for IBMers and customers/partners to collaborate. That is why we are all so keen to see it work and to work well.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the current set of internal blogs we have, how many people will add or move to a version outside our firewall.
I have multiple blogs inside IBM and nearly all is not suited for external use and anything I do write goes on my own blog. Not being client facing probably makes a difference though and working in Internal Communications, well you can see who my audience is. :o)