Description
This book includes
practical techniques for building dynamic networks of coworkers,
partners, and customers that promote innovation, business agility,
and authoritative guidance for business and technical planning,
deployment, integration, and much more. Social networking is the
newest frontier in business collaboration, and IBM Lotus
Connections 2.5 gives businesses the tools they need to make the
most of it?easily, securely, and cost-effectively.
For Sale in Indian
subcontinent only
- The first book to cover the next breakthrough product from
IBM Lotus: a product with a built-in audience of 150,000,000
Lotus Notes users worldwide
- Practical techniques for building dynamic networks of
coworkers, partners and customers that promote innovation and
business agility
- Authoritative guidance for business and technical planning,
deployment, integration, and much more
- Social Networking Concepts
- Introducing Lotus Connections 2.5
- Lotus Connections Architecture
- Deployment Planning
- Install Planning
- Using Lotus Connections
- Administering Lotus Connections
- Extending Lotus Connections to Other Applications
- Using the Lotus Connections API
- Plug-Ins and Widgets
Stephen Hardison is an IBM Certified IT Specialist with IBM
Software Services for Lotus. He is responsible for the design,
implementation, operation, and assessment of large-scale
collaborative solutions using Lotus Connections, Lotus Domino, and
WebSphere Portal. He lives near Austin, Texas. Stephen joined IBM
in 1999, and has worked in the Information Technology industry for
over 20 years. He has international experience, having worked on
several worldwide deployments of IBM solutions in North and South
America, Europe, and Asia.
David Byrd is an IBM Senior Certified Executive IT Architect
with IBM Software Services for Lotus from Fayetteville, Georgia. He
has been an IBM/Lotus employee for close to 10 years in a number of
consulting positions covering various technology areas. David has a
deep background in virtually all areas of Lotus products and
technologies covering areas ranging from low-level API development
to collaborative application architectures, security architectures,
and messaging architectures. His current focus is on Lotus Quickr,
as well as other collaboration technologies and associated
deployment within enterprise customers. He has worked with Lotus
Notes and Domino for over 15 years. David has authored several
books and technical articles during his tenure with IBM.
Gary Wood is a Field Support Engineer with Lotus Field
Support Services (FSS). In that role, he has been responsible for
troubleshooting applications for some of the largest Notes/Domino
installations worldwide, as well as providing training on the
latest technologies from Lotus. He has been working with Notes and
Domino since R3, with the past 10 years spent in consulting roles
focusing on application architecture and development for various
divisions within IBM. Gary has worked on various international
assignments, from Canada to Venezuela and the United Kingdom to
Malaysia.
Tim Speed is an IBM Certified Systems Architect with IBM
Software Services for Lotus (ISSL). In that capacity, he is
responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting various
engagements with our clients. Tim lives in Denton, Texas. He has
been an IBM/Lotus employee for over 12 years in various networking,
technical, hardware and software support, and consulting positions.
He has been working with Notes and Domino for over 16 years,
focusing on administration roles and infrastructure. Tim also has
international experience with working on infrastructure engagements
in Spain, Brazil, France, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, U.K., and Indonesia. Tim has also published more than 12
technical articles and 8 books.
Michael Martin is a Certified Senior Managing Consultant in
the Messaging and Collaboration Practice for IBM Software Services
for Lotus (ISSL) group, focusing on organizational development,
change management, and social software adoption. He has consulted
with many international companies on the global deployment of
organizational changes related to technology implementations. He
has provided consulting services for organizational analysis and
design, communications strategy and deployment, training strategy
development, leadership coaching, social network analysis,
organizational culture analysis, and stakeholder management. He has
over 32 years' experience in manufacturing and service industries,
including 24 years in line management and management consulting. He
has published one article on collaboration and organizational
culture.
Suzanne Livingston has held various roles within software
development, including development, design, user research, and now
product management. Suzanne is currently the product manager for
Lotus Connections, a social software suite for businesses and
organizations. In the role of product manager, Suzanne has worked
to define the overall product strategy, develop and drive the
product requirements with engineering and design, work with
customers and partners to shape the product, and publicize the
product through demonstrations and presentations at numerous
industry events. Suzanne began her career at IBM in the
Collaborative User Experience Research group as a user researcher
on the Unified Activity Management project and a developer and
usability specialist on the Reinventing Email project. Currently,
Suzanne holds an MBA with a concentration in Human Factors in
Information Design, and she has a strong interest in collaboration
technologies and personal and business productivity tools.
Jason Moore is a Field Support Engineer with Lotus Field
Support Services (FSS). He is the WebSphere Portal lead for the FSS
organization and has helped with the implementation, operation, and
maintenance of some of the largest WebSphere Portal installations
around the world. Jason has been with IBM for 7 years; during this
time, he has focused on delivering customer engagements surrounding
the performance and interoperability of Lotus Domino and WebSphere
Portal.
Morten Kristiansen has been with IBM since 2000, where he
first held a senior position in the Lotus Customer Support
organization. Currently, Morten is the technical lead on the SVT
team responsible for Lotus Connections. Morten's other interests
include automation and virtualization, areas where he has been
implementing process improvements in his own direct team as well as
his extended team. When not busy with the challenges of being a
technical leader in IBM, he is the proud father of twin boys.
