Recent by Bruce Elgort 

Slack Bot – IBM Watson Tone Analyzer  

By Bruce Elgort | 3/13/16 12:22 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Here’s a short video demonstrating how I used the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer service on IBM Bluemix to create a Slack bot that analyzes text you enter.

I’m Bringing IBM Bluemix and IBM Watson to the Classroom  

By Bruce Elgort | 2/29/16 12:46 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I am very happy to announce that students enrolled in my “Intro to Programming and Problem Solving” class at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington will be using IBM Bluemix and IBM Watson this week in class. Students will be building a language translation program and a tone analyzer program using the Python programming language.

Network World: In Search of IBM Verse  

By Bruce Elgort | 2/4/16 2:26 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Network World’s Bob Brown published an article entitled “In Search of Verse” where he talks about Verse and Toscana. It’s a nice summary and worth a read.

Liberate Your IBM Notes and Domino Data!  

By Bruce Elgort | 1/13/16 11:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Just in case you missed the LDC Via webinar earlier this week on how to liberate your IBM Lotus Notes and Domino data, you can watch it right here, right now. The time is now to really consider the future of your Notes and Domino data and applicaitons.

Watch the IBM ConnecteED 2015 OGS  

By Bruce Elgort | 1/28/15 10:26 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

IBM ConnectED 2015 OGS Osborn Cut.IBM ConnectED 2015 OGS Osborn Cut with official audio stream.

Video Course: Up and Running with IBM Connections  

By Bruce Elgort | 9/23/14 11:03 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

Learn how to connect the people, information, and processes in your organization together, with IBM Connections. This series of 38 videos can help you and your company get started using IBM Connections.

Book: IBM Domino Designer 9.0 Social Edition  

By Bruce Elgort | 1/22/14 9:47 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

My friend Atushi Sato shared with me information about a new book on IBM Domino Designer 9.0 Social Edition. The book is available in Japanese only. Learn more about the book on the Shuwa System Co. site. Purchase on Amazon (Japan) >

IBM Connect 2014: Meet the Show Sponsors and Product Showcase Exhibitors  

By Bruce Elgort | 12/7/13 11:06 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

One place where I spend a lot of my time at IBM Connect is in the Product Showcase. Here are the exhibitors who will be at the show this year: Make sure you get down to the showcase to see the great products and services from these vendors.

Meet Oliver Heinz: IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Manager  

By Bruce Elgort | 12/3/13 8:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Please join me in welcoming IBM’s Oliver Heinz as the new IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Manager: Oliver is also the IBM Champion Manager for ICS. Welcome Oliver!

Thank you Joyce Davis  

By Bruce Elgort | 12/2/13 1:35 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I wanted to take this opportunity to personally thank IBM’s Joyce Davis for her tenure as the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Manager. I have learned so many things from Joyce over the years that it would be impossible to list them all however, the one thing that I have learned from her more than anything […]

Our community mourns the loss of Jens-B. Augustiny  

By Bruce Elgort | 11/26/13 10:08 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Christian Güdemann

Today I received the following email from Jens-B. Augustiny’s son Herbert: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Last Saturday my father, Jens Augustiny died. You are entered in his address database and because of this you are receiving this sad news. For details please refer to the attachment. Since we are not sure whether we can address […]

Connect 2014 Call for Abstracts is Now Open  

By Bruce Elgort | 9/23/13 8:18 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

The Connect 2014 conference agenda is built with one objective in mind: offering value to each individual attendee. Our mission is to have you walk away having learned something you cannot learn anywhere else AND having learned something that you can put to use in your business setting immediately. Last year over 350 top-notch speakers—clients, partners, and industry experts—shared their business stories and technical expertise with thousands of attendees, resulting in the highest session ratings in the history of the conference. The bar’s set high, but we’re ramping up to do it again at the 2014 conference!

IBM Connect 2014 registration is now open  

By Bruce Elgort | 9/6/13 5:04 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

Registration for IBM Connect 2014 is now open.

Please join me in welcoming three new OpenNTF Directors  

By Bruce Elgort | 9/6/13 1:10 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

OpenNTF announced earlier this week that there were three new Directors elected to the OpenNTF Board. They are: Paul Withers Nathan Freeman Mark Leusink I have the privilege of knowing and working with Paul, Nathan and Mark on many occasions. I’m confident that their knowledge, experience, creativity and vision will continue to infuse momentum into […]

Source Control for Notes, Domino and XPages  

By Bruce Elgort | 9/6/13 12:49 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

A few months back FoCul Ltd. launched a wiki to collect all things related to source control for IBM Notes, Domino and XPages application development: Source Control has many many advantages for both developers and organisations but it is a complex subject. At FoCul we have been running a project to adopt Source Control on […]

Poll: How often do you use the IBM Connections mobile app?  

By Bruce Elgort | 7/18/13 4:41 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

Poll: How often do you use the IBM Connections mobile app?

Replays of some app dev webinars you may have missed  

By Bruce Elgort | 7/16/13 12:15 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Back in May OpenNTF launched it’s very own webinar series: OpenNTF hosts one webinar per month on various IBM Collaboration Solutions app dev topics. This includes sessions about OpenNTF projects, but also other educational, not open source related topics. We’ve planned to cover the wider range of ICS technologies, especially XPages and IBM Connections.

More changes on the horizon  

By Bruce Elgort | 7/16/13 11:12 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Back in April I notified the OpenNTF Board that come this October I will be stepping down as Chairman of OpenNTF – The Open Source Community for IBM Collaboration Solutions. October is when my term as Chairman would normally end.

It’s time to tell IBM how you really feel about some things…  

By Bruce Elgort | 6/11/13 10:39 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM developerWorks has launched the developerWorks LIVE Jam which runs from June 11-18. Here you as a professional developer can give the developerWorks team your thoughts on how you prefer to learn technical skills, share your expertise, and build your online reputation. You can use your IdeaJam.net registration to participate in the jam. If you are not already registered […]

IBM Notes and Domino 9 Product Icons  

By Bruce Elgort | 3/24/13 11:31 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

Here are all of the IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 icons.

Podcast: Online Learning with Lynda.com  

By Bruce Elgort | 3/2/13 7:54 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events. Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and other products and technologies. [...]

Updated: IBM Notes/Domino mobile solutions podcast roundup  

By Bruce Elgort | 10/9/12 10:35 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

Over the last couple of months Taking Notes has interviewed five companies who provide software, tools and services that can help you mobilize your Notes and Domino applications.