IBM and RIM baby!

January 18, 2010

Hot off the press from Lotusphere 2010, IBM and RIM have announced a new global partnership that combines our collaboration software on the blackberries. IBM will be reselling the new RIM-developed Blackberry applications through our sales channels.
i) Blackberry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr
ii) Blackberry Client for IBM Lotus Connections
These offerings will be made [...]

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Poet Rives, TED speaker will be at the BDD day at #LS10 Lotusphere

January 14, 2010

John G. Rives is a performance poet, storyteller, and author. He has appeared on multiple seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and was a member of the Def Poetry international tour group. He has made multiple appearances at the TED Conference and has published several pop-up books for children. He co-hosted the television special ‘Ironic [...]

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Lotusphere video from a friend

January 12, 2010

A good friend of mine recently edited this for my team. Check it out and let me know how you like it.

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Lotus Knows Lotusphere’s first ever Tweetup!

January 12, 2010

I am very excited to announce a Lotusphere mini Tweet-up at the Opening Reception.  This mini networking event will allow business partners, clients, and friends that are active within the social space to connect and meet in real life.
So far, we have had a very warm response from the community to the tweet-up and I [...]

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Live Flight tracking with Google Maps. Neat.

January 4, 2010

Casper is a brilliant mashup that displays movement of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map live.
It is currently only tracking flights that are flying in and out of the Amsterdam Airport but the mashup can be “configured for any airport.”
The airplanes are colored based on the name of the airline to which they [...]

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Lotus Knows this was my perfect end to the decade

December 31, 2009

Lotus Knows Bilal became a father this December of a cute gorgeous baby boy. It has been a truly humbling experience, a life changing moment, a profound experiential realizing of one’s true nature as a father.
As some of you know, I’ve been meaning to find some time get on a computer and write this [...]

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Microsoft FAIL: Stealing from a Startup? again?

December 15, 2009

TheNextWeb.com just posted this story. Have a read and be ready for a chuckle. – Bilal
Plurk, a very promising social networking startup is claiming that Microsoft (you read that right), has been involved with “blatant theft of code, design, and UI elements.”
What gives? Microsoft could easily just drop the engineers to do it themselves, or [...]

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Lotusphere 2010 BDD Offer – $895

December 14, 2009

Special thanks to my good friend, Mary Hall, who informed me right away about this offer.
If you’re a Lotus Business Partner planning to attend the special Business Development Day at Lotusphere 2010 on Jan. 17th, your registration will now give you the extra bonus of allowing you to attend the Lotus Opening General Session on [...]

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IBM & Fordham University’s FREE webinar on analytic skills needed for the future job market

December 8, 2009

Tomorrow, Wednesday December 9, we are hosting an event at Fordham University, New York City, on the analytic skills business school students will need for the job market. We have a fantastic line up of speakers, including the Dean of the Business School, a venture capitalist, the director of the Center for Urban Future and  [...]

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How to stand out in the crowd?

December 2, 2009

Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, explains how to stand out (video) in a crowd. He uses the examples of Voodoo Donut and ZipCar. The gist is that if you’re in a crowded market, you need to do something that no one else does or compete on one dimension and do it ferociously. Watch [...]

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