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• Learn about IBM iNotes Social Edition

  IBM iNotes Social Edition software is Web access to e-mail and collaboration. You can equip your employees with capabilities similar to those included in IBM Lotus Notes® client software, but delivered through a Web browser. Try this demo to learn more.

• Using Reseller and Distributed Software in IBM SmartCloud for Social Business

  This article describes what Reseller is, how it works, and how to create a Distributed Software (DSW) order in IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.

• Developing OpenSocial gadgets for IBM Connections 4.0

  This white paper explains how to develop gadgets for IBM Connections 4.0, primarily focusing on using the developer bootstrap page for quickly testing gadgets.

• IBM Connections Mail

  IBM Connections Mail is a new, simple and compelling way to perform essential email and calendar tasks right from IBM Connections, your social software platform.

• Experience IBM Connections

  Inspired by feedback from customers, Experience IBM Connections shows you the Top 4 ways that IBM Connections makes your job easier. In addition to providing an overview of IBM Connections benefits, the site highlights favorite tips and features from select IBMers and IBM Champions and includes resources to learn more.

• IBM Connections 4.0 Reviewer’s Guide

  This Reviewer's Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBM’s social software, IBM Connections 4.0, and its nine applications: Home, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, and Wikis.

• IBM Connections V4.0: Reinventing how people innovate and work together

  IBM Connections V4.0 provides an exceptional social platform that helps enable you to access the right people and internal and external content in your professional networks and communities.

• Integrating SPNEGO with IBM Sametime components on a federated deployment

  This paper explains the steps on how to configure Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) on a federated deployment for IBM Sametime Community Server, Meeting Server, Proxy Server, Media Manager, Advanced Server, and the Connect Client

• Using IBM Rational Performance Tester V8.2 to load test IBM Lotus Notes Standard Client in a Citrix XenApp environment

  Learn how to use IBM's Rational Performance Tester to load test the IBM Lotus Notes Standard Client in a Citrix XenApp Environment.

• Experience Lotus Notes

  This single-page site is intended to drive user adoption of Lotus Notes and enhance the total client experience. This effort was inspired by feedback from customers requesting materials to help promote Notes to end users.

• Measuring the distribution and skew of transaction response times for IBM Enterprise application datasets

  This white paper describes our analysis and approach to measuring the distribution of transaction times during a five-day workload run of the IBM Lotus Domino, IBM SmartCloud Engage, and IBM Lotus Quickr for Domino Enterprise applications and provides a qualitative assessment of each dataset.

• Behind-the-scenes look at ZK Spreadsheet for IBM Lotus Domino Designer XPages

  Learn how ZK and ZK Spreadsheet are integrated into IBM Lotus Domino Designer XPages. This white paper explains the concepts and implementation of ZK, ZK Spreadsheet, and XPages.

• Using IBM Connections more as a platform than an application

  IBM Connections provides the support for infinite possibilities of extension, integration, and third-party development, which makes it more like a platform than an application.

• Developing an IBM SmartCloud for Social Business application

  Learn how to develop an application that integrates with IBM SmartCloud for Social Business by authenticating via the Open Authorization protocol, calling the SmartCloud for Social Business service APIs to do a useful task, and extending the UI to show an integrated look.

• IBM Connections: Managing Communities

  This series of articles explain how to plan, launch, and sustain successful online communities using IBM Connections.

• Develop next generation social applications

  IBM announces over 100 new, fully-supported XPages controls and objects. Now design and develop mobile, web and social applications faster than ever. And when you're ready to deploy your XPages applications, use IBM XWork Server to bring them to life. The result: connected employees, activated professional networks, and improved knowledge sharing.

• IBM Redbooks: Customizing IBM Connections 3.0.1

  IBM Lotus and IBM Redbooks have partnered together to show you how to customize your Connections deployment. IBM Connections 3.0.1 is social networking software that consists of several applications. You can customize IBM Connections by changing the user interface, adding features to applications such as the Home page and Profiles, integrating Profiles with external data, and exploiting the IBM Connections API, among other aspects. This Redbooks Wiki provides details about these and other ways of extending and changing IBM Connections.

• IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server performance: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 performance

  IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 have been optimized to reduce the transactions from the client to the server

• Introducing the IBM XWork Server

  The IBM XWork Server provides an XPages Application Server for your social applications that will help you to extend applications to web and mobile devices, and connect applications to social communities for broader knowledge sharing. XWork Server leverages XPages technology from Lotus Domino and Domino Designer 8.5.3.

• IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 delivers usability and productivity enhancements to help power social business

  IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes a vast array of end-user feature enhancements to increase personal productivity of Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes™, and Lotus Notes Traveler for users and developers using Domino Designer. See this announcement for more details.

• Configuring SSL encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1

  This article provides the detailed steps on how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1.

• Announcing IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1

  IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1, formerly IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, delivers the fastest and easiest way to develop multichannel exceptional web experiences across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms.

• IBM Connections 3.0.1 Reviewer's Guide

  This Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBM’s social software, IBM Connections 3.0, and its nine applications: Home, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, and Wikis. In addition, this guide explains how to extend the features and functions of IBM Connections to your existing applications.

• IBM Redbooks: Optimizing Lotus Domino Administration

  This IBM Redbooks wiki provides you with information on how to optimize Lotus Domino administration. The focus is to provide Lotus Domino administrators with information on how to get most of their valuable time. Optimization of a Lotus Domino environment is not only a matter of how to set specific configuration parameters on a server or on a client; it is more a conceptual approach on how to address specific needs of the environment.

• Tips for moving from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2

  Have you just moved away from Microsoft® Outlook® to IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2? This article discusses some key tips on what preferences to set and ways to configure Lotus Notes to be compatible with the functionalities you were accustomed to in Microsoft Outlook. It addresses tips for mail, calendar, and contacts, along with general tips for across the Notes client.

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  The winners have been announced for the first development contest hosted by the OpenNTF Alliance on OpenNTF.org sponsored by IBM Business Partner We4IT. Congratulations to: Ferry Kranenburg for his Multi Database Search Control, Dennis Chen for his ZK Spreadsheet for XPages, and Rami Muurimaki for his XPages PDF Exporter Custom Control

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  The Building Domino Web Applications using Domino 8.5.1 Redbooks Wiki outlines the significant improvements in Lotus Domino 8.5.x as a web development platform. It introduces XPages technology, showing how it dramatically shortens the learning curve for Domino developers and enables you to incorporate Web 2.0 features into your web applications.

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