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IBM releases the new IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK as Open Source
The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK, now available on OpenNTF as Open Source, lets Web and Java developers easily access the IBM Social Platform, including IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. More >
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- App Dev Throwdown at IBM Connect 2013
IBM will be holding its annual App Dev Throwdown at IBM Connect 2013 to showcase social business innovation from our partner community. Submit your social business application for a chance to compete on the main stage at Connect 2013!
- 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.
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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.
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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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Experience
Start here if you are new to XPages and Lotus Domino Designer.
Explore Domino Designer and XPages with this guide that will help get you up to speed quickly.
Learn how to use the Lotus Expeditor Toolkit to build and test Java™ applications for Lotus Notes.
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Planet Lotus
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
XPages & Composite apps
XPages utilize JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML. Yet, deep programming skills are not required to build powerful, compelling Web and Lotus Notes and Domino applications.
Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). They enable you to easily integrate different types of components and technologies to create contextual applications.
Experience
Start here to learn about XPages with links to overview content, videos, tutorials, and other content that will get you up to speed quickly.
Watch this two-part video series demonstrating how you can use XPages components in a Lotus Notes application.
Discover the power and benefits of composite applications.
Explore detailed examples, sample projects, and more in the IBM Composite Applications wiki.
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Read the XPages blog to learn from a worldwide group of IBM Domino XPages experts.
Listen to Pete Janzen, Senior Product manager for Lotus Domino Designer, talk about the decision to offer a no-charge development license for Domino Designer.
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.
Technical content for Lotus products
Product documentation in wikis
Lotus continues to innovate by publishing product documentation in a wiki where it can be edited, commented on, and added to by everyone who uses it.
Wikis
- Lotus Domino
- Lotus Domino Designer
- Lotus Expeditor
- Lotus iNotes
- Lotus Instructor Community Courseware
- Lotus Notes
- Lotus Notes & Domino Application Development
- Lotus Notes Traveler
- Lotus Protector
- Lotus Quickr
- Lotus Symphony
- Lotus Workforce Management
- WebSphere Dashboard Framework
- WebSphere Portal
- WebSphere Portal Express
Learning resources for Lotus products
Learn IBM Collaboration Solutions Products
Find media resources including demonstrations, videos, tutorials, reference cards, and web seminars to help you get started with IBM Collaboration Solutions products.
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IBM Redbooks in Lotus wikis
Lotus and IBM Redbooks® are developing high-quality Redbooks content using wiki technology. Below are some of IBM Redbooks developed and published in the Lotus product wikis. A complete list is available here.
Cross product
- Creating Integrated Web Experience with IBM Lotus collaboration software
- Creating plugins for Notes, Sametime, and Symphony
IBM Connections
IBM Forms
IBM Sametime
Lotus Expeditor
Lotus Notes/Domino
- Lotus Domino Development Best Practices
- Optimizing Lotus Domino Administration
- Building IBM Lotus Domino Web Applications using Lotus Domino 8.5.1
- IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Deployment Guide
Lotus Quickr
WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager
Forums
Notes/Domino XPages development forum
This is a new dedicated forum specifically for discussing XPages development topics. It is built on XPages and is being championed by a group of enthusiasts inside and outside of IBM who are committed to making sure that forum discussions are active and valuable and that the forum design itself is improved over time.
- IBM Connections
- IBM Forms
- IBM Mashup Center
- IBM Mobile Connect
- IBM Sametime
- IBM SmartCloud Notes
- IBM SmartCloud Meetings
- IBM Web Content Manager
- IBM Web Experience Factory
- Notes/Domino 8.5 (includes Lotus Notes Traveler)
- Notes/Domino 8
- Notes/Domino 6 & 7
- Notes/Domino 4 & 5
- Notes/Domino XPages development
- Lotus ActiveInsight and WebSphere Dashboard Framework
- Lotus Domino Document Manager (Domino.Doc)
- Lotus Enterprise Integrator
- Lotus Expeditor
- Lotus Protector
- Lotus Quickr
- Lotus SmartSuite
- Lotus Symphony
- Lotus Symphony Developer Toolkit
- Lotus Workflow
- WebSphere Portal
- WebSphere Portal Beta
- WebSphere Portal on Z
- WebSphere Portal on i5/OS
- WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Experience Development
- WebSphere Portal Integration with Lotus Products
Community
IBM Champions for IBM Collaboration Solutions
IBM Champions represent top business leaders, IT professionals, developers, and educators who lead and mentor others to help them make the best use of IBM solutions and services.
Blogs
Social Business Insights
News and thoughts on becoming a business that is engaged, transparent and nimble. Join us in cultivating a spirit of collaboration and community.
The short URL is http://ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness.
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Collaborate on content and leverage the shared knowledge from the worldwide Lotus community.
The Notes Tips Podcast series
Check out the Notes Tips podcast, where we help you become more productive with Lotus Notes. We'll be talking about everything from getting started with Notes, to decluttering your inbox, to managing meetings better. Join us on the second and fourth Fridays of each month.
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- IBM Connections Suite V4.0 and IBM Connections Content Edition V4.0 now incorporate IBM Connections V4.0 to meet your social business needs
- Knowledge Path: Getting Started with IBM Connections
- Developing an IBM SmartCloud for Social Business application
- Introducing the IBM XWork Server
- IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 delivers usability and productivity enhancements to help power social business
