Tags: iqjam lotusphere


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Bruce Elgort
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Elguji Announces IQJam
Industry’s First Question and Answer Community Software for XPages

Lotusphere Orlando, FL January 17, 2010 – Today Elguji Software, LLC announced the availability of their IQJam, question and answer community software for IBM’s Lotus Domino software powered by IBM’s XPages tool. IQJam is a solution for organizations looking to capitalize on the knowledge of their employees. The concept is amazingly simple - people ask questions and other people answer them. IQJam allows people to identify who the subject-matter experts are within an organization. It accomplishes this by keeping track of answered questions and associating them with categories or “IQSpaces” and Tags.

“IQJam is the most innovative Domino-based program we have ever implemented,” said Jeremy Petersen, IT Manager at Epic Aviation, LLC. “IQJam lets us harness the collective knowledge of our employees and quickly get answers to questions. We have implemented several successful projects and initiatives that without IQJam never would have happened.”

With support for XPages, IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 software customers can quickly and easily install and configure IQJam. Installation typically takes less than fifteen minutes. Customers are using IQJam to:

- Help departments develop and manage communities of practice.
- Improve help and support/service desk operations.
- Allow customers and/or partners to ask questions and receive answers about products and/or services.
- Eliminate the need for discussion databases.
- Develop self sustaining FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).
- Build knowledge bases.

“IQJam is the result of the ideas our customers posted on our IdeaJam site to have Elguji develop an enterprise question and answer knowledge system for the enterprise that was as feature rich and easy to use as our flagship IdeaJam idea management and innovation software”, said Matthew White, Chief Software Architect, Elguji Software. Elguji is demonstrating IQJam and its Lotus Award and IBM Beacon Award winning IdeaJam software at the Lotusphere 2010 Product Showcase Pedestal 622. Matthew White and Bruce Elgort, members of the IQJam development team will be presenting sessions at Lotusphere 2010 entitled “How to Build an XPages Application From Start to Finish” and “I’m a Programmer Not a Fire Fighter!”.

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About Elguji

Elguji software is a member of IBM PartnerWorld, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, an IBM Design Partner and a member of the OpenNTF.org Alliance. Located in Vancouver, Washington, USA. Elguji specializes in social networking software development. Visit www.elguji.com for more information.

IBM, Lotus, Notes, Dominos, Lotusphere, are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. IQJam and IdeaJam are trademarks of Elguji Software, LLC.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:00:00 PM Location Orlando, FL | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: iqjam iphone android ls10


As you may have seen from our indiscreet Twittering over the last few days, along with demonstrating IdeaJam and IQJam at Lotusphere next week, we're going to have some examples of native iPhone and Android IQJam interface applications which make use of our JSON and Web Services API's to display data.

So here are some example screen shots, first from the iPhone (coming to the Apple iTunes App Store in February) :



View more IQJam for iPhone screen shots here.

And second from Android (available late January):


View more IQJam for Android screen shots

The esteemed Jeff Gilfelt (also known as @readystate on Twitter) has been kind enough to help us out with the development. The apps are very cool, but the point of them really is to show the sorts of things that you can do with the API either using the public IQJam site or with your own copy of IQJam in your organisation. Examples of what customers are already doing include MS Office integration and web services integration into their help desk systems.

If you'd like to see more examples of how IQJam can be made easy to access for your company or community then come visit us on stand #622 at Lotusphere.

Posted by Matt White At 10:00:00 PM Location London | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: ideajam elguji uk


Elguji is now working with RSVP Consulting (www.rsvp-consulting.com) to support the development of service strategies within the UK Public Sector. We are bringing together strategy, change and innovation consultancy with Elguji's IdeaJam™ idea and innovation management software offering - to deliver "more for less" to the UK Public Sector.

This partnership is already paying dividends, over the last 3 months we have supported the development of an information strategy for two Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) within the UK's National Health Service (NHS). While the use of on-line engagement is relatively new within the public sector, this work engaged 150 management and clinical stakeholders, across multiple commissioning and provider organisations, to develop the strategy without the need for multiple workshops and meetings. This process enabled the PCTs to complete development work that would normally take months - within 8 weeks - more for less!

Our work with RSVP will continue to support Innovative consulting propositions within the U.K. public sector - creating an environment where the public sector can collaborate to make informed decisions that support future service efficiencies.

We're happy to be able to recommend RSVP Consulting if your organization is interested in using IdeaJam™ to develop new strategies or deliver innovation enabled business change, collaborating across boundaries and with partners - the team of Elguji and RSVP Consulting can help you.

Please contact:

Gayle Elgort - Elguji

Robin Vickers - RSVP 

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:00:00 PM Location London, UK | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: iqjam ideajam elguji


Since it's release in November 2009, the sales of our IQJam product are exceeding our pre-launch forecasts. Customers have been quick to deploy IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 servers and, with those deployments we are seeing our existing customer base, as well as many new customers purchasing and deploying IQJam. One of the key selling features of IQJam has been it's application programming interface (API). Customers have been linking IQJam to their server and support desk applications, Microsoft Office, to their company intranets as well as building some really slick Adobe Flex/Air applications.

In version IQJam V1.1 we are addressing the top two feature requests that customers have asked for - those being Lotus Connections integration and adding attachments to answers. Elguji will be demonstrating IQJam V1.1 at Lotusphere 2010 at booth no. 622.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 07:06:59 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: news vancouver elguji


J. Maury Harris wrote a nice piece in The Vancouver Business Journal featuring a quote from me:

As in the past, emerging technologies fundamentally changed the way companies do business, with the explosion in popularity of social networking websites, Smartphones and an expanding list of mobile applications in 2009. But this year, the real story was how businesses, large and small, public and private, integrated these technological advances into their day-to-day operations.

Bruce Elgort, president and CEO of Elguji Software of Vancouver, has had a front-row seat to 2009's accelerating transition from traditional media to a more flexible online marketing model, helping to encourage what he called an inevitable and crucial "online conversation" with businesses about new technology.
...

"Companies are adopting social media more than they've adopted any other paradigm in history," Elgort said.

The Vancouver Business Journal - The Year of Business 2.0 >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:33:59 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: iqjam elguji


You can follow "@iqjamquestions" on Twitter to see new questions submitted to the The Lotus Community IQJam site. You can also follow new IdeaJam ideas on Twitter at "@ideajamideas".

IQJam also has RSS feeds for each and every IQSpace and every Sub IQSpace. IQJam is also now available for purchase as an IBM Lotus Domino template. Learn more about IQJam here.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 04:47:02 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: awards ideajam elguji


On Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Elguji's IdeaJam Idea and Innovation Management software was named as a finalist in the following two 2010 Lotus Award categories:

Best TOTAL Lotus Collaboration Solution

Best End-User Solution

For a complete list of industry awards Elguji has won you can look here.

Congratulations to all of the 2010 Lotus Award Winners and Finalists.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 04:06:53 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: lotus connections iqjam xpages


Earlier this week Steve Castledine and Niklas Heidloff released an XPages Custom Control for easily adding Lotus Connections Business Card functionality into your applications.. Below is a demo of the Lotus Business Card functionality using the control in a forthcoming version of IQJam. The demo shows how we have integrated IQJam with the BleedYellow.com Lotus Connections site.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 04:04:46 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: api iqjam ideajam


Earlier today we blogged about surfacing IQJam question in IdeaJam and below is an example of the JavaScript code customers can place into their IdeaJam Control Panel to have IQJam questions appear with inside of IdeaJam. Customers will need to include their IQJam API Security Key for the "securitykey". This is sample code and will be included with IdeaJam V1.7.

<script language="Javascript">

function getRelatedQuestions(){
       try {
       var url = "/iqjam/iqjam.nsf/jsonSearchQuestions";
       var myRequest = new XHR( {
                       method: 'post',
                       onFailure: function (data) {
                               //alert("There was an error: " + data.responseText);
                       },
                       onSuccess: function (data){
                               data = eval("(" + data + ")");
                               if (data.questions.length > 0){
                                       var html = "<b>Possibly Related Questions in IQJam</b><br  /><br /><ul>";
                                       for (var i=0; i<data.questions.length; i++){
                                               html += "<li><a style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"" + data.questions[i].url + "\" target=\"newwin\">" + data.questions[i].title + "</a></li>";
                                               if (i > 3)
                                                       break;
                                       }
                                       $("relatedquestions").innerHTML = html + "<ul/>";
                                       $("relatedquestions").style.display = "block";
                               }
                       }
               }
       );
       var searchin = document.title;
       searchin = searchin.split(" - ")[1];
       searchin = searchin.split(" ");
       var search = "";
       for (var i=0; i<searchin.length; i++){
               if (searchin[i].length > 2){
                       if(search != "")
                               search += " OR ";
                       search += searchin[i];
               }
       }
       var data = "securitykey=APIKeyOnYourUserProfile&search=" + search;
       myRequest.send(url, data);
       }catch(e){}
}

window.onDomReady(getRelatedQuestions);
</script>
<div id="relatedquestions" style="display: none; padding: 10px; font-size: 0.9em; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></div>

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:08:13 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: json ideajam iqjam api


With a few lines of Javascript, customers can easily add IQJam functionality to any website using the IQJam API. Below you will see that questions from IQJam are being surfaced within an IdeaJam idea. Very cool stuff and even more cool stuff coming soon. You can see this functionality live in The IBM Lotus Community IdeaJam right now.



To see how you can integrate IQJam with Microsoft Office look here.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:54:57 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)