Tags: 1.8 ideajam api


Coming in the Summer '10 release of IdeaJam (due in May/June) we will be introducing the IdeaJam API. The API will be available via JSON and Web Services. Using the API customers will be able to integrate IdeaJam into mobile applications, intranet applications, widgets, and other Lotus products including Websphere Portal, Lotus Connections and many others. You may remember this blog entry where we talked about our customers developing some really cool IQJam integration points with iPhone, Android and Microsoft Office.

Based on customer feedback let me introduce you to the IdeaJam API methods:

addComment(ideaId, comment, securityKey)

addIdea (idea, securityKey)

findIdeaById(ideaId, securityKey)

getIdeaSpaces(securityKey)

getRecentComments(ideaSpace, securityKey)

getRecentIdeas(ideaSpace, count, securityKey)

getRecentIdeasByAuthor(author, count, securityKey)

getRecentIdeasByTag(tag, ideaSpace, count, securityKey)

getStats(securityKey, numberOfIdeas, numberOfComments, numberOfVotes securitykey)

getTopInnovators(securityKey)

getTopTags(securityKey)

getVotesForIdea(ideaId, securityKey)

getWhatsHot(timeFrame, securityKey)

searchIdeas(search, securityKey)

The API is still under development and if you have any feedback I am sure the development team would love to hear from you.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:44:36 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: iqjam lotus connections json attachments localization


In a few weeks Elguji will be launching a new version of it's question and answer social software IQJam. In this release customers will have some really cool new features that they have been asking us for. They are:

• - Attachments can now be added to answers
• - Added IBM Lotus Connections Business Card integration for views, questions and answers
• - Added a new Web Service - "securityservice" which will return the security key for a user when you pass in their username and password
• - We now support language localization at the user level
• - Every piece of static text in IQJam can be changed from the language localization administration screen
• - Added new button to mark an unanswered question as closed (i.e. not relevant any more)

We also fixed the following bugs:

• - Fixed layout of email body sent when a new answer is added
• - Fixed display of "Experts" when changing the view filter on an IQSubSpace
• - Changed name of questions web service to "questionsservice" due to naming conflict with a view
• - Added extra error handling to JSON API search agent

We are very proud of IQJam and are extremely pleased with it's success in the markeplace as the only full-featured question and answer social software for the IBM Lotus social software market.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:40:42 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ideajam iqjam linkjam brochures


We have updated some of our product brochures and here they are:

IdeaJam - Idea and Innovation Management Software

- Top 10 Reasons You Need IdeaJam (PDF)

- Notable IdeaJam Features (PDF)

- IdeaJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- Improve the Performance of Your Enterprise with Social Networking Software (PDF)

IQJam - Question and Answer Community Software for the Enterprise

- IQJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- IQJam Mobile for Apple iPhone and Google Android Product Brochure (PDF)

LinkJam - Social Bookmarking Software for the Enterprise

- LinkJam Product Brochure (PDF)

- LinkJam Notable Features (PDF)

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:31:53 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: goverment ideajam.gov2.0


Earlier this month and as part of the Open Government Initiative the USDA launched an IdeaJam to share and collect ideas from US citizens. This site was set up by Elguji Partner Sean Burgess with ANSD Designs based in Laurel, Maryland.

Here you can provide feedback about published data, records, reports & resources provided by us as well as our Open Gov Plan. Let us know how we can improve the quality, value & usefulness of USDA information. Learn more about what we’re doing, discuss ideas by posting comments, and help us improve our programs & operations. If you’d like to post, discuss and vote on your own ideas, head over to the Share Your Ideas section.

My administration is committed to creating and unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collabortion. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government.

January 21, 2009 - President Barack Obama

Here is a screenshot from the site:



Visit the USDA.gov/open site >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:55:38 AM Location Washington, DC | Permalink | Comments (5)

Tags: macworld iqjam iphone


IBM issued a press release today covering their support for Macs and iPhones and their presence at Macworld. The release includes Elguji's IQJam and it's support for the iPhone:

Elguji Software's IQJam, a question and answer community solution powered by IBM Lotus Domino and xPages technology, helps organizations capitalize on the knowledge of their employees. IQJam allows people to identify who the subject-matter experts are by keeping track of answered questions and associating them with categories, or IQSpaces, and tags.  

IBM is demoing IQJam and the IQJam iPhone app at Macworld at booth number 1284.

Read more >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 11:28:27 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ideas ideajam enterprise 2.0


Hutch Carpenter the VP of Product for Spigit (a competitor of Elguji's) has a great blog entry about how important ideas are in the context of Enterprise 2.0:

If Enterprise 2.0 rests on delivering value through collaborative, emergent and social means, ideas are the top basis for leveraging these qualities.

...

There are many types of content and activities – social objects – that are part of a social computing initiative. I’d argue ideas, for a host of reasons, should be considered top amongst those social objects.

Read Hutch Carpenter's blog entry "Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0 >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 08:02:41 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: elguji sales partners


Over the last year or so we have been contacted by many IBM Business Partners around the world with a view to them reselling our *Jam suite of products (IdeaJam, IQJam and LinkJam). As with all things legal, this has taken some time for us to get set up, but, now we are ready and have a partnership program set up. So if you'd like to resell our products or partner with Elguji to help your customers and their "Social Software in the Enterprise" needs then please drop us a line and we'd be happy to talk about the options available to you.

Posted by Matt White At 10:00:00 PM Location London | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: lotusphere lcty pavone elguji


For all those unable to attend IBM Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, PAVONE AG and Elguji Software offer the possibility to learn about IBM's news and trends in Portland, Oregon. We are inviting you to our Lotusphere Comes to You event on March 16, 2010.

A few hours of your time will allow you to catch up with the most important news from Lotusphere® 2010. Will also give you a summary of current IBM trends for 2010.

We will start at 8:30 AM and end at 1 PM, allowing you to return to work in the afternoon. The event will take place in downtown Portland. Additional information about the location and our agenda will be announced in February 2010. Please use our online LCTY Portland form to register for our Lotusphere Comes To You event. We are looking forward to seeing you at our event.

Make sure to register early, as the number of participants is limited to 25 people.

If you have any additional questions, please contact: Gayle Elgort.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 03:07:55 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: app ideajam solutions catalog


IdeaJam is now included in the new Lotus Solutions Catalog and is also a "featured" on the catalog home page:



IQJam and LinkJam should be included in the catalog shortly.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:36:19 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: xpages training london


Yesterday, Ben Poole and Elguji's Matt White presented the XPages101 course which was designed over the last couple of months to be an introduction to developing with XPages. This class was delivered in cooperation with the London Developer Co-op

Overall the class seemed to go pretty well, the timings need some work, and sometimes we went a little fast at some points which may have left a few people overwhelmed at the fire hose of information we got through in a short period of time! That will not happen again now that I understand how it all hangs together a bit more.

The feedback from the attendees was really gratifying...

Question

Overall, how would you rate the course?

Answer

95% (between Excellent and Good)

Question

How was the course material?

Answer

86.67% (between Excellent and Good)

Question

How was the presentation style?

Answer

86.67% (between Excellent and Good)

Question

Would you recommend the course to your colleagues / nerdy friends?

Answer

Yes: 100%

Obviously there's always room for improvement and there were some great feedback comments as well...

"A real eye opener for me as I've not looked XPages prior to the course."

"Excellent value for money. Pitched just right for the first steps into XPages."

"It gave me a very good understanding of XPages under the bonnet."

"It was great being here, great course, the XPages start I was looking for."

One of the things which we had consciously not done was provide lots of handout materials. The aim was to reduce the costs of the course as much as possible. From the feedback it seems people would have been happy to pay extra to get more paper based materials. So I think in future iterations of the course we'll change that around.

The other area where a couple of people expressed an interest was for an "intermediate" course. This leaves us in a bit of a quandary, as we are not sure we know what intermediate is. So if you have any thoughts we'd love to hear them.

Overall though, as we said earlier, it was a great day. Good fun for us, and hopefully useful to everyone else.

If you are interesting having XPages application development training please let us know. We are flexible and can accomodate your specific training or application development needs.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:31:52 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)