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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.
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02/11/2010
PRNewswire: IBM Brings Business-Grade Social Software to iPhone, Macs
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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.
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01/17/2010
Elguji Announces IQJam - Industry’s First Question and Answer Community Software for XPages
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Bruce Elgort
+1 (360) 771.8819
bruce.elgort@elguji.com
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.
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01/12/2010
New iPhone and Android apps for IQJam to be demoed at Lotusphere 2010
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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) :
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.
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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.
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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.
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12/13/2009
Integrating Lotus Connections with IQJam
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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.
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12/10/2009
Example Javascript code to add IQJam questions to IdeaJam
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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){}
}
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12/10/2009
See the IQJam JSON API in action in IdeaJam
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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.
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12/07/2009
Product Documentation Updates
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The following are links to the product documenation for IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam:
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12/03/2009
How to drive revenue with an open source product in your portfolio
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Part of Elguji's company strategy to help people developers learn more about IBM Lotus XPages development and to create brand awareness for Elguji included developing an open source application called TaskJam. With the thousands of TaskJam downloads have come inquiry after inquiry about other products - most of them leading to sales of IdeaJam, LinkJam and IQJam. How do we know this? Well people tell us! Additionally, we have acquired a cadre of XPages development work and consulting services as well.
While Elguji is not the first company in the Lotus ISV/BP world to offer open source or free software to help drive sales of commercial software, we certainly can attest to it's success as a tool to help drive sales of our other products and services. We encourage other Lotus ISV's to follow suite as you can almost be guaranteed that it will help you drive sales and increase brand recognition.
Some of you may be asking when TaskJam will make into the OpenNTF GPL Catalog and we can answer with "we are working hard on making that happen".
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11/27/2009
Video Demo: IQJam and Microsoft Office 2007 - Web Services API
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The IQJam Web Services API is extremely powerful. This video demonstrates an IQJam knowledge search sidebar window in Microsoft Office 2007.
Higher quality videos are on the way for IQJam. Thank you for watching.
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11/17/2009
IQJam has shipped!
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Elguji Software is very pleased to announce that IQJam, our question and answer community social networking software is now available for purchase. IQJam has been specifically built for IBM's Lotus Domino 8.5.1. Customer demand for an enterprise class question and answer system is the primary driver for Elguji developing IQJam. IQJam customers can also expect the same world-class customer service and support that they are accustomed to with Elguji.
The demo schedule is practically booked solid so, if your company is interested in seeing a 30 minute demo please contact our Sales group.
We would also like to thank the many customers who have participated in the beta program as well as the community members who helped test on the IQJam.net site.
Elguji Software is happy to announce that their forthcoming IQJam question and answer community social networking software is now available for beta testing at http://iqjam.net. IQJam has been specifically built for IBM's forthcoming Domino 8.5.1. Customer demand for an enterprise based question and answer system is the primary driver for Elguji developing the product.
Users can login to IQJam using their IdeaJam.net username and password. An IdeaSpace for IQJam has been setup on the IdeaJam.net site for beta testers to enter their ideas on how to improve IQJam. Additionally, testers are encouraged to use the Feedback link at the bottom of every page to notify Elguji of any problems or errors they run into.
IQSpaces and Sub IQSpaces for Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Quickr, OpenNTF, Domino Development, Lotusphere, Domino Administration, IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam have are available.
The JSON and Web Services API is also available for testing. To learn more about the IQJam API visit the Developers link on IQJam.net. We'll be releasing more documentation about the APIs over the coming days and weeks, but if you have any questions, please just drop us a line using the Feedback form.
All of the administration and configuration for IQJam is browser or Lotus Notes Client based which allows the administrator to choose how they want to run the site.
Disclaimer: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is prerelease code and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality presented will be in the final shipping product.
IdeaJam Fall '09 to be Released
IdeaJam Fall '09 will be available for customers on software maintenance starting on September 26th. This release includes the ability to "Follow or Unfollow" IdeaSpaces (email alerts), the Top Innovators leaderboard, integration of the Dashboard with a users Profile, the ability to navigate back into a view where you left off and much more.
The full list of new features:
- IdeaJam XPages version upgraded to run on Domino 8.5.1 only
- Custom HTML Header in Control Panel
- @CommentBody@ can be used to insert the comment body for new comment notifications that get sent out by the IdeaJam
- Improved navigation on Advanced Search, Favorite Ideas and What's Hot Screens
- A tooltip now appears when hovering over the Favorite stars.
- It is now possible to configure 5 extra custom fields on the user profile.
User Profile and Dashboard have been merged
- New Top Innovators function from the header menu.
- Improved navigation so that the last view position you were in is remembered when clicking the "Back to All Ideas" button
- Idea Counts Added to the IdeaSpace navigation combo box
- A new "Follow IdeaSpace" function is now available
- The IdeaSpace can now be selected for the Lotus Connections iWidget
We're also continuing our aim to deliver high quality software and so several bugs and inconsistencies reported by customers have been addressed:
- Fixed language variables bug when withdrawing votes.
- Fixed language variables bug when viewing a person's ideas on their profile.
- Removed quick login box from Registration page to avoid confusion
- Fixed security of reg_userlookup agent to allow registrations in a secure IdeaJam database
- Fixed a bug where the creator of an idea wasn't notified of new comments on their idea in certain circumstances
- Fixed a bug with high number ASCII characters in IdeaSpace names in the Statistics Flash charts
- Removed Archived comments from live views
- Fixed display of Archived Questions in the Dashboard views
- Fixed a potential XSS vector on the Search Results screen
- Fixed an error in Safari where Ideas could be submitted without passing validation
- Fixed a problem where a URL edited with the Plain Text Idea form broke the link
- Unvoted will now only show Open and In Progress Ideas
- Fixed a bug where Withdrawn, Rejected and Completed Ideas were not being archived
- Fixed a bug with Quick Login in IE6 when logging in from inside an Idea
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IQJam has a set of web services (SOAP) that will allow developers to read data from and post data to an IQJam. The way this will work is through a security token that each user is assigned in their Profile along with an ACL Role that allows the API access. The implentation is very elegant and currently consists of the following methods:
addQuestion
addAnswer
findQuestionById
searchQuestions
getRecentQuestions
getRecentQuestionsByTag
getRecentQuestionsByAuthor
If we take a look at the addQuestion method we have:
Parameters:
- Question
- Security Key
Response:
- Question ID
A set of JSON methods will also be provided with IQJam and will offer equivelant functionality. There are also several other methods that are currently being developed. All of these services can be found on the Developers link located at the bottom of every IQJam page.
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07/27/2009
Introducing IQJam
Tags: iqjam An Innovative Collaborative Question and Answer Community for the Enterprise
Let's face it, we all know that someone somewhere out there has the answer to a question or a problem that you have. The hard part is finding that someone. CEOs will always tell you that an organization's greatest asset is the cumulative knowledge of its employees.
IQJam helps you locate and harness the power of that knowledge with exceptional ease.
Introducing IQJam!
IQJam is the perfect 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.
Questions and their answers can be voted up or down. Voting allows the IQJam community to identify questions that they would like to see answered. Voting on answers helps identify the correct answer as well as eliminate ones that may be incorrect. Once the correct answer has been entered, it is marked by the user as being "answered".
Use 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 a knowledge base for your company or community.
Locating Knowledge With Exceptional Ease
Questions and answers can be found in several ways:
- Selecting an IQSpace and sub-category
- Selecting one of the following views:
-- Recent Questions
-- Answered Questions
-- Unanswered Questions
-- Questions and Answers by Votes
-- "Hot Questions"
- Tags
- Full Text Search
Identify the Experts
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 IQSpaces and Tags.
Screenshots
IQJam Features
Questions - Easily ask a question using a simple form.
Answers - Quickly and easily answer questions.
IQSpaces - Questions are grouped together using "IQSpaces". Each IQSpace can have one or more sub-categories.
Tags - Each question has one or more "tags" which helps you locate information.
Duplicate Question Checker - Questions entered will be checked to see if there is already a duplicate question in IQJam.
User Profiles - Each person has a profile with information about them and includes links to the questions they have asked and answers they have posted.
Leaderboard - An easy way to see the ranking of top IQJam members by the number of questions they submitted and the number of questions that they answered.
News Feeds - Subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor when new questions are asked and when answers are given.
Search - The search facility makes it easy to find information stored in IQJam.
Customizable - Companies can make their IQJam match their corporate branding by using the IQJam Control Panel.
Installation - Typically installation and configuration takes less than 15 minutes.
IQJam was developed by Elguji Software, the same people who created the award winning IdeaJam software.
The IBM Lotus Commuity IQJam
We are also happy to announce that there will be an IBM Lotus Community IQJam for all things Lotus at http://iqjam.net. You will be able to use your IdeaJam.net username and password. Stay tuned for details.
System Requirements
Server - IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1
Administrative Client - IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 or web browser
Web Browsers - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3, Apple Safari 3 and 4 and Google Chrome
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