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)

Tags: openntf lotus awards
There are two brand new Lotus Award categories this year for open source contributions:

Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual

This Award will be presented to person that provides the best template, solution, widget or sample, made available via Open Source through OpenNTF.org. The offering must leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® Notes and / or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X, such as XPages, Live Text, Application integration with the Sidebar, or mobilization of applications. Submissions for this Award should be solutions that leverage these new technologies to address a specific business need. Entries will be judged based on wow factor and completeness of solution (30%), innovation (10%), overall business value they demonstrate (30%), the extent to which these solutions leverage the technologies, and the ability to demonstrate how these enhancements boost end user and organizational effectiveness (30%). Special consideration will be given to developers new to the Notes and Domino development environment.

Best Open Source Contribution by a Business Partner

This Award will be presented to the business partner that provides the best commercial application made available via Open Source through OpenNTF.org. The offering must leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® Notes and / or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X, such as XPages, Live Text, Application integration with the Sidebar, or mobilization of applications. Submissions for this Award should be solutions that leverage these new technologies to address a specific business need. Entries will be judged based on wow factor and completeness of solution (30%), innovation (10%), overall business value they demonstrate (30%), the extent to which these solutions leverage the technologies, and the ability to demonstrate how these enhancements boost end user and organizational effectiveness (30%). Special consideration will be given to developers new to the Notes and Domino development environment.

Best of luck to all the individuals and business partners submitting award entries. For the record Elguji will not be submitting any award nominations for either of these two categories.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:56:54 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: gpl taskjam openntf
Elguji would like to announce that their TaskJam XPages application is now available in the OpenNTF GPL V3 catalog. TaskJam is a simple task management application for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5/8.5.1. It's also probably the most downloaded XPages template for learning XPages development in the Lotus-verse.



Many thanks to Declan Lynch (OpenNTF Committer) and Peter Tanner (OpenNTF IP Manager) for their assistance. The entire process took less than 48 hours. If you would like assistance on getting your application approved please let us know.

Download TaskJam from OpenNTF >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 01:17:34 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: lotusphere xpages notes domino best practices
Elguji's Matt White and Bruce Elgort will be speaking at the upcoming IBM Lotusphere 2010 event being held in Orlando, Florida January 17-21, 2010. Here is what they will be speaking about:

SHOW112 (Show and Tell) - How to Build an XPages Application From Start to Finish

Join IBM's Tim Clark and Elguji Software's Matt White as they take you step by step and click by click through building an XPages application. Learn the basics and then grow the complexity as you expand the application, including XPages, Custom Controls, server-side Javascript, single UI methodology, using existing Lotus Notes data and adding unlisted DOJO objects. Watch the application being built live on stage, with everything you need to know condensed into two hours.

BP205 (Best Practices) - "I'm a Programmer Not a Firefighter!": The Low Maintenance "Notes Shop"

Imagine having nearly 200 applications that you must keep afloat, yet spending less than 10% of your time on maintenance? Without these best practices, every application you build will steal away little bits of your time, until you reach the point that you are doing nothing more than maintenance. Epic Aviatons Tim Paque and Elguji Software's Bruce Elgort have learned many tricks over the years that will show you how to let your applications "leave the nest" and live without you, and help you turn off your pager and get your life back!

We hope to see you at our sessions.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 08:44:40 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ideajam iqjam linkjam taskjam
The following are links to the product documenation for IdeaJam, IQJam, LinkJam and TaskJam:

IdeaJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

IQJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

LinkJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

TaskJam - Installation, Setup and Configuration Guide

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:50:08 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: interesting sites
If you're interested in innovation and idea management (which of course we are) then you should really check out the PwC Innovate Blog, run by members of the PricewaterhouseCoopers innovation team they dig up some really useful articles and also add a lot of their own content as well.

They're on twitter as @pwcinnovate if you're into that sort of thing as well

Posted by Matt White At 07:11:03 AM Location London | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: openntf ideajam iqjam taskjam
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".

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:57:04 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: video ideajam

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:09:48 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: ideajam case study
A few days ago we blogged about the Lotus Knows Ad Campaign Case Study and, now we are happy to share the Case Study for the United States Department of Agriculture and how they used Elguji's IdeaJam product.

During the economic downturn of 2008 President Obama challenged all US Government employees to make cost saving suggestions for the annual US Budget process. This was part of a larger effort to ensure that the US Government agencies invested taxpayer dollars in programs and initiatives that have proven records of success and fix or end programs that do not. The USDA needed to reach out to all of it's employees to find ways to reduce wasteful spending.

View the case study (PDF) >

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 09:36:38 AM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (1)