Stephen Hawking died yesterday. A huge loss to the world, and no matter his very human shortcomings, the world truly should pay tribute to this man. I am among those millions who bought his book “A Brief History of Time” in the early 90s. It opened my mind up on so many levels, and taught…
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What Happens to Your Facebook Profile When You Die?
Some of my real life and Facebook friends, as well as relatives of them, have died. A while after their funeral, you suddenly see that Facebook is telling you that it’s the dead person’s birthday. And then a lot of people who don’t know that this person has passed on are posting birthday greetings. It’s…
How to Use Facebook as a Blog
Have you ever read a blog posting from a someone, with photos and a nice summary of something they’ve experienced? Or read something that they wanted to share or discuss? And then thought: “Gee, I want to to that.” But then you’ve realised that you don’t want all the hassle of setting up a blog,…
What’s in IBM Domino v10
IBM and HCL, who took over the development of the old IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio a few months back, minus IBM Connections, held a joint webinar today to present their plans for IBM Notes/Domino v10. You can see the recording of the webinar here. The people who held the webinar were Bob Schultz, GM IBM…
Here is How You Block Nametests
UPDATE 08.12.2018: This no longer works. There’s another way you have to do this now. I will create a blog posting about that soon. Since my last posting about what Nametest (and such quizzes and tests) do to the profile of your friends, I’ve gotten a lot of private messages asking me how to block…
This is Why You Shouldn’t Find Out What You Would Look Like as a Movie Star
In the past two weeks a lot of my Facebook contacts have been posting this “What Would I Look Like as a Movie star” results from a test taken via the Nametests app. DO NOT TAKE THESE TESTS! Consider this. A person says the following to you: “Give me access to all your personal information,…
Some Limitations of IBM Connections
As an IBM Champion who is visiting a lot of IBM customers, I often get asked questions about challenges that the users have with some of the products. Very often I can give them the answer. But sometimes I have to go to IBM to ask the product managers for help. And other times I…
You Can Just Ignore These Facebook Postings With a Clear Conscience
There are two types of status postings you can just ignore, even if they try to tell you that you are a bad person for not sharing them. I bet 5 of my friends won’t… I’m sure you’ve seen these lots of times. One of your friends has copied the text of a status update…
Life of an IBM Champion
As some of you know, I turned 100% freelance last year, and my income is now all down to me in my pursuit of assignments. If you want to book me, either as a user trainer for effective use of mail and calendar (Outlook IBM Notes or Gmail), general courses about IBM Notes, IBM Connections,…
How to See All Notifications on Facebook
UPDATE: I’ve been told that on a lot of mobile apps, what I’ve described here is still not happening. I think it will eventually happen, it’s just that the change isn’t rolled out yet for you. However, the See All-link is not present in the mobile app if the change hasn’t been rolled out for…