IBM has launched IBM Connections 4.5.1. To promote how you can work better with the product, they have created a demo which quite brilliantly demonstrates how you can work much more effectively in your organisation instead of relying on just email. Via blogs, where users can come up with suggestions and ideas that can be…
Author: elfworld
ISBG Member Meeting in Oslo
The Norwegian IBM user group meeting took place in Oslo Monday October 14th. For the first time I did a presentation, (yay!) but I will give a short report about the entire meeting here. The meeting took place in the brand new PricewaterhouseCoopers’ building in Bjørvika in Oslo. The auditorium had certainly been decorated to…
Make the IBM Connections Plugin Your Own
IBM Connections is a social software tool running in your web browser. Think of Facebook with profiles, groups, pages, likes and comment fields. Then add files and forums and you have a pretty powerful social tool for doing business much more effectively. Via tagging it’s much easier to find, share and discuss files and information,…
Tal
Tal, a photo by Elfworld on Flickr. The third of the three photos I sold to the jazz suite, one of the new rooms at the waterfront hotel Molde fjordstuer Tal Wilkenfeld was the highlight of the Herbie Hancock concert in 2011. In her early twenties, and she’s already high in demand as a touring…
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen, a photo by Elfworld on Flickr. As I mentioned yesterday, I sold three photos to the local hotel Molde Fjordstuer, meant for one of their newly built rooms. Namely, their jazz suite. This is the second of the tree photos. Leonard Cohen during Molde International Jazz Festival 2009. It’s one of the things…
Otomoyo Yoshohide
Otomoyo Yoshohide, a photo by Elfworld on Flickr. I sold three photos to Molde Fjordstuer today! It’s a local hotel by the seaside, and they are building a new building and have added even more rooms to the hotel. One of the rooms is a jazz suite, and they were looking for photos from Molde…
Hashtags on Facebook: What’s the Scoop?
When Facebook announced that they were going to introduce hashtags as part of their service, the reactions could be categorised into three groups: What now? Why, oh dear Lord, why? Finally! Personally I’m in the last category, but I will go through each category here. First of all because I’d like to give people who…
Notes Tip #2: Pimp My Notes Client
Sometimes you just got to have some fun with your work tools. I like to pimp my Notes client with the help of Panagenda’s Marvel Client: Skinning Edition. This makes it possible for me set my company’s logo as the background for my workspace in my Notes client, as well as changing the database icons….
ISBG Day 2
I was glad I went to bed early after Day 1. I think I was more ready for this day than certain other people I talked to… On to the sessions: An Introduction to Working With the Activity Stream This was one of my favorite sessions. It was presented by Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg from Intravision….
ISBG Day 1
I attended the ISBG (IBM samhandling brukergruppe), formerly known as the Norwegian Lotus user group, at Farris bad (a spa and hotel) in Larvik on Wednesday and Thursday. This was the first time I attended the group’s meeting, even if my previous employers have been members. I didn’t get to see much of Larvik, but…