Last year I was fortunate enough to be named IBM Champion for 2017 by my peers in the IBM Collaboration Solutions community. It has been great. I have made even more friends in the community, I gotten my foot inside the door of places that were closed to me and I’ve been allowed to partake…
Social Connections in Vienna
Last week I attended the Social Connections conference in Vienna. This conference is put together by a group of users and IBM partners, and they alternate between North-America and Europe. This was the twelfth conference, but it was my first. Not only did I attend, I also did a presentation myself. Since I’ve become Mr….
IBM Notes and Domino Version 10 – A Glowing Saphire?
IBM made some pretty big announcements tonight. First of all, Notes and Domino will have a version 10 released in 2018. Yeah, I know. I am as shocked as you. Secondly, IBM is now leaving all the development of the platform to their partner HCL. IBM has already a partnership with them on several other…
Hide Postings from Selected People on Facebook
Aren’t there times when you where you are itching to post a scatching status posting about something or someone? But you can’t do it, because you don’t want any persons involved to read your posting. Luckily Facebook has a function not many people know about that lets you do just that: Post something and then…
How to Comment and Reply to them on Facebook
I’m sure you many times have replied to a comment someone has made on a posting on Facebook. But the well formed and well placed comment that you are so satisfied with suddenly becomes a small nightmare. You are constant bothered by notifications when people comment on the original posting. Well, I got news for…
Join Me in Vienna
Quite a few Norwegian ICS customers and partners ahve signed up for the Social Connections conference in Vienna. Why don’t you join us? Social Connections is an international user group. They set up meetings twice a year, and they alternate between Europe and North-America. The conferences usually last for two days, and a lot of…
IBM Domino is Not Dead – It’s Just Gone into the Clouds
I’ve heard since 2002 that IBM Notes and Domino was dead. And while the platform is certainly an endangered species these days, there’s still stuff happening on the Domino front that companies and organisations contemplating on leaving the platform really should pay attention to. IBM has now launched a service that makes it possible for…
Magic, pink and Star Wars – The ISBG Spring Seminar 2017
The Norwegian IBM Collaboration Solutions User Group’s (ISBG) spring meeting was held at PwC in Oslo on June 7th and 8th. Around 60 ISBG members, presenters, IBM-partners and people from IBM were there during the course of those two days. Wednesday started with Roger Johannessen wishing everyone welcome for the very last time as leader…
IBM Connect 2017 #6: A Recap of the Conference
At the bottom of this blog posting I’m linking to all the blogs I’ve written about IBM Connect. It’s now 15 days since I came home from San Francisco, and on Thursday it’s three whole weeks since the conference was over. I’ve been pretty busy with following up on stuff after the conference. Especially on…
IBM Connect 2017 #5: The Social Bit
First of all: A huge apology for my mistake in my third blog posting from Connect 2017. In this I wrote that Domino for iSeries would not be supported in the future. This is not true! I had misunderstood and the blog posting is now corrected. Sorry to IBM and all IBM partners and customers…