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Recognizing Lifetime Achievement: Meet Julian Robichaux  

By SocialBiz User Group | 2/24/17 2:13 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

If you’ve attended the IBM Connect conference in recent years, or if you’re part of the IBM Collaboration Solutions user community, you probably know—or know of—Julian Robichaux. He’s a senior software developer at panagenda (an IT management software solutions provider and strategic IBM Business Partner), and he’s been named an IBM Champion every year since 2011.

Introducing the 2017 IBM Champions for ICS!  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/14/16 11:23 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It is my absolute pleasure to announce our 2017 IBM Champions for Collaboration Solutions! There are 123 champions in total for 2017. This is our largest year-to-year growth! Of the 123, there are 44 new champions, and 79 returning champions, including two Lifetime IBM Champions. I will also announce in the near future a new Lifetime IBM Champion for ICS. Who do you think it will be?

Transcript: Live Q&A - Structuring XPages Apps with Java  

By SocialBiz User Group | 9/23/15 9:21 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Transcript: Live Q&A - Structuring XPages Apps with Java. On September 15th, we conducted a Live Q&A with Jesse Gallagher. The Topic discussed was Structuring XPages Apps with Java. Below is a transcript of the questions and answers.

Transcript: Live Q&A - Structuring XPages Apps with Java  

By SocialBiz User Group | 9/16/15 3:56 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

On September 15th, we conducted a Live Q&A with Jesse Gallagher. The Topic discussed was Structuring XPages Apps with Java. Below is a transcript of the questions and answers.

Free E-book: Development Tips and Best Practices for XPages  

By SocialBiz User Group | 9/10/15 4:48 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Tap into real-world expertise with this free e-book containing some of the most useful topics we found covering XPages development. You will find full presentations from popular ConnectED 2015 presentations available on SocialBizUG.org, popular blogs and articles.

Meet Jesse Gallagher - IBM Champion and MWLUG Speaker  

By SocialBiz User Group | 8/10/15 1:32 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Do we have another great interview for you. We grabbed another MWLUG speaker (and multiple IBM Champion) for an informative interview. Meet Jesse Gallagher! Get to know a little bit about Jesse's background and his upcoming MWLUG session.

Meet IBM Champion Mark Leusink!  

By SocialBiz User Group | 6/19/15 5:45 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Join me as I have a very pleasant conversation with Mark Leusink, our featured IBM Champion on SocialBizUG.org. Mark is a four time IBM Champion and you may very well have met him as he has traveled internationally to speak at various conferences. In this interview, he gives us some background on his work experience.

Five Questions with Mark Roden, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month!  

By SocialBiz User Group | 6/15/15 10:01 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Five Questions with Mark Roden, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month!

Louis Benitez IBM Webcast  

By SocialBiz User Group | 5/23/15 11:28 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by John Oldenburger

In March, IBM introduced IBM Connections Files on Cloud, an easily accessible file sharing and sync offering for existing customers or new customers looking to ease into the Connections offering one app at a time. Join Luis Benitez and David Brooks as they detail how the new offering allows for controlled file access for uploading, storage, and secure file sharing.

Five Questions with Paul Della-Nebbia, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month  

By SocialBiz User Group | 4/19/15 5:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Please join me in the really great interview with Paul Della-Nebbia, our SocialBizUG.org Member of the Month! You will get some great insights into XPages

Webcast Replay: Get Ready for IBM Verse  

By SocialBiz User Group | 3/12/15 2:04 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Get Ready for IBM Verse. Join Kramer Reeves, Director, IBM Messaging & Collaboration Product Management, including IBM Verse, and get the latest product news as we head to General Availability in a few weeks.

ConnectED 2015 Opening General Session Recap  

By SocialBiz User Group | 1/27/15 1:27 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

ConnectED 2015 Opening General Session Recap. Chris Miller, Julian Robichaux, and Carl Tyler give their reaction to the opening session at the ConnectED 2015 conference in Orlando.

Pete Janzen previews XPages sessions and announcements at ConnectED  

By SocialBiz User Group | 1/12/15 4:19 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Pete Janzen previews XPages sessions and announcements at ConnectED. Pete Janzen, Senior Product Manager in charge of XPages, hints at IBM's upcoming announcements around XPages at ConnectED. He also shares what he thinks are some must-see XPages sessions and what he's most looking forward to at the conference.

Kathy Brown will help you get over your fear of Java at ConnectED 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 1/8/15 4:43 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Kathy Brown will help you get over your fear of Java at ConnectED 2015. Kathy Brown details her two upcoming sessions at ConnectED 2015 including "Interesting things you can do with Java with minimal code" at the annual Nerd Girls sessions. She provides a quick Java tip and shares what she's most looking forward to at the conference.

Interview with Kramer Reeves: IBM Verse at ConnectED 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 1/5/15 2:19 PM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Right before the Christmas break, I snagged a quick interview with Kramer Reeves, Director of Messaging & Collaboration Solutions at IBM. Kramer shared some insight into what we'll see about IBM Verse (formerly IBM Mail Next) at the upcoming ConnectED conference as well as a quick look at the Verse product roadmap.

9 Web Design Trends Set to Dominate 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/30/14 4:09 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

The web design industry has not remained immune from the changes that the World Wide Web has seen over the decades. New trends have come and gone. Web designers who have learned to adapt to these changes continue to thrive while others, who choose not to move...

Interview with Chris Miller: Sametime deployments, bandwidth considerations for cloud, and ConnectED 2015  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/22/14 10:57 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

ConnectED is just a little over a month away, and below is a quick interview I had with Chris Miller. Chris is presenting two sessions at ConnectED: one on Sametime deployments with Wes Morgan and another on bandwidth considerations for moving to the cloud....

Use JSON to Create Flexible, Scalable, and Easy-to-Use Data Storage in XPages  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/16/14 8:11 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

This tip is from a View Journal article, “Use JSON to Create Flexible, Scalable, and Easy-to-Use Data Storage in XPages” by Kathy Brown. In the article, Kathy looks at just exactly what IS JSON. She then covers displaying data from an existing JSON string and provides you with some good code examples. She then covers how to get the data that you just displayed back into the document.

Webcast Replay: Installing and Upgrading to the New IBM Notes 9 Social Edition  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/12/14 10:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

The new IBM Notes 9 Social Edition client is much more modern looking and has even more potential for customization than previous versions. Join this webcast to get lessons learned from a recent project upgrading a large-scale environment from IBM Notes 8.5.2 to IBM Notes 9 including key differences in installing the IBM Domino Administration and IBM Domino Designer clients.

Best Practice: Restoring Deleted Documents from a Backup Database  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/5/14 11:27 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

We have all encountered the issue where we need to restore some documents from a valid backup. This could from yesterday to even weeks ago. Users are known to be a bit overzealous when deleting documents. Many times they forget that if it is in email it can be easily retrieved from the trash for up to 48 hours by default.

Part 1 - Overview of Mobile XPages Development  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/3/14 1:07 PM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Overview of Mobile XPages Development

Behind the scenes: The Class of 2015 IBM Champions for ICS  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/3/14 12:17 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

This morning we announced the Class of 2015 IBM Champions for ICS. Posting the blog and sending out notifications was the culmination of a process that started 3 months ago when we opened the nominations. Those 3 months have been a very exciting, educational and emotional period for me.

When Is A Java Exception Not An Exception?  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/3/14 9:14 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

This is a reprint from the Clippings newsletter of May 2012. When is a Java Exception not an Exception? When it's an Error, of course. Need more explanation? Read on.The Problem. I had some Java code I wanted to test as an XAgent ( for more on XAgents, click here). So I wrapped up the code in a small method.

Webcast Replay - Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail Next  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/2/14 7:54 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

We've had a great turnout for Luis Guirigay's discussion about how to get the most out of a Notes / Domino environment and how to extend it with Social, Mobile and Cloud platforms.Check out the slides and watch the replay also to hear from IBM Champion Karl-Henry Martinsson about his day job and his community engagement.

December 11 webcast: Installing and Upgrading to the New IBM Notes 9 Social Edition  

By SocialBiz User Group | 12/1/14 11:17 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Join this webcast to get lessons learned from a recent project upgrading a large-scale environment from IBM Notes 8.5.2 to IBM Notes 9 including key differences in installing the IBM Domino Administration and IBM Domino Designer clients.

ACL Restrictions & Free Security Eraser Tool for Notes  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/28/14 12:21 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

IBM Notes provides different layers of security restrictions to safeguard database from unauthorized access and when all these layers are bring together forms ACL (Access Control List). Seven Distinct types of access are offered by Access Control List (ACL) in IBM Notes environment.

Webcast Replay: XPages Extension Library: The Year In Review  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/25/14 2:49 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

If you missed our “XPages Extension Library: A Year in Review” webcast, don’t worry – it’s now available on-demand. You can view both the video replay and presentation easily right from your desk.

Introducing IBM Verse: Demos from the launch  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/20/14 4:14 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

At Connect 2014, IBM announced Mail Next, a total refresh of how we look at and use email. On Tuesday in New York City, IBM held a launch for Mail Next and announced its new name: IBM Verse. The launch event was a few hours long and included talk of tech trends, demos, and a lot of information. I’ll cover the demos here and recap some of the other information in a later post.

Webcast Replay: XPages Extension Library: The Year In Review  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/20/14 8:04 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

This year we have seen a lot of innovative improvements come to OpenNTF.org in the Domino application development space. Join this webcast to learn about the latest and greatest XPages Extension Library and details on all sorts of new post-Notes/Domino 9.0.1 goodies.

IBM Mail Next becomes IBM Verse: an interview with Scott Souder  

By SocialBiz User Group | 11/19/14 1:13 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Scott Souder discusses the latest on IBM Mail Next, how IBM is going to avoid the same learning curve trap that befell Windows 8, when Mail Next will be available on premises, and what we'll see around Mail Next at ConnectED 2015.