by Chris Miller at 03:07:01 PM on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The first date is set for the ConsultantInYourPocket webcasts! Series 1 launches with a hour of troubleshooting SMTP in your Domino environment on March 24 2010. Registration is open and is filling fast already.
Make sure you get on over and register right away before the rest of the series 1 and new Series 2 opens up. If you want pre-registration news, join the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right of the blog!
How often do you get stuck trying to find the best way to uncover ways to troubleshoot SMTP mail in your Lotus Domino Environment? Dive into real-world examples and optimal settings for internal, external, and multi-domain SMTP configurations, anti-relay settings, extended SMTP settings, and more. Explore the numerous notes.ini variables and see which ones to utilize for your current SMTP issues. Then explore effective solutions for many errors, such as refusal/error by receiving server, route not found, and RFC error codes.
Make sure you get on over and register right away before the rest of the series 1 and new Series 2 opens up. If you want pre-registration news, join the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right of the blog!
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by Chris Miller at 11:52:00 AM on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Spiked Studio Productions is happy to announce the launch of a massive spring 2010 webcast series covering all the topics you need to get up to date and in depth technical training, without ever leaving your desk! Some of the webcasts will be free and others will be through a very minimal subscription and "a la carte" service. Read the launch news now and get ready to block your calendars for this training event.
Look for speakers such as Gabriella Davis, Carl Tyler, Victor Toal, myself and even more.
This is an extension of the Consultant In Your Pocket book series.
Look for speakers such as Gabriella Davis, Carl Tyler, Victor Toal, myself and even more.
This is an extension of the Consultant In Your Pocket book series.
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by Chris Miller at 11:09:28 AM on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Way back in Feb 2009 I mentioned the Pass It Along site that was in Alpahworks that I had tested and played around it. Well today IBM had a webcast on Pass It Along meaning it has made it from Alphaworks to an actual possible product.
Pass It Along is about peer to peer training and knowledge sharing. It is not document management, but more of a mechanism to build connections of people around the content. Experts are expected to self promote and being the knowledge transfer process. The whole project is deployed inside IBM on the W3.
Now here the overlap and separation begins from the other social software Lotus has in place. There is linking, a more formal community that Lotus Connections offers, Q&A possibilities and the built paths. The lacking parts is true profiles (that already exist in Connections), a true Activities area and loose document management. You can invite others to participate in the topic via email with no directory integration. You must comma delimit addresses to send invites.
Lessons learned on a subject are built in with the ability to describe the issue and the answers. I can see the system being an advanced Q&A and even a helpdesk resource that builds over time. Past that, having this as a stand-alone product would leave a large gap in content location, directory integration and activity management. They mentioned hooking this to content in Learning Management Systems (LMS) yet the SSO and directory integration work still isn't there.
Case studies were given for companies using it to roll out education and training which would mean a large effort to get the Knowledge Path, Topics and content built into the system with heavy participation from Experts and Contributors for the learners.
Pass It Along is about peer to peer training and knowledge sharing. It is not document management, but more of a mechanism to build connections of people around the content. Experts are expected to self promote and being the knowledge transfer process. The whole project is deployed inside IBM on the W3.
- Topics are learning paths. Short and to the point
- Content is the actual wiki, file attachment or web resource
- Knowledge paths let's you organize topics where they can be grouped for broader learning
- Teams are the people with interest or expertise in the topic in question
Now here the overlap and separation begins from the other social software Lotus has in place. There is linking, a more formal community that Lotus Connections offers, Q&A possibilities and the built paths. The lacking parts is true profiles (that already exist in Connections), a true Activities area and loose document management. You can invite others to participate in the topic via email with no directory integration. You must comma delimit addresses to send invites.
Lessons learned on a subject are built in with the ability to describe the issue and the answers. I can see the system being an advanced Q&A and even a helpdesk resource that builds over time. Past that, having this as a stand-alone product would leave a large gap in content location, directory integration and activity management. They mentioned hooking this to content in Learning Management Systems (LMS) yet the SSO and directory integration work still isn't there.
Case studies were given for companies using it to roll out education and training which would mean a large effort to get the Knowledge Path, Topics and content built into the system with heavy participation from Experts and Contributors for the learners.
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by Chris Miller at 08:20:00 AM on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
In this February 2010 issue I talk about the start of Lotusphere 2010 and the following:
IN THIS ISSUE #55
* From the Editor: Chris' 0.0518 XCD
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: ICM and iNotes Return
* Directory Independence has Been Pulled From Domino Plans
* Quick Tip: Multiple Attachments In iNotes Showing Incorrectly
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Which Domino Blog Template Should I Use?
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by Chris Miller at 01:58:49 PM on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
A great rounds of questions today via Twitter from Mitch Cohen on some of the blog changes at IdoNotes that I began mading last week. Let me run through them here and hopefully give a better feel for my thoughts in more than 140 characters
Not at all. I have only mentioned the newsletter twice since announcing the change, giving an idea of what content will start showing up in the newsletter material. There will be plenty for the blog itself, outside of the podcasts. Also, the newsletter is free. So there is no "ads" in that manner.
Subscribers will have access to all the archive content. More on that is coming. But access will be there.
There is the million dollar question. I have been running in this mode for over 7 years and found that I never know who is reading some of the content or what topics they want to see more of. The newsletter also allows me to expand in editorial without some of the searches and others intermingling the technical documents with the pure editorial. Also, I can target many of the exclusives that I get right to the readers that want to see it the most and make sure you can take part,. Instead of blasting it to thousands and then first come first serve. I have found this to be an issue in the past and I like the idea of the most faithful readers getting the most benefit from the content.
This isn't just an experiment, but an evolving change of many things that are taking place right now across my sharing, reach and futures.
Chris, so this blog is now nothing more than an advertisement for your e-mail only subscription newsletter?
Not at all. I have only mentioned the newsletter twice since announcing the change, giving an idea of what content will start showing up in the newsletter material. There will be plenty for the blog itself, outside of the podcasts. Also, the newsletter is free. So there is no "ads" in that manner.
If someone finds todays post in a month and they are not already subscribed, how do they access the content?
Subscribers will have access to all the archive content. More on that is coming. But access will be there.
so if it is all free.. why not just blog it?
There is the million dollar question. I have been running in this mode for over 7 years and found that I never know who is reading some of the content or what topics they want to see more of. The newsletter also allows me to expand in editorial without some of the searches and others intermingling the technical documents with the pure editorial. Also, I can target many of the exclusives that I get right to the readers that want to see it the most and make sure you can take part,. Instead of blasting it to thousands and then first come first serve. I have found this to be an issue in the past and I like the idea of the most faithful readers getting the most benefit from the content.
This isn't just an experiment, but an evolving change of many things that are taking place right now across my sharing, reach and futures.
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Yes this is a blatant theft of the outline that Jess uses on her page, but I asked permission. Why?? Because I am a hardcore admin and can make ugly tables to make you developers frustrated, but this was too nice to pass up.
Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
- Domino 7 Certified Security Administrator
- PCLP ND8
- PCLP ND7
- PCLP ND6
- PCLP R5
- PCLP R4
- Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging (retired)
- CLP Collaboration (soon to be retired Aug 2006)
- random former R4 exams
- CLI for numerous admin areas including Domino, Sametime and Workplace
- CLP Insane
Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Weapons/Equipment:
- At work an IBM thing
- At home a plethera of 6 machines with various Windows versions and Red Hat on a wired/wireless LAN
- A Wii
- An 8830 Blackberry
- A Toshiba E740 with 802.11b (yes geek toy)
- An Apple 40GB iPod that is filled to the brim
- I cannot even list all of the items I carry I found
- Compaq RioPort MP3 player (now in storage)
- An EBook (REB1100) also for travel (Love that darn thing)
- Verizon and they always seem to know how to find me, damn cell
Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
Languages:
- Incredibly fast English
- Very slow Spanish
- Emoticon-ese
- Learning Korean
- HTML
- Advanced Sarcasm
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- Notes/Domino overdrive
- Workplace
- Sametime
- Active Directory (huh? kidding)
- Quickplace
- LMS, LVC and the other L's of elearning
- Windoze junk
- MS Exchange versions
- LAN
- TCPIP
- Server Iron
- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
Looking to find me in person? Here is where I am and will be.
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