Transition of PaXos Users to New IBM PartnerWorld Community Site - or how to lose your content
Tags :Lotus Connections
A few years ago, Lotus gave Business Partners there own Lotus Connections network (announced at PartnerWorld 2007 in IdoNotes Episode 31), based on version 1.0, to launch the product and get partners excited. Last night the email arrived with some great specifications:
When we started the Lotus Connections for Partners initiative nearly three years ago in conjunction with the launch of Lotus Connections 1.0, who would have thought we'd have over 2000 registered users from 1000+ partners, close to 1400 social bookmarks, nearly 200 blogs, and well over 100 public Communities? What started as a grassroots effort to provide the IBM partner community with a partner-only social environment has done very, very well.
So the good news is that the site is and was utilized. While the blogs were closed and not open to the public, and communities were tested and sat idle, the site still had some content. IBM is now pointing the PaXos users to Partnerworld Communities (IBM ID required to log in) or even over to Greenhouse, MyDeveloperWorks and still in PaXos as a sandbox. ( Read more on the creation of too many Lotus Connections silos)
What was missing from the information received was if your profile and all your content were being migrated across to the site. Sure, there may be some things you do not want listed, but that would be part of the migration option process right? I can't see losing 1400 social bookmarks and all the blog content from 200 blogs. (Update at 8:55am - only approved IBM employyes can create blogs on the site according to the warning on the screen. Oops)
PartnerWorld Communities just launched in Q1 of 2009 and to date has accumulated:
- IBM PartnerWorld Community is the #1 (membership) Community on ibm.com
- IBM PartnerWorld Community has over 430 members and continues to grow
- Since its launch, four new Communities, three new blogs and multiple new Forum topics have been added
- Over 1,150 Blog visits
- Over 4,000 visitors to PW Communities to date
I would still like to see all of these merged together and communities and areas created as needed for Developers, Partners and whomever else gets involved. I would like to search across profiles and build one network of IBM contacts instead of numerous places. I would likle to see all the blogs and social bookmarks in one place. I would like to have the ability to have one Activities panel in my Notes client that would cover one instance. Currently you can run only one so having Connections internally and 4 other places with Activities just doesn't work. (Update 9:15a, - I would suggest getting all your files from Activities on PaXos even if ti will be there in Sandbox mode, no guarantees on data storage there)
I have not mentioned Greenhouse as I do think it is a great testing lab for all things beta. The production site on MyDeveloperWorks should be 'gold" code and in production as it is a front face for IBM. But let's get rid of all the other disparate installations and actually build a single social network where we can all meet and collaborate n one place.
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On Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 by Chris Miller
