How do you spell ‘Carlos Zambrano’?

According to the folks providing close captioning for FOX, ‘Carlos Zambrano’ is spelled ‘Carl Saadam Braun’.
Come on, FOX!

How important to you is your website?

The other day I was talking with one of my smaller customers (a 10-person company) about their website. I asked them if they knew how much traffic their website was getting. I pointed out that they — the website — hardly appeared in Google searches, unless the search was very specific to their [...]

PSC’s team of Lotusphere speakers is growing

Well, at least we are hoping that it will grow.  In addition to John Head and me, this year Luis Guirigay decided to join in on the fun and submitted an abstract of what we’re hoping will become his first Lotusphere session.  Luis’ session is based on his experience recent project expeirence building a very [...]

DuPage Habitat for Humanity New Website Launched and I Helped a Bit

Woo hoo — the DHFH new website is LIVE!
The last few months of my hard and sometimes not so hard volunteer effort are over and the result is out there for all to see. I have to admit that the final version was improved by the DHFH developers compared to where I left [...]

@Keith Strickland Re: Lotus Notes perception in the workplace…

After reading Keith’s post, I simply couldn’t fit everything I wanted to say into a Comment. And he brought up a sore subject for me…
How many times have you sat in a meeting with a business user and they said, “tell me if Notes can do this…”? I’ve been in too many [...]

Upgrading Exchange vs. Upgrading Domino

We’re going through an upgrade of our Exchange environment to the latest and greatest Exchange 2007. Yes, I have to admit that for some strange reason folks in our Microsoft practice keep want to be using Outlook instead of Lotus Notes. I don’t understand their reasoning as they have to keep both clients: [...]

Collaboration Without Boundaries in Chicago

The IBM Lotus Competitive Services group brought their Collaboration Without Boundaries event (not to be confused with Collaboration Summit) to Chicago this past week. This event is probably the best kept secret amongst all the events that IBM puts on. It boasts remarkable quality of information that is very relevant to the competitive [...]

PSC is looking for a Lotus Notes/Domino consultant

I am looking for a new person to join our Collaboration team. The focus of and the strength of our team at PSC has always been the Collaboration technologies with heavy emphasis on the IBM/Lotus family of products: Lotus Notes, Domino, Quickr, Connections, SameTime. As of late, a lot of the work that [...]

Thought of the week

Sometimes we wonder if we are getting anywhere.  So, what is the latest process (IT wise) to come full circle between the 1970’s and today?  The answer is 3270/5250 and Rich Internet Applications (RIA).  For those of you who may be on the younger side, the model for data processing through the ‘70s was the [...]

Jive Software Fall Road Show and Some Lessons

The Jive Software’s Fall Road Show was in Chicago today. The topic of discussion — “Integrating Social Media with Your Marketing Strategy”. I’ve been following Jive software for some while now but this is the first event that I attended. I think they have a great product, which parallels the needs of [...]