There's another theme that was big at Lotusphere: mobility and smartphones. Not only were there a bunch of Lotus and partner announcements, everywhere you went, you saw people using them. Even while standing around having a conversation, most participants had a phone in the hand, too, probably checking the 'Sphere twitter streams.

This trend isn't going away, and there were even some prophets suggesting that the smartphone will replace the laptop as the weapon of choice for many people, and as the prime interface for many business applications, too.

I'm not sure I subscribe to the former idea. I can't see the current awkward two-thumb typing interface on a small device replacing a keyboard, but then I could also be wrong, and maybe voice will become the large-scale data entry vehicle with future smartphones.

But as was obvious from both products and sessions, custom mobile business apps, and partner apps that work on mobiles are here to stay. For example:

• BlackBerry launched their new Quickr and updated Connections products just before Lotusphere. Pity they appear to need another back-end server to support them, though.
• Teamstudio announced an XPages toolset, Voyager, that will you to use XPages to design apps for Blackberries, and which will support offline as well as online capability.
• Lotus said that a future release of Traveler (oh, how I hate the American spelling!) will support Android phones, starting with the Nexus One, in the second half of 2010. I'd speculate that this will come with Notes/Domino 8.5.2.
• Lotus have a new iPhone product, Traveler Companion. This is free, already available and, by all accounts, a popular download on the iPhone App Store. It adds encryption capabilities to Traveler on an iPhone.
• Lotus also announced future Nokia Symbian features, including Sametime presence awareness and Sametime Unified Telephony integrated into the device's address book, to be available sometime towards the end of 2010.

Can we talk?
Another pervasive theme was collaboration itself. That's not a new theme to Lotusphere by any means. After all, it's one of the founding tenets of Notes itself.

But there was much more emphasis on the value, and indeed the whole point, of collaboration from a more social perspective. It can't be lost on Lotus that having started the whole collaboration software business, their lead has been somewhat eroded recently by things like Google Wave, and even SharePoint.

One way they plan to do that is via social analytics, which will pervade the product set in the future as the promise of project Vulcan starts to be delivered. This is the analysis of what interests you, taken from your profile, and who and what content you collaborate with.

There's a new initiative that's aimed at helping customers "get it" in terms of how collaboration is now a critical differentiator between companies, in how they interact with customers and suppliers and how they work internally to deliver more value, faster and better, through collaboration.

There's new Collaboration Agenda initiative, a consulting offering -- which partners can also get involved in -- aimed at helping companies to transform how they operate by liberating the knowledge and expertise they have.

Through workshops, customers can see how, by changing processes to become more collaborative and connecting people and technology in the right context, they can start to rebuild themselves. The workshops teach customers how to work more effectively with people inside and outside the firewalls, becoming more expertise-led enterprises, and "raise the collective intelligence of the organisation by allowing all members to easily tap into it".

Or, in other words, just "get it".

Lotus product updates
In the meantime, the individual product lines continue to move forward, and I'm sure you'd like to know what's coming up next. That's next week.

Product availability and information
Learn more about BlackBerry apps for Lotus.

Learn more about Teamstudio and Voyager.

Mick Moignard has been working and traveling with Lotus Notes since Release 2.0 in 1991. Mick is a DominoPower Senior Technical Editor and a Principal CLP with Unipart Expert Practices, a Lotus Advanced Partner in the UK. If you want to discuss anything to do with this article, or indeed anything else to do with Notes and Domino, contact Mick at Mick_Moignard@unipart.co.uk. Unipart Expert Practices will also happily discuss any opportunities you may have with any Notes and Domino application development or infrastructure projects you need help with. Unipart Expert Practices can be found at http://www.unipartep.com.

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]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047762.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047762.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT Marc Champoux says you don't need Install Shield Tuner with this upgrade, it's ready to go right out of the box. He provides links to a PDF with the step-by-step process, the FixPack, and a couple of his previous articles to help you update your clients.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047763.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047763.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT Keith Brooks is tired of hearing how Domino is a bandwidth hog. He gives a list of seven items, things he's seen at various sites, you might want to check.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047764.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047764.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT Admin 2010 and Lotus Developer 2010 are coming to Boston, May 12-14. This year's presentations will include information on upgrading to 8.x, DAOS, XPages, and more. Sign up by February 19 to save $300.

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]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047765.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047765.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT Rob Novak has posted a list of the problems addressed in this hotfix and a link to download it.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047747.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047747.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT Keith Brooks' customer is upgrading, finally, from Domino 5.0.9a. It seems to have been a walk down memory lane for Keith as he rediscovers the changes since 2000.

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Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047744.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047744.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT This Technote, #1412267, is titled "Security enhancements to iNotes may require additional configuration measures if hot fix is deployed". Basically, if you have Domino 8.5.1 FixPack 1 installed and use a proxy, you should read this Technote.

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Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047692.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047692.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT Mary Beth Raven has posted instructions on how you can enable your users to install Eclipse-based plug-ins in Notes 8 and above.

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]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047694.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047694.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT John Head has a warning for all you over-eager types - Symphony3Beta has not been posted yet by IBM. If you find it someplace, it isn't real, and you shouldn't download it.

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]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047676.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047676.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT Keith Brooks has a problem - all mail received in Domino is forwarded to Exchange, but some mail wasn't getting there. So journaling was turned on. Now no mail is getting through and Keith needs to find a fix.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047675.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047675.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT Genii Software mashed together those lists of limits that come with each version of Notes and Domino to produce a handy chart. Now, when the boss asks the limit on a whatever, you don't have to dig through that stack of paper on your desk to find it.

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Lotusphere 2010 was a Lotusphere of change -- not change to Lotusphere itself so much, but change at Lotus and change in Lotus.

The changes at Lotus had trickled out just a few days before the show opened. Bob Picciano, who has done so much in reinvigorating Lotus in his two years at the helm, has been promoted upwards within IBM. He's now Director of Worldwide Sales at IBM Software. Long time Loti, Alastair Rennie, has taken his place as Lotus General manager.

Mike Rhodin, Bob's predecessor at Lotus has also been promoted within IBM, which means that the last two previous Lotus GMs are now in positions of influence in the IBM hierarchy -- which can't be bad in ensuring that the Lotus brand stays in the forefront of IBM's thinking.

At the Opening session, once all that had been dealt with, and Bob had given the usual upbeat state-of-the-nation remarks on Lotus in 2009, we had four customers on the stage to tell their stories, rapidly followed by five business partners, all with good stories.

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]]> http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047657.html http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00047657.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT Chris Toohey discusses setting up Redirect Rules in Domino. He gives some basic information and says if you want something more detailed to let him know.

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