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Is Gmail really fit for business if users are being warned about hacked accounts?

Posted on by Vaughan Rivett

Over the past few years I have been using Gmail for my personal, non-work related email.  Surprisingly, because of the rise of Social Media such as Facebook, the amount of email I receive to this account is quite limited.  Most of it being alerts from other sites.

Over the past few days when logging into Google Mail I am greeted with a message across the top of the page: “Thousands of on-line accounts are hijacked every day. If you re-use your Gmail password on other websites, change it now”

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Lotus Notes / Domino Tour of Duty (New Zealand)

Posted on by Vaughan Rivett

Over the last couple of days, I have been reflecting on my tour of New Zealand, last week, as I visited a number of Lotus Notes/Domino customers throughout the country.  Myself,  four others from IBM and a number of IBM Business Partners vistied Hamilton, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as we checked in on various customers.

There were a number of themes that came through, but here are the top three:

  • Lotus Notes/Domino customers who are in two minds about the future of the product and their commitment to it, are impressed by the roadmap for the next few years.  I came out of a number of meetings where the customers had little understanding of the power of the platform, but were eager to explore what they could be doing both now and in the future.
  • People are wanting more from a collaboration platform.  This opened the door to great conversations about Social Business and stratigies which include both IBM Connections and IBM Lotus Domino Server.
  • The “cloud” is big here in New Zealand.  The Christchurch earthquake has impacted this nation and as such, people are considering their options for greater resilience.

For many years, I have been an advocate for Lotus Notes and Domino here in New Zealand.  I am now in a position, where I think we are on the verge of something great.

Using a free office productivity suite (documents, spreadsheets, presentations) with files stored in the cloud

Posted on by Vaughan Rivett

In my last blog post I provided a link to download a free office productivity suite from IBM through which you are able to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations.  The product is called Lotus Symphony.

I have put together a youtube video which shows how Lotus Symphony connects to LotusLive, a cloud solution which makes it easy to share files securely online.