Lotus Nut

RIM has now made it easy to access Profiles and Dogear Lotus Connection services from a BlackBerry.

If you would like to download this directly from your BlackBerry, please visit this page: http://www.bleedyellow.com/bbconn/connections.jad

This is only available for BB OS 4.2.1 and greater. Once you download the application and launch it, you will be prompted to enter your username (email address) and password. Below the password field is a Server button. Click this and just enter https://www.bleedyellow.com. Save that value and then login!

Accessing Profiles and Dogear are actually fairly good starting points for this application. It will be great to access profile information (click-to-call Yellowbleeders...) and we all know that BlackBerry bookmarks don't get saved or restored, so just use Dogear!

For further information about the product, start here: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/domino/connections.jsp

Further documentation is available from the links below:

BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Release Notes
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Technical Note for Administrators
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackball devices)
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackwheel devices)

If you're like me, then you probably just hid that pesky little Activities sidebar panel in your Notes client. Let me remind you that it's there and that you can add the BleedYellow server. Just go back into your Notes Preferences and for the server use: http://www.bleedyellow.com/activities

Then you can drag and drop content to your (yellow) heart's content!

It appears that there is some type of formatting issue with the native RSS feeds for Lotus Connections servers (not just BleedYellow) and the parser used at PlanetLotus.org. If you wish to get your feed over there, allow me to recommend that you go to FeedBurner and setup a feed there. Then just get that feed over to Yancy via the blog submission page at PlanetLotus.org. This will at least let you showing up there!!