2H2009

My developerWorks – Viper release 1

I BM r

OverviewThe key to My developerWorks is integration. We intend on improving the userexperience from start to finish, from their first visit to developerWorks champion.

• Upgrade to LC 2.5 – Migrate existing community artifacts/UI to LC 2.5

• Accessibility – Ensuring entire application suite is accessible

• SEO – Update My dW headers to have dynamic content & SEO for improved external search ranking

• Blogs Migration – Complete blogs migration to offer a single instance

• Internationalization - Have UI text strings in resource bundle files to be given to locale sites for translation

• Metrics - Update SurfAid URLs and provide profile create date, updated date & domain tables

• Performance - Akamaize My dW, optimize database and consolidate headers & footers

• Incremental profiling – Indicate your interests from within articles, forums and zone landing pages, and update your profile without opening My dW profiles.

• Custom registration – Simplified My developerWorks registration

• My developerWorks search – Search everything in My developerWorks from anywhere in My developerWorks

• Social networking integration - Promote your activity in My developerWorks on your Facebook profile; view your Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts from your My dW profile/My home; Share My dW content with Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg, Slashdot

• Improved user interface for Profiles – Logically grouping profile sections into tabs based on user feedback, in-line editing

• Recommendations – Ability for dW to recommend content to users based on their interests/skills tags

• Forums integration – Pulling in Forums activity to profile; considering adding control for forums settings/signature within Profiles setting

I BM r

Proposed Facebook Connect integration

dW custom registration – one step

I BM r

My home

One of the biggest transformations will be in My home. Lotus Connections 2.5 featuresconsiderable updates and developerWorks will capitalize on the new functionality torecommend relevant content and integrate popular social networking apps.

Two tabs – Updates (new!) & My page (existing widgets) Updates has five views + supports in-line recommendations per user interests

• Discover: Global view of activity across My developerWorks• My network: Colleagues view of activity across My developerWorks• My watchlist: A view of all My developerWorks’ activity filtered by username and/or tags (selected by the user) + dW recommendations, follow this blog• My saved items: Activity the user has earmarked from across the other views• My notifications: A global view of all received notifications (message center)

My page has new customization features• Change layout – two color or three column• New edit UI• Twitter widget

Update your status (shared between My home and Profiles)

I BM r

Watchlist – scope by tags & profiles, inline recommendations

Saved stories – includes articles/forum topics “added tointerests” during incremental profiling

I BM r

Profiles

Profiles undergoes many changes as well, allowing for users to communicate outward and interact with each other by means of the profile. developerWorks is taking feedback fromusers and stakeholders and making great strides towards improving the UE, andperformance of the profile.

Profiles landing page – Search + Status updates feed + All profile tags rolled up “Board” feature – post a message to a user’s profile “Status” feature – publicize your status from your profile Recent activity to include Forums, Downloads, Tagged articles, forums, spaces Expanded colleagues widget (more photos) Social networking apps integration – Facebook, LinkedIn Logical reorganization of profile content into tabs Edit your profile (inline); allow users to decide which fields to display publicly Improved interface for user “Interests” & tags Adding job title, education, updating roles to be more intuitive and task-based Ability to update display name Colleagues notifications surface in My home

I BM r

Public profile – Persistent display of status updates, “The Board”, Tabs, Interests, Colleagues, Links, Facebook

Edit profile – Update “My interests” in-line, Interests merged withtags, Add interests directly to “Watchlist” to see related activity.

I BM r

Edit profile – Contact info with collapse sections.In-line editing; show/hide

I BM r

Groups

Lotus has added a lot of new features to Groups, allowingusers to create a much more collaborative environment.

Ability to associate blogs, activities, files, and wikis with a Group.

Customizations• Colored themes (may be reserved for dW specified use)• Rearrange, hide, delete content widgets

Improved search capabilities – search specific group, allor my groups

Members’ widget + added member’s photos to member list; ability to sort by owners vs. members Invite non-registered members to join any Group Improved message board

• Subject pre-filled in response message• Associates user’s photo & message count with user• Highlight important topics by pinning them to the top of the message board

I BM r

Blogs

While there are improvements with MydeveloperWorks blogs, the changes areintuitive and bloggers will not requireadditional education to get up-to-speed.

Announcement widget – at the top of the My dW blogs landing page

A blog can be associate with a Group• “Group blogs” have a module in the left that maintains the imagery and linkage back to the Group. • Photos of group members displayed

Comments include a preview mode Blog author widget – photo of author(s) Themes are updated; Customization Ability to “Follow this blog” Bloggers must complete their profile

during blog creation Complete My dW blog migration

I BM r

Same great apps!

Activities

No significant updates besides the ability to integrate an activity with a group,activities notifications surface in My home.

Bookmarks

No significant updates, other than the ability to add a bookmark from the applicationwithout the plugin, bookmark notifications surface in My home.

I BM r

Files

A new application that Lotus adds tothe Connections suite in 2.5 Filesmirrors the feature/functions of Cattail.

Upload and download files; add comments and recommend

Users can create a collection – a group of files

Seamless integration with Groups The main page of files – news events

feed, indicates most recent updates Visibility settings: Private (by default),

shared or public Version support (upload new versions

of the same file) Tags

I BM r

WikisdeveloperWorks (pending migration) will now be able to integrate Wikis under the same visual umbrella as theother community applications with theaddition of Wikis to LC 2.5

Supports basic wiki functions Wiki editor has html source,

rich text and preview tabs Page history Notifications on wiki page

updates and comments Tags, Comments, attachments

and recommendations Visibility

• Public • Members of the wiki only

Editing• Anyone• Designated managers of wiki