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Communicating with IBMers and Lotus professionals using Sametime
You can communicate with IBMers and Lotus professionals using Lotus Sametime. Chris Pepin has published the instructions how to do that long ago. However there is more than this one option.Update: Thanks for all the comments. I've reformatted and updated the blog post accordingly.
- IBM External Sametime Server: You need to have an IBM id, to get one register online. Once you have it, connect your Sametime client. Thereafter lookup your IBMer to add him/her to your buddy list.
- Server/Port:
extst.ibm.com / 80 - Advantage: You can reach any IBMer using Sametime, surprise them.
- Disadvantage: Availability is not production level
- Server/Port:
- BleedYellow: It won't connect you to all IBMers, but to the Lotus community at large. You can register at BleedYellow, a Lotus connections site courtesy of Group Business Software (part of them formerly known as Lotus 911). Once you have your id you not only have Sametime connectivity but also access to a full Lotus connections experience. After authenticating you want to add 2 public groups to your client: "IBMers" and "YellowBleeders". The first gives you access to all IBMers who have registered on BleedYellow, the later to the whole community.
- Server/Port:
im.bleedyellow.com / 1533 or 80 - Mobile/Web clients:
stweb.bleedyellow.com / 80 - Advantage: More than Sametime, choice of ports, larger Lotus community
- Disadvantage: Not all IBMers are there
- Server/Port:
- Lotus Greenhouse: is the test drive site for Lotus products. It allows to testdrive a lot of Lotus' latest software including iNotes, Traveler and Portal. You need to register.
- Server/Port:
sametime.lotus.com / 1533 - Advantage: As Mark said: lots of IBMers there. One registration to try Lotus stuff
- Disadvantage: Not a production level environment
- Server/Port:
- Lotus Live: IBM's cloud offering for collaboration, Lotus Live features eMail, Activities, Files, Contacts, Meetings and IM. You need to be invited, have a trial account or be a subscriber (yes I know: the "buy now" button is missing).
- Server/Port:
im.lotuslive.com / 1533 - Advantage: Production level environment, great for external communication (I love activities and files)
- Disadvantage: Ultimately you need a paid account.
Not too many IBMer there yet.
- Server/Port:
You might not want to use (or be able) a Sametime client to connect (your admin might have disabled the capability to add a second community). In this case you can use Pidgin IM which is an OpenSource, cross platform and multi-protocol chat client. Pidgin uses libmeanwhile an implementation of the Sametime protocol not developed by IBM. To add a Sametime account follow this steps:
Open "Manage Accounts" (Ctrl+A) and select Add...
In in the new account dialog pick Sametime from the long list. It's quite impressive how many variations of messaging protocols are out there. Some of them are very local, e.g. QQ is mainly used in China.
The user name you use is your eMail address and the password from the Bleedyellow registration. On the server tab you specify im.bleedyellow.com as server. Then you are all set
As usual YMMV.
Open "Manage Accounts" (Ctrl+A) and select Add...
In in the new account dialog pick Sametime from the long list. It's quite impressive how many variations of messaging protocols are out there. Some of them are very local, e.g. QQ is mainly used in China.
The user name you use is your eMail address and the password from the Bleedyellow registration. On the server tab you specify im.bleedyellow.com as server. Then you are all set
As usual YMMV.
Comments
Posted by Carl Tyler At 00:02:07 On 04/17/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Kyle Hayes At 19:11:09 On 09/28/2011 | - Website - |
wie ich sehe lebst du noch in singapur...wann bist du mal wieder im schwarzen riesen?
viele gruesse,
viktoria
Posted by viktoria At 19:39:11 On 01/04/2011 | - Website - |
@2 - Yes, they are.
Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 01:44:04 On 04/17/2010 | - Website - |
I support comments 1 and 3. As an IBM partner with daily interaction with large numbers of IBMers it's frustrating this service is not reliable after all these years.
Adam
Posted by adam lacey At 19:09:11 On 05/16/2011 | - Website - |
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Posted by David Barry At 05:33:32 On 05/16/2011 | - Website - |
username: email
password: greenhouse password
server: sametime.lotus.com
Lots of IBM people on there
Posted by MarkHughes At 01:10:03 On 04/17/2010 | - Website - |
Hello Stephan,
it is not "stext.ibm.com" but " "extst.ibm.com".
As Carl said, extst never worked reliable and does not work with the Sametime 8.5. After my massive complaints to IBM upper management an update was planned to extst - 5 month ago. Nothing happened so far.
Who said elephants can dance?
Posted by Felix Binsack At 08:08:35 On 04/17/2010 | - Website - |
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Posted by Chris Whisonant At 02:13:21 On 04/17/2010 | - Website - |
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Posted by Mei Yan At 15:29:40 On 03/19/2013 | - Website - |
Error = " User ____ failed to log into extst.ibm.com Reason: You cannot log in to the Sametime server extst.ibm.com because the Sametime client you are using is not authorized. Contact your system administrator."
Any ideas?
Posted by Ruth At 02:48:56 On 04/10/2013 | - Website - |
Posted by Ruth At 02:49:32 On 04/10/2013 | - Website - |
Posted by Stephan Wissel At 11:13:13 On 04/10/2013 | - Website - |