About the Reviewers

Karen Hobert is an IT market research analyst and strategy consultant with deep practical and market expertise in collaboration, communications, content management, and social software technologies. Karen has over twenty years of communication, collaboration, and social software platform expertise that she uses to help organizations design and deploy shared information systems. She has an extensive working knowledge of communication, collaboration, and social technologies including technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Google, and other best-of-breed vendors. Additional areas of expertise include collaborative application design and web development platforms. Karen is a contributor on numerous technical articles and is the author of courses and workshops on programming and deploying web-based business process applications.

Karen is a technical reviewer for the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide published by Packt.

Mark Vincenzes is a software engineer at IBM, where he works on web application servers. Over the past 30 years, Mark has contributed to projects such as custom I/O and networking subsystems, database management systems, object request brokers, and source control systems. Mark's past employers include Burroughs, Xerox, Apollo, and Hewlett-Packard.