This week in Lotus

Episode 89 recorded on Thursday 16th February 2012.    We meet with Dave Durazzano of IBM and Elaine Murray from Applicable to discuss the planned rename of Lotuslive, announcements from Lotusphere 2012 and plans for new bundles to clear up a few confusing names…

[Full title: Lotuslive becomes SmartCloud for Social Business. Longer name but less confusion?]



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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:

Dave Durazzano (twitter) is Program Director for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.  David joined Lotus in 1994 as a technical support analyst, he then went on to co-founded a Lotus Business Partner consulting company and later started a cloud computing services company.  David rejoined IBM in 1999 where he has held several technical leadership roles on the Lotus Notes/Domino, Workplace & Greenhouse teams before shifting his focus in 2007 to contribute to the IBM on-line collaborative SaaS business previously called LotusLive.

Elaine Murray (twitter) is IBM/Microsoft Messaging & Social Collaboration enthusiast at Applicable. A Marketing Manager with a passion to promote powerful collaboration.

Topics:
SmartCloud for Social Business

• For those new to the community, what is Smart Cloud for Social Business?
  • IBM SmartCloud portfolio
  • Formerly LotusLive
    • New brands to be established in Q1 (next few weeks)
    • SmartCloud Engage to be key brand, various levels within that
    • What happens to customers that have LotusLive contracts?
• New URL in Q2 - http://ibmcloud.com/social
  • What is the proposition that SCSB represents?
• Many would see Office 365 and Google Apps as the main competitors
  • What are IBM’s advantages?
• Will the iNotes and Connections brand confusion be cleared up?
  • Yes!
• Whats coming in 2012?
  • Will the newly named IBM Docs be part of SmartCloud too?
    • Yes, 2H12

Applicable

• What does winning the Lotus Award mean for your business?

Tips:
Darren:
There is no privacy on social networks. Yes, they steal your address book. Move on nothing to see here.
The Xpages Debug Toolbar on OpenNTF from Mark Leusink.
Dave:
Start a 60 day trial of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business - See first hand how your business (any size) can leverage the cloud to collaborate with customers, partners, vendors today.   IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Toolkit - Found in IBM DeveloperWorks.  Access the IBM SmartCloud APIs for integration development!
Elaine:
Knowledge is Power.. Keep up to date with the customers who visit your web pages and learn more about them and their areas of interest: http://www.trovus.co.uk/
Stuart:
TweetBot v2.0 - fab new Twitter client for iPhone and iPad. Granular notification settings, no nasty panels, customisable buttons. It rocks.
UC Expo - effectively the biggest Social Business trade show in the UK - 6/7th March at Olympia.

Episode 88 recorded on Thursday 9th February 2012. Jason Dumont joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the roadmap for the Lotus clients - Notes, iNotes and Connections Mail - through 2012 including the exciting Social Edition release. He also fills us in on the details around 'that plugin' - the ability to render Notes applications in a browser as if in your Notes client.  



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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:

Jason Dumont (twitter | linkedin) is currently the Program Director for Messaging & Collaboration Client Strategy at IBM. His responsibilities include strategy development and product planning for all of IBM's messaging and collaboration clients within the Lotus brand, including our on premise and cloud based delivery options. He also leads a new strategic effort focused on the delivery of a more social messaging experience, which will first be represented as IBM Connections Mail. His team is located in the United States with an extended team around the globe.

Topics:
Lotusphere announcements

• Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition
  • What is Notes/Domino Social Edition?
  • Is this the ‘Notes Foo’ that has been discussed over the last year?
  • Why ‘Social Edition’?
  • When will it ship?
  • Is this the equivalent of Notes Next?
  • Lets break it down:
    • What will Domino Social Edition offer in terms of iNotes functionality?
    • How about Notes Social Edition?
• What Social features will be available in the new release?
• IBM Connections Mail (aka social mail)
  • This has been explained as ‘triage mail and calendar’, can you explain the use case?
    • ‘Picture in picture’ analogy
  • When will it be delivered? Need Connections Next and Domino 8.5.3+ or Exchange 2007 & 2010
  • Works with Domino and Exchange mail?  
  • Will it support cloud-based mail?
• The Plug-in
  • What does it do?
  • What are the use cases you foresee?
  • What are the requirements? Which browsers (IE, FF both on Windows), which Domino release?
  • How big is the plugin?  Will it get cached?

‘State of the Union’

• Are you excited about 2012?

Tips:
Darren:
Workflow for XPages : OpenNTF project released by Phillipe Riand, Qian Liang and Niklas Heidloff. Fills a missing gap that has always existed in Domino.
Also in an XPages vein, the 3rd and latest XPages Development Contest is open. More prizes this time, again from the kind folks at We4IT!
Jason:
Jabra headset
SwiftFile
Stuart:
Turn off Widgets in your Connections UI if deploying for the first time - set in Homepage Admin.
Auslug - featuring Michael Sampson and Ed Brill
UC Expo show - effectively the biggest Social Business trade show in the UK - 6/7th March at Olympia.

Episode 87 recorded on Thursday 2nd February 2012. We review Lotusphere 2012, discuss some of the major announcements, reveal the details of a new jobs site just for social media and collaboration roles.  

Oh yes, we had a few technical issues too - make sure you listen through to the bloopers at the end!



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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:

	Luis Benitez (blog | twitter) is is one of the Social Software Product Managers for IBM covering IBM Connections Files & Wikis, Connections on the Cloud and Quickr Domino.
	Victor Toal (Twitter, Blog Notesbusters, Websites ToalSystems & SSMCJOBS) is Chief Solutions Architect for ToalSystems, specializes in Social, Collaborative and Messaging solutions

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

• Looking back in the rear view mirror, what did we think?
• Highlights?

Announcements:

• Quickr Domino
  • Minor release in Q1
  • Bigger release in 2H12
  • 18 month release cycle
• Connections Next:
  • Mobile
  • Connectors
  • New Standard Support (OpenSocial, OAuth, ActivityStrea.ms)

New jobs site for IT folks in collaboration, messaging and social space SSMCJOBS.COM

• IT Job website dedicated to Social software/Social media, Messaging and Collaboration
• Free for Job seekers
• Ability to search not only for jobs posted on the site but also pull in jobs from multiple other websites - one stop shopping for job seekers and contractors looking for their next opportunity

LCTY Get Social Do Business Roadshow Business Gets Social Dates Announced

• Small list right now....early days
• Yet another name change. Let the confusion reign!

Tips:
Darren:
Traveler tap to dial codes for Android. “P” or a comma will cause a pause. “#” enter a conference code. Semi-colon or “x” to prompt user before sending codes.
Luis:
http://bit.ly/ConnWikiTips - and IBM Connections Users community , SXSW ideas
Victor:
Tool “Beyond Compare” http://www.scootersoftware.com and a tip: Learn WebSphere to stay relevant
Stuart:
Don’t delete your Dropbox folder on secondary machines, it doesn’t work out well!
Carousel - Instagram for the Mac

Due to post-Lotusphere exhaustion, zombie flu and backed-up workloads, there is unfortunately no This Week in Lotus this week (the first non-Holidays show we've missed!).

However we do have:
1) an excellent show lined up for next week featuring a number of IBM product managers
2) video of our live show from Lotusphere 2012

So, sorry to have missed a week, but enjoy the conversation and appreciate the tiredness of these seven 'Thursday at Lotusphere' panellists!



See you all next week!

Episode 86, recorded on Thursday 19th January 2012.  With a live audience and an esteemed panel including Curious Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan, we discuss the conference, the highlights, the OGS, the wifi, the community and even Darren's state of dress!



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[Once again, Darren and I recorded a live TWiL from the hallowed rooms of WDW Dolphin during Lotusphere. This year we were not lucky enough to have been supplied with a room with a PA and roving mics, so the audio is by no means perfect, but the conversation makes it very worthwhile.  We had fun recording the show, I hope you enjoy listening just as much!]

Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:
Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012

Episode 85, recorded on Friday 13th January 2012.  With plans for an organised TWiL disappearing in a series of transport delays, Stuart heads around the Dolphin lobby and bar asking what are people expecting from Lotusphere 2012?



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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:
Many and varied, including Sharon Bellamy, Lisa Duke, Tim Clark, Theo Hesselmans, Sandra Buhler and more...

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012

As announced on This Week in Lotus 084, Darren and Stuart will be back for another live TWiL show at Lotusphere 2012!

Thanks to the gracious assistance of the organisation team, we will be hosting a live panel discussion with studio audience on Thursday morning at 8:15-9:45am in Dolphin Europe 6.  

We think this is a perfect spot as we can review the conference in detail and this fits in just before the final-day events over at the Swan (Gurupalooza, Ask the PMs, Ask the Developers). We realise we are up against some terrific sessions, but that is true of any slot during the Lotusphere week.

As usual, we'll have a group of the finest guests from the community, including IBMers, partners and customers.  We'll be reviewing the conference OGS, Lotusphere sessions, BoFs, the labs, events over at the new Connect event, the big product launches and updates.

They'll be a chance to ask questions (or heckle) from the audience, they'll be giveaways, and we'll of course be recording audio and video to share later.  It promises to be great fun.

So, please mark 8:15 - 9:45 on Thursday in your very busy Lotusphere diaries (we'll look to kick off recording before 8:30), and make sure you're there - it's definitely one Lotusphere event not to be missed!

As announced on This Week in Lotus 084, Darren and Stuart will be back for another live TWiL show at Lotusphere 2012!

Thanks to the gracious assistance of the organisation team, we will be hosting a live panel discussion with studio audience on Thursday morning at 8:00-9:45am in one of the Dolphin Europe rooms (exact location to be confirmed).  I think this is a perfect spot as we can review the conference in detail and this fits in just before the final-day events over at the Swan (Gurupalooza, Ask the PMs, Ask the Developers).

As usual, we'll have a group of the finest guests from the community, including IBMers, partners and customers.  We'll be reviewing the conference OGS, Lotusphere sessions, the labs, events over at the new Connect event, the parties and even discussing the merits of Darren's karaoke performance at Kimonos (ok, maybe not the last one!)

They'll be a chance to ask questions (or heckle) from the audience, they'll be giveaways, and we'll of course be recording audio and video to share later.  It promises to be great fun.

So, mark 8-9:45 on Thursday in your very busy Lotusphere diaries (we'll look to kick off recording before 8:30), and make sure you're there - it's definitely one Lotusphere event not to be missed!

Episode 84, recorded on Thursday 5th January 2012.  ISW's Adam Brown and IBMers Luis Suarez and Colleen Burns join us to talk Lotusphere news, Connecting at Connect 2012, ISW's new Kudos Badges system, gamification without gaming and more...



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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests:

	Luis Suarez  (blog | twitter | company) is a Social Computing Evangelist at IBM, helping accelerate IBM’s own adoption of social software tools, both internally and externally through the BlueIQ team.
	Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company) is Director of Technology at ISW, IBM Premier Partner in Australia. IBM Connections lead for ISW.
	Colleen Burns (twitter) leads Influencer Relations for IBM Collaboration Solutions - and is jointly leading the social media strategy for Lotusphere and Connect.

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

• Just 9 days to go
• ‘Team Social’, team to ask questions of re: social and the conference, look out for buttons
• Luis, you deal with a lot of businesses that want to deploy Social and attend a lot of conferences
• Social Business Insights blog - guest posts over LS12 period
• Is it really just a year since Social Business was brought in?
• How will attendance work out?
• Lotusphere Online Social Business Online now open
  • Mobile app
  • 4Square checkin
  • Can tweet/checkin direct from app
• Blogger Open registration open - not just bloggers, open to all, 60 registered so far!
• Hog ride
• This Week in Lotus Live - Europe room, 8:30am, Thursday
  • no need to go to bed!
  • 5th live TWiL
• What are we looking forward to at Lotusphere?

Kudos Badges for IBM Connections announced

• Gamification for Connections
• Measure and Reward Connections users
• Adam, why develop it?
• Who is it aimed at?
• What does it do? - Drive Adoption, Educate Users, Recognise and Reward for valued contributions.
• Is it flexible, can it be customised? Can it interface with applications outside Connections?
• Versions of Connections supported?
• “Kudos”? Haven’t we heard this before.....I can’t recall where - DD :)
• How much does it cost?  Is it right there is a free version?
• Where can you get it?
• How easy is it to install and configure?
• What are your plans for the future?
• Find out more at kudosbadge.com

Tips:
Darren:
Do NOT “upgrade” to TweetDeck 1.0 or higher. It is atrocious . Really. It is. Keep a copy of the Adobe Air version for emergencies.
Luis:
#elsuapps is back and one of my current favourite ones at the moment is Air Dictate (Using Siri’s Speech to Text capabilities to dictate directly on your Mac! Brilliant idea! And a huge timesaver on the typing front!) … Since Darren doesn’t enjoy TweetDeck much, here is another option. My preferred and top notch Twitter client for Windows and Mac. Janetter is the name of the Twitter client.
Adam:
TechSmith SnagIT and Jing. Great tools for capturing quick screenshots to share across both Mac and Windows clients.
Stuart:
Pinterest - for once Philippa and her friends are way ahead of the techie curve.  Beautiful site, fantastic social tools.  Try to avoid ‘next big thing’, but this is one of them ;-) Let me know if you need an invite.

Episode 83, recorded on Thursday 23rd December 2011.  Joyce Davis, Susan Bulloch and Barry Rosen join Darren and I to discuss Lotusphere 2012 sessions, tracks and social events, Barry tells us about his upcoming Notes&Domino 8.5.3 book and Darren goes awfully quiet!



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Guests:

	Barry Rosen (twitter I LinkedIn) Barry Rosen is an IBM IT Certified Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for Lotus. During the last five years, he has worked on several global messaging and migration projects as well as performed Domino upgrades, messaging assessments, and client deployments. Currently, Barry has been heavily involved in LotusLive Notes cloud migrations and hybrid deployments, Prior to IBM Software Services for Lotus, he was a Software Engineer in Lotus Support for over five years. While in support, Barry was on several teams specializing in mail routing, Lotus Notes Client, calendaring and scheduling, and server core. Mr Rosen is a SME on clustering, Lotus Notes for the Macintosh, and rooms and resources. Barry is also a published author with several articles and books written on Lotus products.
	Susan Bulloch (blog  | Twitter ) Susan currently works as a Support Engineer on the Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling Team.  She has worked for IBM Lotus Software for more than 11 years in software support and development positions.She has worked with Lotus Notes and Domino since 1992 as an administrator, instructor, developer, and architect in banking and utility industries. Susan has a Bachelors degree in engineering and a Master’s degree in Information Technology.  She holds certifications in all current Lotus Notes product releases. Susan is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including LotuSphere, the View Admin conferences and at regional user group conferences worldwide.  When not working, Susan likes to annoy insects and buzzards.
	Joyce Davis (blog | twitter | company) is community manager for IBM in the Collaboration Solutions or “Lotus” division. I help bring together clients, business partners and IBMers to share their knowledge and collaborate. I’ve “bled yellow” since 1983 when I used Lotus 1-2-3 version 1A for DOS to manage the WW Technical Education course schedule as an IBM co-op. (I was an infant, of course.) I joined Lotus full-time in 1993. I’ve worked in MANY different roles at IBM over the last 18 years including technical support, people management, project management, communications, program management and now community management. I’m a mom, wife, flutist, Apple fangirl, and social network addict. Although I wasn’t born in Austin, I got here as fast as I could about 35 years ago.

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

• Just 24 days to go - what are we looking forward to at Lotusphere 2012?
• Best Practices track
  • Always one of the most popular tracks at LS
  • Any changes to the track this year?
    • 36 sessions (23 of 36 are Notes/Domino)
    • 35% are new speakers
  • Any sessions you’re particularly looking forward to?
  • How does a track manager go about choosing their sessions?
  • Is there a question of balance between the different products, technologies? Or is it all about the quality of the abstract/speakers?
  • Gurupalooza? Back again? Will you be chairing?
• Joyce, You seem to have an even bigger part to play in organising this time?
  • What’s top of your list of activities?
    • Social cafes
    • Team Social helpers
  • Where will you be during the conference?
    • Social cafes, customer evangelist panel, customer council meetings, IBM Champion activities (reception)
    • Session FS217: The Lotus Evangelist Customer Panel ; Dolphin - S. Hem IV -V; Tues 4:45 - 5:45; FREE BEER and WINE :-)
  • Online communities for Lotusphere and Connect
    • http://bit.ly/lotuspherecommunity and http://bit.ly/ibmconnectcommunity
    • Register with http://greenhouse.lotus.com to join
  • The ‘Social Lounges’ have been mentioned a number of times, what’s that all about?
  • Can you talk a bit about how folks can find out who the IBM Champions are and where they’ll be speaking?
    • So far 45 of 63 champions are confirmed
    • They’ll be sitting in the front at the OGS and CGS
    • They’ll have IBM Champion ribbons on their badge holders
    • Some are doing topics of the hour at the social cafes
• Sessions DB now available
  • Via, as always, Ben Langhinrichs
• This Week in Lotus Live - details to be confirmed!

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide [Amazon US | Amazon UK]

• Who are the authors? (Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, Scott O'Keefe)
• How did it come about?
• When will it be shipped?
• What does it cover?  Domino and Notes? Traveler?
• How much?
• Nicklas Heidloff’s blog - 2011 - The XPages Year

Highlights of 2011

Tips:
Darren:
CLPs get a discount for Lotusphere 2012 - just $1,995 until Jan 15th
Barry:
Best travel tip, always have earplugs!
Susan:
Buy noise cancelling headsets!  Make your travel arrangements now.  You don’t want to be late for Orlando.  Seek out Mat Newman - he will pump your energy level higher than you thought possible.
Joyce:
1) access the online community via your mobile device using the Connections mobile app which can be downloaded for iOS, Android and BB. Simply point to the Lotus Greenhouse Connections server: http://greenhouse.lotus.com/mobile,
2) Benedryl and Melatonin can each be used to treat insomnia and/or jet lag. They can be found over the counter. (Will someone please remind me to take it at night? Thanks.)
3) Videofest http://bit.ly/videofest
Stuart:
Go buy a Sonos Play:3, preferably buy lots. You will not regret it!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...