This week in Lotus

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

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...

Episode 82, recorded on Monday 19th December 2011.  Our second go at episode 82 features TWiL friends Lisa Duke and Sharon Bellamy reflecting on IBM Connect, the Social Connections event in Cardiff, a new fix pack (sorry Upgrade Pack) for Domino, Chrome overtaking IE8 and much more...



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

Guests:

	Lisa Duke (twitter | aboutme | podcast)  is Business Development Manager for Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. and host of the Get Social Do Business podcast
	Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is a Business Consultant at Applicable, working with Portal/WCM, Quickr, Sametime and Connections implementations. IBM Champion, iSeries fan girl and friend of Mat Newman.

Topics:
Connect 2012

• Agenda now available
• What do we think?
• Key thought leaders and well known speakers
  • Via Sandy and her hashtags ;-)
• Do you think business leaders will attend?

Team Social

• what is it?
• how can they help?

Social Connections II

• How was it for you?
• Link to IBM’s social computing guidelines -> http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
• What were the highlights?
  • Jon Scott and Joe Nicholls from Cardiff Uni - Jon, a new LS star in the making ;-)
  • What is pedagogy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy
  • Dinner in the castle?
• Slides and videos will be up this week
• What should we do differently next time?
• Is there a need for an IBM Connections user group in USA or Europe?

Other stuff

• Preliminary LS12 agenda now available
• Ed’s announcements:
  • Symphony viewers for iOS
  • New release of Lotuslive
  • Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1
    • Makes extension library part of the product
    • How many names for fixpacks do we really need? FP, CCH, IFR, Upgrade Pack etc!
• Chrome overtakes IE8 as most popular browser

Tips:
Darren:
NotesBook from Julian Buss. Real Lotus Notes Journal/Notebook access on iOS devices! Only $5.99 on the App Store. 1.1 is available now which fixes the custom journal name.
Sharon:
The Lotusphere & Connect communities in the greenhouse https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/lotusphere and https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/connect will be opened up this week
Lisa:
Listen to getsocialdobusiness.com  :)
Stuart:
Nerdgirls Sparks - final submission day today
Michael Sampson’s new book - Collaboration Roadmap.  Superb.

Episode 81, recorded on Monday 12th December 2011.  Darren and Stuart grabbed some time this evening with Femke Goedhart to discuss Redbook residencies, Connect 2012, Nerdgirl activities and much more…



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

Guests:

Femke Goedhart (twitter | blog) is a Business Consultant at Silverside, The Netherlands. She specialises in Collaboration, Social Business, Document Management and Workflow solutions.

Topics:
Social Business redbook residency
Social Connections event
Lotusphere 2012/Connect 2012 abstract selections
Lotusphere 2012 party destination revealed
Nerdgirl events at Lotusphere - Sparks and Great Geek Challenge
RIM sinks to new low

Tips:
Femke:
IBM Social Business Blog
Stuart:
Zite now available for iPhone

Episode 80, recorded on Thursday 1st December 2011.  Darren and Stuart interview renowned strategist Michael Sampson about his role, his new book Collaboration Roadmap, Connect 2012 and more...



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

Guests:

Michael Sampson (twitter | blog | books) is a Collaboration Strategist, whose passion is helping organizations to make collaboration work, when their employees have to work together effectively and efficiently while separated by distance and time.  Michael advises end-user organizations in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, and the United States on making collaboration work.

Topics:
‘Collaboration Strategist’

• What does a collaboration strategist actually do?
• What does governance actually mean?
• How do you become one?
• Why should companies employ you?

Collaboration Roadmap

• Why a collaboration roadmap?
• What does it cover?
• Does the cloud change things?
• Should IT be allowed to own the collaboration strategy/roadmap?
• Who should read the book? Is it aimed at IT folks, or should it be head of comms, LoB, execs etc?
• Foreword by Ed Brill - how did that come about?
• How does this book fit with User Adoption Strategies?
  • Why does user adoption need a strategy?
  • Do organisations still think ‘build it and it will come’?
• Does the book apply to home developed apps (say Domino/XPages) as well as packaged ones?
• Any notable quotes from industry experts? :-)
• Draw for a free copy of the book (details to follow)

Connect 2012

• User Adoption Strategies - Please complete survey for us to understand your approach and success!
• Highlights of agenda published on Thursday

Tips:
Darren:
If you're going to upgrade firmware on a new SSD, you'll need another machine to do it on.
Michael:
'All it takes is to be smart enough to figure out what to do, and also to be dumb enough to get up every day to do it.' In 2012, be dumber!
Stuart:
Get your execs and managers to Connect 2012 - promises to be a cracking event. Still time to register for Social Connections II as well.
Know that Michael journals every day, recommend Day One - app for Mac and iOS.