This week in Lotus

Recorded on Friday 23rd March 2012.  Simon Vaughan, Mac Guidera and Baan Slavens join Darren and I to talk Connections - roll out of a new release at Cardiff University, futures for the mobile apps, fix pack one for 3.0.1 and even Windows Explorer access to your Connections files.



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

Guests:

	Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team.
	Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion
	Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions.

Topics:
Cardiff just upgraded to Connections 3.0.1

• What’s Connections being used for?
• Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff?
• Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile?

Connections mobile clients

• What has the take up been like so far?
• What’s coming next?
• Multiple server access
• Profiles integration with address books
• Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes
• Native files access

Connections as a platform for development

• As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform?
• Developers need to understand OpenSocial
• Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications

Connections 3.0.1.1 released

• What’s included?
  • Fixes
  • New features
  • MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support
  • Redhat Linux 6.1 support
  • Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support
  • Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed :-)
• Forums/Posts configuration etc
• Was the ‘Super Community admin view’ feature incorporated in this release?
• How is it installed?
• New Update Installer required
• Should all customers upgrade?

Connections plugin for Windows Explorer released

• What does it do?
• How is it installed/deployed?
• How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files?
• Can you upload multiple files?
• Does it obey quotas etc?
• Can you have multiple Connections servers configured?
• drag and drop of files into Connections files
• Video by Luis Benitez

Connections 4 was previewed at Lotusphere 2012

• What are the highlights?
• When will it be available?
• Which features are you most excited about?

Tips:
Darren:
Veeam. Best virtual backup and replication solution on the market. And sold by STS :)
Baan:
Open documents in Connections app on the iOS platform by pressing and holding attachments.
Mac:
Mac users, use the files plug-in for Notes to drag and share files from your machine to Connections.
Simon:
If you are interested in Social Business business, join the Dachis Social Business council : http://council.dachisgroup.com/    Great discussions on the adoption of Social business!
Stuart:
Social Connections user group, Skype chat and LinkedIn group. New date for Social Connections III - 22nd June. Registration open now! Sponsors wanted.