10: I’m sure Yahoo and Altavista were in a Gartner Magic Quadrant at some point

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Episode 10, recorded yesterday Friday 30th July 2010. A round-table discussion of the latest news and topics of debate surrounding the Lotus brand, with a particular focus on IBM WebSphere Portal and Project Northstar  this week.

Hosts

Darren Duke (blog | twitter) and Lisa Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests

Brian Chaput – Offering Manager, IBM WebSphere Portal – Brian is an Offering Manager for IBM WebSphere Portal with over 20 years of technical product marketing and management experience.  Prior to joining IBM, Brian was employed at Bowstreet – which was acquired by IBM in 2005 (for its Portlet Factory software).  While at Bowstreet, Brian held positions in product marketing, sales operations and lastly as the IBM Alliance Director.   Brian has previous experience marketing workforce management and call center management solutions (WebSphere Portal Blog).

This podcast is 58MB and runs for 63 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

Topics

WebSphere Portal V7, release date announced on podcast

Competitive stuff coming in August

Fixed in 8.0.2 FP6
Fixed in 8.5.1 FP4
Other versions available on Fix Central
This is what it must be like to be a Microsoft customer

Tips

Brian: Google “wps/portal” and get a feeling for who is using portal for public facing websites. Here are the Google search results. Interesting! ALSO Webinar Replay: Managing for Growth – Sell More, Save Money, and Improve the Customer Experience:  webcast replay with Slumberland Furniture — a privately held furniture retailer with $350M in annual sales and 120 retail locations — to learn how they built a solution that increased sales and improved interactions with their customers. Webcast replay available at https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=swg-Manage_for_Growth_Webcast 

Lisa: STS webinar – What’s New in 8.5.1 and Coming in 8.5.2 with Ernie Sutter, 8/5 at 4:00 EST email ernie.sutter@simplified-tech.com to register

Darren: If you are thinking of producing a podcast, seriously consider NOT doing it on a PC.

9: Protector, MWLUG and 8.5.2 when is it coming to you

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Episode 9 recorded Friday 23rd July 2010. A roundtable discussion of the latest news and topics of debate surrounding the Lotus brand.

Hosts

Darren Duke and Lisa Duke.

Guests

Sean Brown – Product Manager IBM Lotus Protector security products (brown.sean@us.ibm.com |LinkedIn | Protector Mail Security | Protector Mail Encryption)
Richard Moy – Taishan Works and MWLUG organizer (Twitter | Blog | Company | LinkedIn)

This podcast is 57MB and runs for 63 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

Topics

Lotus Protector

MWLUG

  • August 19th and 20th 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Web site and registration
  • Free to attend (although all attendees are asked to donate $35)
  • A few spaces left

IamLUG Reminder

  • August 2nd and 3rd
  • Web site
  • A few spaces maybe left
  • Free to attend

XPages goodness

  • XPages Mobile Controls – IBM are working on BlackBerry issues with their browser on OpenNTF
  • The Taking Notes podcast has in-depth coverage of XMC in their new episode
  • Declan extending the Blogosphere template to XPages

8.5.2 “impending”release

  • Paul Mooney’s 8.5.2 supported page on his blog
  • Paul Hannan new in 8.5.2 XPages on the XPages blog
  • Listen to the podcast to get a possible date “range” on the 8.5.2 release

Tips

Sean : When flying out of ATL, the South Security checkpoint has fewer scanners, but is harder to find and so the lines are much shorter

Richard : be careful when merging on route 35

Lisa : Great resource – leveraging the Tips in Two videos on the IBM Domino Wiki site

Darren : free reference cards for Lotus Notes clients and iNotes on the IBM Domino Wiki site

8: Market-leading Connections

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Our eighth episode, recorded yesterday (Friday 16 July 2010). A round-table discussion of the latest news and topics of debate surrounding the Lotus brand, with a particular focus on Lotus Connections and social software this week.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Mac Guidera (Twitter | Blog)

Chris Lamb (LinkedIn)

Sharon Bellamy (Twitter | Blog) Update: Lovely photo of Sharon preparing to record the podcast!

Adam Brown (Twitter | Blog | Company)

This podcast is 63MB and runs for 68 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

 

Topics

IBM Named Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software

  • IDC report link
  • Congratulations to all those that work on Connections and Quickr
  • Why should organisations be interested in who is the market leader?
  • What is Connections’ value proposition (and is this changing with time)?
  • Who do Chris/Mac see as the main competitors?
  • Sharepoint 2010 is with us… Making any inroads?

How will IBM address external collaboration with the Lotus portfolio?

  • IBM doesn’t rank on Gartner’s “Externally facing Social Software” quadrant (led by Jive, Lithium, MS and Telligent).
  • What is IBM doing in this area?
  • Will Connections allow internal and external social collaboration in the future?
  • Extranet license – has this been successful? Are many organisations using it?

IBM Social Software and the business partner

  • The partner perspective
  • 3 of us on the call are BPs and work with Connections and Quickr
  • Why have we chosen to do this? What benefits do these technologies have or us, over say, Sharepoint?
  • Connections is seen as being very complex, is this really the case?
  • What are the opportunities for partners when working with Connections and Quickr?
  • Adam’s posts on Portal integration

The customer perspective

  • What do organisations gain from using Social computing such as Quickr and Connections?
  • Get comments that Connections (and to some extent Quickr) can create ‘messy’ collaboration – how can organisations (and Connections admins) control this?
  • Comments from Adam on type of customer’s/organisations showing interest and taking up Connections in Australia.

Connections ‘Next ‘

  • What is coming in the next release?

Brief roundup of other stories

Tips

  • Sharon: The healthy lifestyle app I use – ShapeUp iPhone or web, coming soon to Nokia and Andriod .. it’s brilliant 🙂
  • Adam: We have just released today WildFire 1.4 on OpenNTF. Now supports Mac & Linux as well as a few new features.
  • Chris: Don’t try to makeup new metrics to measure ROI on social software, use your existing business measures.
  • Darren: BES 5.0 SP 2 is available, as is QuickrD 8.2 FP 13
  • Stuart: Public skype chats for Connections and Quickr – contact me to be added!

7: Rick Astley makes my day!

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Our seventh episode, recorded today (Friday 9 July 2010). A roundtable discussion of the latest news and topics of debate surrounding the Lotus brand.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Kathy Brown (Twitter | Blog)
Chris Miller (Twitter | Blog | Company)
Ben Poole (Twitter | Blog | Company)

This podcast is 62MB and runs for 67 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

Topics

IBM Named Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software

  • Congratulations to Jeff Schick and all the team at Lotus – clearly Connections and Quickr are doing well
  • Does it matter? To IBM/BPs/Customer?
  • Should the PL community be more interested?
  • IDC report link

The PlanetLotus effect

OpenNTF in the news

Lotus Protector – Chris’ post re: hardware requirements

  • Why do we think Lotus has chosen to specify xSeries only?
  • Have you used Protector? What did you think?
  • Is it a player in the market?
  • On-premise vs. cloud based anti-spam/anti-virus – which do you use/recommend?

Follow up to AppStore discussions

IAMLug

Tips

Ben: big fan of the application Evernote (Mac, Win, web, iPhone, Android, BB, Palm OS, WinMo) for organising notes, clippings, to-do lists, the whole nine yards.
Kathy:  follow @NotesDevTips on Twitter
Chris: TackItOn seminars coming along..
Darren: Licensing webinar on 7/15 @ 1PM EST
Stuart: iWidgets in Lotus Connections, some examples…

6: Stop that tweeting!

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Our sixth episode, recorded on Thursday (1 July 2010).  A round-table conversation about the latest Lotus and tech news.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Andrew Frayling
Ray Davies
James Cadwell

This podcast is 69MB and runs for 75 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

Topics

Interesting week for cellphones/mobiles

More social media ideas from the Lotus community

“Today we sold…” meme

The confusion around licensing and anonymous access

Multi-faceted Social software

  • How can Lotus Connections be extended to support multiple communities?


Tips

Darren: Hybrid hard drive – get one! Darren has tested the performance of the latest Seagate hybrid drive.
Andrew: drop.io – Simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and more.
James: Notes client management, compared Panagenda MarvelClient and Installpump – Marvel chosen
Ray: 1) Your freedom was launched in the UK last week. A web / blog site that allows you to vote to repeal silly laws in the UK.  It has already seen thousands of posts and ideas.

2) Our Domino 8.5.1 FP2 AMI image is now live and can be used by any Amazon Account holder.
Stuart: Moo cards – addition of ability to add graphics on back of card as well as front, 10% promo on the site.