Episode 75, recorded on Thursday 26th October 2011. We discuss IBM’s new CEO, Lotusphere 2012 abstracts and news, the London Social Business Breakfast earlier this week and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
 | Carlos Casas (twitter | blog | rockteam | leonline | aboutme) is an IBM Champion and Managing Principal of RockTeam and Lotus Education Online (LEOnline.Net). RockTeam/LEO is an award-winning IBM Advanced Partner for ICS as well as an authorized training center for IBM Software. |
 | Handly Cameron (twitter | blog | company) is an Enterprise Software Architect at Softchoice and an IBM Champion |
 | Simon Vaughan (twitter) Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and IBM champion (and TWiL Virgin) |
Topics
IBM announces Sam Palmisano moving to Chairman, new CEO named (IBM taps Virginia Rometty to succeed Sam Palmisano as CEO)
- Thoughts on Virginia?
- Is gender significant, or are we past that now?
- How about her background in Services and Consulting?
- How about Sam’s reign? Positive for IBM? Continued good work of Lou Gerstner? How will he be viewed in history?
- Do we think Steve Mills stood a chance of being CEO?
- Where does IBM stand in terms of brand right now?
- Good example of succession management?
- Call for abstracts open
- Slight confusion over fields on form
- Thoughts on tracks?
- Two weeks to get abstracts in (November 6th), sounds ok?
- Will you be submitting?
- Connect conference (was Social Business Symposium)
- Over in Y&B
- 2 days
- Aimed at LOB
- Will this one day be the bigger of the two conferences?
- Ed queried future of Ask the PMs, put back on agenda.
- Anything we are particularly looking forward to?
- Wishes for LS12? What would we like to change or improve?
Social Business Breakfast (IBMSBB) event in London on Wednesday
- Discussion-based breakfast briefing
- Mostly vendor neutral
- Almost no slideware
- To be run every couple of months in the City
New Connections ECM offerings announced at IOD
Tips
Darren:
MS broke Skype MP3 Recorder. Download the new version 2.1.1 that allows it to work again.
Carlos:
KM Camp Philly is on Dec 2 and I will be presenting a session on the impact of social software with regards to knowledge management and specifically IBM Lotus. KM Camp will be held at DeVry University in Ft. Washington, PA (just outside of Philadelphia) Register here
Handly:
1) ATLUG (Atlanta) is November 10th at IBM, who is providing free lunch. I am presenting on WebSphere 101 for Lotus people, Michael Brown on the new 8.5.3 entitlements, and Lisa Duke on Quickr.
2) Take advantage of the new step up licenses for Connections!
Simon:
1) If you are a Social practitioner or want to learn from others, Join the Dachis Social business council
2) If you use Connections, join the Connections user community on Greenhouse. A great resource to influence what we want to see if future versions + a chance to connect with other users and share experiences
3) Come to Cardiff on December 9th for Social Connections II – it promises to be a truly ‘Exceptional Welsh experience’
4) If your Soccer team lose by a large score, do not poke fun at rival fans and control your noisy neighbours!
Stuart:
1) Social Mythbusters presentation by Louis Richardson
2) How to fill in fields on abstracts form! Register speaker profiles first…
[Music this week courtesy of the Stone Roses who announced they are reforming last week. Go buy their music on iTunes!]
