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.

Our fifth episode, recorded on Friday (25 June 2010).  An inter-continental conversation about App Stores, bundled applications, driving adoption and much more.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Michael Sampson (Independent Strategist focused on Collaboration approaches and technologies. Author of many books, including “User Adoption Strategies, Collaboration Roadmap, SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration and Seamless Teamwork, based in New Zealand, father of 9)

Eric Mack (Productivity expert, colleague and advisor to David Allen of GTD fame, Lotus ISV and blogger, based in the mountains of California, homeschooling father of 4 daughters).

This podcast is 68MB and runs for 70 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

It’s all about the apps:

  • Ongoing discussion from posts of last two weeks – Jon Vaughan et al
  • Now Ed Brill has moved the discussion onto a couple of areas that were mentioned in previous threads – Ways to improve developer resources, and free apps)
  • Will an AppCatalog or AppStore really be the answer?
  • Is OpenNTF the store?
  • Who exactly are we targeting (users, admins, developers, executives)?
  • How can ISVs make Lotus apps easier to consume and deploy?

Questions for Michael (as an analyst):

Tips

Eric: Is it actionable or is it reference? Decide sooner and get things done.
Michael: Automate your text entry using Typinator (Mac) or Texter (Windows). Michael’s latest book – User Adoption Strategies.
Darren: Webcast – “Understanding the New IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Licensing and Entitlements” July 15 at 1:00 EST
Stuart: EyeTV on the Mac (and iPhone/iPad) – Elgato add Vuvuzela filter for the World Cup

Our fourth episode, recorded today (18 June 2010). A controversial week in the Lotus community – much to discuss!

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Bruce Elgort, Matt White, Sean Cull, Sharon Bellamy

This podcast is 63MB and runs for 65 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

Future of Domino as a development platform

NotesAppStore

Traveler on Android

Topics

Seanhttp://xpages101.net/
Sharon: Baretail – http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
Matt: Julian Buss’ http://www.xpageswiki.com/
Bruce: be “Zen” and control your own destiny
Darren: Turning “Green”, Lisa’s “going green” blog –  http://www.lisaduke.net/
Stuart: FlightTracker app  for mobile devices

Our third episode, recorded today (11 June 2010). A smaller-than-usual cast, but plenty to discuss!

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Lisa Duke

This podcast is 62MB and runs for 65 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

Radicati report – Notes/Domino to have 266m seats by 2014
The future of Notes/Domino as a development platform

The Official Lotus Knows blog
How do you find the Lotus community

Google Home Page images
iPhone 4

Tips

Darren: “Best Practices for Domino on VMware” June 15 via webinar. Email info@simplified-tech.com to register
Lisa: Tips In Two podcast
Stuart: Woopra site analytics

Our second episode, recorded today (4 June 2010). Please forgive us for a little noise on the recording today – we’ll try to do better next time!

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Peter Smith, Mitch Cohen and Lewis Turek.

This podcast is 59MB and runs for 61 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

Reflection on episode 1 – downloads, reaction etc
New releases and fixpacks

The “future of collaboration”

Next-gen programming technologies

RIM falling behind the curve

Resurgence of Lotus jobs

Tips

Darren: Duffbert’s LotusWatch on Twitter
Peter: Spotify Premium
Mitch: Google Reader Bundles (also Feedly)
Lewis: Dropbox.com and Lotus UK ‘Power of Business Applications’ conference – 16th June, 2010
StuartTweetDeck 0.34.2

Our first full episode, recorded today (28 May 2010).

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

“Horrible Lotus Notes” tweets, the every-increasing success of Lotus User Groups, that Apple tablet-thing, the end of Notes/Domino6.5, does Lotus really Know, and more.

Guests

Mike Smith, Tim Clark and Handly Cameron.

This podcast is 67MB and runs for 70 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

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

Tips

Update: For the future we’ll be issuing show notes for each episode, but for this first one, here are the tips we passed on:
Mike: the Apple iPad
Tim: Notes.net and the Lotus Forums (Stuart added LotusInfocenters.com and LotusWikis.com, plus replicating the Forums locally)
Darren: NetFlix on the Nintendo Wii
Handly: XPages, and Bruce Elgort’s session on the topic
Stuart: Blue Microphones Snowball (Tim mentioned a good price on Amazon)

A short introduction to our new podcast, This Week in Lotus.

This podcast is 2.3MB and runs for 2.5 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

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