Episode 32, recorded Thursday 23rd December 2010, discussing the first 7 months of This Week in Lotus, our review of 2010, and our wishes for 2011…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Lisa Duke (twitter | company) is Business Development Manager for Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. (also known as STS), an IBM Lotus business partner specializing in collaboration, mobility, and virtualization. STS also resells IBM System X hardware and related storage.
Topics
This Week in Lotus
- What have we learnt?
- What can we do better?
- Plans for Lotusphere 2011
Review of the year
- Bob Picciano moving on, Alistair takes over. Mike Rhodin now owns Lotus at higher level
- Lotusphere 2010
- William Shatner – best guest ever?
- Lotuslive win at Panasonic
- Project Vulcan launched
- Lotus Traveler on Android plans announced. Just delivered on December 14.
- Lotus knows a big part of the conference, including Steve Porter remix
- New releases:
- ND 8.5.2 released (August 24)
- Quickr 8.5 arrives (September 13)
- Launch of LotusLive Notes (October 5)
- Launch of Symphony 3 (October 21)
- Lotus Connections 3 launched (November 24)
- Old friends leave us:
- Domino/Notes 6.5 drops off support (April 30)
- Community events go from strength to strength:
- BLUG (March)
- IamLug (early August)
- NLLUG (September)
- TriStateLug (October)
- ILUG (November)
- many events from STS through the Southeast US
- LCTY again a success
- A year for mobile devices:
- Apple iPad launched in US (April 3)
- Android now biggest selling platform (in US at least)
- A strong year for social media
- This Week in Lotus launches (May 25)
- Taking Notes and iDoNotes going strong
- VideoFest a success
- Lotus fan sites taking off:
- ILoveLotusNotes.net launched (September)
- NotesisCool launched by Darren Adams (November 2)
- Domino as a Development platform in question
- Lots of debate about app stores, IBM priorities, Domino Designer on Mac, source control plugin for DDE
- Latest this week is that IBM paper says Domino is strategic platform for Rapid Application Development and Deployment
Wishes for 2011
Tips
| Darren | For those just returned from a holiday on the Moon, Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons for the iPhone and Android phones. Great game. Weekends, nee months, just fly by! |
| Lisa | Lotus Update Webinar 2/15 at noon EST – updates from Lotusphere and introductory session on Starting and Running a Lotus Consultancy (8 week class Saturday 10 EST March 5 through April 23) $995 Focused on Lotus and US, but 90% applicable for general IT consultancy or for Lotus consultancy outside the US *How to get new clients *How to set bill rates *Picking good topics to specialize in – for speaking at events *Secrets of IBM Email me for info: lisa.duke@simplified-tech.com |
| Stuart | BoFs – vote now for the ones you want, and attend them when you’re at Lotusphere 2011! |
Merry Christmas everybody!
