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Episode 89 recorded on Thursday 16th February 2012.    We meet with Dave Durazzano of IBM and Elaine Murray from Applicable to discuss the planned rename of Lotuslive, announcements from Lotusphere 2012 and plans for new bundles to clear up a few confusing names…

[Full title: Lotuslive becomes SmartCloud for Social Business. Longer name but less confusion?]



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

Guests: Dave Durazzano (twitter) is Program Director for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.  David joined Lotus in 1994 as a technical support analyst, he then went on to co-founded a Lotus Business Partner consulting company and later started a cloud computing services company.  David rejoined IBM in 1999 where he has held several technical leadership roles on the Lotus Notes/Domino, Workplace & Greenhouse teams before shifting his focus in 2007 to contribute to the IBM on-line collaborative SaaS business previously called LotusLive.
Elaine Murray (twitter) is IBM/Microsoft Messaging & Social Collaboration enthusiast at Applicable. A Marketing Manager with a passion to promote powerful collaboration.

Topics:
SmartCloud for Social Business

• For those new to the community, what is Smart Cloud for Social Business?
  • IBM SmartCloud portfolio
  • Formerly LotusLive
    • New brands to be established in Q1 (next few weeks)
    • SmartCloud Engage to be key brand, various levels within that
    • What happens to customers that have LotusLive contracts?
• New URL in Q2 - http://ibmcloud.com/social
  • What is the proposition that SCSB represents?
• Many would see Office 365 and Google Apps as the main competitors
  • What are IBM’s advantages?
• Will the iNotes and Connections brand confusion be cleared up?
  • Yes!
• Whats coming in 2012?
  • Will the newly named IBM Docs be part of SmartCloud too?
    • Yes, 2H12

Applicable

• What does winning the Lotus Award mean for your business?

Tips:
Darren:
There is no privacy on social networks. Yes, they steal your address book. Move on nothing to see here.
The Xpages Debug Toolbar on OpenNTF from Mark Leusink.
Dave:
Start a 60 day trial of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business - See first hand how your business (any size) can leverage the cloud to collaborate with customers, partners, vendors today.   IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Toolkit - Found in IBM DeveloperWorks.  Access the IBM SmartCloud APIs for integration development!
Elaine:
Knowledge is Power.. Keep up to date with the customers who visit your web pages and learn more about them and their areas of interest: http://www.trovus.co.uk/
Stuart:
TweetBot v2.0 - fab new Twitter client for iPhone and iPad. Granular notification settings, no nasty panels, customisable buttons. It rocks.
UC Expo - effectively the biggest Social Business trade show in the UK - 6/7th March at Olympia.

Learn about Teamstudio Unplugged, a tool that helps you mobilize (as in mobile smartphones) your Lotus Domino applications. We spoke with Nigel Cheshire, president and CEO of Teamstudio, and Craig Schumann, Teamstudio senior developer, about:

• The rise of Apple and iOS in the enterprise
• The rise of XPages in the Lotus developer world
• Teamstudio's approach for adding a mobile interface to Domino apps
• Replicating data to and from a device for offline use
• Choosing a strategy for mobilizing your apps, to make sure your project is successful
• And more...

This episode runs 34:00.

Episode 88 recorded on Thursday 9th February 2012. Jason Dumont joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the roadmap for the Lotus clients - Notes, iNotes and Connections Mail - through 2012 including the exciting Social Edition release. He also fills us in on the details around 'that plugin' - the ability to render Notes applications in a browser as if in your Notes client.  



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

Guests: Jason Dumont (twitter | linkedin) is currently the Program Director for Messaging & Collaboration Client Strategy at IBM. His responsibilities include strategy development and product planning for all of IBM's messaging and collaboration clients within the Lotus brand, including our on premise and cloud based delivery options. He also leads a new strategic effort focused on the delivery of a more social messaging experience, which will first be represented as IBM Connections Mail. His team is located in the United States with an extended team around the globe.
Topics:
Lotusphere announcements

• Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition
  • What is Notes/Domino Social Edition?
  • Is this the ‘Notes Foo’ that has been discussed over the last year?
  • Why ‘Social Edition’?
  • When will it ship?
  • Is this the equivalent of Notes Next?
  • Lets break it down:
    • What will Domino Social Edition offer in terms of iNotes functionality?
    • How about Notes Social Edition?
• What Social features will be available in the new release?
• IBM Connections Mail (aka social mail)
  • This has been explained as ‘triage mail and calendar’, can you explain the use case?
    • ‘Picture in picture’ analogy
  • When will it be delivered? Need Connections Next and Domino 8.5.3+ or Exchange 2007 & 2010
  • Works with Domino and Exchange mail?  
  • Will it support cloud-based mail?
• The Plug-in
  • What does it do?
  • What are the use cases you foresee?
  • What are the requirements? Which browsers (IE, FF both on Windows), which Domino release?
  • How big is the plugin?  Will it get cached?

‘State of the Union’

• Are you excited about 2012?

Tips:
Darren:
Workflow for XPages : OpenNTF project released by Phillipe Riand, Qian Liang and Niklas Heidloff. Fills a missing gap that has always existed in Domino.
Also in an XPages vein, the 3rd and latest XPages Development Contest is open. More prizes this time, again from the kind folks at We4IT!
Jason:
Jabra headset
SwiftFile
Stuart:
Turn off Widgets in your Connections UI if deploying for the first time - set in Homepage Admin.
Auslug - featuring Michael Sampson and Ed Brill
UC Expo show - effectively the biggest Social Business trade show in the UK - 6/7th March at Olympia.

Today we talked with Alan Lepofsky, analyst at Constellation Research Group, about the current and future state of Activity Streams in the enterprise. Our discussion included:

• What's the difference between streams of information like Facebook and Twitter, and what we'll see in business in the coming months and years?
• Considerations about filters, and making sure important information gets seen
• How does analytics play into all this?
• Is there truly "one stream to rule them all", or does certain information need to be siloed?
• What about my inbox?!?
• Where will mobile devices fit into this picture?
• Once this all gets going, what are some of the advantages (obvious or not) with having a stream-friendly enterprise?

For more on what Alan has to say on the subject, also check out his Making Activity Streams More Manageable blog post from last week, and find him on Twitter at @alanlepo.

This show runs 41:14.

Episode 87 recorded on Thursday 2nd February 2012. We review Lotusphere 2012, discuss some of the major announcements, reveal the details of a new jobs site just for social media and collaboration roles.  

Oh yes, we had a few technical issues too - make sure you listen through to the bloopers at the end!



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

Guests: Luis Benitez (blog | twitter) is is one of the Social Software Product Managers for IBM covering IBM Connections Files & Wikis, Connections on the Cloud and Quickr Domino.
Victor Toal (Twitter, Blog Notesbusters, Websites ToalSystems & SSMCJOBS) is Chief Solutions Architect for ToalSystems, specializes in Social, Collaborative and Messaging solutions
Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

• Looking back in the rear view mirror, what did we think?
• Highlights?

Announcements:

• Quickr Domino
  • Minor release in Q1
  • Bigger release in 2H12
  • 18 month release cycle
• Connections Next:
  • Mobile
  • Connectors
  • New Standard Support (OpenSocial, OAuth, ActivityStrea.ms)

New jobs site for IT folks in collaboration, messaging and social space SSMCJOBS.COM

• IT Job website dedicated to Social software/Social media, Messaging and Collaboration
• Free for Job seekers
• Ability to search not only for jobs posted on the site but also pull in jobs from multiple other websites - one stop shopping for job seekers and contractors looking for their next opportunity

LCTY Get Social Do Business Roadshow Business Gets Social Dates Announced

• Small list right now....early days
• Yet another name change. Let the confusion reign!

Tips:
Darren:
Traveler tap to dial codes for Android. “P” or a comma will cause a pause. “#” enter a conference code. Semi-colon or “x” to prompt user before sending codes.
Luis:
http://bit.ly/ConnWikiTips - and IBM Connections Users community , SXSW ideas
Victor:
Tool “Beyond Compare” http://www.scootersoftware.com and a tip: Learn WebSphere to stay relevant
Stuart:
Don’t delete your Dropbox folder on secondary machines, it doesn’t work out well!
Carousel - Instagram for the Mac

Due to post-Lotusphere exhaustion, zombie flu and backed-up workloads, there is unfortunately no This Week in Lotus this week (the first non-Holidays show we've missed!).

However we do have:
1) an excellent show lined up for next week featuring a number of IBM product managers
2) video of our live show from Lotusphere 2012

So, sorry to have missed a week, but enjoy the conversation and appreciate the tiredness of these seven 'Thursday at Lotusphere' panellists!



See you all next week!

In today's show we talk about all things OpenSocial with Ryan Baxter of IBM and Mikkel Heisterberg of IntraVision. We talk about:

• What is OpenSocial?  How did it get started?
• How is IBM involved?  How can I get involved?
• How is IBM leveraging OpenSocial?
• What is Apache Shindig and how is it connected to OpenSocial?
• What are the advantages to building OpenSocial gadgets over existing technologies?  Will I be able to leverage XPages?
• How do I get started building gadgets?
• What about the community?  Is there a community built around OpenSocial, should the ICS community become involved?
• How can we also leverage the OpenNTF community?
• Where else can I leverage OpenSocial outside of embedded experiences?
• What other companies are involved in OpenSocial?
• What does IBM need from the ICS community when it comes to OpenSocial?

Also, here are some links to a few of the things we discussed in the podcast: the OpenSocial website, the OpenSocial sandbox, and Ryan's Lotusphere slides.

The Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown video.

This episode runs 43:12.

Episode 86, recorded on Thursday 19th January 2012.  With a live audience and an esteemed panel including Curious Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan, we discuss the conference, the highlights, the OGS, the wifi, the community and even Darren's state of dress!



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[Once again, Darren and I recorded a live TWiL from the hallowed rooms of WDW Dolphin during Lotusphere. This year we were not lucky enough to have been supplied with a room with a PA and roving mics, so the audio is by no means perfect, but the conversation makes it very worthwhile.  We had fun recording the show, I hope you enjoy listening just as much!]

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

Guests:
Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012

Quite a few IBM Champions got together and attempted to sing a song in perfect harmony in Kiminos.  You need to watch the attempt for yourself and judge if it was the end of the world as we know it.

It had to be witnessed by someone and it seems a camera caught it and sent the SD card to right Lotusphere Podcasts.  Watch Tom "Duffbert" Duff and Andy Donaldson attempt "I Got You Babe" at karaoke in Kimonos just last night.  It is dark in some spots but nice and clear.

IBM held a Champion Reception at Lotusphere 2012 where the executives and IBM Champions got together.  While there a couple iPad 2 devices were given away and Simon Vaughn was a lucky winner.  Hear him describe his solution.

You learn cool tricks while at Lotusphere, even from attendees.  I sit with Katie as she walks us through how she accesses SocialBizOnline via the iPad, downloads the presentations and opens in a note taking and highlighting app.  She is then able to socially share the apps or send to DropBox all marked up with her notes and highlights.

Each year we peek inside and look at the new Lotusphere backpack.  What surprises did it bring?  Watch and see

It’s been a while since the last episode, so Paul and David discuss what’s happened in the last few months…

OpenNTF

The second XPages contest has just wrapped with loads of great contributions. Details of all submissions can be found on the Contest page of xpages.info. Niklas Heidloff has also created a 35 minute video.

xSnippets, an XPages-enhanced resource to replace the Code Bin, has been launched with lots of great code snippets already. The site includes code highlighting by Serdar Basegmez and has a shortened URL of http://openntf.org/xsnippets.

IBM XWork Server

Named from Exceptional Work Experience.

The list price is $2000 per annum for a server with 4 applications, each comprising 4 NSFs. A second licence can be added to up the capacity to 8 applications, each comprising 8 NSFs. The server provides flexible use as an entry point to Domino, particularly for non-Domino customers. More information can be found on the developerWorks page.

Domino 8.5.3

Domino 8.5.3 was released October 2011 and continued the precedent of 8.5.x releases being more than just point releases. Significant enhancements included:

• OneUIv2 and OneUIv2.1 themes
• Dojo 1.5.1 and Dojo 1.6.1 (the latter delivered as a plugin)
• OSGi as a mechanism for deploying Java plugins without needing to install files on the server, via the new Update Site template
• XPages and Forms/Views perspectives added to the Domino Designer perspective. All are configurable via the Preferences panel
• Java design element
• XPiNC performance enhancements

Extension Library and UP1

Two forks of the Extension Library since October – 8.5.3 and 8.5.2. 8.5.3 allows easier deployment through the new Update Site template and has undergone significant refactoring in preparation for Upgrade Pack 1. An extreme example of this can be seen in the Application Layout control, look out for a forthcoming video on NotesIn9 by John Jardin (a link will be posted here in due course).

8.5.3 version includes mobile controls, RDBMS and Social. Current understanding is these won’t be included in UP1, but UP2 is already in preparation.

Thanks to Bruce Elgort for his help with Garageband.

This episode is sponsored by Intec