Today we celebrate the 100th episode of the "This Week in Lotus" podcast hosted by Darren Duke and Stuart McIntyre. Special thanks to NASA for helping us broadcast this show from the moon.

The show runs 3:36 and is best enjoyed while sitting down.



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	Luis Benitez (blog | twitter) is is one of the Social Software Product Managers for IBM covering IBM Connections Communities, Files & Wikis, Connections on the Cloud and Quickr Domino.
	Handly Cameron (twitter) is an Enterprise Solution Architect with Softchoice, helping customers in the US and Canada use social and collaboration technologies.

• What is it?
• What products are included?
  • Connections
  • Sametime Advanced
  • Sametime Unified Telephony Lite
  • Content Connectors (Filenet/Content Manager)
• Why has IBM created the bundle?
  • Is there a competitive element?
• A price of around $300 per user recommended price has been mentioned
• Will this be appealing to customers?
• Tell us some of the key features?
• Can we see a demo of these?
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6GedZLpfI
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWpPqruj9no
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL4Jkn76Juw
• How long does it take to put this kind of thing together?
• Is there any additional integration or technical features, or is it purely a licence bundle?
• Who are the competition now in Social Business?
• Is it principally the traditional Microsoft/IBM rivalry that dominates, or are Jive/Cisco/Citrix the key competition?

• Do we need to see more of this kind of appdev/Social integration?

• Talkwheel - https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentIdÔ3D9458A03904A6852579F00064BD7B
• Blogsy - https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId=99004BFAF2C17A1D852579FA003021BE
• 3.0.1.1 portlets - https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId×EC26BFC0E6229F852579F800055063
• Connections Community File Usage Quota Greasemonkey script - https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId=6264895980CF798E852579E200494893
• @mentions in Connections (and send them an email when mentioned)- https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId=9BB4F43BEF3DED4C852579C8001E5CF2

Keith Brooks (blog | twitter | aboutme) is CIO of Vanessa Brooks, Inc. an IBM Business Partner, and Director of Services for the SAS Group a Silver Level SugarCRM Business Partner both based in sunny and warm South Florida.  On his blog, Keith discusses the competition, sales, and technical ideas around collaboration and social business solutions. Keith was a co-author of the most recent IBM Lotus Quickr Administration book from Packt publishing. Keith has spoken at Sugarcon, Lotusphere, TheView Admin, MWLUG and various conferences on the subjects of management, social business, collaboration, troubleshooting and competitive situations. Keith volunteers with FIRST Robotics and ITWomen to spread technology to the high school levels and encourage more women engineers for the future.

• Keith has just come back from SugarCon?  How was it?
• What is SugarCRM?  There is LotusLive/SmartCloud integration?
• Is it only cloud based? Or are there appliance/on premise options?
• How does it compare to SalesForce.com?
• What integration is there with IBM products, including Connections?
• Why have you become a SugarCRM partner?
• What’s in it for Notes/Domino BPs?
• What’s in it for Notes/Domino Customers
• iEnterprises were recently acquired by SugarCRM? Where does that fit?

• What is it?
• What's the aim?
• Why has IBM bundled these solutions together?
• What does it compete with?

Jon Scott (twitter) is a freelance educational and ed tech thinker and speaker. Currently he is working within Cardiff University helping to support the roll-out of IBM Connections 3.0.1 and is involved in pedagogic research to engage students, researchers and lecturers in more collaborative ways of working.

• What has Jon been working on? Lecture experience unfulfilled, how to use technology to enrich?
• What would you like to see being provided for students?
• With students taking control themselves, is the faculty causing a barrier the students must overcome?
• Do students get credit for ‘collaborating’? (passing exams is a solitary pursuit after all, isn’t collaborating cheating?)
• 20 years ago, graduates might have needed a knowledge of ‘IT’ (programming, computer internals, basic networking etc)
  • What do those entering the workforce need today?
  • What can students do to make themselves employable?
• What kind of tooling is missing? Could Connections fill the void?
  • Is it intuitive enough?
  • Should there be ‘Connections for Academia’ etc?
• Are the days of the lecture theatre gone for ever?
• With the rise of mobile devices, is are desktop productivity apps still the primary interface?

• What does that teach us?

Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW, an IBM Premier business partner in Australia, who recently won both IBM ICS and IBM Websphere ANZ Business partner of the year awards.  ISW are also the folks behind WildFire! and Kudos Badges.  An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, who by day educates Users, Administrators and Developers on IBM Software and spends his spare time keeping a bunch of people amused while they organise AusLUG.

• Was it easier or harder 2nd time around?
• Biggest LUG in the world? (350 registrations)

• the team behind AusLUG: Adrian Randall, Barry Sanders, John Stockbridge, Karen Hooper, Michael Little, Scott Beattie, Steve Hooper, Terry Boyd and Tony McPhail are all very single minded in this: We want to reach out to as many people as possible and provide an excellent opportunity for them to improve their skills and gain a better understanding of the technology they work with.
• What’s this about the ‘bubble’?
• Is our world really as small as 300 bloggers and maybe 1000 readers?
• So how do we reach those outside the bubble?
• Are LUGs the primary route, or are online activities like LinkedIn groups, Connections communities, Greenhouse, Facebook, Twitter etc as important?
• Is the community still Notes/Domino focused, or are products like Connections and Quickr becoming more key?
• How do we get more ‘outsiders’ to have and use their voices?

	Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team.
	Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion
	Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions.

• What’s Connections being used for?
• Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff?
• Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile?

• What has the take up been like so far?
• What’s coming next?
• Multiple server access
• Profiles integration with address books
• Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes
• Native files access

• As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform?
• Developers need to understand OpenSocial
• Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications

• What’s included?
  • Fixes
  • New features
  • MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support
  • Redhat Linux 6.1 support
  • Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support
  • Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed :-)
• Forums/Posts configuration etc
• Was the ‘Super Community admin view’ feature incorporated in this release?
• How is it installed?
• New Update Installer required
• Should all customers upgrade?

• What does it do?
• How is it installed/deployed?
• How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files?
• Can you upload multiple files?
• Does it obey quotas etc?
• Can you have multiple Connections servers configured?
• drag and drop of files into Connections files
• Video by Luis Benitez

• What are the highlights?
• When will it be available?
• Which features are you most excited about?

	Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team.
	Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion
	Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions.

• What’s Connections being used for?
• Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff?
• Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile?

• What has the take up been like so far?
• What’s coming next?
• Multiple server access
• Profiles integration with address books
• Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes
• Native files access

• As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform?
• Developers need to understand OpenSocial
• Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications

• What’s included?
  • Fixes
  • New features
  • MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support
  • Redhat Linux 6.1 support
  • Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support
  • Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed :-)
• Forums/Posts configuration etc
• Was the ‘Super Community admin view’ feature incorporated in this release?
• How is it installed?
• New Update Installer required
• Should all customers upgrade?

• What does it do?
• How is it installed/deployed?
• How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files?
• Can you upload multiple files?
• Does it obey quotas etc?
• Can you have multiple Connections servers configured?
• drag and drop of files into Connections files
• Video by Luis Benitez

• What are the highlights?
• When will it be available?
• Which features are you most excited about?

	Femke Goedhart (twitter | blog | company) is a Business Consultant at Silverside, The Netherlands. She specialises in Collaboration, Social Business, Document Management and Workflow solutions. IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and enthusiast on all things Social.
	Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is a Business Consultant at Applicable, working with IBM Connections implementations and anything WebSphere or Lotus related IBM Champion, iSeries fan girl and friend of Mat Newman.

• March 22-23, Antwerp
• Fantastic lineup
• Listen to TWiL 91 for all the details
• What are you looking forward to?
• Social Panel

• http://socbiz.nl/
• May 15 & 16, Feyenoord stadium Rotterdam
• 4 tracks: Admin/Development/Best Practises/Business  both Dutch as well as international speakers
• Double conference: Social Business aimed both at new and existing customers - NLLUG aimed at existing user group
• focus in business tracks on Line of Business: HR, Marketing, Communications and Management.

• Recovering Connections from database failure
  • Learnt a lot this week
  • Lose your recovery logs and next time your system restarts, the DB2 DB will not come back up
  • Crash Recovery fails
  • DB2 goes down when Connections connects
  • Speak to IBM support fast!
• Media Widget timeout
• Connections custom theme issue

• UXLab are looking for help on this - they need volunteers
• If you want to improve the product wikis please volunteer - lotusdoc@us.ibm.com

Mike McGarel (blog | Twitter) , As a Collaborative Solutions Developer for Czarnowski Display Services, “XPages marks the spot” in my career right now. All of our new development efforts have been XPages-focused for over a year.  I am Vice President of GRANITE, the Chicago-based ICS user group. I also help out with various community get-togethers such as the Blogger Open at Lotusphere and the annual Midwest Lotus User Group conference.

• Ed asks what next for the newest member of the Domino family
• “Social Business Databases”?
• ISV chicken and the egg issues?
• “. . . awareness is lower than we expected at this point in time.” Proof that it needs its own marketing campaign?

• Sponsored by We4IT
• Deadline: June 3rd, 2012
• Two categories (Controls and Applications). Each category will have 2 winners. The Control category winners will receive $800.00 each, the Application category winners will receive $1600.00 each. The winners can choose between Amazon vouchers or payment via Paypal.

• Fantastic work by Bruce and the team

• Paul Mooney and Gab Davis are about to undertake a mammoth task
• Will it help?
• Why is it needed?
• IBM Connections Quickstart for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino - 3 week engagement

• Stresses the need to get up to speed on mobile development. If you’re company is still thinking about mobilizing your apps, it time to stop thinking and start doing.
• So how many iPad 3’s will Stuart be buying? ;)

• Dates: August 15th - 17th
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA at the Omni William Penn Hotel.
• 5 Tracks: Administration, Application Development, Business Cases and Strategy, New Technology and Integration, and Social Business
• YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mwlug (videos from 2009-2011)
• Website: new XPages-based site plans to debut at the end of March
• Call for abstracts:  Planned for mid-April 2012

Theo Heselmans (blog | twitter | BLUG) is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions. In 1993 he started working as a Notes/Domino consultant with version 3. He delighted (and still does) many customers with custom applications. For 4 years now, he is responsible for BLUG. Theo visits other LUGs regularly, and has been to 17 Lotusphere conferences. He is an avid believer in all things 'Social'. He loves to talk about Notes, BLUG, Excel (and wine)!

Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW (an IBM Premier business partner in Australia).  An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, friends with Lisa Duke, Sharon Bellamy and Femke Goedhart, and lately spending a lot of his time #Mythbusting. As you might notice in the bio pic, Mat is also partial to AS400’s ;-)

• Organisers of two of the biggest Lotus community groups worldwide
• Hundreds of hours of effort given up free of charge
• Stress of running large expensive events at you own risk
• Why do you do it?

• When? March 22-23, Thursday-Friday
• Where? Antwerp, Belgium, and all sessions are in English!
• Keynote? Chris Crummey, Business Unit Executive at IBM and Lead Evangelist for Lotus
• Who are other key speakers?
  Alan Forbes, Bill Bucan, Bill Malchisky, Chris Miller, Devin Olson, Eamon Muldoon, Eileen Fitzgerald, Femke Goedhart, Florian Vogler, Frank van der Linden, Gabriella Davis, Howard Greenberg, Jess Stratton, John Beck, John Head, Kathy Brown, Luis Suarez, Martin Donnelly, Matthew Fyleman, Mikkel Heisterberg, Paul Mooney, Paul Withers, Rene Winkelmeyer, Rob Novak, Sean Cull, Steve McDonagh, Stuart McIntyre, Tim Clark, Tony McGuckin, Ulrich Krause, Warren Elsmore, Theo Heselmans, ...
• 17 of which are IBM champions
• Other highlights
  - Double sided badges with TwitterID and QR Code
  - Large twitter wall #BLUG
  - Social panel with Femke Goedhart, Luis Suarez and Stuart McIntyre
  - Nerd Girls are repeating their successful Spark Ideas from Lotusphere with other topics/speakers
  - Speedsponsoring: 18 booths, so fast talking is required. Paul Mooney hosting, Bill Buchan and Tim Clark are his assistants
  - Something new: a developers’ quiz: educational and fun guaranteed
• Can people still register?
  • www.blug.be

• What: Lotus Week: 29th - 30th March, 2012
  • The View XPages Advanced Seminar 26th-28th March
  • AusLUG Admin Jump-Start with Gabriella Davis & Chris Miller, 27th & 28th March
  • AusLUG 29th & 30th March
• Where: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Who are we: Some VERY passionate Aussies: Karen Hooper, Adrian Randall, Michael Little, John Stockbridge, Barry Sanders, Scott Beattie, Terry Boyd, Steve Hooper,Tony McPhail
• Keynote: Ed Brill
• Featured Session: Michael Sampson,
• Key Speakers: Walter Adamson, Nick Baldwin, Darren Belford, John Bilson, Dion Boyd, Adam Brown, Paul Calhoun, Andrew Davis, Gabriella Davis, Geoff Dutton, Bob Hallewell, , Mark Hampton, Tony Holder, Karen Hooper, Steve Hooper, Declan Lynch, Russell Maher, Peter May, Chris a/k/a IdoNotes, Christian Petters, Michael Sampson, Ted Stanton, Florian Vogler, Sunny Wan, Steve Wellington, Gary Wickham, Stephan Wissel
• 6 IBM Champions
• Just got some great ideas for the badges - thanks Theo :-)
• Round 1 of the AFL is immediately following on Friday night featuring the Mighty HAWKS!
• Nerd Girls, TWiL Live from AusLUG, the ‘Social Evening’, and an informal gathering with 100,000 (bragger, your number has to be the biggest :-) others on Friday night for the opening round of the AFL, did I mention the Mighty HAWKS
• Oh, and IBM will find out where the Street Party banner from Sunday night’s LS12 welcome reception went to ;-)

• Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Baaarchelona (did I pronounce that right?)

• From Ulrich Krause:  What is the strongest beer you can get in Belgium?

	Martin Donnelly (LinkedIn | Twitter) is a software architect and team lead for the XPages runtime team in IBM Ireland and has worked on all four XPages releases from Notes/Domino 8.5 through 8.5.3. Martin lives in Cork with his wife, three daughters, and two greyhounds. He admits to playing soccer on a weekly basis (should have hung up his boots YEARS ago) and salmon angling during the summer when the opportunity presents itself.
	Tony McGuckin (LinkedIn | Twitter) is a Senior Software Engineer on the IBM XPages development team working from the IBM Ireland Software Labs.  He is also co-author of the Mastering XPages and XPages Portable Command Guide books.  Currently he is focussing on XPages Mobile and Social tooling/controls for XPages futures.
	Maire Kehoe is a Staff Software Developer at the IBM Ireland Software Labs, where she has worked on the XPages technology for Lotus Notes and Domino since the 8.5 release. She is a co-author of the book XPages Portable Command Guide.
	Dan O'Connor (LinkedIn | Twitter | IBM) is the team lead for Domino Designer based out of Littleton, MA. He is a co-author of the book XPages Portable Command Guide. Dan has worked on Domino Designer since the 8.5.0, prior to that Dan worked on Lotus Component Designer and Rational Application Developer.

• (Amazon US Paperback | Amazon US Kindle | Amazon UK Paperback | Amazon UK Kindle)
• Follow on to the magnificent Mastering XPages
• How did Maire and Dan get involved?
• What does it cover?
• Do you get stopped in corridors?
• If one was new to XPages, would you still read ‘Mastering Xpages’ first?
• Who is it for?
• Available in what formats?
• Does it cover the extension library as well?
  • No, but new book coming from Paul Hannan, Tim Tripcony, Paul Withers et al in April

• How did this come about?
• Do you think it will help sales of the book?

• Has it now completely replaced ‘classic’ development techniques?
• Are we seeing some leading-edge apps written with it yet?
• What is IBM developing in XPages internally? Any great use cases you can share?
• How do you feel about the vitality around XPages now that it’s a toddler ;)

• Lots of comments
• Is he right? Is documentation inside of the product lacking?

• From Steve Pitcher, “What does the major lack of Quickr sesions at LS12 indicate?”
• From Keith Brooks, “If not yellow, which color will ICS be?”

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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?

• Are you excited about 2012?

	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

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

• 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)

• 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

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