Episode 14, recorded Friday 20th August 2010, discussing 8.5.2, ‘What is Lotus Notes’, Collaboration University and more.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter) and Darren Duke (blog | twitter)

Guests

Marie Scott (blog | twitter) is Director of Email Services at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  She has been working with Lotus Notes since 1996.  Her primary interest is Domino administration in large, complex environments.  She has worked on large migration projects and recently completed a project to transition university students to cloud computing.  Marie has spoken at Lotusphere and IAMLUG on topics including Domino administration and Tivoli Directory Integrator.  She is currently co-authoring a Sametime user’s guide with Tom aka “duffbert” Duff.

Gabriella Davis (blog | twitter | email | company) is Technical Director of The Turtle Partnership, an IBM Lotus Advanced Busines Partner. Originally a ccMail Administrator, Gabriella has been working with Lotus Collaboration software since 1993 and today works extensively with the WAS-based Lotus products including Connections. Sametime and Quickr. In addition, she and her company act as primary Domino Administrator for customers worldwide covering more than 400 servers, 30,000 users, and 60 domains.  When she can, she lives in London in a house stocked with 5000+ books, 14 ip addresses and 1 neglected television.

Rob Novak (blog | twitter | email | company) is President of SNAPPS, an Advanced IBM Partner for 14 years providing products, services, hosting, and business process consulting in the collaboration, enterprise content management, mobilization and business intelligence markets. We’re known for doing Quickr work like customization, support, and templates, although that’s really about 1/4 of what we do – lately we’ve been doing Notes client sidebar apps, working with iPhones and iPads, XPages, the works. Everyone on staff is a 15-20 year Lotus nut. We just did announce our first paid product in seven years (since we tend to give everything else away), some modules for Quickr that really enhance the user experience. Rob has 3.99 business degrees, has spoken at most of the industry conferences and user groups on both technical and business topics, and last but not least we – meaning SNAPPS with the amazing co-producers the Turtles in London – produce Collaboration University.

Neil Burston – ( twitter | email | company) is a long term Collaborationist who has worked with Lotus products since being involved in deploying Lotus Notes 3.0 in 1993.  He has subsequently been through the full gamut of Lotus products (remember HotMedia Connect anyone?) from 1.0 versions of QuickPlace and Sametime through Portal and Workplace, to the latest Cloud Offerings.   A long time advocate of supporting the Community and User groups, Neil was heavily involved in organizing the many excellent Connectr events, bringing people together to share their experiences of utilizing Social Software, in particular Lotus Connections, to help deliver value to their organizations.  Now working outside the “Yellowverse”at Helveta,