This Week in Lotus

21: LotusLive 1.3 goes live


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Episode 21, recorded Friday 8th October 2010, discussing the IBM’s reputation for social software, contacting IBM employees via Sametime and more..
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company)  & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Martha Hoyt is a Senior Product Manager for LotusLive. She has recently turned her role slightly to focus on developing the LotusLive partner platform, working with the early and strategic partners. She started her IBM career in Lotus working for a number of years in the Lotus Notes an Domino world both from a product management and development perspective.
Richard Bye (LotusLive Profile, LinkedIn Profile, LotusLive Home Page, IBM Homepage) is the Business Unit Executive for the LotusLive portfolio in Northern Europe.  Richard has worked in the hosted messaging and collaboration space for nearly 13 years, having been part of the launch team of TTYL for Telenor in Norway, started the Hosted Messaging business for Critical Path in EMEA, and was part of the senior management team leading Outblaze Limited of Hong Kong to acquisition by IBM in April 2009.
Erik Vos (company | twitter | LotusLiveProfile | LinkedinProfile) is (founder of RealConnections in 2008, before I worked for Lotus BP in the Netherlands and before that I was working within IBM Software Group in the Netherlands – Director Software Sales. RealConnections is a Cloud Aggregator, we combine Cloud Services for customers – we are not technical ;-))
Topics
LotusLive 1.3 announced

* What’s new?
* What are the features of LotusLive Engage/Connections Communities – are they equivalent to Connections Communities?
* What use cases are expected for the communities feature?
* What about Wikis and Blogs?
* IBM seems to be working hard to bring other vendors/services into LotusLive – have there been any additions to the list?
* Lotuslive Meetings is a key part of the suite – what changes have taken place there?
* What do you expect customers to make of these changes?

LotusLive Notes updated

* This was only released a couple of months ago, so what’s changed?

LotusLive Labs Concord

* Collaborative editing in the cloud – What’s the latest status?

Lotusphere abstracts opened, deadline extended to 15th October

* New tracks
* ‘Interesting’ announcement of abstracts process – could IBM have done this better?
* Any sessions submitted so far?

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This Week in LotusBy Stuart McIntyre & Darren Duke