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Episode 48, recorded Thursday 21st April 2011, discussing the new IBM Connections 3.0.1 release, potential for a Connections ISV community, the deprecation of the Lotus brand and more…
(Sorry for the poor audio quality this week – Stuart was clearly still in holiday mode and forgot to check his Mic settings – amateur!)
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company ) is a Director at ISW, a focused IBM Premier Partner in Australia that operates across the full IBM Software Portfolio including Lotus, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, IM, and Business Analytics (Cognos). Adam is the Technical Director for the company and is responsible for helping our clients understand where IBM solutions can help them meet their business objectives. Specifically Adam is personally focused around Connections/Portal/Forms/Notes/Domino/TDI/TIM/TAM/Cognos
Joe Russo (blog | twitter | company ) is Senior Designer on Connections, focused primarily on Connections Communities. Joe works with user feedback in a variety of formats and groups of different development teams to continually improve and innovate social software at IBM.
Topics
Lotus Connections 3.0.1
* Announced on Tuesday 5th April, shipped on Thursday 7th April
* So what’s new?
* Ideation Blogs
* Media Galleries in Communities
* What formats are supported?
* Community Moderation
* Integration with ECM repositories (Content Manager and Filenet)
* Closer integration with Sametime
* Where did these requirements come from?
* What was the reaction when the features were shown at Lotusphere?
* Can you upgrade from 2.5 or do you have to go to 3.0 first?
How do we feel about Connections as a product now?
* Has it gained traction?
* Integration with other IBM Products such as Rational Team Concert and Cognos 10.
* ECM integration is first sign of Quickr-functionaility being migrated into Connections. How do we see the Quickr product in the future?
* Where are the ISVs? What’s stopping ISVs from developing for the platform?
More broadly
* As a designer for Connections, what are you principal influences?
* Social Collaboration services are typically though to be intuitive and needing limited training
* How do the design team make this a reality?
* Is there more work to do?
* Mobile access – web versus native apps
* Connections has a pretty impressive mobile web UI, yet many users want and expect native apps for Android/iOS these days
* What do we think about this? Is a Mobile web UI enough?
* How about disconnected access to Connections and other Social Collaboration tools?
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Episode 48, recorded Thursday 21st April 2011, discussing the new IBM Connections 3.0.1 release, potential for a Connections ISV community, the deprecation of the Lotus brand and more…
(Sorry for the poor audio quality this week – Stuart was clearly still in holiday mode and forgot to check his Mic settings – amateur!)
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company ) is a Director at ISW, a focused IBM Premier Partner in Australia that operates across the full IBM Software Portfolio including Lotus, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, IM, and Business Analytics (Cognos). Adam is the Technical Director for the company and is responsible for helping our clients understand where IBM solutions can help them meet their business objectives. Specifically Adam is personally focused around Connections/Portal/Forms/Notes/Domino/TDI/TIM/TAM/Cognos
Joe Russo (blog | twitter | company ) is Senior Designer on Connections, focused primarily on Connections Communities. Joe works with user feedback in a variety of formats and groups of different development teams to continually improve and innovate social software at IBM.
Topics
Lotus Connections 3.0.1
* Announced on Tuesday 5th April, shipped on Thursday 7th April
* So what’s new?
* Ideation Blogs
* Media Galleries in Communities
* What formats are supported?
* Community Moderation
* Integration with ECM repositories (Content Manager and Filenet)
* Closer integration with Sametime
* Where did these requirements come from?
* What was the reaction when the features were shown at Lotusphere?
* Can you upgrade from 2.5 or do you have to go to 3.0 first?
How do we feel about Connections as a product now?
* Has it gained traction?
* Integration with other IBM Products such as Rational Team Concert and Cognos 10.
* ECM integration is first sign of Quickr-functionaility being migrated into Connections. How do we see the Quickr product in the future?
* Where are the ISVs? What’s stopping ISVs from developing for the platform?
More broadly
* As a designer for Connections, what are you principal influences?
* Social Collaboration services are typically though to be intuitive and needing limited training
* How do the design team make this a reality?
* Is there more work to do?
* Mobile access – web versus native apps
* Connections has a pretty impressive mobile web UI, yet many users want and expect native apps for Android/iOS these days
* What do we think about this? Is a Mobile web UI enough?
* How about disconnected access to Connections and other Social Collaboration tools?