Episode 52, recorded Thursday 19th May 2011, discussing a year of this show, Sametime 8.5.2, UKLUG, the Exceptional Web Experience conference, new XPages Application Server license and more…

Hosts

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

Guests

Lisa Duke (twitter | company) is Business Development Manager for Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. (also known as STS), an IBM Lotus business partner specializing in collaboration, mobility, and virtualization.  STS also resells IBM System X hardware and related storage.

Topics

This Week in Lotus is a year old:

* Have we enjoyed it?

* What have been the main topics:

* May 2010: LUGs and the launch of the iPad

* June: decline of RIM, Radicati – Notes/Domino to have 266m seats by 2015, Notes App Store

* July: IBM Named Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software, Lotus Protector, Project Northstar

* August: Death of Google Wave, Directory Independence, Notes/Domino 8.5.2

* September: Quickr 8.5, NLLUG, IBM Customer Experience Suite, a world without email, XPages Extension Library

* October: ExtST, new LotusLive, Symphony 3, virtual conferences, Cognos integration

* November: XPages source control, Connections 3, ILUG, BES Express, Transformer, XPages performance

* December: Social (inside firewall and Twitter), leadup to Lotusphere, Higher Education

* January: Live show, lots of Lotusphere! Sandy Carter

* February: Lotus rebranding, Social Business, Mastering XPages, DDE on the Mac, Design process

* March: Analysts and developers, User Groups (Australia), Business Inteligence and Social software, RAD

* April: WCM renaming, RAD again, IBM Champions, Connections 3.0.1, iWildfire

* May: ISVs, Management of Connections, LotusLive new release

* Highlights of the year:

* Episode 7 – Darren admits to enjoying being Rick Rolled (I think I said I liked Rick Astley)…..

* Episode 6 – Michael Sampson & User Adoption – this is only going to be more important as social software comes into business – I would love to see IT take a lead in bringing in technology and be seen as thought leaders, not as “server janitors”

* Live show at Lotusphere

* Guest Stats

* What did you learn from a year of doing the podcast?

* Lisa – found out about Dogear Nation & have been keeping up on robot news

* Stuart – how many great people there are in this community

* Stuart – how tough it is to keep audio quality high

* Stuart – how many IBMers are willing to reach out

* What surprised you most?

* Stuart & Darren still in shock they got the location of the Lotusphere Party

* What were some of your favourite moments?

* Lisa – Monkchips’ rant on IBM renaming products

* Stuart – Eric and Michael’s discussion on App Stores and Adoption

* Scott Souder

* Mastering XPages

* Running jokes/themes

* Stuart asked Darren to be his co-host because he can pronounce Duke? Stuart getting all non-UK surnames wrong