Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess
Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community
for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events.
Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com
where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office
and other products and technologies.
Rather than listing out all of the super cool things Jess talks about we
suggest that you just push play and start listening. Jess does recommend
that you "Like" the Lynda.com Facebook Fan Page where you can
find out about the latest tutorials and promotions.
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Today we spoke with Ed Brill (http://edbrill.com),
Director of Social Business and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, about his
new book. It's called Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune
500 Product Manager, and it's available both on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Opting-In-Lessons-Business-Fortune/dp/0133258939)
and directly from IBM Press (http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/store/opting-in-lessons-in-social-business-from-a-fortune-9780133258936).
We discussed:
- Why did you write this book?
- Who is the audience?
- What is the message of the book?
- What has surprised you about the book?
- What's going on at IBM Connect related
to the book?
- And more...
If
you'd like to catch up with Ed (about the book or anything else), he has
posted a few places where you can definitely find him at IBM Connect next
week. (http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/where-to-find-me-or-my-book-at-ibm-connect-2013)
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On this episode we interviewed IBM's Paul
Brunet, Vice President ISVs, startups and academic relations, IBM about
the recent release of the IBM
2012 Tech Trends Report. During
the interview we talked about:
- Paul's role at IBM
- What exactly does the Tech Trends Report
covers
- What surprised Paul in the report
- The growing skill gaps in technology
- What IBM Is doing to help shrink the
skills gap
- Paul's advice for developers and IT
admins that are trying to keep up with all of the changes in IT
- Social Business and Collaboration. Did
the report uncover anything interesting in those areas?
- and much more...
On
the recording you will hear the show be identified as episode 172 when
in actuality it's really 173. The show runs for 28:08 minutes.
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We talked to IBM User Experience Development
team members Amanda
Bauman, Craig
Lordan, Kevin
Giles, and Mike
Stewart about what's going on
these days with the IBM Wikis. Topics included:
- History of the IBM wikis
- Types of content on the wikis (it's
not just random information spread across various pages)
- New features in the latest iteration
of the wiki template
- Improvements in navigation and search
- Dynamic content control
- And more...
Bonus
trivia: did you know that the short URL to the Lotus (aka ICS) wikis is
wiki.lotus.com?
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Todays show has been sponsored by Instant
Technologies (@teaminstant).
Be sure to check out their IMtegrity product for IBM Sametime.
Today we had Paul
Mooney Blog (@pmooneynet)
from Bluewave
Technology on the show to
talk about the "Ethical
Hacking Workshop" he
ran in London. We covered:
The
show runs 41:13.
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On this episode we spoke with Michael Sampson
about his new book "Collaboration
Roadmap - You've got the technology now what?"
We talked about:
- Why do companies need to develop a collaboration
strategy
- Are there any special "tricks"
to making collaboration happen?
- ROADMAP and what it means
- Does the book apply to any specific
technology/product?
- Are there differences in the way groups
and teams need to collaborate?
- Is there one platform that can "do
it all"?
- Are successful collaboration efforts
based on grass root efforts?
- Michael's take on "Social Business"
- What's the future of collaboration
- What role does video conferencing play
with collaboration
- What has made collaboration a topic
of late
- What do you get when you buy Michael's
book
- Michael attending Lotusphere 2012
- and much more...
This
show runs 38:13. Oh, and be sure and go
order Michael's book now.
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On Episode 143 of Taking Notes we interview
IBM's Mike Riegel (@mikeriegel,
LinkedIn,
Blog),
Vice President - ISVs, Startups, Developers, and Academic Programs. We
talked about IBM's
SmartCamp program and what
it's all about. Topics included:
- When people think about Big Blue, start
up companies isn't something that comes to mind. So when I heard about
your SmartCamp program and some of the other things you are doing around
the world for entrepreneurs I was a little surprised. Tell us what exactly
is IBM doing with StartUps and Entrepreneurs?
- Why are entrepreneurs and start ups
important to IBM?
- What is a SmartCamp?
- Is it working? How successful are previous
participants?
- Are you looking for companies that are
doing work in collaboration and social business?
- How does a startup company qualify for
SmartCamps?
- What should our listeners do if they
want to participate in 2012?
- I heard the World Finals is coming up.
What do you expect to see from the companies taking part?
- and much more...
The
show runs 25:25.
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Today we talked with Mark
Myers from the London
Developer Co-op about all things
NoSQL.
Topics include:
- The four different types of NoSQL databases
- Why the need for NoSQL
- Why NoSQL has become some popular over
the last few years
- How the NSF has provided NoSQL type
functionality for a long time
- Some discussion about CouchDB, MongoDB
and other NoSQL offerings
- The role of Javascript in NoSQL
- Mark's blog entry about how
to improve the NSF
- How and why Mark thinks XPages are much
easier to use for development than other technologies he has used
- How the IBM XWork Server is well positioned
to become a database server
- Who will be buying the first round of
drinks at Lotusphere 2012
- and much more....
The
podcast runs about 40 minutes and is chock full of great NoSQL goodness.
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In Episode 140 we sat down with Urban
Airship CEO Scott Kveton.
For those of you not familiar with Urban Airship here is what they do:
"Urban Airship powers the world's
most successful mobile apps. Providing breakthrough technology, Urban Airship
makes mobile marketing far more engaging, effective, and efficient. Top
brands depend on Urban Airship's innovative platform to reach and engage
target audiences and increase app revenue streams through push notification,
rich messaging, in-app purchase, subscriptions and user engagement tracking."
In the show we talk about:
- Something near and dear to us all -
"bacon" and specifically Scott's bacn.com
project.
- How Urban Airship got started.
- What exactly Urban Airship sells.
- Why building apps that customers want
and need is important. Just don't build apps because they are technically
cool.
- The difference between mobile advertising
services and Urban Airships "Platform-as-a-Service" or "PAS".
- Why a developer would use Urban Airship's
PAS rather than adding push notifications themselves.
- How geolocation ties into push.
- How Urban Airship makes money and how
customers are making money using their products and services.
- The number of push notifications served
as of August 2011.
- Scott's involvement with the Portland
Incubator Experiment. Listen
to Episode 138 of Taking Notes
to learn more about the Portland Incubator Experiment with Rick Turcozy.
- A
blog post Scott wrote talking
about boots trapping a startup company.
- What's next for Urban Airship.
- and much more...
This show runs about 28 minutes. On Episode 141 we will be interviewing
IBM's Ed Brill about Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and more.
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On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator
Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development
platform.
"Titanium makes cross-platform
native application development easy. A free and open source application
development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and
desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript,
HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."
We talk with Jeff about:
- Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator
get started.
- How the Titanium product has evolved
over time.
- That time in history when Steve Jobs
said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all
"iThings".
- How someone can get started with Titanium.
- What products and services Appcelerator
offers.
- Where you can download
Titanium.
- What the differences are between the
community and paid versions of Titanium.
- The upcoming "Code
Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon"
being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
- and much more...
The
podcast runs 29:43.
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On this episode of Taking Notes we sit
down with Rick
Turoczy the Co-Founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment
or "PIE".
In the show we talk about:
- Who Rick Turoczy is and his background
in industry
- The Silicon Florist blog
- Some history about the www.bacn.com
website and how it got started
- What is an incubator
- How ideas get turned into companies
- How things don't always go the way people
envision them to go
- More about what PIE is/does and how
it got started
- The Wieden
and Kennedy partnership
- What companies are involved with PIE
- What companies are helping mentor PIE's
classes
- What industries are participating in
PIE
- The PIE application process
- Which companies have graduated PIE
- When the next round of PIE will be
- What startups get in terms of financing
and office space
- and much more...
Listen
to Rick Turoczy talk about the Portland Incubator Experiment >
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