The Taking Notes Podcast

   

January 2007

Taking Notes Episode 52: 2007.01.25 - Lotusphere 2007 Day 3 and 4 1.25.2007
A 9:25 minute podcast from Lotusphere 2007 with Jess Stratton, Jonvon, Julian and Bruce. We talk about some of the days sessions, the Product Showcase and of course the Swan Boat races.

The podcast is 4.4mb.  Enjoy.


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Taking Notes Episode 51: 2007.01.22 - Lotusphere 2007 Day 2 1.23.2007
Julian, Bruce and special guest Devin Olson talk about Lotusphere 2007 Day 2.

The podcast is 6.1mb and runs 12:51 minutes at 64kps.

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Taking Notes Episode 47: 2007.01.22 - Notes 8 with Mary Beth Raven and Jeff Eisen 1.22.2007
We recently interviewed Mary Beth Raven and Jeff Eisen who have been work on Lotus Notes 8. In the podcast you will hear lots of great things about Notes 8 so instead of us telling you about all the things we talked about - download the podcast and Listen Up!

Transcription of this podcast is available thanks to the efforts of Joe Litton.  Get it here.

Episode 47 was sponsored by
Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 16.6mb and runs 36:03 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 50: 2007.01.21 - Lotusphere 2007 Day 1 1.22.2007
Bruce, Julian and some special guests talk about Lotusphere Day 0 and 1.  Enjoy and wish you were here.

The podcast is 4.3mb and runs 9:16 minutes at 64kps.

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Taking Notes Episode 44: 2007.01.19 - Blogsphere V3 with Declan Lynch 1.18.2007
In Episode 44 of the podcast we talk to Declan Lynch the creator of the successful OpenNTF Blogsphere blogging template for Lotus Notes and Domino.  We talk about:
  • The history of Blogsphere Version 1 and 2
  • A review of all the new features that are part of the soon to be released Version 3 including the all new "tag and template" engine, the new tag cloud support and the new blog themes
  • Declan and Bruce kid about "BS-ing"
  • How to upgrade from Versions 1 and 2 to Version 3
  • Where to find and download the beta of the Version 3
  • Come see Declan and Steve Castledine at their Lotusphere 2007 session "Ready, Steady, Blog!"
  • and many other cool things you never knew about Declan and his Blogsphere project
Episode 44 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 15.8mb and runs 34:21 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 49: 2007.01.17 - Designing the User Interface with Chris Blatnick and Nathan Freeman 1.17.2007
Nathan Freeman and Chris Blatnick talked to us for a twenty minutes earlier today about what they will be presenting in their upcoming session for Lotusphere 2007 entitled  BP101: Designing the User Experience.  This one session (and podcast) you don't want to miss.

The podcast is 9.7mb and runs 20:59 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 48: 2007.01.17 - Lotus Awards 2007 winner The PSC Group 1.17.2007


Jim Waters and Jim Vaselopulos from
The PSC Group tell us about their solution that helped them win the Lotus 2007 Award for "Best People-Centric SOA Application" in addition to their plans for Lotusphere 2007. Also find out how they saved their client $3 million with a Portal solution.

The podcast is 7.2mb and runs 15:32 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 46: 2007.01.17 - An interview with IBM and VoiceRite 1.16.2007
Chris Miller, Julian and Bruce sit down with David Brigida from IBM and Josh Schrager from VoiceRite where we talk about something we never have discussed on the podcast - unified communications and unified messaging.

We start out the show by defining what unified communications and unified messaging are and then talk about the VoiceRite Client for Sametime 7.5.   We then learn how you never have to pick up the phone to check your voice mail change greeting since you can do all of that from your Sametime client. Whether you have an old analog or new Voice over IP PBX from any where in the world you can see who's calling your voice mail, send an IM message to Sametime which is spoken to the callers or even transfer the call to a soft phone or cell phone.

Josh then tells us about VoiceRite's
Name Dialer for Domino which allows you to have an automated receptionist for your company so that caller to your company  can say the name or department of anyone in your directory and be automatically transferred to them.

You can also see a demonstration of both products at the VoiceRite pedestal (number 621) at Lotusphere 2007 in the Product Showcase.

Episode 46 was sponsored by
Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 18mb and runs 38:15 minutes at 64kps.


Adam Gartenberg also blogs about this podcast.

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Taking Notes Episode 45: 2007.01.16 - Reporting with Integra4Notes 1.15.2007
In this episode of the podcast, John de Giorgio told us all about how the Integra for Notes products can generate nicely formatted reports directly from Lotus Notes. Some of the topics we touched on were:
  • Analyzing and reporting on Lotus Notes data using Microsoft Word and Excel
  • The problems with rolling out a custom reporting/export solution in all of your databases
  • How does this product work? Do you need DLLs? Is it a reporting engine? Do you have to modify your databases or write code?
  • Setting up report profiles, so users can just run a pre-configured report and have it delivered to them
  • Running ad-hoc reports on the local client, including merging Notes data with other relational databases
  • Running scheduled reports on the server
  • Generating PDF reports
  • How much does it cost?
Also, don't forget to stop by pedestal 610 at Lotusphere to talk to John and the other Integra4Notes folks in person.

Episode 45 was sponsored by
Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 15.6mb and runs 33:54 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 43: 2007.01.15 - Interview with Ytria 1.15.2007
You have heard of Ytria (pronounced Y-tree-ah) right?  They are the guys who make development tools for Lotus Notes and Domino that make things "EZ" with their products scanEZ, viewEZ, actionBarEZ, designPropEZ and signEZ.

We interviewed Eric Houvenaghel the CEO of Ytria and talked about:
  • their line of EZ Notes and Domino development tools
  • several Notes and Domino development "urban myths"
  • how to get started using their tools without having to pay a dime
  • how consultants can rent their applications for short time engagements
  • how much their products cost
  • Ytria's plans for Lotusphere 2007 including a discussion about their swag that they will be giving away at pedestal 237 in the Product Showcase
Episode 43 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 42:38 minutes at 64kps.


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Lotusphere 2007 swag - Introducing the Listen Up! t-shirt 1.11.2007
Be sure and track down Julian, Bruce or Chris Miller at Lotusphere 2007 to get one of these cool shirts.  Supplies are limited (250) and won't last long.

Lotusphere
2007 Taking Notes/IdoNotes Podcast Shirt Front


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2007 Taking Notes/IdoNotes Podcast Shirt Back




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Be sure and check out the Kryos podcast 1.9.2007
There's another great podcast out on the street that we wanted to share with you that is published by the folks over at Kryos Systems.  To subscribe to the podcast in iTunes simply click this link.

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Taking Notes Episode 42: 01.09.07 - Interview with Jason Hook on Blackberry development 1.9.2007
Episode 42 of the TakingNotes podcast features an interview with Jason Hook, talking about how to get going with Blackberry development on Lotus Notes/Domino. A few of the points we discussed were:
  • How to get started, even if you aren't a Java programmer
  • Considerations for using Notes views and forms in the Blackberry browser (i.e. -- @if(@GetHttpHeader("User Agent");"BlackBerry"); ...)
  • Using MDS Studio for drag-and-drop connections to Domino R7 web services
  • Using J2ME for full-featured Blackberry apps
  • Where to look for help (Jason just posted some great links on his blog, too)
  • Jason's craicBerry (the Lotusphere party planner) and openCOD (the OpenNTF-ish open source Blackberry site) projects
Episode 42 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 17.6mb and runs 38:28 minutes at 64kps.


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Taking Notes Episode 41: 01.08.07 - Lotus Awards 2007 winner Relavis Corporation 1.8.2007
Relavis Corporation

Bruce had a chance to speak with Paula Cervoni, VP of Services at
Relavis where they talked about the Lotus Award that Relavis recently received for "Best Contextual Collaboration Solution" and Relavis's plans for Lotusphere 2007.

Congratulations to Paula and the team over at Relavis.

The podcast is 2.4mb and runs 4:47 at 64kps






In the queue... 1.7.2007
We thought we give you a heads up of some podcasts we have in the queue: Did we mention that we still have all of our podcast sponsorships open? If you are interested drop us an email.

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Taking Notes Episode 40: 01.04.07 - Lotus Awards 2007 winner Kryos Systems 1.4.2007
Kryos Systems

Bruce spent a few minutes talking with Laurie Desautels, Chief Solutions Architect at
Kryos Systems where they talked about the Lotus Award that Kryos recently received for "Best Portal Solution" and Kryos' plans for Lotusphere 2007.  There is also some great information about their winning "Special Wheat - The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Story" portal solution over on the Kryos site including video clips and slideshow.  

Congratulations to Laurie and the Kryos team!


The podcast is 3.4mb and runs 6:49 at 64kps






A hint of a podcast to come 1.4.2007
Mary
Beth Raven, Virtual Bruce Elgort, Julian Robichaux and Jeff Eisen

Look out for a podcast with Mary Beth Raven, Bruce, Julian and Jeff Eisen on Monday January 22, 2007 at 12:00PM EST.

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