IBM's Alistair Rennie, Vice President of Development and Technical Support and Kevin Cavagnaugh, Vice President of Messaging and Collaboration Technology Business Executive talk with Bruce and Julian about: * The Lotus Knows IdeaJam * How the idea…

Special guests Rob Novak and Viktor Krantz tell us all about the new free SNAPPS utilities for Lotus Quickr: PandaBear and Flippr. One is for power users, one for admins; both are built on the Adobe Air platform so they run on Windows, Mac and Linux. …

Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft returns (Episode 88) to the Taking Notes Podcast to talk with Bruce about: Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes V2.0 Moving documents between Notes 6 ...…

This evening, Julian Robichaux and Bruce Elgort met up with productivity specialist, Eric Mack (Notes on Productivity), and IBMer Chris Blatnick (Interface Matters)to discuss a variety of topics, ...…

Paul Mooney, Julian and Bruce spend 20 minutes talking with Shawne Robinson from IBM about all of the new features in Notes Traveler and iNotes Ultralite that recently ship with version 8.5. ...…

Eight and a half minutes with Lotusphere Idol 2009 contestant Andy Donaldson. ...…

Listen to Paul, Bill, Tom, Bruce and Julian talk about Lotusphere 2009 including: Saturday parties Flogging The OGS and what we think will be announced The sessions we will be giving Ron ...…

This afternoon, Tom Duff and I met up with eProductivity specialist, Eric Mack, and best selling author and productivity guru, David Allen, to discuss a variety of topics, including: David Allen ...…

Craig Schumann VP of Development and Scott Johnsen VP of Marketing at TeamStudio talk about the Spotlight Awards 2009 contest. These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domi ...…

Part 1 of a 2 part podcast with Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere" Marcus, where she tells us what to expect at Lotusphere 2009 -- only 2 months away! She talks about things like: * The team of people who put Lotusphere together every year (do they ever r…

Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who will be attending Lotusphere? If you are you should really consider attending Business Development Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Channel and SMB Marketing. In this 22:19 podcast Tim, Julian …

Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft talks with Bruce about: Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes Moving documents between Notes 6.5, 7.x and 8.x Lotus Notes clients and SharePoint Lotu ...…

Bruce and Julian had the opportunity to talk to Ed Brill (Worldwide Sales Manager for Lotus Notes/Domino) and Dwight Morse (Lotus Notes Product Manager) about changes and new features in the recent Notes 8.0.2 release. We also got to discuss a few "future…

In a podcasting cross-pollination experiment, we bring Chris Toohey and Tim Tripcony on the show -- you know them from the YellowCast podcast for Lotus Notes developers -- to talk about the pros and cons of developing Notes applications for free. Or tryin…

Bruce, Julian, and guest interviewer Sean Burgess talk to Caleb Barlow from IBM about the Lotus Foundations "Start" server, including topics like: * What is Lotus Foundations anyway? * The target audience is small businesses with 1 to 500 employ…

Get the scoop on the upcoming UKLUG conference -- September 26th and 27th in London. We talk to Warren Elsmore and Mike Smith about things like: * Who's speaking (and which Paul Mooney will be attending) * Are there any sponsor slots left? * Th…

Rob "Captain Oblivious" McDonagh and John Head talk about the forthcoming Domino Server 8.5 feature called "XPages". During the show you will learn about: Why you need to brush up on your Jav ...…

Paul Mooney and Matt White tell us all about the upcoming (less than 2 weeks away) ILUG 2008 conference in Dublin. We talk about things like: * How the ILUG conference has grown in the last 4 years * What it's like to plan something like this *…

Bruce and Julian got a chance to talk to Mikkel Heisterberg about his new "TwitNotes" sidebar plugin for Notes 8, that allows you to access Twitter directly from the Lotus Notes client. We talked about things like: * Where did the idea for this come …

Adam Gartenberg tells us about all sorts of new Sametime goodies, including: * Sametime Advanced (due out this month) * IBM's $1 billion commitment to Unified Communications * Unified telephony * Sametime Advanced client download on Gree…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to plan an event like the recent Irish Lotus Users Group meeting held in Belfast last week? Eileen Fitzgerald from GSX, Paul Mooney from Bluewave and Steve McDonagh give us some behind the scenes details on: …

IBM's Joyce Davis and Sharyn Richard talked to Julian and Bruce about the VideoFest event which starts on October 26, 2010. Discussion topics include: What is Lotus VideoFest? When will this ... …

Today Marie Scott (Blog | Twitter) and Tom Duff (Blog | Twitter) sat down with Bruce and Julian to talk about their new book "Sametime 8: A User's Guide". We talk about: How did writing t ... …

Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not just an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality of your Lotus Notes client. Mikkel Heisterberg has been instrumental in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sideba…

Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not just an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality of your Lotus Notes client. Mikkel Heisterberg has been instrumental in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sideba…

Today we had two IBMers on the show - Sacha Chua and Luis Benitez where we talked about IBM's Lotus Connections and things like social software user adoption behind the firewall, the Lotus Connecti ... …

This Episode of The Taking Notes podcast is sponsored by the fine folks at XPages101.net where you can use the promo code "TN120" to receive a 33% discount on their XPages Video training series. O ... …

This Episode of The Taking Notes podcast is sponsored by the fine folks at XPages101.net where you can use the promo code "TN119" to receive a 33% discount on their XPages Video training series. O ... …

With special host Tom Duff filling for Julian we spend some time talking with SNAPP's President & CEO Rob Novak where we talk about: The New SNAPP-On Modules for Lotus Quickr from SNAPPS ... …

Have you heard that there is going to be a really cool XPages Extensibility API in Notes/Domino 8.5.2? Today we interviewed Phillipe Riand and Jim Quill from the IBM XPages team where we talked ab ... …

This week we spoke with IBM's Ed Brill who is the Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus Software about this weeks LotusLive Notes and Notes/Domino 8.5.2 announcements (LotusLive Notes, Notes/Do ... …

We interviewed Niklas Heidloff (IBM), Chris Connor (BSS), Michael Gollmick (TIMETOACT), and Herbert Wagger to discuss the XPages Mobile Controls project on OpenNTF. Niklas heads up the project ... …

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with IBM's Chris Blatnick about: LotusLive Connections LotusLive Engage LotusLive Notes LotusLive iNotes Why customers are asking about "the cloud" T ... …

Bruce and Julian talk with Adam Brown, Matt Newman and Andrew Welch from IBM Premier Business Partner ISW about their new Wildfire application available from OpenNTF. Check out the Wildfire pr ... …

Bruce spends 10 minutes talking with Tim Clark the host of the brand spanking new "The XCast Podcast". Please give it up for Tim and learn about this new podcast focused on all things XPages by ha ... …

In this episode Julian and Bruce talk with Joyce Davis, Community and Program Manager - IBM Lotus Software and Amanda Bauman, We talk about: What Joyce and Amanda do at IBM What is the Lo ... …

Lotusphere 2010 Monday News Coverage Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of scr ... …

Lotusphere 2010 Sunday News Coverage Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of scr ... …

With only a few days left until Lotusphere, Bruce and Julian talk with Tom "Duffbert" Duff and Andy Donaldson. The gang talked about: Tips and tricks for newbies A discussion about the OGS ... …

Just in-time for Lotusphere 2010, Bruce and Julian talk about the IBM Smart Work initiative with co-presenters, Antony Satyadas and William Malchisky Jr. The informative conversation includes th ... …

Bruce spoke with Mainsoft President Yaacov Cohen about their SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes V2.5 announcment. During Lotusphere 2010 Mainsoft will preview SharePoint Integrator for Lotus N ... …

In Episode 105 we Interviewed IBM's Mary Beth Raven and Julie Forgo from the User Experience or "UX" team. We talk about: What is a "UX person" and what do they do? The UX Lab at Lotusph ... …

For our inaugural episode of 2010 we talk with John Head, Director Enterprise Collaboration at The PSC Group about Lotus Symphony. We cover: Some background on the version history of Sympho ... …

Carl Tyler of Epilio talks to Bruce and Julian about all things Sametime 8.5 and what you can expect when you upgrade. Carl gives great information that is a must listen for all of you running Sametime. The gang also talks about Lotusphere 2010, the ne…

Craig Schumann and Mike Wetherebee at TeamStudio talk about the Spotlight Awards 2010 contest. These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino community for their remarkab ... …

Note: This podcast contains additional information about Global Business Excellence Forum that was also covered in Episode 101. This show has been produced specifically for the people who may be c ... …

Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who will be attending Lotusphere? If you are you should really consider attending Business Development Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Chan ... …

Bruce and Julian talk XPages (in Lotus Notes 8.5.0 and 8.5.1) and Open Source Lotus Awards with XPages Blog editors: * Matt White, author of the open source XPages TaskJam application, as well as the commercial XPages IdeaJam and IQJam apps * De…

Today our guest on the podcast is Luis Suarez: Knowledge Manager, Community Builder, and Social Computing Evangelist inside and outside of IBM. We chatted with him about: * Social software evangelism inside of IBM, and the group of 1,600+ BlueIQ A…

For episode 135 Bruce sat down with Niklas Heidloff from IBM/OpenNTF and Vanessa Hutchinson from We4IT where we talked about the first ever development contest being hosted by OpenNTF. This contest ... …

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with IBM's Mary Beth Raven and Joyce Davis about the IBM Champion Program which has now been extended to include the IBM Collaboration Solutions division. We ... …

Julian and Bruce sat down with Justin Hill (CTO) and and Jon Schultz (President) of Prominic. What we did we talk about? Well, all things "cloud" including: To the "cloud" - Prominic has been in ... …

This year at Lotusphere 2011 Brian Benz (blog) presented a session entitled "Running a Business on XPages" (slide deck, session abstract). Julian Robichaux and I spent 30 minutes with Brian discu ... …

At Lotusphere 2011 Bruce Elgort spend 10 minutes with IBM's VP of Open Starndards Angel Diaz. Topics included: Angel's role at IBM The evolution of web and mobile standards Some advice for ... …

Just a little over a week after Lotusphere 2011 we had the opportunity to sit down with IBM'ers Ed Brill and Kat Mandelstein. During the 35 minute show we covered: The IBM-ification of Lotus ... …

TeamStudio's Craig Schumann and Karen Frasca talk about the Spotlight Awards 2011 contest. Theo Heselmans, the winner of the 2010 Spotlight Awards joins the podcast and shares his experiences wit ... …

Today Bruce and Julian interview Bob Balaban from Looseleaf Software and Andrew Pollack from Northern Collaborative Technologies about: Bob's "Drain Google" project Andrew's Second Signal ... …

Today Bruce and Julian interview GROUP Business Software's Nathan Freeman to learn more about their "Evolution Transformer" product. The Evolution Transformer will convert Notes client apps into XP ... …

In this episode of Taking Notes we spoke with IBMers Dave Delay and Phil Riand about the forthcoming REST API's for Domino and XPages. We cover: What REST services are What the XPages Extens ... …

On this episode we talk with IBM's Jim Quill and Phil Riand about the forthcoming relational database support for XPages coming with Domino 8.5.3 and the OpenNTF Extension Library. We cover: Wh ... …

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 ... …

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 e ... …

On the podcast today are Ed Brill and Pete Janzen from IBM, to talk about the release of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 as well as the new IBM XWork Server. The discussion included: * What is the IBM XWork Server? * Who is the target market? * How …

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 ... …

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 be ... …

On Episode 145 we spoke with three members of the IBM Collaboration Solutions division about the brand new IBM Connect 2012 event being held in parallel with Lotusphere 2012. Our guests were Susan Collins, Marketing Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions…

With only 46 days until Lotusphere 2012 we thought we would pull together a show with community luminaries Andy Donaldson, Paul Mooney and Stuart McIntyre. Topics included: Will this be the ... …

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 p ... …

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 ... …

In today's show we talk about all things OpenSocial with Ryan Baxter of IBM and Mikkel Heisterberg of Intravision. We talk about: * What is OpenSocial? How did it get started? * How is IBM involved? How can I get involved? * How is IBM leve…

We had the pleasure of interviewing IBM Collaboration Solutions General Manager Alistair Rennie, where we talked about: * Lotusphere! Specifically, the evolution of Lotus/IBM products we saw demonstrated there last week. * What's driving improvem…

Today we spoke with Joyce Davis and Colleen Burns from IBM about the upcoming Lotusphere 2012 and Connect events being held in beautiful sunny Orlando, Florida NEXT week! We would like to thank Ken "MacOSKen" Ray for the new Taking Notes intro that h…

Today we talked with Alan Lepofsky, analyst at Constellation Research Group, about the current and future state of Activity Streams in the enterprise. Our discussion included: * What's the difference between streams of information like Facebook and …

Learn about Teamstudio Unplugged, a tool that helps you mobilize (as in mobile smartphones) your Lotus Domino applications. We spoke with Nigel Cheshire, president and CEO of Teamstudio, and Craig Schumann, Teamstudio senior developer, about: * The …