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Alan Lepofsky and I sit down immediately after the Opening General Session at Lotusphere 2008 to cover a wide array of topics including a few of these in part 2 of 2 (you can catch part 1 right here):

• Project Atlantic with SAP
• Lotus Notes Widgets (just search for news stories on it)
• Lotus Connections

IdoNotes Episode 47 will cover the Bloggers session with Mike Rhodin

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Peeking at Flickr stats shows that Ed linking to the picture of the electric violinist during Lotusphere2008 week made things get hopping that week.

Go and check out and register for the first batch of cities right here.

thanks Henrik of IBM

Might just be my mind playing tricks on me, but all my IBM contacts in my Sametime buddy list show 7.5.1 when many of them used to show 8.0.  Call me crazy but that is bizarre with the beta of 8.0.1 floating around that they showed at Lotusphere with Sametime 8 embedded in it.

Why did I choose do to my recap posting so fast?  Because due to what I have seen, experienced and learned at Lotusphere this year, I have much work to do.  While this was not a year of amazing announcement after amazing announcement (sorry), it was a year of watching Lotus move beyond "Big Blue" syndrome and into the wild world of Web 2.0.  If they understand the leap they are taking and embrace the speed it happens, then they should come prepared for Web 3.0 in 2009.  So let's peek into my head and I will summarize as best I can and try and focus on what I am trying to say.  I have a habit of trying to portray all my ideas as they stream through.  After I typed most of this I found that I had even more to say but trimmed some to get key points out.

Domino 8.5
Let me start with Domino 8.5 as shown at Lotusphere. (as I said, as shown at Lotusphere).  Imagine we began with single copy template (SCT) to reduce disk needs back in version 6.  Administrators rejoiced.  Domino then comes along and announces design note compression.  Saving tens of MB per mailfile and database.  Administrators rejoice.  Next is the consolidating of non-summary data.  Administrators rejoice.  Finally, we hear of the new attachment service to combine those pesky attachments down to save even more.  We don't need numbers and percentages, we understand there is hug savings to be had.  Administrators rejoice.  Lotus understands the needs of disk savings in an ever growing environment.  This is a huge change since the says of shared mail (did I say that?).

Further work in security and directory changes.  ID Vault is officially put out to the public.  The ability to let users obtain their own lost passwords and even id files without helpdesk calls or human intervention outside their own struggles.  Administrators rejoice.  I am incredibly over simplifying the work that Peter and his team have done here.  There is much more to the ID Vault that I may talk about independently from the public information.  Sit and watch this space as more information is shared.

Directory independence.  This will soon be a global holiday.  The ability to walk away from most of your Domino directory to invest in LDAP sources to be the primary point of authentication for your enterprise.  I have been preaching this to you for years and telling you it was coming.  It was not a premonition on my part, it was the way Lotus had to go to stay alive in the increasing world of single directory infrastructures with software independence.  Do not get me wrong, I strongly believe that the Domino directory can be that single directory for enterprise needs, but not everyone took that path and Lotus will now support it. Administrators rejoice once again.

Lotus Foundations (Connectria will be supporting deployment and hosting of this) and the security device
A device is pulled from a DHL package (a la Steve Jobs) by Mike Rhodin.  It looks unusually like a laptop or small tablet device.  Yet it turns out to be a fully functional collaborative environment that will be duct taped to the wall of some SMB and fires us anything from email, instant messaging, document management and others.  All wrapped in what you would expect, a call home function and get help ability to update, add functions and patch.  (ET phone home?)  This could prove to be a major shift in IBM/Lotus' push into the SMB market if they can successfully market the device.  Microsoft has no such offering of a self maintained and loaded device you just plug in.  Unless you have a handful of plugs and know how to stack servers like pizza boxes.  If your SMB target market complained about any resources needed to deploy, manage or obtain all the tools they need, then point them to us as a reseller and they get it all.  No hype, we are ready for this one.  A humorous tidbit I learned today, the device is not yellow, that was construction paper (or similar) on it to give the Lotus yellow.  Darn!

The security device was a bit raw.  Even the one they had over in the IBM Village area.  I talked to the product manager and the developers to get a good feeling for what it offers.  I walked away with a nice list of what it did, soon.  The device laying there had some nice features, but IBM is taking the purchase of ISS a while ago and coming out swinging.  There are lots of choices in the space from numerous providers, lets see what the official box looks like.  Note that I am not telling you all it offers, mainly since it wasn't clear to me.  Can we get a list?

Lotus Bluehouse
I have mixed emotions here, lets just say another attempt for SAAS or AOD or whatever acronym you wish to give it this week.  Lotus' attempt at being the supplier of applications on demand or also known as software as a service.  Lotus needs to step back and see itself for what it is.  A software platform, yes a whole platform, but not a hosting company.  Passing this off to a newly formed group (I spoke to the new sales or marketing dude at the partner reception) that isn't ready to implement (his words not mine) is not their core strength.  Lotus' strength is bringing cutting edge, enterprise software to light through development.  Then letting customers implement or even us host.  This is not me talking as a hosting company, but as a company that sees that we ourselves only focus on what we do best.  We dropped support of Groupcast development for that very reason and are the largest referrer of Lotus licenses to a license reseller.  Licenses are not our core business in our eyes and we grew by not doing it.

Did anyone notice also that they are not using the new Sametime logos but the older, well known and branded blue icons for Sametime?  Maybe just me.


Lotus Mashups
This should have been coming some time ago.  Here is the Lotus page describing the offering.  I am not understanding if this is a purchasable product yet, or an entitlement, but the offering will bring more Web 2.0 into Lotus software.  While this will not be available until Mid 2008, some sneak peeks at the widgets was shown for the Notes client in the OGS.  The catalog ability for sharing and rating the components is a requirement if the catalog is well categorized to show business and for fun components.  The Mashup Server was not well defined outside of supporting a variety of platforms and add controls.

I will say that there are public sites that do this already, I was making lists until I noticed there are too many.  Lotus is playing catch up quick though and should visit and learn from them.

The Unified Communications scenarios
I am so happy to see these movements and advances.  From the Lotus Sametime Advanced Server, to the telephony integrations to the future of the new web based client with no java behind it (see Innovation lab posting later).  Sametime is finally getting the focus is needs.  I have mentioned it before.  We told Lotus almost 7 years ago now that chat should be a commodity and the client interface should be changed to catch up.  They did it.  Now they show integration with Microsoft, Portal, phone systems and presence across the board.  The Sametime Gateway has grown into a mature product connecting you to the public IM networks.  If you missed the demos in the keynote for UC², then you missed the future of enterprise collaboration.  Visit Adam G's blog for a summary of the keynote.  I cant force this down you anymore than to say look at how much of my time and blog postings are on Lotus Sametime.  From praising them to showing you what mistakes they made along the way, all is fair play and open season.  Adam will vouch for that.  He knows once the products are GA I let you know what I think.  And I think Lotus is on the right path in this space.  The strength in the partnerships they formed with the telephony product providers will grow them far beyond Microsoft in this space (sorry Peter).

Sametime Unyte.  I had a great 30 minute conversation with the product manager.  Interesting choice for an enterprise with skinning and branding abilities in a hosted solution.  The solution is only available through IBM hosting, so a no go for companies wanting that in house.  Resellers must pay enormous fees to get in the program in my eyes, but some will jump.  There are quite a few options for billing that you should investigate before choosing one to make sure you get the best deal.  I won't even list them all.

Social Networking (a la Lotus Connections)
Ok, this deserves it own posting (and the one I do on the Innovations lab will go further).  But I will sum it up.  Lotus Connections 1.0 was not what the enterprises needed.  They did need someone large (IBM) to stand up and say we have an enterprise product for you, but Connections missed the first mark.  Now saying that, they have listened and are making good strides.  The next hurdle is getting companies to see why they need it.  I overheard Connections was the fastest selling out of the gates over even Quickr.  Impressive, but are the companies really seeing what else is out there?  Not as in there is better for the enterprise, but there is better in the open world that Connections should be emulating.  I have strong opinions on social networking and I am happy Lotus has listened to some of my ideas and thoughts.  We proudly support and host Lotus Connections and will continue to do so assisting Lotus in growing the product with any input they will take from me.  My point here is not bashing, but letting you know the world of 2.0 is huge and we are entering a new path.  The Innovations lab has much of that path to offer, we just need to have Lotus give them the development cycles to bring it to the front.  Great sessions and talks on social networking took place at Lotusphere, I applaud Suzanne, Ted, Joe, Ronnie and everyone else on the Lotus Connections teams.  This is new I know and you have done great work bringing pieces of products together.  Take this as someone passionate about Web 2.0 and want to see Lotus stand as a leader in 3.0.

Alan Lepofsky and I sit down immediately after the Opening General Session at Lotusphere 2008 to cover a wide array of topics including a few of these in part 1 of 2:

• Lotus Foundations
• Lotus Bluehouse
• Project Atlantic with SAP

IdoNotes Episode 46 will continue our discussion into social networking and the rest of Atlantic.

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First, I appreciate each of every person who took the time to deal with this system to submit an evaluation for one of my sessions. You have shown much bravery and effort and should be commended.

Now then, let's begin. I love the approach and initiative the Lotusphere team took in making us more green. However, this was a huge failure in my eyes. Yes you had the choice to still do paper, so no complaints, you just had to go get the forms. But this new system was to revolutionize the way we did evals. From laptops, to Lotusphere kiosks to your handheld devices.

Handhelds are first. We could never get any device or browser type on the device to get past the splash screen. No not just mine, but four of us, that are reasonably skilled in these areas tried 4 different browsers on our Blackberrys including the standard and as far as Opera mini. All would let you type in your badge number and then immediately take you back to the splash screen. I finally tracked down where the link went and we got this first image.

The webpage, ugh. Why in the heck are we using a site that is handled by no-ip.com redirects and then has an incredibly awful interface for having a user do an eval. A nice tabbed interface lets you find the day and then the time of the session. Great start! But when I open the session I wanted, it does not populate the speakers names. I now have to go back to the guide to gather the speaker name. The type is also not filled in, yet it is known by the listing itself and is already categorized in the book.

Playing around we fincd out it is Domino all the way, including authentication.

No BOF's seemed to be listed for 7am, yet there was a category for them in the online form. When selecting a time slot it didn't highlight it so I forgot what time I just filled out a form for and had to go back to the book again.

Filling out an eval seems to be as easy as hitting this form.. without the session specified.
http://www3.channel1corp.com/na/ibm/ls2008b/rdtdb.nsf/usr.responseSet?openagent&m=read
So if you haven;'t guessed, all the work is being done by Channel1Corp, a real-time results company hosted in Rackspace.com's racks. Then, humorously, it was down today for a while for system maintenance. Not the best timing in the world.

So let's get this thing tested and flying for next year with a bunch of changes to make it work everywhere all the time in a better fashion.

Hmm, I am not sure what the user would do with a search of the technotes, unless it is your internal helpdesk it searches first.  If this is configurable then I am incredibly excited.

  I like Paul Mooney's work on this one to customize the error messages across the client.  I will find the link to his blog posting on performing this awesome gask for users.

I was shocked myself, but Carl went in and verified that we both were not crazy.  The Domino 8 server running Sametime 8 with the persistent chat rooms had over 1200 people in it for LotusphereLive.  This not only shows the scaling of the room Carl built (and remodified when 8.0 broke it from last years 7.5.x), but also the ability of Sametime.  All was hosted, built and managed by us (Connectria) and will remain up for a bit until we archive it off again for next year.

We debated having persistent chat rooms for each of our sessions, but blogging, pictures, presenting sessions and trying to get to some myself made it slip by.  If you have ideas let us know, but watch to make sure we dont change our minds, like for Gurupalooza or something silly.

For all of my international readers you can go look at this television ad after you watch this Lotusphere one below:

Who knew this was the answer to this trivia picture?

• Akiba and Bruce took the stage to start the path of what the future strategy of UC² is.
• Sametime customers grew of 30% with 1/3 being Exchange shops
• New partners were added, with new ones.  Ericsson being first with their voice platform being integrated.  NEC is the second with their IP telephony server Univerge.
• CIsco has signed to sell Sametime as part of their Unified Communications package.  Nortel will also sell as part of their unified solution.
  
  On to demos with Jeremy and Konrad.  Using Radvision, quick text and live text they did demos on stage.  They then showed buddy map that grabs contact location and mashes a Google Map.  I wonder if Lotus saw RadiusIM before?  Some more plug-ins that no one has and it was a great show.
  
  A customer case video from Bank of New York Mellon and also Colgate-Palmolive.  It looked a little like Mitch in that video, hmmm.  A nice change where after the videos, the actual video people came onto the stage to talk and be interviewed by Bruce.
  Mitch had the quote of the day:
  

  Sametime is like crack, you give it to people and they just want more

  
  
  Ok, people are getting restless to get more product demos and announcements.  On stage is good but analyst is talking long.
  
  Ok, new stuff!!!
  • Sametime Advanced (we knew) is due in the first half of this year
  • Konrad is up on stage again.  Persistent chat was first.  There is screenshots inside, files dropped and rich text.  All this is stored in a database on the backend.
  • Broadcast Communities are communities users are interested in that will send alerts.  Hmm, cool if it worked with Communities in Connections.  Too many things with the same name that don't connect yet.
  • Instant share was very cool, no more launching meetings
  • Instant polls for voting
  
  Unified Telephony is about simplifying communication being delivered in second half of 2008
  • Being on the phone is now a status.
  • You can now set rules for call routing.
  • Rules will follow not only status but who is calling.  Sounds like GrandCentral to me too.  Nice.
  
  Now we look at what's coming beyond the above 2
  • A whole new call manager showing who is in, when they came in, are chats going on.  The ability to mute lines
  • Konrad in the IBM Metaverse (Second Life idea).  He steps up to a presentation board in a virtual room and it loads his slides.  He then takes over the room audio
  
  The scary part was the closing that showed our Sametime video over and over like 3 times.  Video coming, I taped it.  Ha

Read it right here

Here is the good news, many people are blogging it, I will podcast it once again. Look for it shortly.  Flickr pics are up of the room.

If you want the whole stream in full size hit my Flickr stream..

Head on over  http://www.LotusphereLive.com

The theme of this year of Lotusphere2008 is Emergence.  So here is what I think of that term before Lotusphere2008.  All this came about after a pleasant dinner with Penumbra (big thanks to them for an excellent event).

Lotus will combine the announcements of new products (say Notes and iPhone for example) and the growth of existing products in ways not yet imagined as we prepare to leave Web 2.0 and enter (gasp) Web 3.0 land.  If Lotus plans to stay ahead in the enterprise space, it has to reach deeper into it's development efforts and theory practice to start fighting for what enterprises need in the future.  Keeping up with what enterprises need today is not fast enough.

Lotus will emerge with some amazing announcements come Monday, but the real gems will be hidden away in the labs and halls of Lotusphere.  It is where demo-ware vanishes and real test code can be put in your hands to see and play with.  Find those gems.  Get into the labs and don't be afraid to talk to anybody that passes.  They might hold one of those magic EMERGENCE gems in their heads, or even backback.

Everyone has been reading about Ben's sessions database and it allows you to post questions in advance for sessions.  A great way that acts much like a discussion board.  However, during the session I might not replicate in time to get them all, mainly if you ask during.  But let me know now if you wish

• HND302 - Hands on Sametime Gateway Installation and Administration (and networking) - ask a question here
• BP105 - Best Practices Installing and Administrating the Sametime Gateway - ask a question here
• HND302 - Hands on Sametime Gateway Installation and Administration (and networking) R2 - ask a question here

So your other option is that Carl and I will also fire up persistent chat rooms for our sessions through LotusphereLive to have a streaming ability of live Q&A as well.  Look for the direct room links shortly here and on Carl's blog.  We will be able to see that live in the session.

Carl Tyler and I went nuts last year and provided a live persistent chat site for 2007 at LotusphereLive where people such as ourselves, Ed Brill, Bruce, Julian, Volker, Chris B and others blogged the Opening General Session.  Well we will be doing it again for all of you not able to be there with us.
A quote from someone that visited the site last year:

And it worked without a hitch! A fantastic demo of what can be done quickly with the technology. It was great to be able to feel involved, and with photos flying up on Flickr, you get a real feel for the buzz.

Followed by a link to a snapshot of what we did from another person watching on the Internet.

The site this year is based on Sametime 8 on a Domino 8 server.  Yes, persistent chat without having a Sametime Advanced server you say?  Of course Carl and his magic.  Tell your friends and neighbors.  If you can't come to Lotusphere, well sit through the Opening General Session with us.

The Rules:

• I am not turning on auto-follow to prevent spammers.  So it might be a minute before you are allowed to post,  But you can follow right away
• Anyone that sends explicit content or becomes a nuisance (as voted by many not just one of us) gets removed from being followed
• Anything you send will be read by MANY, keep that in mind.  Typos can hurt
• I personally don't mind a small one time shot to promote your booth or giveaway, but I will let the people decide that one

If you do not agree with a rule let me know, we may very well change it.  If you just don't agree, don't participate but you miss out having 'instant' communication with as many people as sign up while there.  Lotusphere Online does not offer this, Lotus does not offer this and we couldn't think of a way to let everyone have their own identity and use multiple devices. (ie: SMS, web browser, instant messaging, handhelds).

The How-To portion (modified Thusday Jan 17th 9pm CST, see the 4th bullet changing 'd lotusphere' to '@lotusphere')

• Get over to http://Twitter.com and register if you have not
• add Lotusphere as someone to follow and turn notifications ON for it
• go to notification settings and choose your poison.  I suggest your SMS (check your provider for charges or unlimited texting options), an IM alias of some type or even email notifications.  You can always use a browser from laptop or handheld.  I mix the way mine are done.
• To send a message to everyone you simply type  "@lotusphere  "   up to 160 characters.  Make it to the point
• If you see someone you wish to talk to directly, replace "@lotusphere " with their username or simply type @username to send a public , but directed at them message.
• You can turn off following for a while if you need some silence or whatever by following this Twitter help page.  It will stop notifications but still leave it in your web browser views.  http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=5
• Alternately you can simply text 'off lotusphere' to Twitter to do it temporarily and then 'on lotusphere' to turn notifications back on!  We are making life simple here folks.
• Lastly, if you need help with this, ask!

The idea is to communicate, collaborate and have fun.  If you see an awesome giveaway, let us know.  If you find the best hidden snack area, let us know.  If there is an open vendor party, lets us know.  If you are headed to lunch and want someone new to eat with, ask!

Please see the older posting for further info or go to Twitter help for short phone command and such.  And here is the whole Twitter helpfiles

I am getting asked when things will show live from Lotusphere.  Well let's start with the basics.  You can can access IdoNotes TV either by the URL

• http://tv.IdoNotes.com
• http://www.IdoNotes.com/live

Both go to the same page so no worries there.  The loop will always be running, we just have to deal with live escapades.  So outside of stating to follow me or Lotusphere on Twitter, the blog will update too.

8:00PM EST	Monday Jan 21st	opening of the Exhibitor Showcase
5:45pm EST	Wednesday Jan 23rd	Bloggers BOF  (Pending Lotus ok)
1:00pm EST  (somewhere in there	Thursday Jan 24th	The Boat Race Finals !!

From there I am still planning and if you have ideas let me know.  I am curious about Jamfest and many others but only what time I have or someone helping me can do!

It seems that I cannot get access to Lotusphere Online until after I Get there.  I won't have time to get in, build any profile, look around the communities or anything else at that point.  I know they did a bulk input of people around Jan 1 or 2, and it seems in the whole thing I got tossed around like the last kernel of popcorn in the popper.  I actually registered in December but it appears to have sat through the holiday season  looking at the dates of submission to the date of the final okie dokie letter.  So they are not doing another import until right at Lotusphere which explains my lack of email or ability to get in.

So anyone want to do a site review of it for me?

Please head over and select who you wish, everyone on that list does an amazing job.   I would say close your eyes and click a name.  The winner gets announced at Lotusphere

Talk about the Great Code Giveaway that Rob, Viktor and the team do each year at Lotusphere, well this year they went a tad overboard:

In a surprise announcement, SNAPPS (Strategic Net Applications, Inc.) today outlined plans to convert its entire Anyplace line of products for IBM Lotus Quickr and its predecessor, IBM Lotus Quickplace, to free licenses

Now as a user of some of this under the paid agreement, you are crazy not to get your butts over there to start utilizing it.

Carl Tyler and I talk live on my Talkshoe channel for an hour with a few live callers all about:

• Lotusphere2008
• Sametime questions
• LotusphereLive (again)
• Lotusphere on Twitter
• and IdoNotes TV.

A great podcast format that I think we will repeat monthly or so to discuss current topics with great hosts and guests.

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Apparently an email went out last night to many of you letting you pre-register for hands-on sessions.  Oddly, I am one of many who did not get it and when I finally got the URL forwarded, it said I was not even allowed to reserve a slot in any hands-on session.

I saw this idea floating around weeks ago and had mixed emotion.  While I like the idea of not having the mad scramble, what happens to those that would have waited hours at a door and did not get this email in time?  What happens when someone does not show so the Southwest Airlines stand-by lines begin?  How disappointing to be the 10th stand-by and 9 make it in.  I think the most disturbing was that it was a late at night email in batches (some got it as early as 9pm PST apparently).  How does everyone get a fair shot at sessions and are speakers not eligible?  Is everyone pleased with how they got the chance to attend a hands-on session?  Did you make it in?  Did you make all the ones you wanted?

NEW this year
Session Evaluations
Session evaluations will be completed electronically this year - no more paper forms in the conference notebooks!  Attendees will be able to access all evaluations forms by selecting the evaluation icon on any Lotusphere Online laptop, their own laptop or handheld device through a special URL.

Join Carl Tyler and myself for a pre-Lotusphere call-in.  We'll be using modern technical marvels like the telephone and websites, to host an interactive call-in where you can ask us questions, Sametime questions, relationship questions it makes no difference to us we're happy to try and answer them.

Unable to attend Lotusphere but have questions you want to try and get answered? no worries, share them with us and we'll try and get them answered in followup Lotusphere podcasts.

So put it in your diary, 10am EST Jan 10th, http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31241

Episode: The Pre-Lotusphere call
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So as people are slowly learning, Lotusphere on Twitter is out there and could be huge if we get a strong push from everyone. Yancy already has it feeding the main feed page for PlanetLotus and then pulls all Tweets to another page. Let us know your thoughts on how you want to best utilize Twitter down there? Open season tweets everywhere or following a main Lotusphere tweet? Or a mixture. Let us know. We also talked about grabbing the RSS feed from the Lotusphere pictures so we need to set a tagging standard.

Also, the normal string of IdoNotes podcasts will be running but the added benefit of IdoNotes.TV will be present. You will be able to reach it at any time at
http://www.IdoNotes.com/live
or you can find it on the PlanetLotus page. I will be grabbing any and all video I can from Lotusphere into a long loop plus live broadcasts from down there. Anyone that wants to assist in the live ones let me know. I see us being able to reach a large audience of people not there to give them the feel of what is going on. Even broadcasting JamFest or the scene of Speedgeeking could be cool.

Give me some thoughts here people and pass this posting out so we can get all the ideas finalized

go to the IdoNotes TV page to watch it now!

I am pleased to announce that I (IdoNotes and TheSocialNetworker) will be joining in with the DataPortability Workgroup.  I have been working with Chris Saad for a while utilizing Particls and was happy to see they started this movement to take ownership of your own data.  The philosophy of the workgroup sums up the reasoning to simplify and open the standards on how our social networking information is controlled:

Philosophy  As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together.

One part of me really doesn't want to know this much all the time.  The new age parent says this is a great ideas.  See the image..



Seems to me the old idea of be home by dark is gone.

Currently, Lotus Connections is being pushed as the enterprise social network solution. While that part may prove to be true, there is a piece missing that every enterprise must account for. Employees still use the external social network sites and we know it continues to grow. Now bringing all those profiles and data together in a dashboard is the future direction that few tools have undertaken. Data portability is not truly in place yet, and is being fought by sites such as Facebook. So aggregation is the first step. Watch a quick overview of how it is starting to evolve.

After watching this podcast here or on iTunes, make sure you jump over and listen to the Spokeo podcast interview.

Watch it here

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Join Carl Tyler and myself for a pre-Lotusphere call-in.  We'll be using modern technical marvels like the telephone and websites, to host an interactive call-in where you can ask us questions, Sametime questions, relationship questions it makes no difference to us we're happy to try and answer them.

Unable to attend Lotusphere but have questions you want to try and get answered? no worries, share them with us and we'll try and get them answered in followup Lotusphere podcasts.

So put it in your diary, 10am EST Jan 10th, http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31241

Episode: The Pre-Lotusphere call
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	A person who defined much of who I am today passed away mid-day on Dec 31st.   To the person that taught me about travel, starting your own business and how not to drive a tractor wheel over someones toes.  That and the billions of other things Grandpa, you will be missed.