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VirtZine - The On-Line Magazine of Virtualization and Cloud Computing!: VirtZine #18 - "Virtualization News and Free Management Tools"

Dr. Bill Bailey — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:15:42 -0500

VMware opens Virtualization Marketplace, Amazon Storage Gateway for low latency storage, a pre-configured private cloud from Dell, five free Virtualization Tools, Amazon S3's remarkable 2011 growth, Amazon announcements for Cloudfront and Route 53.

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 172 - Dr David Fraser, Relationship Mastery A Business Necessity!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 172!

The SPaMCAST 172 features my interview Dr David Fraser. We discussed his book Relationship Mastery: A Business Professional’s Guide. If you are just focusing on the quantitative side of business relationships you have only half the tools you need to succeed!

David Fraser, PhD, is a leading authority on relationship skills in professional and personal life and an international speaker. He is the author of “Relationship Mastery: A Business Professional’s Guide.”

David has a track record of pioneering new approaches to old problems. He has delivered major projects for government and private sector clients in challenging situations and set up a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He is a business owner, and a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours degree and a PhD from Glasgow University and an MBA from Strathclyde University. He is a qualified commercial mediator and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Trainer and has studied with leading proponents of these disciplines.

David applies his unusual blend of expertise to supporting disparate groups working together in complex circumstances, including major collaborative projects and matters of national importance. In addition to his work on relationship management with corporate clients, David runs workshop and coaching programs on personal and relationship mastery for both organizations and individuals, focusing on the potential to leverage results. David also finds the approach set out in his books to be extremely helpful in his home and family environment.

David lives with his wife and three children in Glasgow, Scotland and sails on the West Coast of Scotland when time permits.

Buy the dead tree version! Kindle Version

For more information and resources and to connect with David Fraser, please visit
WEB: http://www.drdavidfraser.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/drdavidfraser
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drdavidfraser
Email: david@davidfraser.com

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Looking for a proect management reference to keep close at hand? Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team."

Buy the book!

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast

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Website: www.spamcast.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley
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Next!

SPaMCAST 173, Agile in a waterfall business. Enough said!

This Week in Lotus 087 - Where’s the ’Do Not Disturb’?

Collaboration Matters — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:30:00 -0500

Episode 87 recorded on Thursday 2nd February 2012. We review Lotusphere 2012, discuss some of the major announcements, reveal the details of a new jobs site just for social media and collaboration roles.

Oh yes, we had a few technical issues too - make sure you listen through to the bloopers at the end!

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

Guests: Luis Benitez (blog | twitter) is is one of the Social Software Product Managers for IBM covering IBM Connections Files & Wikis, Connections on the Cloud and Quickr Domino.
Victor Toal (Twitter, Blog Notesbusters, Websites ToalSystems & SSMCJOBS) is Chief Solutions Architect for ToalSystems, specializes in Social, Collaborative and Messaging solutions
Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

Looking back in the rear view mirror, what did we think?
Highlights?

Announcements:

Quickr Domino
- Minor release in Q1
- Bigger release in 2H12
- 18 month release cycle
Connections Next:
- Mobile
- Connectors
- New Standard Support (OpenSocial, OAuth, ActivityStrea.ms)

New jobs site for IT folks in collaboration, messaging and social space SSMCJOBS.COM

IT Job website dedicated to Social software/Social media, Messaging and Collaboration
Free for Job seekers
Ability to search not only for jobs posted on the site but also pull in jobs from multiple other websites - one stop shopping for job seekers and contractors looking for their next opportunity

LCTY Get Social Do Business Roadshow Business Gets Social Dates Announced

Small list right now....early days
Yet another name change. Let the confusion reign!

Tips:
Darren:
Traveler tap to dial codes for Android. “P” or a comma will cause a pause. “#” enter a conference code. Semi-colon or “x” to prompt user before sending codes.
Luis:
http://bit.ly/ConnWikiTips - and IBM Connections Users community , SXSW ideas
Victor:
Tool “Beyond Compare” http://www.scootersoftware.com and a tip: Learn WebSphere to stay relevant
Stuart:
Don’t delete your Dropbox folder on secondary machines, it doesn’t work out well!
Carousel - Instagram for the Mac

Software Process and Measurement Cast: Five Year Anniversary - Press Release!

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:08:33 -0500

Please distribute the PDF version!

For Immediate Release
January 23, 2012

Avon Lake, OH – The Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCAST) is celebrating its 170^th episode after five years of interviewing many of the leaders in the software development world. The anniversary edition of SPaMCAST features an interview with Hillel Glazer, speaker, process guru and author of High Performance Operations.

SPaMCAST feature interviews have included:

· Chris Hefley, Chief Executive Officer, Leankit Kanban, Bandit Software, LLC

· Dean Leffingwell author of Scaling Software Agility and others

· Peter Taylor author of many books including The Lazy Project Manager

· Elizabeth Harrin author, award winning blog, The Girl’s Guide to Project Management

· Tim Lister, co-author of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies

· David Anderson the author of Agile Management for Software Engineering

· Kent Beck, pioneer in Agile Methods

· Scott Ambler, though leader in Test Driven Development

· Ivar Jacobson, developer of Use Cases

· Grady Booch, discussing Life, the Universe and Development

The Cast covers topics that deal with the challenges of how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve. The show combines commentaries, interviews and feedback to serve up ideas, opinions, advice and facts. In a nutshell, the Cast has provided and will continue to provide advice for and from practitioners, methodologists, pundits and consultants. The editor, Tom Cagley, is a leading consultant in software development process improvement, the Vice President of Consulting for the David Consulting Group, Past President of the International Function Point Users Group and co-author of Mastering Software Project Management.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast can be found at www.spamcast.net. It is also available on all major podcast services including iTunes and the Zune Marketplace. All previous episodes are available download. The Cast currently enjoys 10,000 downloads a month, up 20% in the past year It is delivered as a free public service to the information technology community and has listeners across the globe.

Contact:
Thomas M. Cagley Jr.
Editor

IT Pro Show 74: 01.30.2012

Same3Guys — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:37:40 -0500

Why are CEOs nervous about the cloud? Foxconn hiring 100,000 more employees. All this and more!

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Hosts: John, Tom and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 28:57

Web: www.ITProShow.com
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/ITProShow
Twitter: www.twitter.com/itproshow

This Week in Asia Episode 105: About Censorship and Apple and Foxconn (TWIA)

This Week in Asia Crew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:17:19 -0500

This Week in Asia( TWIA) , we talked about:
ACTA signed by Korea, Japan and Singapore
and Thailand becoming the first country in the world to support Twitter censorship function

A non story in the ongoing Foxconn Apple saga
Yahoo trying to pull out of Japan
Nintendo loosing money
Rocket Internet foray into the South East Asia market.

Special guest Benjamin Joffe from Daydeed.com
This Week sponsor www.Audibletrial.com/twia and get 1 free audiobook.

Events:
Startup Asia 2 and 3rd Feb 2012
Echelon 2012

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Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 171 - Meta-Cast, Metrics Minute, Customer Satisfaction

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:34:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 171!

The SPaMCAST 171 includes a double feature! Part One is Meta-Cast discussing where the Cast has been and where it is going. The short answer is 2012 is going to really COOL! Part Two is an entry in the Metrics Minute. We tackle Customer Satisfaction.

Shameless Ad for my book!

Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniquesco-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Buy the book!

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast
Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com
Voicemail: +1-206-888-6111
Website: www.spamcast.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley
Facebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV

Next!

SPaMCAST 172 will my interview with Dr. David Fraser. We discussed his book Relationship Mastery, A Business Professional’s Guide. Can you answer the question why are relationships important in business? You will know the answer after the interview!

The Force Field: Episode 56 – The Platform Pricing Tool

Rick Savoia — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:57:49 -0500

Today we will talk with an IT professional who created a tool to help techs calculate the pricing of work orders on web-based service platforms and find out how you can get it free.

TechPodcasts Promo Tag :10
Intro 1:17
Billboard 1:11

News and Comment segment 4:12
ACRBO announced the launch of a new magazine for computer business owners.

Google announced changes to its Privacy Policy.

Sponsor: MozyPro Online Backup: Simple, Automatic & Secure Backup http://mozy.com/pro.

Apple posted a record revenue for its fiscal first quarter of 2012.

Symantec is telling users to remove its software from their computers.

Commercial Break 1:23
The Force Field Web Portal TheForceField.Net

Intro to Topic 1:52
Today we’re going to talk with Donald Bertrand of Donald Bertrand Technical Consulting. We will find out how he stays profitable accepting work from web-based service platforms, learn about his Platform Pricing Tool and find out how we can use it to manage the pricing of platform work in our own business – free.

Interview with Donald Bertrand 18:42

Wrap up and Close :46

Comments, questions or suggestions? Send them in to comments@theforcefield.net or post them in The Force Field Forums. Feedback on this topic will be read by the host and included in future episodes of the show. Visit us at http://www.theforcefield.net!

IT Pro Show 73: 01.23.2012

Same3Guys — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:41:40 -0500

US Govt Online site hacked. More to come? RIM gets a new CEO. EMC is keeping theirs a little longer. All this and more!

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Hosts: John, Tom and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 41:06

Web: www.ITProShow.com
Twitter: @itproshow

This Week in Lotus 086 - Live from Lotusphere 2012

Collaboration Matters — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:20:00 -0500

Episode 86, recorded on Thursday 19th January 2012. With a live audience and an esteemed panel including Curious Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan, we discuss the conference, the highlights, the OGS, the wifi, the community and even Darren's state of dress!

Download links - MP3 | OGG

[Once again, Darren and I recorded a live TWiL from the hallowed rooms of WDW Dolphin during Lotusphere. This year we were not lucky enough to have been supplied with a room with a PA and roving mics, so the audio is by no means perfect, but the conversation makes it very worthwhile. We had fun recording the show, I hope you enjoy listening just as much!]

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

Guests:
Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012

Tech Tip Tuesday: Not Just Another Word for Goodnight

Jeff Clark — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:06:21 -0500

I always get excited when someone introduces me to something that I haven’t seen before that actually solves a problem. In this weeks tech Tip I am sharing a crazy cool tool that was introduced to me by a friend of mine Terry Rossi. If you’ve been watching these Tech Tips for a while you’ll be able to tell almost immediately why I like this weeks Tech Tip so much. Show Notes: www.ninite.com www.TechTipTuesday.com

VirtZine - The On-Line Magazine of Virtualization and Cloud Computing!: VirtZine #17 - "Data in the Cloud!"

Dr. Bill Bailey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:18:31 -0500

VMTurbo wins SearchServerVirtualization.com's Products of the Year Award for 2011, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon Dynamo DB: database in The Cloud! Linux adoption grows on Big Data, Cloud, and Virtualization

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 170 - Hillel Glazer, High Performance Operations, CMMI, Agile

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:55:13 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 170! Happy fifth anniversary from Amsterdam!

The SPaMCAST 170 features my interview Hillel Glazer. We discussed his book High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage and many other topics like the CMMI and Agile.

Hillel Glazer is recognized as the world’s leading authority on introducing lean and agile concepts into the compliance-driven world. He’s helped companies of all sizes and industries around the world successfully streamline their operations, increase value, and expose and eliminate practices that prevent them from achieving their performance goals. And, he does so while simultaneously accounting for all the external compliance pressures on their operations.

Hillel’s professional passion is to work with companies motivated to achieve world-class operations and excellence. His diverse experience base includes aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, Federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial, insurance, medical and transportation systems development and support. Having started in manufacturing where he learned the fundamentals of lean production, for more than the most recent decade, as a consultant, Hillel’s been successfully pioneering the introduction of lean philosophies, methods and techniques into businesses and industries otherwise believed to be either too chaotic or too highly restricted in freedom by their compliance and regulation requirements to be able to adopt high performance approaches.

Hillel is an in-demand speaker, presenter, and facilitator. (See where he’ll show up next.) He is widely read, broadly published, and appears worldwide on the topics pertaining to operational excellence in compliance-driven industries. His work appears in many publications including periodicals and the texts, CMMI for Services, 2nd Edition, CMMI for Development, 3rd Edition, and Integrating CMMI and Agile Development.

His Baltimore-based company, Entinex, has a global reach that focuses on generating powerful results for high performance operations among companies motivated to be lean, agile, and achieve world-class levels of operational excellence. He lives in the Baltimore suburbs with his fabulous wife and four amazing children.

If you are going to buy Hillel's book and want to support the SPaMCAST please use the following link which uses the SPaMCAST's Amazon Associate account. Buy the book!

Contact Data:
Web: http://hillelglazer.com
Web: http://www.entinex.com/
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hillelglazer
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hi11e1
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Entinex-Inc/263402040088?ref=ts

Shameless Ad for my book!

Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Buy the book!

Have you bought your copy?

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast

Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com
Voicemail: +1-206-888-6111
Website: www.spamcast.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley
Facebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV

Next!

SPaMCAST 171 will feature a bit of meta-cast celebrating the Software Process and Measurement Casts fifth anniversary and an entry from the Metrics Minute on Customer Satisfaction!

IT Pro Show 72: 01.16.2012

Same3Guys — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:04:54 -0500

Another popular website hacked. Lotusphere takes the stage. And Oracle reengages Java. All this and more on this week’s show.

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Hosts: John, Tom and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 39:32

Web: www.ITProShow.com
Twitter: @itproshow

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 169 - Serial Mono-tasking, Book Review - Strategic Project Portfolio Management

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 169!

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 169 features the second part of my essay, The Case Against Multi-tasking. This installment is titled Serial Mono-tasking in Action. This installment will focus on what can be done to multitask less and serial mono-task more.

Part Two - SPaMCAST 171

Shameless Ad for my book!

Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy?

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast

Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com
Voicemail: +1-206-888-6111
Website: www.spamcast.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley
Facebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 170 will mark the Cast's Fifth Anniversary! We celebrate with my interview with Hillel Glazer. We discussed his new book High Performance Operations, process, agile, the CMMI and all sorts of great topics!

This Week in Lotus 085 - Lotusphere opening night

Collaboration Matters — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:35:00 -0500

Episode 85, recorded on Friday 13th January 2012. With plans for an organised TWiL disappearing in a series of transport delays, Stuart heads around the Dolphin lobby and bar asking what are people expecting from Lotusphere 2012?

Download links - MP3 | OGG

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

Guests:
Many and varied, including Sharon Bellamy, Lisa Duke, Tim Clark, Theo Hesselmans, Sandra Buhler and more...

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012

This Week in Asia Episode 104 CES is Meh

This Week in Asia Crew — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:16:50 -0500

This week, we talk about CES , How China have half a billion internet users and RIP Fusion Garage with Justin Lee of Tech65

Also events

Startup Asia
Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace

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Information Security - Jan 12,2012

Caleb Barlow — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:58:42 -0500

Information Securityanytime

Information Security: Introducing IBM Security - Jan 11,2012

Caleb Barlow — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0500

IBM recently launched a new Security division that integrates IBM’s Tivoli, Rational and Information Management security software, appliances, lab offerings and services along with multiple acquisitions including the purchase of Q1 Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts. In this podcast Caleb talks with Marc Van Zadelhoff, Vice President Product Management for IBM Security about the new division, its goals and why IBM is making this bold move. IBM already operates the world’s broadest security research and development organization, comprising nine security operations centers, nine IBM Research centers, 11 software security development labs and an Institute for Advanced Security, with chapters in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. These teams monitor 13 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries.security | IBM | cyber security | IT security | hacking

IT Pro Show 71: 01.09.2012

Same3Guys — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:47:45 -0500

A peek at future IT Pro jobs, Apple grabbing more IT dollars and, are users ready for self-service IT? Plus much more, on this week's show!

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Hosts: John, Tom and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 32:40

Web: www.ITProShow.com
Twitter: @itproshow

Tech Tip Tuesday: The Next Big Thing?

Jeff Clark — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:24:21 -0500

Today I am quite literally giddy with excitement, this week is what amounts to the superbowl for geeks the Consumer electronics show in Las Vegas Nevada. Each year at the beginning of January CES kicks off the year with all of the newest gadgets and gizmo’s which are on the horizon and this week I’ll be giving some insight into what might be the next big thing and more importantly telling you some of the best places to learn more about what’s being unveiled right now in the world of Tech. Show Notes: www.cesweb.org www.cnet.com www.totallycooltech.com www.WhoIsJeff.com

VirtZine - The On-Line Magazine of Virtualization and Cloud Computing!: VirtZine #16 - "Citrix vs. VMware App Delivery"

Dr. Bill Bailey — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:42:23 -0500

After your vSphere 5.0 upgrade - VMFS3 to VMFS5 clean-up, Citrix addresses 'Slow Apps' with a new feature in 6.5 of XenApp, VMware brings View Client to Kindle Fire, Linux, and the Mac, can ThinApp 4.7 features counter Citrix?

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 168 - Bill Smith, CMMI Training, Marketing Change

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 168!

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 168 features my interview with Bill Smith and his Twitter alterego @CMMIROX. We discussed CMMI training, marketing change and other topics that will give you a leg up on making 2012 a winner!

Bill Smith is President and CEO of Leading Edge Process Consultants, an SEI Partner with offices in Virginia and New York. He was the SEI’s 2010 Outstanding Member Representative, and has been honored with an Outstanding Presentation award at the NDIA CMMI Technology Conference and User Group each of the past three years.

As an SEI-Certified Introduction to CMMI Instructor, Bill teaches the CMMI publicly every six weeks at his training facility in Reston, Virginia. He has taught the Introduction to CMMI course to over 1100 students coast-to-coast – including onsite deliveries at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, AT&T, the IRS, and FEMA.

Bill served as consultant, appraiser, and trainer with the Systems and Software Consortium (SSCI) from 2002 through 2007. He has guided multiple organizations to various CMMI or SW-CMM maturity levels, led numerous appraisals, and chaired or served on a half dozen Engineering Process Groups. Bill’s career has included jobs as an artificial intelligence programmer with IBM and advanced systems engineer with EDS. Overall, he has 27 years of software/systems engineering experience in management and technical positions.

Bill has an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bill offers his CMMI perspectives regularly as CmmiRox on twitter and on his corporate Facebook page. He also maintains his own social network, CMMI Rocks!, to support students who’ve attended his CMMI classes.

Bill’s non-professional passions include music, running, and the outdoors.

Contact Information:
Web: http://www.cmmitraining.com/
Twitter: @cmmirox
Email: bill@cmmitraining.com

Interested in becoming a radio star?
If you are interested in reviewing tools or books? Drop me a note at spamcastinfo@gmail.com

Shameless Ad for my book!

Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy?

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast

Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com
Voicemail: +1-206-888-6111
Website: www.spamcast.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley
Facebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 169 will feature part two of my essay on multitasking. This part will focus on what can be done to multitask less and serial mono-task more.

This Week in Lotus 084 - Kudos to you!

Collaboration Matters — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:00 -0500

Episode 84, recorded on Thursday 5th January 2012. ISW's Adam Brown and IBMers Luis Suarez and Colleen Burns join us to talk Lotusphere news, Connecting at Connect 2012, ISW's new Kudos Badges system, gamification without gaming and more...

Download links - MP3 | OGG

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

Guests: Luis Suarez (blog | twitter | company) is a Social Computing Evangelist at IBM, helping accelerate IBM’s own adoption of social software tools, both internally and externally through the BlueIQ team.
Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company) is Director of Technology at ISW, IBM Premier Partner in Australia. IBM Connections lead for ISW.
Colleen Burns (twitter) leads Influencer Relations for IBM Collaboration Solutions - and is jointly leading the social media strategy for Lotusphere and Connect.

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

Just 9 days to go
‘Team Social’, team to ask questions of re: social and the conference, look out for buttons
Luis, you deal with a lot of businesses that want to deploy Social and attend a lot of conferences
Social Business Insights blog - guest posts over LS12 period
Is it really just a year since Social Business was brought in?
How will attendance work out?
Lotusphere Online Social Business Online now open
- Mobile app
- 4Square checkin
- Can tweet/checkin direct from app
Blogger Open registration open - not just bloggers, open to all, 60 registered so far!
Hog ride
This Week in Lotus Live - Europe room, 8:30am, Thursday
- no need to go to bed!
- 5th live TWiL
What are we looking forward to at Lotusphere?

Kudos Badges for IBM Connections announced

Gamification for Connections
Measure and Reward Connections users
Adam, why develop it?
Who is it aimed at?
What does it do? - Drive Adoption, Educate Users, Recognise and Reward for valued contributions.
Is it flexible, can it be customised? Can it interface with applications outside Connections?
Versions of Connections supported?
“Kudos”? Haven’t we heard this before.....I can’t recall where - DD :)
How much does it cost? Is it right there is a free version?
Where can you get it?
How easy is it to install and configure?
What are your plans for the future?
Find out more at kudosbadge.com

Tips:
Darren:
Do NOT “upgrade” to TweetDeck 1.0 or higher. It is atrocious . Really. It is. Keep a copy of the Adobe Air version for emergencies.
Luis:
#elsuapps is back and one of my current favourite ones at the moment is Air Dictate (Using Siri’s Speech to Text capabilities to dictate directly on your Mac! Brilliant idea! And a huge timesaver on the typing front!) … Since Darren doesn’t enjoy TweetDeck much, here is another option. My preferred and top notch Twitter client for Windows and Mac. Janetter is the name of the Twitter client.
Adam:
TechSmith SnagIT and Jing. Great tools for capturing quick screenshots to share across both Mac and Windows clients.
Stuart:
Pinterest - for once Philippa and her friends are way ahead of the techie curve. Beautiful site, fantastic social tools. Try to avoid ‘next big thing’, but this is one of them ;-) Let me know if you need an invite.

IT Pro Show 70: 01.02.2012

Same3Guys — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:46:40 -0500

IBM's 4 critical questions. HP thinks they were ahead of their time on tablets. We'll weigh in on that, plus much more, on this week's show!

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Hosts: John, Tom and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 36:18

Web: www.ITProShow.com
Twitter: @itproshow

Tech Tip Tuesday: Broken Promises

Jeff Clark — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:12:44 -0500

Well here we are the first Tech Tip of 2012 and the question every new year is have you set your new years resolutions? And even more importantly have you already broken them? One of my new years resolutions is to be less Apple Centric in my Tech Tips. I have had a couple of people accuse me and righly so of being a bit of an Apple fanboy. I promise I’m going to work on that. But... keeping with the tradition of new years resolutions I am going to break that resolution right now by telling you about an App that is currently only available for the iPhone that is quite possibly the coolest concept for helping you to keep one of the most popular new years resolutions. But even if you’re not an iPhone user go ahead and watch this weeks Tech Tip anyway because the concept is just that cool. Show Notes: www.gympact.com www.TechTipTuesday.com www.WhoIsJeff.com

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 167 - The Case Against Multitasking

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 167! Happy News Years!

The SPaMCAST 167 features an essay titled The Case Against Multitasking. The essay begins:

To multitask or not to multitask, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of mono-tasking or to take arms against a sea of trouble and by opposing do more...at least appear to do more. Is the discussion of mono-tasking versus multitasking a tempest in a teapot, a true productivity killer or perhaps are we really discussing how we segment work? Depending on how you define the word, I believe it is the later. The problem is that like so many other words we have conflated a number of concepts into a broader idea.

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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 168 will feature my interview with Bill Smith and his Twitter alterego @CMMIROX. We discussed CMMI training, marketing change and other topics that will enlighten 2012!

This Week in Asia Episode 103 The Prediction Episode

This Week in Asia Crew — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:56:03 -0500

It is the end of 2011 and as we look forward to a wonderful 2012, we invited a few friends over to give us their prediction for 2012.

Jon
3D printer become mainstream.
Maturing of Hongkong startup market. (more active early stage investment )
Most Groupon clone will go out business. (agreed by Daniel)

Rama
Gaming will be bigger, will be bigger. Agree by Serkan
Voice control ala siri will be more integrated. (Jon and Daniel disagree with it)
Daily deal will be bigger, as least in indonesia.

Serkan
Expansion Japanese startup and VC outside of japan
More startup in Asia as a whole. (japan 2011 has an incubator boom)
Asia will be the center for the tech world.

Bernard
Html5 will be important for gaming.
Nokia will be a 3rd but weak player in the mobile phone sector
Mobile Ecommerce taking off.

Daniel
Growth of Amazon Kindle in Asia,
Window phone 7 will be 3 big player.
Daily deals will be replacing by loyalty.

Guest: Rama of DailySocial, Serkan Toto of Techcrunch and Jonathan Buford of Makible.
Host: Daniel Cerventus, Bernard Leong.

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Same3Guys — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:53:33 -0500

More IT opportunities for interns. A tech revival in Boston. All this and much more on this week's show!

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Tech Tip Tuesday: Those Lost List Lamentations

Jeff Clark — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:31:05 -0500

So... Christmas is behind us and 2011 is soon to be in the rear view mirror. And we are now almost in the middle of what in my opinion is the most pointless week of the year. It’s been my experience that December 26th through the 31st are pretty much writeoff days. The only thing that these six days are really good for is cleaning our desks, and halfheartedly jotting down a list of things that we probably won’t accomplish over the next 12 months. And it’s this very list of new years resolutions that I’m addressing in this weeks Tech Tip. Show Notes: www.wunderlist.com

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 166 - Paul Byrnes, CMMI, SCAMPI

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 166!

The interview in the SPaMCAST 166 is with Paul Byrnes. We discussed the changes to the SCAMPI 1.3 method of appriasing the CMMI and more! The interview is loaded with data for anyone that uses the CMMI! THis is Paul's third appearance on the SPaMCAST (a returning STAR). If you have not listened to Paul's first two interviews hear are the links to the SPaMCAST 63 and SPaMCAST 81.

As an Air Force officer Paul was responsible for managing advanced software technology transition projects at Hanscom AFB, MA. These were typically joint government/industry funded projects aimed at significantly improving the efficiency of DoD software development processes and services. At the SEI, Paul was the SEI CMM® Based Appraisal (CBA) Project Leader. Responsible for developing all published versions of SCE and the initial CBA IPI method (V0.3). A principal developer of the CMM® Appraisal Framework (CAF). Developed, delivered, and managed teams delivering CMM based appraisal methods and training services. At ISD, as a founder, principal, Managing Director, and CTO, Paul was the principal architect of ISD’s Comprehensive Appraisal Method (CAM); a draft version was an input method to SCAMPISM V1.1. He was responsible for managing, leading development, and also delivering all standard ISD products for their appraisal, consulting, and training service lines. Paul is a currently a member of the SCAMPI LA BoK Advisory Board and a member of its High Maturity Working Group. He participated on the Enterprise SPICE Architecture Team and the SCAMPI V1.3 Upgrade Team. Paul was included in the 1995 Who’s Who in the East, the 1998 Who’s Who in Media and Communications, the 1999 Who’s Who in America, and the 2000 Who’s Who in the World.

Contact information:
Email: pdbyrnes@isd-inc.com
Website: http://isd-inc.com

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SPaMCAST 165 will feature an essay from the Metrics Minute or a discusson of mono-tasking versus multi-tasking . . .either will be worth waiting for!

This Week in Lotus 083 - Best Practices, Books and Breaking VLANs

Collaboration Matters — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:30:00 -0500

Episode 83, recorded on Thursday 23rd December 2011. Joyce Davis, Susan Bulloch and Barry Rosen join Darren and I to discuss Lotusphere 2012 sessions, tracks and social events, Barry tells us about his upcoming Notes&Domino 8.5.3 book and Darren goes awfully quiet!

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

Guests: Barry Rosen (twitter I LinkedIn) Barry Rosen is an IBM IT Certified Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for Lotus. During the last five years, he has worked on several global messaging and migration projects as well as performed Domino upgrades, messaging assessments, and client deployments. Currently, Barry has been heavily involved in LotusLive Notes cloud migrations and hybrid deployments, Prior to IBM Software Services for Lotus, he was a Software Engineer in Lotus Support for over five years. While in support, Barry was on several teams specializing in mail routing, Lotus Notes Client, calendaring and scheduling, and server core. Mr Rosen is a SME on clustering, Lotus Notes for the Macintosh, and rooms and resources. Barry is also a published author with several articles and books written on Lotus products.
Susan Bulloch (blog | Twitter ) Susan currently works as a Support Engineer on the Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling Team. She has worked for IBM Lotus Software for more than 11 years in software support and development positions.She has worked with Lotus Notes and Domino since 1992 as an administrator, instructor, developer, and architect in banking and utility industries. Susan has a Bachelors degree in engineering and a Master’s degree in Information Technology. She holds certifications in all current Lotus Notes product releases. Susan is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including LotuSphere, the View Admin conferences and at regional user group conferences worldwide. When not working, Susan likes to annoy insects and buzzards.
Joyce Davis (blog | twitter | company) is community manager for IBM in the Collaboration Solutions or “Lotus” division. I help bring together clients, business partners and IBMers to share their knowledge and collaborate. I’ve “bled yellow” since 1983 when I used Lotus 1-2-3 version 1A for DOS to manage the WW Technical Education course schedule as an IBM co-op. (I was an infant, of course.) I joined Lotus full-time in 1993. I’ve worked in MANY different roles at IBM over the last 18 years including technical support, people management, project management, communications, program management and now community management. I’m a mom, wife, flutist, Apple fangirl, and social network addict. Although I wasn’t born in Austin, I got here as fast as I could about 35 years ago.

Topics:
Lotusphere 2012:

Just 24 days to go - what are we looking forward to at Lotusphere 2012?
Best Practices track
- Always one of the most popular tracks at LS
- Any changes to the track this year?
  - 36 sessions (23 of 36 are Notes/Domino)
  - 35% are new speakers
- Any sessions you’re particularly looking forward to?
- How does a track manager go about choosing their sessions?
- Is there a question of balance between the different products, technologies? Or is it all about the quality of the abstract/speakers?
- Gurupalooza? Back again? Will you be chairing?
Joyce, You seem to have an even bigger part to play in organising this time?
- What’s top of your list of activities?
  - Social cafes
  - Team Social helpers
- Where will you be during the conference?
  - Social cafes, customer evangelist panel, customer council meetings, IBM Champion activities (reception)
  - Session FS217: The Lotus Evangelist Customer Panel ; Dolphin - S. Hem IV -V; Tues 4:45 - 5:45; FREE BEER and WINE :-)
- Online communities for Lotusphere and Connect
  - http://bit.ly/lotuspherecommunity and http://bit.ly/ibmconnectcommunity
  - Register with http://greenhouse.lotus.com to join
- The ‘Social Lounges’ have been mentioned a number of times, what’s that all about?
- Can you talk a bit about how folks can find out who the IBM Champions are and where they’ll be speaking?
  - So far 45 of 63 champions are confirmed
  - They’ll be sitting in the front at the OGS and CGS
  - They’ll have IBM Champion ribbons on their badge holders
  - Some are doing topics of the hour at the social cafes
Sessions DB now available
- Via, as always, Ben Langhinrichs
This Week in Lotus Live - details to be confirmed!

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide [Amazon US | Amazon UK]

Who are the authors? (Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, Scott O'Keefe)
How did it come about?
When will it be shipped?
What does it cover? Domino and Notes? Traveler?
How much?
Nicklas Heidloff’s blog - 2011 - The XPages Year

Highlights of 2011

Tips:
Darren:
CLPs get a discount for Lotusphere 2012 - just $1,995 until Jan 15th
Barry:
Best travel tip, always have earplugs!
Susan:
Buy noise cancelling headsets! Make your travel arrangements now. You don’t want to be late for Orlando. Seek out Mat Newman - he will pump your energy level higher than you thought possible.
Joyce:
1) access the online community via your mobile device using the Connections mobile app which can be downloaded for iOS, Android and BB. Simply point to the Lotus Greenhouse Connections server: http://greenhouse.lotus.com/mobile,
2) Benedryl and Melatonin can each be used to treat insomnia and/or jet lag. They can be found over the counter. (Will someone please remind me to take it at night? Thanks.)
3) Videofest http://bit.ly/videofest
Stuart:
Go buy a Sonos Play:3, preferably buy lots. You will not regret it!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...

This Week in Lotus 082 - Zombie flu!

Collaboration Matters — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:20:00 -0500

Episode 82, recorded on Monday 19th December 2011. Our second go at episode 82 features TWiL friends Lisa Duke and Sharon Bellamy reflecting on IBM Connect, the Social Connections event in Cardiff, a new fix pack (sorry Upgrade Pack) for Domino, Chrome overtaking IE8 and much more...

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

Guests: Lisa Duke (twitter | aboutme | podcast) is Business Development Manager for Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. and host of the Get Social Do Business podcast Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is a Business Consultant at Applicable, working with Portal/WCM, Quickr, Sametime and Connections implementations. IBM Champion, iSeries fan girl and friend of Mat Newman.
Topics:
Connect 2012

Agenda now available
What do we think?
Key thought leaders and well known speakers
- Via Sandy and her hashtags ;-)
Do you think business leaders will attend?

Team Social

what is it?
how can they help?

Social Connections II

How was it for you?
Link to IBM’s social computing guidelines -> http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
What were the highlights?
- Jon Scott and Joe Nicholls from Cardiff Uni - Jon, a new LS star in the making ;-)
- What is pedagogy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy
- Dinner in the castle?
Slides and videos will be up this week
What should we do differently next time?
Is there a need for an IBM Connections user group in USA or Europe?

Other stuff

Preliminary LS12 agenda now available
Ed’s announcements:
- Symphony viewers for iOS
- New release of Lotuslive
- Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1
  - Makes extension library part of the product
  - How many names for fixpacks do we really need? FP, CCH, IFR, Upgrade Pack etc!
Chrome overtakes IE8 as most popular browser

Tips:
Darren:
NotesBook from Julian Buss. Real Lotus Notes Journal/Notebook access on iOS devices! Only $5.99 on the App Store. 1.1 is available now which fixes the custom journal name.
Sharon:
The Lotusphere & Connect communities in the greenhouse https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/lotusphere and https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/connect will be opened up this week
Lisa:
Listen to getsocialdobusiness.com :)
Stuart:
Nerdgirls Sparks - final submission day today
Michael Sampson’s new book - Collaboration Roadmap. Superb.

IT Pro Show 68: 12.19.2011

Same3Guys — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:41:43 -0500

Microsoft and HP partner in the cloud. IBM has their 5 predictions for 2012. And AT&T breaks up with T-Mobile. All this and much more on this week's show!

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Tech Tip Tuesday: Give It Back

Jeff Clark — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:07:30 -0500

Over the last few weeks I've been sharing some of the more techy gift ideas some of them to give to others, some of them to add to our own wishlists. This week as I wrap up the series on gadgety gifts I'm changing the tune a bit. No matter your religious affiliation we all think of this time of year as a time of giving to others. So... This week I figured We've covered enough gifts for ourselves and our loved ones, but what are some ways we can give back to those who aren't as blessed as ourselves? And... how does this all come back to technology which let's face it is what Tech Tip Tuesday is all about anyway. Well... just sit back, grab your cup of egg nog and I'll tell you all about it.

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 165 - IT-CMF - A Framework, A Certification and More

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 165!

The SPaMCAST 165 features an essay that answers the questions, "so what exactly is IT-CMF?” and “why do we need another model?”

The essay begins:

On Thursday morning I checked into a testing center to test the knowledge and skills that are central to understanding and leveraging the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) and also to certify. When I completed the exam I tweeted my results to the world and got resounding response of . . .”so what exactly is IT-CMF?” and “why do we need another model?”

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Next!

SPaMCAST 166 features my interview with Paul Byrnes of ISD. Paul and I discussed the recent changes to the SCAMPI process for appraising the CMMI and potential changes coming in the future. One word - EXCITING.

This Week in Asia Episode 102 Do We Really Need To Be Certified?

This Week in Asia Crew — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:47:30 -0500

This week, we have Mr Geeknomics himself, Nicholas Aaron Khoo who is in Mumbai to talk about the tech scene in Mumbai plus the Blackberry and Indonesia incident plus the Computing Professional Bill 2011 in Malaysia where Bernard and Nic compares it to what Singapore is trying to do.

Computing Professional Bill 2011

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Same3Guys — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:28:08 -0500

Hot jobs for IT Managers and Execs. How cloud computing is changing business. And the impact of the hard drive shortage. All this and more.

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Tech Tip Tuesday: Personalizing That Present

Jeff Clark — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:35:05 -0500

Well the clock is officially ticking faster and faster, we are down to just two weeks before christmas. Well actually 11 days to be exact and it’s flying by. In this weeks Tech Tip I’m continuing the series on gift ideas for the holidays with an emphasis on some more personalized gifts. If you’re down to the wire with your shopping and are running short on ideas this weeks Tech Tip might be just what the doctor ordered. Show Notes: www.snapfish.com www.shutterfly.com www.kodak.com www.walmart.com www.TechTipTuesday.com www.WhoIsJeff.com

This Week in Lotus 081 - Geeking out with the aliens

Collaboration Matters — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:49:49 -0500

Episode 81, recorded on Monday 12th December 2011. Darren and Stuart grabbed some time this evening with Femke Goedhart to discuss Redbook residencies, Connect 2012, Nerdgirl activities and much more…

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

Guests: Femke Goedhart (twitter | blog ) is a Business Consultant at Silverside, The Netherlands. She specialises in Collaboration, Social Business, Document Management and Workflow solutions.

Topics:
Social Business redbook residency
Social Connections event
Lotusphere 2012/Connect 2012 abstract selections
Lotusphere 2012 party destination revealed
Nerdgirl events at Lotusphere - Sparks and Great Geek Challenge
RIM sinks to new low

Tips:
Femke:
IBM Social Business Blog
Stuart:
Zite now available for iPhone

The Force Field: Episode 55 – The Computer Business Kit

Rick Savoia — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:41:12 -0500

Today we will talk with an IT professional who created computer business forms, legal documents and marketing templates for his own business and created a kit so you can use them in yours.

TechPodcasts Promo Tag :10
Intro 1:20
Billboard :51

News and Comment segment 2:13
Microsoft announced that it plans to release Windows 8 Beta to the public in February 2012.

MakeUseOf.com is offering a free Guide called How To Build Your Own Hackintosh.

MIPS Technologies announced the release of the world’s first $99 tablet based on Android TM 4.0 .

A security bug on Facebook allowed users of the popular social media site to view personal private photos last month owned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Commercial Break 1:23
The Force Field Web Portal TheForceField.Net

Intro to Topic 2:10
Today we’re going to talk with Bryce Whitty, owner of Technibble and creator of The Computer Business Kit. We will learn about the latest version of his kit and catch up with the latest on his popular business web site for computer techs.

Interview with Bryce Whitty 23:01

Wrap up and Close :46

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 164 - Joseph Raynus, Quantitative Business Process Management

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 164!

The interview on the Software Process and Measurement Cast 164 is with Joseph Raynus. Joe and I discussed his bookImproving Business Process Performance: Gain Agility, Create Value, and Achieve Success and quantitative business process management.

Joseph Raynus is the founder of ShareDynamics, Inc. a Business Process Management and Process Improvement consulting company in Lexington, Ma. He provides training and consulting services in the area of business performance management and quantification by helping his customers institute measurement frameworks and manage their Process Improvement/BPM initiatives at all levels of organization.

Joseph provides education, training, mentoring and is a frequent speaker at a number of professional organizations and conferences that include IEEE, PMI, ASQ and SAP BPM.

Joseph is also an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering, where he teaches courses in Information Systems Planning and Business Process Engineering. His latest book “Improving Business Process Performance: Gain Agility, Create Value and Achieve Success” presents an approach to a workable process to help an organization maintain clarity of purpose, bridge the gap between the strategic and tactical views, and apply structure to how it monitors its progress.

His first book "Process Improvement with CMM" is also available in Chinese and Japanese.

Contact Data:
Web: http://www.sharedynamics.com/
Email: joer@sharedynamics.com

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Next!

SPaMCAST 165 will feature an essay from the Metrics Minute or a discusson of mono-tasking versus multi-tasking . . .either will be worth waiting for!

Addicted To Social Media: A2SM Podcast #91 – Twitter’s New Features

Neal Wiser, Seth Goldstein & Jody Raines — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:39:25 -0500

In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss Twitter's new features, Google+ allowing phone calls in hangouts, Facebook is nipping at Google's heals and letting private photos go public and much more.

Tech Tip Tuesday: Becoming the Gift Giving Guru

Jeff Clark — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:18:38 -0500

Over the past few weeks I’ve been covering a variety of different gadgets which make great gifts for the holidays. In this weeks Tech Tip I am continuing the series on gift ideas, but this week I’m sharing some ideas on Gifts that Keep on Giving beyond Christmas day and could quite possibly make you the gift giving guru of your group. Show Notes: www.audible.com www.netflix.com www.Amazon.com/prime

IT Pro Show 66: 12.05.2011

Same3Guys — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:46:36 -0500

Reinvent yourself as a mainframe programmer. It pays well. And don't be a server hugger. All this and more.

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VirtZine - The On-Line Magazine of Virtualization and Cloud Computing!: VirtZine Netcast - 15 (Video-M4V)

Dr. Bill Bailey — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:57:43 -0500

Phoenix NAP releases Secured Cloud, Cloud Computing based on Open Source and will continue to be open. VMware Workstation 8.0.1 as a staging platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware Cloud Management Tools, new New Cloud Computing Certification

This Week in Lotus 080 - Connecting with the Collaboration Roadmap

Collaboration Matters — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:15:00 -0500

Episode 80, recorded on Thursday 1st December 2011. Darren and Stuart interview renowned strategist Michael Sampson about his role, his new book Collaboration Roadmap, Connect 2012 and more...

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

Guests: Michael Sampson (twitter | blog | books) is a Collaboration Strategist, whose passion is helping organizations to make collaboration work, when their employees have to work together effectively and efficiently while separated by distance and time. Michael advises end-user organizations in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, and the United States on making collaboration work.

Topics:
‘Collaboration Strategist’

What does a collaboration strategist actually do?
What does governance actually mean?
How do you become one?
Why should companies employ you?

Collaboration Roadmap

Why a collaboration roadmap?
What does it cover?
Does the cloud change things?
Should IT be allowed to own the collaboration strategy/roadmap?
Who should read the book? Is it aimed at IT folks, or should it be head of comms, LoB, execs etc?
Foreword by Ed Brill - how did that come about?
How does this book fit with User Adoption Strategies?
- Why does user adoption need a strategy?
- Do organisations still think ‘build it and it will come’?
Does the book apply to home developed apps (say Domino/XPages) as well as packaged ones?
Any notable quotes from industry experts? :-)
Draw for a free copy of the book (details to follow)

Connect 2012

User Adoption Strategies - Please complete survey for us to understand your approach and success!
Highlights of agenda published on Thursday

Tips:
Darren:
If you're going to upgrade firmware on a new SSD, you'll need another machine to do it on.
Michael:
'All it takes is to be smart enough to figure out what to do, and also to be dumb enough to get up every day to do it.' In 2012, be dumber!
Stuart:
Get your execs and managers to Connect 2012 - promises to be a cracking event. Still time to register for Social Connections II as well.
Know that Michael journals every day, recommend Day One - app for Mac and iOS.

Software Process and Measurement Cast: SPaMCAST 163 - Metrics Minute - Agile Metrics, Return on Investment, ROI

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:27:47 -0500

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 161!

The SPaMCAST 163 features an entry in the Metrics Minute. We discusse Retun on Investment. ROI is critical factor in proioritization whether at an epic or a story level!

The PMO Leader of the Year Award will be presented to the PMO Leader, nominated by their PMO team, who shows the most excellent leadership and understanding of what a PMO can deliver to a business.

A panel of independent judges will review all submissions to consider how each nominee has led their PMO over at least the last 12 months and how they plan to grow the PMO under their stewardship in the coming months.

Interested in the PMO Leader of the Year award? Check out www.leadingsuccessfulpmos.com

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Shameless Ad for my book!

Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team."Have you bought your copy?

Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast

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Next!

SPaMCAST 164 features my interview with Joe Raynus. Joe and I discussed Quantitative Business Process Management. A great discussion on measurement and business process improvement.

Louder Business & Technology Show – Episode 27 Test

Eric Timmer aka — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:48:07 -0500

**Just testing a louder version of the last podcast** Episode 027 Business & Technology Show

Addicted To Social Media: A2SM Podcast #90 – Neal’s Hacking

Neal Wiser, Seth Goldstein & Jody Raines — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:00:59 -0500

In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about the benefits of Google Plus, whether or not the FTC/Facebook ruling will do anything, Arabic is the fastest growing language on Twitter and much more.