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I’ve had lots of enquiries on Twitter and in person at IBM Connect this week, asking whether the news regarding This Week in Lotus is true.

Sadly, it definitely is.  

The episode we are recording live at IBM Connect today (Dolphin Europe 8, 12:30-13:15) will be our last, so we intend to go out with a bang!  

Be there if you can make it!!

Hopefully everyone that reads this blog should by now be aware of the podcast that Darren Duke and I publish, This Week in Lotus.  Recorded every Thursday and usually published on Friday, we pull together a cast of experts and personalities from around the IBM Lotus (or IBM Collaboration Solutions) community, for a wide-ranging and fun discussion about the news of the week and topics of interest.

Here’s our last ten episodes, with links for downloading:

You can also subscribe via iTunes or any other podcatcher, or stream straight from the site.  If you haven’t listened yet, you have no idea what you’re missing! Give it a try…

We try to keep innovating on the show.  From this week onwards we will also be publishing a text transcript of the show for those that are hard of hearing and to aid searching for content that appears in the audio recording. Look out for this on the Monday following publication.  We’re also considering video, but feel that this would not add much right now for the significant extra work involved by all participants – let us know how you feel about this…

Lastly, we are actively seeking sponsors and advertisers from around the community, so if you are interested in raising the profile of your company, product, solution or event there really is no better way.  Just contact us for more details.

As you may be aware, Darren Duke
and I have been recording and publishing This Week in Lotus for 9 months
now.  

The show is a weekly panel discussion about the Lotus (or IBM Social
Business) brand, discussing ‘all things social, collaboration,
technology and community’, and we feature an ever-changing cast of
IBMer, business partners, ISVs, customers and analysts.  We record
every Thursday and release the show via our site at thisweekinlotus.com
(and iTunes, Blackberry Podcasts, Blubrry etc.) on Friday.

The last few weeks we have had a very well-received set of shows, and I
wanted to highlight them here:

This
Week in Lotus 037 – Live from Lotusphere 2011 – February 7 2011
Episode 37, recorded Wednesday 2nd February 2011, live at Lotusphere
2011.  Darren and Stuart are joined by Mary Beth Raven, Kat
Mandelstein, Paul Mooney, Bruce Elgort, Mitch Cohen and an audience of
Lotusphere attendees for a discussion of topics surrounding the
event…

This
Week in Lotus 038 – Orlando’s but a distant memory. Onward! –
February 14 2011
Episode 38, recorded Thursday 10th February 2011, looking back on
Lotusphere 2011, possible Lotus re-branding, whether Social Business is
well understood, the popularity of Lotus-focused books and more…

This
Week in Lotus 039 – Mastering XPages (but not on the Mac) –
February 18 2011
Episode 39, recorded Thursday 17th February 2011, discussing the
massively successful ‘Mastering XPages’ book, Domino Designer on the
Mac, Watson and more… (featuring the authors of the Mastering XPages
book)

This
Week in Lotus 040 – Design at IBM/Lotus – the inside track on OneUI and
device-specific design – February 25 2011
Episode 40, recorded Thursday 24th February 2011, discussing the design
and information development methodology at work inside IBM/Lotus with
IBM’s Director of User Experience and Information Development, Nokia’s
decision to partner with Microsoft, the new XPages forum and more…
(featuring Chris Paul and Mat Newman)

This
Week in Lotus 041 – I’d like to see Steve Mills do the monkey dance
– March 4 2011
Episode 41, recorded Thursday 3rd March 2011, discussing the work of
analysts, the state of the collaboration marketplace in 2011, IBM’s new
Social Business campaign and more… (featuring James Governor and
Angela Ashenden)

We’d love you to listen to the shows, if you haven’t already, and if
you enjoy them, please tell others in your organisation and beyond.
 We recognise that the podcast format isn’t for everyone, but
there is such great content shared by our guests on the show, it would
be wonderful to see it reach a wider audience!

Thanks again to all those that take part in, listen and offer feedback
on the show – we appreciate it!

Darren and Lisa Duke and I got together for a couple of hours around the roaring fire skype headsets on Thursday to record the final This Week in Lotus of 2010 – ‘Wives and Other Angry Birds – 2010 The Year in Review‘.

We discussed the podcast series itself (how our first 32 episodes and 7 months have gone, what we can do better, plans for Lotusphere 2011 etc.), our Review of 2010 (the major stories and memes of the year, and our reactions to them), and finally our IBM/Lotus-related wishes for 2011…  Of course we threw in a tip or three at the end too!

Given this was a special episode we ran to rather longer than our usual 60-70 minutes (more like 105 in the end!), so if you have a long solo commute over the holiday period, this might be your ideal accompaniment!  Download from thisweekinlotus.com, stream from here or subscribe in iTunes or many other podcast directory services…

Thank you to everyone who has listened to This Week in Lotus during 2010, and of course especially to those that have taken part in our little weekly round-table discussion.  We really do appreciate your support and involvement!  We’ll be taking this week off, and will be back during the first week in January.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you a peaceful and enjoyable New Year!