"2 Minutes With" Interview Podcasts
LotusUserGroup.org has a prolific history of conducting podcast interviews with members from all walks of our community. Below you’ll find an extensive collection of present and past podcast interviews revealing unique insight into Lotus technologies, special events, career paths, and more. Find tips and tricks, advice on best practices, and a lot of additional educational, entertaining, and fun information. There are 3 categories of interviews: 2 Minutes With The Gurus, 2 Minutes With Lotus, and 2 Minutes With Our Members. Some of the interviews go longer than 2 minutes, but when they do, we guarantee it’s worth the listen.
2 Minutes With...Our Members
The 2 Minutes With... Podcast Interviews give you the chance to hear what other members of the Lotus community have to say. In 2 Minutes With...Our Members, we interview members of LotusUserGroup.org to find out about their work, their lives, their user groups, and more. Do you want to know what other user group members think about the sessions they're attending at Lotusphere? What they do at work? What tools do they use?
Live from Lotusphere Podcasts

Our Live from Lotusphere coverage features podcast interviews recorded live before, during, and after the conference with members from all walks of the Lotus community (like key IBM/Lotus staff, world-leading Lotus gurus, and other members of LotusUserGroup.org). Listening in to these brief interviews will give you insights into what your peers in the community are working on, what their thoughts about Lotusphere 2010 are, the top challenges they're facing currently, a great tip here and there you can put to use yourself, and a lot of fun little tidbits of other interesting and insightful information.



Denny Russell
Celia Hamilton, Editor for many of LotusUserGroup.org’s newsletters, talks with Denny Russell of Sherpa Software. Denny is a compliance and archiving guru and a member of LotusUserGroup.org. Celia talks with Denny about some of the issues that Sherpa typically sees from their customers in the Lotus space, the real difference between compliance and journaling, email compliance practices, and more. Denny mentions a white paper where you an learn more about compliance and journaling, who should be involved in the process, and more. Plus find out what Lotus DR dot com is and a little bit about Denny’s thoughts on Lotusphere 2010 and William Shatner.
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John Durst and Mike Stoltz
John and Mike are from Salesplace the CRM tool built specifically for Lotus customers. They’re members of LotusUserGroup.org and partners too. In fact, Saleplace is a sponsor of Lotusphere 2010. John and Mike talk about their 12th Lotusphere and their thoughts announcements and initiatives they’ve heard here. They talk about how the economy has impacted IT as of late, and how some Lotus customers are using Salesplace in unique ways. You’ll hear about some new things going on with the CRM tool for Lotus customers, how they keep it all secure, ways it saves time for administrators, and a lot more.
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Stephan Kuonen
StephAn is from Genius Inside. He's a first timer at Lotusphere and you can listen in on what he liked about the conference. He tells us what Genius Inside is all about and what they've been talking to people about here at Lotusphere 2010 and how it aligns with the new Lotus Collaboration Agenda. Plus, hear how Genius Inside can help an Admin save time in their daily work, and what he did with the Austrian and Swiss Lotus Users Group here at the conference. .
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Todd Magnusson
Todd is the Lotus Notes Administrator and Developer for the Lawrenceville School. Listen in to find out what Todd's work day is like and the project he's working on now in the unique role as both an admin and developer. Plus, hear who Todd's favorite speaker was and learn how he uses LotusUserGroup.org to help him in his job.
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Carl Fink
Carl is the founder of GroupSoft Systems, Inc. and the coordinator for the New England Lotus User Group. Listen in to find out how Carl began working with Lotus and what types of projects he’s working on now. Also, hear how the New England Lotus User Group came to be resurrected and how Carl came to be the new coordinator. Plus, discover who’s speaking at the next two meetings. (And trust me, these names are big!) For more information about the user group, visit www.nelotus.org.
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Nate Lowry and Matt Rosno
Nate and Matt are students at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s Raikes School of Computer Science and Management and two of the winners of this year’s “Lotusphere Idol!” Listen in to discover what Nate and Matt’s winning presentation was about, how it went, how they got started working with Lotus products, and how they found themselves at Lotusphere. Hear about what work they do at the university with Lotus technology and why they love developing with Lotus. Nate and Matt also provide insight on how they think Lotus can appeal more to younger generations. Plus, find out when these two will be available for hire!
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Tom Bowman and Katie Harrison
Tom, an account manager for TeamCentric Technologies, Inc., and Katie, a facilitator of data management and Domino systems at Ritenour School District, are also the newly elected co-chairs for the St. Louis Lotus Technologies User Group. Find out what’s going on with their user group and how you can become a member. Discover what their favorite parts of Lotusphere have been, which sessions were their favorites so far, and what events they plan to attend.
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Keith Brooks
Keith is the CIO of Vanessa Brooks, a leading firm dedicated to Lotus infrastructure projects and the founder of the Southeast Lotus User Group in the Florida area. A guru in his own right, Keith is also an extremely active member of LotusUserGroup.org. In this interview, Keith tells us what Lotus technology changed his life in 2008, his favorite projects of the past year, and what features he’s excited about in Notes and Domino 8.5. He also reveals which Lotusphere session he’s most looking forward to this year and why. Plus, listen in to get some insight into what this CIO of a major Lotus organization feels are the necessary skills for Lotus IT professionals to get under their belt for 2009.
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Libby Ingrassia
Scott Treggiari, Program Director for LotusUserGroup.org, talks with former Program Director (and Notes Girl, and former ePro Editor), Libby Ingrassia. You don’t want to miss this one. Scott talks with Libby about what she’s up to now, how the economy impacts Lotus partners, what Business Development day offers attendees, her Health Check session, her healthy Yoga session, and her involvement with Geek Girls (you want to know about this). Plus, hear about what Libby is most looking forward to here this year, at Lotusphere her preferred Chat tool, and a special 8.5 haiku. If you don’t get to hear any of the other podcasts.
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Richard Harding, AXS One (Sponsor)
Richard has over four years experience handling Notes archiving projects. Learn what challenges face companies today in archiving, tips for a successful archive policy, and what native Notes archiving can and can't do for you.
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Joe Gonzales
Joe is the managing director of a consulting firm based in New York. Joe tells us what sort of projects a managing director of a consulting firm might be working on right now, and what Admin2008 can bring to the table to help him prepare for them!
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Ken Stevens 442k
Ken, from Norfolk, Virginia, is here for BOTH Admin and Developer... he's getting well-rounded experience. Find out what version of Notes, how many users and servers, and what he's running in his environment.
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Fred Brodeur 444k
This is his FIRST Admin conference, so find out why he decided to come here in the first place. In addition, find out why Jess was especially happy to hear what Fred had to say about which sessions he plans to attend!
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Bob Williams 322k
Everyone's upgrading! Bob is going to Notes and Domino 8 just like most folks here. Find out why Bob goes to Lotusphere and Admin, and why a non-hands-on person would still benefit from the conference.
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Bruce Olschewski 386k
Bruce has a small organization (though listening again, I think I misheard him the first time! But Bruce, it's still not the smallest at the conference, I promise), and got into Notes the same way most of us have. Find out why he's enjoying hanging out with everyone here at Admin.
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Bill Malchisky
Bill tells Jess about his company, his experiences with Lotus Notes, and how he got involved. Also, he seems to have the second member record for the most Admin conferences attended!
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Andy Libby, XTO Energy
Andrew is a dear friend of the Lotus Community - and all because he stepped out a few feet from hiding beside the wall at Lotusphere and decided to make some friends. Hear about how many years he's been coming to this conference - we may have a new member record!
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Rich Wheadon, Matrix Resources
Hear all about what Rich does for Matrix, and what Matrix does. You'll also hear why Lotus Notes is such a good fit for his company!
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