ShortCuts hosts
George Faulkner
ShortCuts guest experts
Instant Messaging expert
Akiba Saeedi
Akiba Saeedi leads the product team responsible for IBM's Workplace Collaboration Services that works to define what customers are seeking in new collaboration products, including instant messaging. With nine years experience at IBM, Akiba specializes in portal, collaboration and knowledge management tools with IBM’s Lotus brand. Akiba is a hard-core student of market dynamics who helped drive early Lotus projects into bonafide products. Akiba is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Akiba Saeedi is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #10: Blocking SPIM, 28 September 2006
E-mail expert
Alan Lepofsky
After a short sabbatical to tour the Southern Hemisphere, Alan Lepofsky has recently returned to Lotus in Boston, where his day-to-day duties involve figuring out how to outsmart the competitors. Though this native Torontonian was never into computers or video games as a teenager, he can't imagine his life without online tools. Starting with helping architect some of the initial rules for IBM's Notes network, Alan has a decade of Notes and Domino experience and spends a lot of time putting that knowledge to use on his Web Site, Lotus Notes/Domino Hints and Tips.
Alan Lepofsky is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #3: Archiving e-mail, 11 August 2006
Cut #4: Managing your contacts, 18 August 2006
Cut #7: Unsending e-mail, 08 September 2006
Cut #14: How to prioritize e-mail, 26 October 2006
Cut #16: How to manage e-mail storage limits, 10 November 2006
Cut #23: Special Lotusphere 2007 edition, 22 January 2007
Publishing expert
Ben Edwards
Ben Edwards has a long history in the short life of new media. Ben recently became publisher of Economist.com, the online companion to The Economist Magazine, having spent the last few years as a key player in the world of new media for IBM. Ben joins us to share his enthusiasm and expertise in the world of Web 2.0-related online publishing.
Ben Edwards is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #27: The advantages of podcasting, 22 March 2007
Cut #28: Subscription technology powers online publishing, 29 March 2007
Online video expert
David Berger
David manages strategic communications at IBM, where he's been both a relentless evangelist for online video and a hands-on trainer to other communications pros. His online video focus is a natural outgrowth of his overall new media work with IBM, where he led the development of the company's blogging policy. David admits that his first videos "looked terrible," but thinks they've improved to the point where they're "merely adequate."
David Berger is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #29: How to get started with online video, 13 April 2007
Cut #30: How to get started with online video pt.2, 26 April 2007
Web 2.0 evangelist
David Barnes
David Barnes considers himself the luckiest person in IBM because, he says, “I always have the coolest jobs”. After serving his time as a hardware engineer, then a software engineer, David hit the road evangelizing IBM technology to customers, the press – anyone that would listen. Four million airline miles and literally thousands of presentations later David stopped the travel to run the IBM Extreme Blue innovation lab, and then the IBM Solutions Experience Lab, both in Austin, TX. It wasn’t long before he “got the bug” and went back on the road, this time around working on Web 2.0 evangelism.
David Barnes is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #26: What is Web 2.0?, 15 March 2007
George Faulkner
George gets easily confused by rapidly evolving Web 2.0 mashups, which makes him perfect as a co-host for ShortCuts. An avid audio enthusiast with degrees in Audio Engineering and Radio, George spent most of his career buried in print, working to produce books for IBM. When the inception and rollout of IBM's podcasting program fell into his lap, he leaped at the chance and is proud of the corporate programs he has helped to develop. The odds are that George's understanding of the evolving world of 2.0 will not necessarily blossom. But through his work on ShortCuts, we are confident his knowledge, and yours, will grow with each passing episode.
George Faulkner is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Jennifer Clemente
Jennifer got her first start with technology in 1978, when she received the world's smartest toy robot as a Christmas present (www.2xlrobot.com). After discovering early Web tools for academic research and journalism, Jennifer spent the rest of the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe trying to find a decent Internet connection to file stories about the growing importance of technology in the region's massive political and economic upheavals. Her decade-long blog chronicling her adventures in Belgrade, Serbia during the Milosevic regime earned her notoriety as one of the first bloggers in the region. Now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer opts to write in her diary and catch up with friends over tea.
Jennifer Clemente is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Knowledge management expert
Luis Suarez
Over his ten years at IBM, Luis has developed a passion for knowledge management, from collaboration tools to expertise location, content management and community building, both in the physical and virtual worlds. (Luis is particularly fascinated at the moment with social networking, social software and all things Web 2.0) Luis is also a prolific blogger. He has maintained an internal blog at IBM since December 2003, and publishes regularly to two external blogs. Luis loves cooking, wine, 80s and New Age music and is passionate about basketball. Oh, and if you're ever in Gran Canaria, where Luis lives at the moment, drop him a line - he'll give you a tour of one of the best holiday spots in the world.
Luis Suarez is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #9: How to use social bookmarks, 22 September 2006
Cut #11: Choosing a social bookmarking service, 05 October 2006
Cut #13: How to use wikis at work (part one), 20 October 2006
Cut #15: How to use wikis at work (part two), 03 November 2006
Cut #24: How to structure a wiki, 02 February 2007
Cut #25: Becoming a wiki evangelist, 09 March 2007
Web etiquette expert
Penny Scharfman
Penny has lived in the greater Boston area for her entire adult life, but could never bring herself to root for the Boston Red Sox. A native New Yorker, she frequents the Big Apple for family visits, good pizza and Broadway theater. After cutting her teeth on some heavy-duty products like RAID arrays, Penny enjoys the pop culture status of e-mail and collaboration products, and leads the team that is responsible for setting Lotus Notes and Domino product strategy and direction. Penny is a frequent speaker on the use of these tools in business and provides guidance on the etiquette that has emerged around Instant Messaging and other tools.
Penny Scharfman is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #2: Is instant messaging confidential?, 03 August 2006
Cut #8: How to start an instant message, 15 September 2006
Cut #21: How to use emoticons at work, 22 December 2006
Security expert
Rocky Oliver
Rocky answered his geek calling when he joined Lotus Development in 1992, leaving for greener pastures in 1995. Since then, Rocky has been the HGOC (Head Geek on Campus) at a large national consultancy, a pre-IPO start-up, and even founded his own company. Now he's come full circle, returning to Lotus Software as a Senior Software Engineer in product development. Rocky writes books, pens magazine articles and speaks all over the world. Rocky even has a blog, aptly titled Lotus Geek. And just because he's not busy enough, he has a great wife of 21 years and five wonderful kids to ensure he is never, ever bored (or calm).
Rocky Oliver is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #1: Beating spyware, 28 July 2006
Cut #6: How to catch phish, 31 August 2006
Cut #17: How to block pop-ups, 20 November 2006
Cut #18: Data backups, 05 December 2006
Blogging expert
Todd Watson
Todd "Turbo" Watson was Internet at IBM long before Internet was cool, and hopes to continue to surf said Wave for the foreseeable near future. An expert on many things interactive, Todd led the development of the original IBM e-business Web site and interactive advertising campaigns, work for which old world media stalwart Advertising Age named IBM "Best Interactive Marketer of the Year" in 1999. He continues his interactive focus helping drive Web strategy for the IBM Software Group and blogging for the On Demand Business site. Todd notes that it was not a complete quirk of fate that he began his IBM career the same day Boris Yeltsin worked to counter the "Vodka Putsch" of August 19, 1991.
Todd Watson is our expert for the following ShortCuts.
Cut #5: Fighting blog spam, 25 August 2006
Cut #12: How to maintain a regular blog, 13 October 2006
Cut #19: Choosing website creation tools, 08 December 2006
Cut #20: How to manage privacy when blogging, 15 December 2006
Cut #22: How to get your blog noticed, 12 January 2007
Cut #31: What is microblogging?, 18 May 2007
Cut #32: Are bloggers influential?, 01 June 2007
