David: We've known you around the Lotus world forever, but what's your actual background? Tell us about yourself.

Bruce: I started with Notes back in 1993 when I was asked to create a "paperless" office for Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Notes was (and still is) the perfect solution for creating mission-critical applications for enterprises.

In 2001 I helped co-found OpenNTF, the Open Source community for Notes/Domino. In 2007 I retired from OpenNTF to start Elguji Software, LLC -- the makers of the award winning IdeaJam idea managment software.

Julian Robichaux and I host a podcast which can be found at http://takingnotespodcast.com. We are approaching show number 100! I also co-host another podcast called "The 1352 Report" with Carl Tyler, Jess Stratton and Sean Burgess. I even have a dog named "Domino Designer". [See Figure A. --Ed.]

FIGURE A


Domino Designer's no dog. Well, actually, yes. Yes, he is. Roll over picture for a larger image.

David: Seriously? You named a dog "Domino Designer"? Let me guess...at night, you call him "Eclipse". Tell the truth: beer was involved, wasn't it?

Bruce: How the heck did you know this! Domino Designer is now almost 7, believe it or not, and while he is a great dog, he does get a bit jealous of his new sister "Exchange Server". Ok, just kidding -- her name is Bella Luna and they both get along great!

David: Oh, and he's so cute! I could talk about dogs and cars all day. If we added in a reference to mother, trucks, or prison, it'd be a country song. But since this is DominoPower, let's talk about the podcast for a moment. Many of us have heard it, but how do you produce it? And what Lotus tools do you use (and how do you use them) to make it happen?

Bruce: Julian Robichaux and I use several tools to product the show. We record the audio over Skype, use a program called "The Levelator" to adjust the audio levels and then throw it into Apple's GarageBand for production. For The Taking Notes Podcast blog, we use a version of Steve Castledines ProjectDX template. The MP3's are stored off at GoDaddy and we use FeedBurner for the RSS feed.

David: Let's move onto IQJam, which I know you're excited to discuss. Could you please describe IQJam?

Bruce: IQJam is an "Innovative Collaborative Question and Answer Community for the Enterprise". Let's face it, we all know that someone, somewhere out there, has the answer to a question or a problem that you have. The hard part is finding that someone.