IdoNotes blog/podcast 7 year anniversary and new decisions & major changes
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I am happy to have survived seven years, as of today, in the Yellow world of blogging and podcasting. It all started somewhere in version 6, right after Lotusphere 2003. I originally based it on a template by an individual developer in the UK named Steve Castledine. Everyone with a Domino server now knows his work since that template became the DominoBlog template we know today. Steve has moved along in the IBM world to be a driving force with OpenNTF. I thank Steve for everything he has done over the years to not only get all of this launched, but the unique challenges, my and other blogs have offered up. I continue to run a highly customized old version of the template with no plans to do anything but enhance the design.
So what will be changing?
First of all, the way content is delivered to everyone. The IdoNotes podcast became part of Spiked Studio Productions in 2009, and will grow more this year with increased exclusives, interviews and commentary. New is the expansion of the IdoNotes and Spiked Studio family into the Zune Marketplace and even more syndication by other networks. If you do not subscribe to the podcast and only stream ones you like, thank you. If you subscribe, thank you. If you have never listened to any of the 70+ episodes, I thank you just the same for even reading along.
Blog content is the next big change. The massive amount of postings coming through PlanetLotus and the feeds in general are becoming hard to consume for many of the people I informally surveyed at conferences and more this past year. The IdoNotes blog will continue putting out some of what I hope is a standard for content and commentary, but with an added twist. The in depth portions, high technical postings and raw commentary will move to a new newsletter format, by subscription. You can subscribe on the top right of the blog
This will allow you to get content straight to your inbox on a weekly or so basis. It will all be handled by your Google login so there is ease of joining and unjoining, a community built around it, and more. I chose Google FriendConnect since Facebook does not have a true newsletter platform yet. The IdoNotes Network will still be alive and well on Facebook, and I urge you to join in to see all the changes that go on across all the sites in my blog and podcast family.
Finally, the commenting system inside the database will be moving to Disqus. This allows me a single point of control, viewing and management for all comment across all my blogs. Whether they are based on Domino or Wordpress, it is all one global comment system. You can log in with Facebook, Twitter and more. It pulls real-time reactions and allows you to use text and other forms of media in response. I have used it for some time outside of Domino and I have been looking forward to this change.
I wanted to keep this short and simple and hope you continue on the journey with me as I always try to bring you the freshest information with honest thoughts wrapped in. Don't forget the social media path I have been bringing you along the past few years, some of you kicking and screaming. TheSocialNetworker already has it's own newsletter as well, if you are interested in the social media side.
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On Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Chris Miller
