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This Week on developerWorks! dW newsletters editor John Swanson joins me to talk about our planned coverage of Impact 2011, number three of the big five IBM conferences each year and the one centered around WebSphere. Impact starts Sunday in Las Vegas and runs through Thursday, ending with a WebSphere Unconference, hosted by Cloudcamp founder, Dave Nielsen. Dave joins to talk about the latest with cloud and what to expect on Thursday.

Jenn Lim is CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010, to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life. She talks about the metrics of happiness, shares stories from the Delivering Happiness tour, and explains their approach to social media at deliveringhappiness.com

Find out how changes to the Selenium framework take version 2 to a new level, where WebDriver fits into the picture, and how the Android and iPhone support enhances mobile web testing (which is notoriously tricky). Interested in leveraging the cloud for testing? Then you'll not want to miss Simon's "Spinal Tap" analogy for some background.

Ryan Koop and Patrick Kerpan of Cohesive Flexible Technologies, along with developerWorks’ Aimee Dean, join to talk about a joint publishing effort that won a Beacon Award runnerup honor for “Most innovative use of developerWorks to drive business results.” The article they discuss is "Deliver cloud network control to the user: See how using a virtual network can put the customer in control of cloud networking".

Tom's extensive work in the government sector requires a laser focus on security. His framework of choice? Grails. He's put this popular framework through its paces and describes where it excels and how it handles vulnerabilities found in other approaches.

Rawn Shah put me in touch with Rachael Happe, Principle and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, a virtual table where social media, community, and social business practitioners network, learn, and further the discipline of community management. Rachael talks about the art of fostering, encouraging and managing a community, something that is inherently non-hierarchical but which is the lifeblood of a business.

IBMers Rawn Shah (Business Transformation Consultant), Ranjun Chahun (Social Intelligence Strategist), and Kate Motzer (Social Business Manager for the IBM Centennial) join me for our closing podcast from SXSWi 2011.

Marketing strategist, author, speaker David Meerman Scott is always perched out there on the leading edge of the web marketing conversations. I love his use analogies, proving again that great story-telling makes for great communication. I caught up with him at SXSWi last week.

I met Tim Washer when he was a podcaster and corporate communications guy at IBM where he produced the now legendary spoof video series, Mainframe: The Art of the Sale. Now a social media guy at Cisco, Tim's comedy moonlighting has included appearances on The Onion News Network, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and as a writer for David Letterman. I ran into Tim at SXSWi in Austin.

One of the great things about any conference is the networking opportunity. Todd Watson and I met Julia Neznanova during a session on brands and celebrities on the web. Julia is with the Moscow-based marketing agency Digitalizm, and was at SXSWi 2011 soaking up the ideas and looking for potential partnering opportunities. She talked with us about the state of social media and mobile in Russia and how they help international companies market to Russian customers.

Stopped by a popup shop near the Austin Convention center where Joel Bush (Amplifier.com), Glenn Jones (glennztees.com), Glenn Severance (FoundFootageFestival.com) we're relaxing in the warehouse area behind GlennzTees' retail space. We talked about their businesses, impressions from SXSWi 2011, and one of Joel's inspirations - Howdy, Neighbor.

Day three from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas found Turbo Todd in sessions and me in multiple interviews -- Tim Washer (comedian and Social Media Lead at Cisco), David Meerman Scott (Marketing strategist and author), and Rachael Happe (Founder of The Roundtable Community). I'll post those soon, but here Todd and I share thoughts from the day on augmented reality, good storytelling, Guy Kawasaki on Enchantment, and more.

Highlights from day 2 sessions at SXSWi: Social Media Club, The Last Broadcast - Entertainment is social, Brand Journalism, Customer Experience: Trends and Insights. TurboTodd and I reflect on what we heard. I also attended Web Mashup platforms for future programmable cities after we recorded the podcast. Some interesting stuff, like the Copenhagen Wheel. Seemed incomplete without IBM's John Tolva on the panel.

Todd Watson and I reflect on the Tim O'Reilly session from the opening half day at SXSWi 2011 in Austin, Texas. Then IBM Business Transformation Consultant and author, Rawn Shah, joins us for a recap of Thursday's Social Business Summit put on by the DachisGroup. We'll have more from SXSWi over the next few days, so keep an eye on this blog. This morning, we're doing a 10am US Central time (-6 UTC/GMT) video interview with Sandy Carter and Kathy Mandelstein of IBM Lotus, live from the Social Media Club site at SXSWi.

Find out what this open source application framework, inspired by Grails, has over its competitors and how it can help you build rich desktop applications in Java and Groovy, and, when appropriate, other JVM languages, like Scala, Clojure, and even Erlang.

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, talks about the Watson computer taking on Jeopardy Grand Champions last week. She digs into the technology, how it all worked, and lessons learned.

Learn more about this lightweight language, syntactically inspired by Ruby and Python and referred to as JavaScript's less-ostentatious kid brother. Find out how CoffeeScript, which is built on top of node.js and compiles to JavaScript, makes functional programming cleaner and produces more readable JavaScript.

dW Advanced Design Team Lead, Ami Dewar, explains what changed with the new site design and how it came about. Plus John Swanson, quite excited about the new MastheadMegaMenu, talks about features and highlights for the week in the developerWorks newsletter.

Sandy Carter has worn many hats at IBM and is currently VP of Social Business and Collaboration for IBM Lotus. In our chat, she defines social business, the social enabling process, and cultural and organization issues for businesses in transition.

Lotusphere 2011 starts this Sunday in Orlando, Florida and I’m joined in this episode by Kathy Mandelstein and Collen Hayes of IBM Collaboration Solutions, and by fellow traveler Todd Turbo Watson in a preview of themes and happenings at the conference. Check this blog starting Sunday for video content from the conference, including streamed keynotes and and interviews from the Product Expo, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.