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Tuesday at LS09

Today up at 6ish dressed and email checked off to get breakie meeting up with Karen and Rob. I bumped into Brian Campbell and Dan Kikuchi and chatted about our time working on the Portal 6.0 beta programmes and how the economy is in both the US and UK. 

After breakfast off to INV105 Glimpsing the Future: Report from IBM Research & The Center for Social Software with Brendan Buckingham. Irene Greif and team went through the what research are doing in the Social Software space. This session was an excellent insight into some of the project on going within IBM especially the Social Accessibility tools demo’d by the team from Tokyo Labs. The tool was an excellent example of social networking and the crowdsourcing of getting content accessible. 

The other neat research project explained was related to travel and this was entitled Sojourn/ Voyager The tool will basically allows you to interact with fellow travelers and start to manage trips, with co-workers to allow you to benefit from sharing cars/taxi and meeting for dinner etc. The tool will also allow you to to see recommendations on things like hotels and airlines similar to content that is available in tripadvisor.

Coffee with Brendan Tutt checked in at home and then went to AD401 IBM Lotus Connections Customizations with Karl Brooks and Mike Roach. The session looked at CSS customisations, header and footers and finally widgets.

INV101R From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0: Collaboration, Productivity, and Adoption in the Enterprise. Reckling and Kogan providing more information on Web 2.0 to E2.0. Lots of references to books on mass collaboration including Clay Shirky Here comes everybody. Walked through three scenarios on using E2.0 in business.

AD405 Are you REALLY taking advantage of an integrated Lotus Collaboration experience – Thomas Schaeck and Derek Carr gave an informative overview of the services available to consume and produce with REST APIs within the Lotus product suite including demos of Quickr, Connections integration with Portal with improvements coming with an iWidget for Quickr libraries

Caught up with Jon and had a look around the showcase, store and bookshop. Spoke with MainSoft team on MOSS and WSS integration with Lotus products.

ID217 IBM Lotus iNotes for the Apple iPhone and iPod with Will Williams and Eric Portner with some really good demo on a simulator for the iPhone. I have used the Lotus Greenhouse Ultralite mode in iNotes (see greenhouse.lotus.com to get access to the service). It is really good and we are waiting for access to the internal pilot for this service at IBM.

Not Long to Lotusphere 2009

Clock is ticking to LS09 and I have started to form my agenda items for the weeks proceeding and only a few clashes. If it follows previous trips to Orlando my planned scheduled will go out of the window as I change my mind once I revisit the descriptions etc of the sessions, plus sometimes I just lose the will to walk back to the other hotel.

So some topics I will be looking into will be Portal, Connections and general collaboration updates announced. Must do’s are visiting all my remote colleagues and friends from the development, technical and services teams that will be in Orlando including visiting booths/Peds for ID/Redbooks, ISSL and Products, plus all of our BPs.

I will most definitely  be visiting the Labs to see what going on and what research etc are up to in the coming months. Hopefully I will get the chance to get some decent info for my customers and of course myself.

In addition to the fun and games of Lotusphere there will be the compulsory shopping during the week, it just a pity the exchange rate is so poor at the moment. I will be going to the apple store at some point as it is compulsory to double check to see if there is anything worth buying. Sorry I should rephrase that to see what I can justify buying, maybe one day the IBM powers will furnish me with a MacBook for work so I can get rid of the stinkpads. Or they should just give me some money and I will buy my own  

well more about Lotusphere over the coming week and whilst I am there I will blog about it when I can

countdown continues

so days are slipping away fast and on Friday its the little boys first Xmas concert at nursery so that will be interesting how they will herd so many cats, I predict chaos  

Just jazzed up one of my presentations on Lotus Quickr to take some of the words out to be replaced by visuals, will see how it works tomorrow. I am hope to pick another presentation and spend some serious time revamping to see if I can make wholesale changes to bring it away from the boring/dull technical presentations that I give on an almost daily basis. Watch this space to see what comes of both of these activities. I can see it now and the techies will say its too marketing, which I will have to disagree with as why do they need the word written down if I am presenting the fact verbally. The plan would be to provide the recipient with a document to confirm the details and not a soft copy of the presentation.