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As speakers, were we not social enough inside LotusLive? (from a comment there)


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I read, with interest, someone asking why the presenters and speakers were not active in their session communities established inside of LotusLive.  From Maria:

In my opinion, it doesn't appear that presenters/speakers are communicating during their sessions on where to locate their Connections public communities (if any). Most of the communities have minimal content, although during the presentation speakers are sharing during their presentation online resources and bookmarks for additional information. Couldn't this information have been uploaded to the speakers/presenters' Connections community before attendees arrived at Lotusphere, which could've spear headed Connections and audience interaction during question and answer portion of session?

It is disappointing that Lotus/IBM is promoting social software but it isn't being used to its' potential.

I think there are a few reasons:
  • Many of us run public blogs that contain this exact content
  • Lotus created these and also had the pdf files, which could have been linked there I imagine
  • We put the resources in the slides themselves, instead of as bookmarks inside the session community
  • The community isn't used by many people it seems
  • MOST IMPORTANT: Lotus online is not a community since it goes away in a few weeks.  See my posting here