Blog

Blog Search

Search this site

Advertisements

Everything Else

Sponsor

Wood Watch Review

Google Custom Searches

Custom Blogger Search
Custom Sametime Search
Custom XPages Search

Subscribe

Subscribe via RSS

Recent Tweets

Hosting by

You are here: Home › Blog

Opening session for Collaboration University


Tags :


Opening remarks were from Rob welcoming everyone and showing off the fun events for the week.

  • "Down to Earth" session with IBM.  Real talk, real input.  No 30,000 foot views
  • live jazz from Albadeen for the welcoming reception
  • "Operation Red Flag", go peek.  IMAX show of fighter pilots becoming part of a team
  • The speaker introduction was funny as there was serious and then a 'little known fact' for each
  • We got to see the video from the launch event happening in NYC right when we were starting the conference

The keynote speaker was David Marshak of IBM, Program Director and Senior Product Manager Real-time Collaboration
  • The focus is the second generation of real-time collaboration in his presentation
  • IM as a vehicle for presence-driven lifestyle in organizations
  • Mobile device support will be cool.  It will be extended to include as many Sametime 7.5 features as possible, like click-to-call
  • He covered the RTC and how it fits into the future enterprise.  I have a whole slew of separate comments on the RTC.  Presence and voice chat are in the first release.  More functionality later, like video and file transfers
  • That is where the first generation ends and we enter the second
  • Open extensibility model, rich media and collaboration within and outside the organization
  • David moved into a live demo of the future
  • Knowing where people are is becoming just as important as knowing if they are online in this day of the mobile workforce
  • Location services will move to the server side, but the client can decide to show where they are still
  • Dogears was covered as Mike Rhodin has done in recent talks.  This becomes interesting in larger enterprises where the amount of data can be overwhelming.  Subscriptions to watch other's tags yields great power but can also get us into the RSS/blog issue of information overload
  • Freejam, Skilltap and Broadcasting was addressed from the current ICT (IBM Community Tools) as how it will roll into the second generation

You get the idea.  I have to head to prep for my session so I am missing the end of the kenote..