Lotusphere 2010 day 2-3 review, summary, compilation and whatever #ls10
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During Lotusphere, I dissected the Collaboration Agenda that was re-presented during the Opening General Session and took notes on some sessions. But, I never gave a good crux of my feeling on Lotusphere2010 in mid stride during the festivities themselves.
Lotus came on strong with the push towards LotusLive and cloud computing on one hand. There were numerous sessions dedicated to the track itself. BOF's were organized in support of the unknown number of companies using LotusLive, and labs were built to give users a test bed. Partners were offered the chance to attend sessions on how to build business using LotusLive and customers were asked in what way it could help. In all a marketing blitz encapsulated in Lotusphere like no other. Partners still wonder how to make true revenue around management, integration and services, outside of reselling. They are pointed to migration services, but you really do not have access into LotusLive to provide a true integration customization experience. I think looking to Lotus to build this into LotusLive would be prudent to assist companies moving into the cloud solution.
The Best Practices track is as strong as ever, with incredible amounts of knowledge being shared by the speakers. This became the most technical track years ago and is a destination for many attendees. The speakers themselves spend inordinate amounts of time to actually create, test and deploy the demos for use in the session. Then add on presentation creation time and rehearsal. I heard ranges of long hours they invested to be selected and create the final masterpieces. Relish these sessions and peek at ones you might have missed. Some of the presenters actual in person presentation may be a little bit different than what was uploaded for you.
Interestingly, there are some sessions that snuck into the schedule with little fanfare but ones you should have seen. Lotus Foundations Start had it's own session on Monday afternoon and is something any company with remote servers for smaller offices, or new ones, should investigate more. Back again was the Nerd Girl panel and some other blogs captured the conversation for you. This is a second year for this session and BOF and really drives attendance for what is apparently a concern with the women in our field. Lotusphere Idol makes another return and allows those maybe passed over or that have never spoke at Lotusphere a chance to stand up and be recognized. You then have a full day to get the real presentation together and actually stand there and do it. It builds the presenter pool and opens the door to just about any topic. There was one on attention management futures in the Notes client that was in the ID track and almost missed my eye on Wednesday morning.
BOF's sit at add times, have very focused topics and beg for your attention. Some are jammed packed and others are lightly attended. They were picked based on your votes of popularity and topics that are needed. Make sure you get involved in these next time. Force yourself awake or indoors in the late afternoon. Sitting in a non-formal structure simply communicating with others that have the same issues you do really brings out tons of information from the moderator and others in the room.
There was some strange events around numerous people having to leave Lotusphere early, which continued the mysterious aura surrounding the entire week. I tried to get a grip on what the feeling was and think I have it for the summary posting I am finishing now.
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On Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Chris Miller
