Getting back to business...and writing...and conferences...and travel
Category What's Going OnAfter an intense few weeks of "delivery" on a project whereby a terabyte or so of data moved across the pond and 12,000 users were renamed in LDAP in two shiny new clusters (geek creds...still got it), I am focusing some time on the business of doing business (rather, making it happen), some travel, and upcoming conferences.
Back to the Future
I'm thrilled to be taking the whole technical gang at SNAPPS to IamLUG in St. Louis in August and especially excited about the new "TackItOn" concept whereby attendees can add a day of focused training on XPages, iPhone/IPad, or Domino Optimization. I announced it here, and all IamLUG attendees are welcome to register for the extra day and a discounted rate!
I've also just announced (moments ago, for the three of you in the yellowverse who don't get my newsletters) that Collaboration University 2010 will end its super-early registration savings of $200 on Sunday, July 4th. You can still get alumni discounts of up to $200, plus webinar savings of $297...it adds up, folks...and I've posted and emailed a little more detail on the content as we shape up the agenda. It's not an easy task when one of the products is still in managed beta, but I can guarantee this year will have more "new" to it than any of the ten previous installations!
On the horizon, of course, I am looking at ILUG in Belfast in November, and possibly even Tri-State LUG in October as it has the unique quality of being days away from a wedding that will take me east anyway!
Back to Now
In the near term, I will be spending next week in New Hampshire...both having meetings and substitute-dog-sitting for Carl Tyler's beautiful lab Jessie! I'm looking forward to spending a couple days with Gab and Tim Davis, partners in crime and business (not at the same time, don't read too much into this, beloved customers) and meeting with some folks about Quickr now and future.
The following week, I head to Tampa with Viktor and Jerald for a short training assignment - Dojo and XPages - and of course while there's much to see and do in Tampa, I hope to visit with both our training client and another enterprise customer based there. Afterwards, the guys will come home while I drive 3 hours south to Naples to visit with my dad, stepmom, and 93-year-old grandparents. Every chance I get...
So while I juggle travel schedules, proposals, new clients, and conferences, I'm also managing to get a bit of writing done for my newsletter and have more frequent blogging in mind. There will be some changes to the newsletter this time, as I am broadening its scope outside the two products Sametime and Quickr and into the collaboration and innovation world as a whole. In fact, the next one will feature either one or two guest columns on innovation and collaboration strategy. I'm very excited about this gradual change and hope to be able to appeal to a wider audience while still meeting the geek needs of my fellow technicians.
Back to the Future II
More to come. Oh, and a product announcement in July. Haven't done that in seven years. Should be fun.
