On Lotusphere, Travel and What the heck happened to October
Category Lotusphere
Rocky has a great posting describing the difficulty Lotusphere track managers - especially the Best Practices track - have at picking out a few sessions from a pool of really amazing submissions. This mirrors my thoughts on the topic, having received unsolicited abstracts for a conference that doesn't even have a call for them.
The SNAPPS gang will be at Lotusphere as usual, and we're still waiting on a final response on one submission before we post anything about sessions.
Now what happened to the last month!?!? I've been steadfastly working on a "nontechnical" consulting project, advising a client on the state of collaboration, strategies to leverage the technologies available today, and configuring a "what could we do without constraints" lab of sorts. That last bit is fun - and frustrating! I have to say, I am left less than impressed with certain documentation. Lotus and IBM have to start getting this part of the equation right - if I and one of my most trusted and gifted technical colleagues have problems configuring a Lotus product, how can we expect customers to succeed? Enough said, I don't want to get on a rant.
So needless to say, I'm very busy with client work, juggling several other new projects, leaning on the gang a little more than usual. Someday, I'll be able to shout about the very cool stuff we're doing in the labs but in the meantime, it's heads down analysis, research, and for the guys, code!
See you in Orlando - and I'll see if I can squeeze in a few more blog entries too.
Rocky has a great posting describing the difficulty Lotusphere track managers - especially the Best Practices track - have at picking out a few sessions from a pool of really amazing submissions. This mirrors my thoughts on the topic, having received unsolicited abstracts for a conference that doesn't even have a call for them.
The SNAPPS gang will be at Lotusphere as usual, and we're still waiting on a final response on one submission before we post anything about sessions.
Now what happened to the last month!?!? I've been steadfastly working on a "nontechnical" consulting project, advising a client on the state of collaboration, strategies to leverage the technologies available today, and configuring a "what could we do without constraints" lab of sorts. That last bit is fun - and frustrating! I have to say, I am left less than impressed with certain documentation. Lotus and IBM have to start getting this part of the equation right - if I and one of my most trusted and gifted technical colleagues have problems configuring a Lotus product, how can we expect customers to succeed? Enough said, I don't want to get on a rant.
So needless to say, I'm very busy with client work, juggling several other new projects, leaning on the gang a little more than usual. Someday, I'll be able to shout about the very cool stuff we're doing in the labs but in the meantime, it's heads down analysis, research, and for the guys, code!
See you in Orlando - and I'll see if I can squeeze in a few more blog entries too.
