| Victor Toal June 22 2009 11:41:54 AM I was booking my hotel and flights to go to IamLUG in St. Louis. It is taking place August 3-4 in the HoteLumere. I went over to the website http://www.iamlug.org and had another look at the speakers and the sessions - wow! Things are starting to take shape there. Last time I looked there was really nothing to look at but now there is allot of stuff to look at. Looks like Kathleen McGivney will be working overtime (go girl!!) and Julian Robichaux has an interesting one that we all can benefit from: Getting Data in and out of Notes - that is something we all struggle with now and then. Mitch Cohen's one on Lotus Connections is definitely one I will be sitting in - I like the topic and Mitch usually knows what he is talking about.
the one I will DEFINITELY not miss is William Malchinsky's Lotus on Linux session - I work with Linux quite a bit and it is becoming more prevalent, especially in non-for-profits and (who would have thought) hospitals.
I for one am looking forward to going - allot! I plan to fly in on Sunday and leave Wednesday morning. If any of you want to meet up and hang - just let me know - I can mostly be found where there are many voices to be heard - mine is usually the loudest. I am looking forward to seeing my colleagues, peers and the "exalted ones" (those who are REALLY good) - especially since I had to miss Admin this year, I am on cold turkey here.
To do or not to do .... That is the question!
The one thing I am wrestling with right now though is ... should I catch that Cardinals game on Sunday at 1:15 PM or not? Anybody else game? I love watching baseball live, maybe we can get a group thing going together. There is nothing like a baseball game to start the week!
Victor | Victor Toal June 20 2009 10:15:38 PMAnother re-post. I think I saw somebody else post this on a blog as well a few days ago, but the more the merrier I guess. Thi sis really good as it deals with the install kit, if you have any number of clients you are planning to roll out, then you will benefit fromthis one. Victor ================================================================================================ The IBM Open Mic calls are intended to provide you the opportunity to interact directly with the IBM Lab developing IBM software products, On June 24th 2009, at 10 am eastern US time, the Notes & Domino team will host an Open Mic call on Customizing the Lotus Notes Install Kit. For details about the Open Mic call, please see the document Open Mic: Customizing the Lotus Notes install kit - June 24, 2009 If this link is not active, paste this URL into your browser ( http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21390813). You can submit your question in advance via our forum, "Notes Client - Customizing the Notes Install Kit". During this Open Mic session, we will answer questions about modifying components in the install kit, typically to reduce the footprint before pushing out the client. Questions should be of general interest and by their nature help you install, configure, manage or optimize your software. We will collect questions, which have been posted to the forum and address.as many as possible on the call. We will also take questions on the call, which have not been submitted in advance. For this upcoming call, you may find it beneficial to review in advance the following materials:
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Victor Toal June 18 2009 10:46:28 PMDoes anybody out there know the acronym GTD? GET THINGS DONE. I listened to the Taking Notes Podcast by Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux and unfortunately missed out on going to the Lotusphere session by David Allen but ... it was always someplace there in the back of my mind. Heck - I get busy and forget things ... and then kick myself in the behind for it. Lists, memos, to do lists ... they helped but I kept dropping the ball on myself. Then, I recently listened to Bruce and Julian's podcast again and they had Erick Mack on. Eric has been working with David Allen for many years and has been developing eProductivity - a GTD enabled tool for Lotus Notes. Eric offered a special for listeners of the podcast so .... I went for it. I bought the license, applied the template to my mail file and ... voila!! I am cured. I already got more done in a few days then I usually get done in a week. I actually got to stuff that my family was sure I would forget and I now finally have a complete list of my commitments, projects and a much better way of keeping track of them. And, because it is in my mail file, it all replicates down to my Blackberry. I encourage all of you to go and have a look, here are the links: http://www.eproductivity.com/ http://www.davidco.com/ Victor Toal June 12 2009 05:00:00 PMThis drifted into my in-box this morning and I thought it is a good one to cross post. If you are a member of the Lotusnotesusergroup (one looooong word) then you probably already received this. If not, then you should become a member. They do quite allot and offer allot os "value" ( oooh, I used a business buzz word!) This one I think is interesting as it is about UC - Unified Communications. I am running into allot of integration projects lately, UC is usually part of it. Most clients actually don't know the euphemism but they want more out of their investment in their collaboration tools. Currently I am wrestling with a Sametime, Quickr, Cisco integration telephony integration - highly interesting stuff and the geekiness factor of this project is definitely all the way in the in the red zone - just how I like it! I believe this one here is interesting as Avaya is a major player in this field, I am hoping they have some interesting things to show. I am traveling that day so I might not be able to participate but I urge anybody who has time to at least listen in. You might take some interesting tidbits home with you. Victor ============================================================================================================================================================= Hello Colleague,
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