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LCTY Israel – details and registration

LCTY Israel event will take place on Thursday, March 20th, at IBM Israel.
You can register now at ibm.com/il/news/events/collaboration. You can also check out the facebook event page, and RSVP, BUT – you must register at the official IBM site. Don’t say you didn’t know…

This year’s Lotus Collaboration event will focus on Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software. 2008 has been marked by several analysts and IT companies as the year of social software – the year in which social networking will pave its way through the corporate firewall, and into the business processes. The event will be half-day, focusing on Lotus Stragety and social software solution, and the agenda is packed!! Our BPs will showcase their solutions and we’ll host 3 Lotus managers from Europe and the US:
Alan Lepofsky from Lotus Strategy team in the US, Arjan Radder from The Netherlands and Jason Risley from Spain. We’ll also provide you a glimpse of the social software future, when a colleague from IBM Haifa Research Labs will present and demo a solution that might find its way to the Lotus portfolio…
Here’s the agenda (you can also view it on the site):
09:00 – Registration, networking and BP showcase
09:30 – Welcome, Dvir Reznik
09:45 – Keynote – Lotus Software Strategy, Alan Lepofsky, Lotus Strategy, SWG, IBM US
10:30 – Social Networking at your Business, Arjan Radder, Social Software Sales Manager, SWG, IBM South-West Europe
11:15 – break
11:30 – SONAR – bridging the social networking gap, Inbal Ronen, Collaboration Technologies Dept., IBM Haifa Research Lab
12:30 – Collaboration in Harmony – demo, Dvir Reznik, Lotus Sales & Alex Balk, Lotus Technical Sales
13:30 – WebSphere Portal – Smart Solution for a Web Portal
14:15 – Lunch

See you at the event. Don’t forget to register…

I’m a YellowBleeder, are you?

Now there’s another method to reach me, other than email/IM/Connections/Blog/facebook/ST-Demo/LinkedIn/phone/mobile – YellowBleeders group. Nathan Freeman of Lotus911 (and Alan Lepofsky and Adam Gartenberg) just wrote on how you can make your Lotus Sametime client or Notes 8 embed client ‘talk’ with the social software buffs already signed-in to BleedYellow.com.

You’re welcome to ping me !

Lotusphere Comes To You – March 20th, Israel

Now it’s official – LCTY Israel will be held on Thursday, March 20th, at IBM Forum Israel.

Unlike the SWG Community Day which we had this week, LCTY is all Lotusphere 2008, for those who couldn’t attend the event in person back in January. LCTY is a worldwide initiative, held in dozens of locations across the world, for most of 1H 2008.

LCTY Israel will focus on Collaboration and Social Networking. We’re aware those two terms may have been worn out by various events and conferences, but that is what Lotus excels in – collaboration. And if you followed the announcements from Lotusphere and the follow up analyst coverage and reports, you know that as well. The agenda is still being built, but we are planning for some major Lotus names to visit, Lotushpere veterans.. IBM researchers from Haifa Research Lab will present and demo some of the innovative collaboration projects they’re working on – which might become Lotus solutions one day. Dogear and its parent solution Lotus Connections are based in part on innovations built at our Research dept., which IBMers are using on a daily basis. It’s gonna be interesting…

If you need additional incentive, read Ed’s post from last year’s event.
So, invitations are being made now – but you can ‘save the date’ right now:
LCTY Israel – Thursday, March 20th, IBM Forum Israel.

Updates from SWG Community Day

I had good intentions of writing this post right after the event, but there’s this little thing called ‘life’, which rhymes with ‘wife’ – yada, yada, yada…

Anyways – SWG Community Day was an excellent user group event, with full house of Lotus/Portal users, who enjoyed a relaxing afternoon with a movie. My Lotus Collaboration booth was packed with people asking questions, wanting to see first hand Notes/Domino 8.0 with Sametime, Lotus Connections and Lotus Symphony.. too bad I only had 30min for that.
Lotus Expeditor was presented by Eyal Levin, SMB Sales Mgr., and Yuval Feller, IT architect, both colleagues from SWG. Lotus Expeditor provides a wealth of features and possibilities to build a desktop, which aggregates many services and composite applications, either web-based, client based or server managed.
My recently appointed Lotus technical sales, Alex Balk, showed how innovation is taking center stage at IBM, and what our employees are using when it comes to collaboration and social software. Lotus of course…
More pictures are available on Flickr.

From one event we quickly move to the next one – LCTY Israel in March. Stayed tuned for details…

Heading to Community Day – are you?

It Monday folks, which means SWG Community Day is upon us.
I’m heading out there soon (quick lunch before… 😉

We already have over 40 participants in our session (Lotus/Portal), and they’re in for a treat.
During the welcome and networking we’ll have a collaboration booth, featuring Lotus Notes 8.0 with embed ST client, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Symphony.

Inside the hall, I’ll open the session with a quick summary of Lotusphere 2008 announcements, and some local updates – like the Collaboration Event we’re planning for sometime in March.
Then we have 2 lectures and live demos planned out: The first will showcase IBM Lotus Expeditor, the future desktop, IBM/Lotus rich client platform; The second will showcase ‘Innovation @ IBM’ – how IBMers collaborate, using the same tools and solutions available to the customers. Lotus solutions of course.

Hope to see you there !

Lotus Symphony Video:

Lotus Connections Video:

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