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Updated: The Jam is 8/19-8/22 (not 8/21 as previously stated)

The Lotus Knows Jam kicks off on Wednesday August 19th at 8 AM EST and runs through Saturday August 22 at 8AM EST.  This is your chance to contribute to  and influence the Lotus Knows Marketing campaign

Register for the Jam here.  (If you are already a registered ideajam User no need to register again you can use your existing ID)

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 08/17/2009 @ 8:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Take your pick you can have this song or this song stuck in your head for the rest of the day..... you are welcome!

The Lotus Knows campaign enters it's next phase today and tomorrow.  The Lotus Knows site while available today officially goes live tomorrow, while the advertising campaign kicks off today.   Over the next few weeks you should begin to see Lotus Knows advertising in selected airports, trains, and other selected print and online destinations.

The Lotus Knows bus has even had it's first sighting



Image via @mcalleran ( I will get my own picture in a few hours when I arrive in Harvard Square)

I am currently on my way up to Boston for the LoLA event this week, tomorrow morning I suspect we will hear a lot more about the Lotus Knows campaign at the opening event, and it should be one of the topics this week that I can actually blog about.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 09/21/2009 @ 8:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Updated: The Jam is 8/19-8/22 (not 8/21 as previously stated)

The Lotus Knows Jam kicks off on Wednesday August 19th at 8 AM EST and runs through Saturday August 22 at 8AM EST.  This is your chance to contribute to  and influence the Lotus Knows Marketing campaign

Register for the Jam here.  (If you are already a registered ideajam User no need to register again you can use your existing ID)

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 08/17/2009 @ 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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This was filmed back at the LoLA event in September 2009

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 02/05/2010 @ 9:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

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A look back at LoLA and some of the events that took place over the last few days.

Tuesday morning started with the launch of the Lotus Knows web site, and the launch of Lotus Advertising in the Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe







Following the LoLA Opening Session I was invited to attend Bob Picciano's press briefing. In addition to officially announcing the launch of Lotus Connections 2.5, Bob talked about the Lotus Knows campaign and some of the places where it will start appearing initially

Airports -  Boston, New York (JFK, & LGA) and Dallas
Mass Transit - New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Boston
Online, In Flight and others coming soon.

This is just the initial launch, they have committed to taking this campaign further both in and out of the US

Bob also shared some thoughts on recent comments from Microsoft Executives

"People need to recognize that Kevin Turner and Steve Ballmer have blown a lot of hot wind from Washington and there is not much substance or truth to what they are espousing in the marketplace," Picciano said. "They were so bold as to say there are entire countries that have migrated off of Notes and that is utterly ridiculous."

Lotus goes after Microsoft's 'ridiculous and fabricated' figures

Over the rest of the week it was great to spend time with the IBM team, fellow members of the GCPC, and friends, Paul really summed up the week nicely (just don't believe him about the early bed time, he is only saying that to save face as he left the bar earlier then I did one night not something likely to happen again too soon)

With LoLA behind me now it is time to get serious about my Lotusphere Abstracts

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 09/24/2009 @ 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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The Lotus Knows bus tour was nice enough to make a stop at my office today.  Here is the bus arriving on site and being escorted by security to it's reserved parking space.



and here is the bus parked and ready for the team to come aboard



sorry Bruce, I got to drive the bus!



and finally here is the Lotus team demoing Sametime Unified Telephony to the team on the bus



Thanks to IBM for a great morning on the bus, which is now heading down to Philadelphia, PA this afternoon, before heading down to Baltimore, Washington and Virginia tomorrow.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/05/2009 @ 12:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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Photos later due to technical difficulties

Chris Miller on stage opening up IamLUG we got tired of everyone internationally having these cool conferences so we brought one here.

Why August in St. Louis. - It's cheap and I live here (Chris)

Free Wifi and Free Coffee all day!

170 delegates from the US and 5 others

Booty Sweat making an on screen appearance at the OGS (thanks to @greyhawk68)

Mary Beth Raven wins the IamLUG YouTube context with "I am a sock puppet" can't wait to see that later.

Kevin Cavanaugh, VP Messaging & Collaboration now being introduced for the keynote, and promises some surprises.

Kevin is talking about the Lotus portfolio in the market place, leading off with the analysts recent positive press coverage of Lotus Notes

"Microsoft has its Sharepoint-based offering, but this does not yet offer the feature and level of integration displayed by Lotus Connections" Butler

Connections is the fastest selling software ever in IBM Software Group

"Symphony has the full engineering excellence - reliability, usability, support and maintenance  - the we expect of any enterprise product, especially from IBM" Bloor

Kevin - "average customer wastes $200.00 per user buying Microsoft Office"  we are serious about Symphony and will continue to develop it in the market place.  

"Sametime presence is the ancho technology that brings IBM's collaboration and communications components together" Gartner 2009 Marketscope for Instant Messaging

Look at what [IBM] is doing with Quickr. It is extremely extensible and gives organizations a lot of opportunity to customize applications, to build new functionality... " Nemertes

"This is a big convenience for Lotus Notes users, who will find value in being able to access popular business tools without leaving the Notes app.  More then 43 million professionals connect on LinkedIN while TeipIt organizes trip details, along with directions and weather forcasts in to a master itinerary" eWEEK

Every time we announce one of these we get calls from five other companies looking to integrate with Notes,

"IZBM is changing the conversation about collaboration and social software.  IBM Lotus will be doing this on several levels: extended collaboration, the value the openness brings to the collabroation equation and the importance of using collaboration to optimize talent" Hurwitz

Two years running of IBM beating the completion at Enterprise 2.0 Connections over Sharepoint in 2008 Lotus Live over Google in 2008

Kevin is talking about the cloud and while he says Lotus will go toe to toe with anyone on cloud based e-mail it is about changing the model and enabling external collaboration, customers running their Domino environments efficiently are typically at a lower cost per user then google charges.

In CRN Magazine Lotus Notes 8.5 defeated Microsoft Exchange 2010 in a competitive product review (originally was a bake off between Notes 8.5 and Exchange 2007 results were to lopsidedd so CRN switched to Exchange 2010 even though it did not ship yet)

Kevin is now introducing a new advertising campaign with a minimum 18 month commitment showing a picture of a cab with the tagline "Lotus knows which route the cab should be taking to the airport"

Big applause for the Lotus Marketing campaign Kevin is showing.  

Community input in to Lotus Knows "x" Do you know Lotus? for the marketing campaign look for more information in mid August to participate.

Kevin is wrapping up, we are going to work very hard over the next 18-24 months to change the perception of Lotus.

Chris Miller coming back up on stage now

175 people watching the stream live of the OGS  

Paul Steel Manager of Technical Services for the Global Strategic Accounts Team at Research In Motion is now coming up on stage  (RIM is platinum sponsor of IamLUG)

RIM and IBM working closely together, at Lotusphere and WES IBM/RIM announced a close partnership allowing Lotus technology to be available quickly.  BES certified for 8.5 with in 10 days of it shipping, expect to see that again with 8.5.1.

Extending Connections, Quickr, Sametime and Symphony down to the Blackberry device.

Paul is now getting ready to give away a Blackberry Device, looking for the oldest blackberry device in the room looks like an 8900 is the winner. The 8900 owner is now getting any model they want free from RIM.  Nice opening giveaway.

That wraps ups the OGS off to find coffee


   

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 08/03/2009 @ 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Wrapping up a busy day 1 at IamLUG, and getting ready for an early start tomorrow, I present my Lotus Connections session is at 8:15 tomorrow morning.  

First the pictures I was missing from this mornings OGS

Here is Chris Miller opening up IamLUG



in case you doubted that "Booty Sweat" was actually included in the OGS, well here is a screenshot



Kevin Cavanaugh delivering the keynote



One of the concepts shown for the upcoming "Lotus Knows" marketing campaign



Following the OGS I attended "What's ID Vault and why you can't live without it" presented by Gab Davis if you are even thinking about deploying the ID vault this presentation is the place to start showing you how to create and manage your vaults, and make your clients work with the vault.

After lunch I was off to " Managing your Infrastructure and managers" presented by Paul Mooney and Eileen Fitzgerald, I am sure I missed the real point of the session but all I walked out of there with was the feeling that Paul is somehow obsessed with printers and printing,  really go ahead an ask him about it next time you see him.

The session portion of the day wrapped up with Ed Brills session titled "IBM Lotus Messaging and Collaboration strategy".  The highlights from Ed's talk were

- Notes 8.5.1 targeted to ship around October 7th
- The story around the 8.5.1 release will be application development
- Notes 9 themes - improved search, group calendar, RSS subscriptions in the inbox, unified task management
- Symphony 2.0 to ship in the first half fo 2010
- Traveler on Linux is being looked at (not committed to a particular version yet)

The evening activity was a reception for all the IamLUG attendees, and that wrapped up Day 1, looking forward to tomorrow.
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Posted by Mitch Cohen on 08/04/2009 @ 12:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)