This past Monday we held the 2010 edition of the Tri State Lotus User Group.  We had close to 100 attendees for a full day event, kicked off in the morning with Alistair Rennie’s Keynote, wrapped up with Kevin Cavanaugh presenting the Collaboration Roadmap, and a full slate of sessions in between.

Alistair and Kevin both presented very informally, taking lots of questions from the audience throughout their presentations. They also presented quite a bit of the same information that they covered at LoLA the week before, giving the audience a real glimpse of what is coming short term, and what they can expect to hear more about at Lotusphere 2011.

Special thanks to GSX, Teamstudio, PSC, and SGA Business Systems for their sponsorship, and to IBM for providing the facility and Logistics support. Kathleen McGivney is the master organizer, seeing to every last detail (and there are many of them) to make the event a huge success.

Thanks to Matt White for all his support with the LUG Site template, and to Joe Hoetzl for creating the Tri State LUG Graphics, and presentation templates. Joe also served as our event photographer you can see photos of the even in the Tri State LUG 2010 Flickr Set.

Big thanks of course goes out to all of our speakers, we are working on getting all of the session slides uploaded to the Tri State LUG site (some of them are already there) click in to the individual sessions to find the slides.

Here are some links for more information on Tri State LUG 2010

My live blog of Alistair Rennie Keynote
My live blog of Kevin Cavanuagh Collaboration Roadmap Session
Chris Miller:Tri-State Lotus User Group live keynote with Alistair Rennie
Chris Miller: LotusLive Notes cloud hybrid modeling
John Head: Did you notice the IBM Lotus news that came out of TriState LUG yesterday?
Curated.by Bunudle of Tweets from Tri State LUG
Twitter Search for TriStateLUG

I guess all that is left to do now is begin planning Tri State LUG 2011

Have you registered yet? In case Alistair Rennie delivering the keynote, and the great session line up we have isn’t enough Kevin Cavanaugh Vice President, Messaging and Collaboration Software, has been added to the Tri State LUG lineup. Kevin will present the Collaboration Roadmap. “In this session, we will discuss the messaging and collaboration product family roadmap, including plans for Lotus Notes and Domino in 2010 and beyond.  Come hear about ways to reduce your operational costs and deliver increased organizational value.  This session will also showcase the roadmap for Lotus Symphony and productivity tools, Alloy by IBM and SAP, and Lotus Protector security products” Please Join us for Tri State LUG on October 11, 2010 in NYC.

I am happy to announce Tri State LUG 2010 Scheduled for October 11, 2010 in New York City.  Visit the Tri State LUG web site for more details, and check back often as we will be announcing our keynote speaker, agenda, and speaker line up over the coming weeks. If you are interested in sponsoring or speaking at the event please get in touch. Follow TriStateLug or it’s organizers on Twitter Jim Casale Kathleen McGivney Mitch Cohen Tri State Lotus User Group

Last night I was thinking about the speakers and the agenda for our upcoming event in NYC on November 9.  When we formed this group earlier this year we wanted to cover what is known as the Tri State Region (New York, NJ and Connecticut).  With just over a week to go until the event we have attendees registered from at least four (the three mentioned and Pennsylvania)  maybe  five states  and Speakers coming from 2 Countries, 8 States, and 1 US Territory.  So whatever state, country, or territory you happen to live in you are welcome to join us, but if you don’t want to be waitlisted you need to register now! Here is a a map showing where the speakers are coming from

I am pleased to announce the Fall meeting of the Tri State Lotus User Group taking place on November 9, 2009 in New York City, and featuring a Keynote address by Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano.  

NEW MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT! Next meeting will be an all-day meeting on November 9, 2009 in New York City. Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano will be presenting the keynote, and we will have an exciting lineup of speakers throughout the day!

The rest of the agenda will be available shortly, but registration is now open, and with limited capacity we suggest you reserve early. Follow TriStateLug on Twitter for all of the latest news.