I am back home after a busy few days in Chicago for Collaboration University, not sure where all the time went, somehow I managed not to blog anything while I was there.. On day 1 of CU I presented with Chris Miller on Installing and Configuring Lotus Connections. The keynote address was delivered by Ed Hackett a retired Marine Colonel, titled “Collaboration When it Counts”. Julian Robichaux has a good write up on his keynote address. On day 2 of CU I managed to attend a number of sessions, specifically Warren Elsmore’s clustering sessions, and Gabriella Davis’s session on administering Sametime Advanced. When CU wrapped up for the day Carl Tyler, Warren, and Libby Ingrassia took a nice ride up 103 stories to the observation deck of the Sears Tower, on a nice cool clear day we had a great view of the entire city of Chicago, including this photo of the building where CU was held. 
(and for the record, pay no attention to Carl, the good photos were all taken by me) Day 3 was two sessions detailing the futures of Sametime and Quickr, you can see a write up on the sessions by Handly Cameron on his Blog. After CU wrapped up Handly and I found ourselves some lunch and I then headed back to O’Hare for the flight home, I was a little nervous about my flight since Continental would not allow me to check in on line. When I got there they informed me they cancelled my reservation because I did not fly to Chicago on the first portion of the round trip ticket. Despite the fact that I was standing in O’Hare it took a few minutes to convince then that I was actually in Chicago, fortunately the flight was not full, so I got my seat back on the plane, and amazingly we landed in Newark Airport 30 minutes early.