ILUG was a great event, and thanks to RIM for sponsoring
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ILUG went off very well last week, and that is a credit to the team who spent so much time setting it up - hats off to Paul Mooney, Bill Buchan, Warren Elsmore, Rob Novak, Julian Woodward, Kitty Elsmore, Matt White, Eileen Fitzgerald, Tom Duff and all the crew. There were hundreds of attendees (from 24 countries), the speakers were great, the organisation was brilliant, but more than that they delivered a relaxed and friendly event that had the "Lotusphere buzz" that is so hard to generate outside Orlando.
RIM were Platinum (that's the highest level) ILUG Sponsors again, in other words they really helped make ILUG happen. They also sent key people to Dublin including Valerie Wang, Jen Ortiz and Lizzie Hancock, Senior Manager Technical Marketing EMEA. For me that's pretty hard evidence of RIM's stated commitment to the IBM Lotus community and they too are due some applause.
Valerie Wang, Product Manager for IBM technologies at RIM, presented "Taking Lotus Collaboration beyond the office on your BlackBerry Smartphone". Valerie underlined the close relationship between RIM and IBM and outlined how they are mobilising the Lotus range of collaboration tools. As at Lotusphere Valerie emphasised the value of going beyond messaging to make your enterprise apps mobile and gave some good pointers to successful development. Valerie also covered the forthcoming BES 4.1.6 release - including the increased use of Sametime presence, emoticons and support for Sametime 8.
Jen Ortiz, RIM Global Technical Account Manager, and Valerie also took part in the "Speedsponsoring" - The Idea: Each sponsor presents on one cool thing in a five minute timed demo - then repeats it 16 times as a new audience clusters round! The Result: A sort of manic double-speed IT streetmarket and a lot of fun. Jen and Valerie presented a neat little BES tool called "Pusher" that lets you centrally emplace and manage a browser bookmark icon on all the BlackBerrys in your organisation.
One last bonus was that Jen also had the new BlackBerry Bold which looked very cool. Hope to have more about the Bold soon.
Bookmark :
ILUG went off very well last week, and that is a credit to the team who spent so much time setting it up - hats off to Paul Mooney, Bill Buchan, Warren Elsmore, Rob Novak, Julian Woodward, Kitty Elsmore, Matt White, Eileen Fitzgerald, Tom Duff and all the crew. There were hundreds of attendees (from 24 countries), the speakers were great, the organisation was brilliant, but more than that they delivered a relaxed and friendly event that had the "Lotusphere buzz" that is so hard to generate outside Orlando.
RIM were Platinum (that's the highest level) ILUG Sponsors again, in other words they really helped make ILUG happen. They also sent key people to Dublin including Valerie Wang, Jen Ortiz and Lizzie Hancock, Senior Manager Technical Marketing EMEA. For me that's pretty hard evidence of RIM's stated commitment to the IBM Lotus community and they too are due some applause.
Valerie Wang, Product Manager for IBM technologies at RIM, presented "Taking Lotus Collaboration beyond the office on your BlackBerry Smartphone". Valerie underlined the close relationship between RIM and IBM and outlined how they are mobilising the Lotus range of collaboration tools. As at Lotusphere Valerie emphasised the value of going beyond messaging to make your enterprise apps mobile and gave some good pointers to successful development. Valerie also covered the forthcoming BES 4.1.6 release - including the increased use of Sametime presence, emoticons and support for Sametime 8.
Jen Ortiz, RIM Global Technical Account Manager, and Valerie also took part in the "Speedsponsoring" - The Idea: Each sponsor presents on one cool thing in a five minute timed demo - then repeats it 16 times as a new audience clusters round! The Result: A sort of manic double-speed IT streetmarket and a lot of fun. Jen and Valerie presented a neat little BES tool called "Pusher" that lets you centrally emplace and manage a browser bookmark icon on all the BlackBerrys in your organisation.
One last bonus was that Jen also had the new BlackBerry Bold which looked very cool. Hope to have more about the Bold soon.
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