Clippings is the official newsletter for Lotus Certified Professionals. This monthly newsletter is your ideal source for news, certification and exam updates, and technical resources NOW brought to you jointly by LotusUserGroup.org, THE VIEW, and IBM Lotus Certification.

• PROGRAM MANAGER'S NOTE
  • $75 Lotus Education Exams at Lotusphere 2009 — Plan on it!
• SPONSORED BY
  • EXTRACOMM INC. — The Leader in Domino Solutions
• FROM LOTUSUSERGROUP.ORG
  • Sharpen Your Skills: Free Recorded Webcasts
  • Big Changes at THE VIEW Mean More Articles on More Topics More Often
  • Avaya and Mainsoft White Papers on LotusUserGroup.org
  • January Virtual User Group Meeting Announced
• SPONSORED BY
  • GSX Groupware Solutions
• GURU GUIDANCE
  • Four Things You Thought You Couldn't Do With Notes Rich Text
• EDUCATION NEWS
  • Train Your Users on Quickr!
  • Instructor-Led Online Courses for Lotus Collaboration and Portal Software
  • WebSphere Portal 6.1 Courses
  • December 31 Deadline Fast Approaching to "Take It Again"!
  • New Professional Certifications for Lotus Software
  • Save up to 10% Every Time You Train!
  • Help shape future Lotus exams at LotuSphere 2009!
  • Announcing Two New Lotus Wikis
• RESOURCES
  • New ISSL ExpertBriefings now available — Atlas for Lotus Connections
  • New book: Application Architecture for WebSphere — Building WebSphere Applications
  • Article: Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) Using WebSphere Portlet Factory
  • Article: Integrating Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Quickr in an Enterprise
  • Article: Exploring Domino Web Access Lite
• EVENTS
  • Lotusphere Is Sweet 16 — Celebrating 16 years as a leading industry conference!
  • WebSphere Portal Technical Conference — Save the date!
  • Lotus Technical Seminar Series
• INSTRUCTOR'S CORNER
  • Instructor Training/Partner Day 2009
  • Regional Contacts for Instructors
  • Instructor Links (bookmark these)

Newsletter archive! The Clippings newsletter archive is available here.

This fall, the IBM Software Group Certification Program Managers gathered and analyzed test prices from major companies offering IT certifications. As a result of this comparison, a decision was made to increase prices in 2009 in order to remain in line with the market value. This increase affects all Software Group brands.

Lotus is doing away with tiered exam pricing for developed markets; all our exams, regardless of length, will cost US$200 (or equivalent). This represents an increase of 0-25%. In growth markets, exams will cost US$100 (or equivalent), which is an increase of 20%. The new pricing structure takes effect January 1, 2009.

Lotus Education is keeping the cost of exams at $75 each for Lotusphere 2009, the same price we have had for several years. This is a significant savings of over 50% off the regular retail price. If you are planning to attend Lotusphere, ensure you schedule some time to get up to date on your certifications.

If you cannot attend Lotusphere, consider attending one of our many technical conferences held in various regions throughout the world. Certification always has a presence at these conferences and, next year, attendees will be able to take their first exam free and their second exam at a deep discount of 50%.

Bookmark the Lotus Certification Public and Private Sites so you can stay informed on any new promotions and discounts being offered. There is an array of programs offered through Partnerworld, such as You Test, We Pay and You Pass, We Pay, to help business partners keep up to date on the latest product technologies and certifications.

Thank you,
Sara Nicklin
Lotus Certification Program Manager

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SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS: FREE RECORDED WEBCASTS

LotusUserGroup.org has held several online presentations for members throughout 2008. If you missed any of the presentations, or want to go back and review any part of one you saw, they are available on our Virtual User Group Meeting page under Recorded Presentations.

Logging And Monitoring Your BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Originally Presented: November 17, 2008
Presented by: Gabriella Davis, Technical Director, The Turtle Partnership

Integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes: Strategic Coexistence
Originally Recorded October 7, 2008
Presented by Yaacov Cohen, President and CEO, Mainsoft and Jonas Martinsson Product Manager, Mainsoft

Searching Lotus Notes with Google
Originally Presented August 25, 2008
Presented by Gautam Malkarnekar, Product Manager, Persistent System and Vijay Koduri, Product Marketing Manager, Google

Archiving Best Practices
Originally Presented February 11, 2008
Presented by Rob Axelrod, Technotics, Inc.

Check out these presentations on demand.

BIG CHANGES AT THE VIEW MEAN MORE ARTICLES ON MORE TOPICS MORE OFTEN

THE VIEW — the longest-running technical journal for IT professionals working with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino — just tripled the amount of articles it publishes and added a new website. Users see more content published on Lotus Notes and Domino related projects, as well as new articles that cover IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) product family — including Sametime, Quickr, and Connections. Plus, it's all getting published on a weekly basis. See the complete story on LotusUserGroup.org.

AVAYA AND MAINSOFT WHITE PAPERS ON LOTUSUSERGROUP.ORG

If you have not seen them yet, there are two white papers in our archive that you may want to check out today.

Avaya
Read up on how Avaya and IBM are leveraging Avaya Intelligent Communications solutions across IBM Lotus platforms and applications to create a seamless communications environment. Such an environment will be of measurable benefit to the enterprise, to the individual within the enterprise, and ultimately to its customers. Combined applications increase productivity, are enterprise-ready by being reliable, scaleable and comprehensive, and connect instant messaging and telephony in existing Sametime and Domino environments.

Mainsoft
Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes is a client-side plug-in to Lotus Notes 8 that delivers instant access to SharePoint document libraries from a sidebar application in Notes. End users can navigate SharePoint document libraries; drag and drop documents between SharePoint and either Lotus Notes or the Sametime IM client; and modify existing documents within a Library using check-in and check-out from the Notes sidebar. Users can email documents as attachments or links. Mainsoft professional services offer custom integrations that solve additional interoperability use cases between SharePoint and Lotus Notes. These include incorporating Lotus Notes emails into a SharePoint-based enterprise content management strategy; building business mashups across SharePoint, Notes and Domino, and .NET and Java applications; and integrating SharePoint into the Sametime sidebar. With the release of Lotus Notes 8.5, SharePoint Integrator will also support the federation of personal and team calendars and deliver offline access to SharePoint documents.

JANUARY VIRTUAL USER GROUP MEETING ANNOUNCED

Don's miss the first LotusUserGroup.org virtual user group meeting of 2009. What is a Virtual User Group meeting? Think about all the things that a live user group meeting contains — a presentation, some time for networking and questions, and perhaps a snack. Well, we can't vouch for the snack, but we are providing the presentation and the networking. LotusUserGroup.org's Virtual User Group meetings include a Webcast presentation, followed up by a moderated discussion forum/chat the week of the meeting.

The January meeting is hosted on LotusUSerGroup.org and is presented by PSC Consulting group. It will include a presentation by John Head leading Lotus guru John Head and long time expert Alexander Kassabov. This live, online presentation will introduce you to some unique and time saving techniques for the integration of Lotus Notes and Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET technologies, and Lotus Symphony. No matter what version of Notes you're running (even 8.5) all the way back to 6.5, you'll come away with a solid plan for Mail Merge, exporting to a spreadsheet, charting, presentation building, and integration on the Web. You'll learn some advanced topics such as Visual Studio Tools for Office integration with Lotus Domino Web Services. Plus, we'll show you live demos on how to use Notes & Domino 8.5 to improve your integration options. Finally, we will touch on how the Integra for Notes reporting and integration framework can reduce your cost to provide your users with the reports they need to get their jobs done.

The presentation is free to LotusUserGroup.org members (and membership is free) but requires pre-registration. Please register today.

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FOUR THINGS YOU THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T DO WITH NOTES RICH TEXT
by Julian Robichaux, SNAPPS and http://www.nsftools.com

Rich text fields in Lotus Notes are extremely flexible. They can contain formatted text, tables, images, files, and even buttons or hotspots with Formula and LotusScript code. However, they are also quite tricky to manipulate using code — the flexibility that is so easy to control when you enter information by hand seems difficult, if not impossible, to control programmatically.

LotusScript provides you with some built-in classes to help work with rich text: NotesRichTextNavigator, NotesRichTextStyle, NotesRichTextDoclink, and more. These classes are sometimes tedious to use and they still don't offer a full set of functionality for controlling rich text fields. At the other end of the spectrum, there are the Midas rich text tools that allow you to do things that you really can't do with native LotusScript.

I'm going to outline a few techniques that fall somewhere between "regular" LotusScript and the powerful Midas tools. These four tricks will give you a little more programmatic control over rich text than you may have thought possible.

TRICK #1: REFRESH RICH TEXT FIELDS DYNAMICALLY IN THE NOTES CLIENT

One of the first rich text limitations you might have noticed in the Notes client is that, by default, programmatic updates to rich text fields on Notes documents in edit mode are not immediately visible. To quote from the Domino Designer Help file (for NotesUIDocument.Reload):

"Modifications made to rich-text items on the back-end document do not appear on the current document until it is closed and reopened."

The first time I saw a technique for working around this was in an LDD Forum post by Bryce Berry from 2004.

I won't rehash the code here (you'll understand it after you've read through it once or twice), but it's a very interesting way to work around the back end refresh limitation. I've used it several times in the past for doing things like attaching files with a button.

TRICK #2: ADD TABLES PROGRAMMATICALLY

While it is possible to add tables with LotusScript using native classes, it takes a lot more effort than you might think. Here's a good example from Joe Litton.

Andre Guirard also demonstrated some interesting ways to add tables to rich text fields on his blog and in his ReportGenerator class on OpenNTF.org.
Dynamic Table
Report Generator Class with Tables

As with the previous example, I won't go through the code in detail here. I just want to point you in a few directions. You can decide which of the techniques works best for you.

TRICK #3: ADD INLINE IMAGES PROGRAMMATICALLY

While it's easy to attach image files to rich text fields as file attachments (NotesRichTextItem.EmbedObject), there's no native way to attach images as inline pictures using LotusScript. Once again, Andre Guirard comes to the rescue with an article in THE VIEW journal 2005.

Even if you don't have access to the full online knowledgebase at ww.eVIEW.com, you can still download the sample database from the article that has all the code. The database works as follows: The image file is added as a MIME part and displayed using HTML, and then the MIME is converted to rich text and appended to an existing rich text field. The code to attach an inline image is as easy as:

	Dim mh As New MimeHelper
	Dim body As New NotesRichTextItem(doc, fieldName)
	Call body.AppendRTItem( mh.GrabImage(fileName, "") )
	Call body.Update

Take a look at the database from the article. It's very slick.

TRICK #4: ADD BUTTONS PROGRAMMATICALLY

You can also add a button to a rich text field using LotusScript. While you can copy an existing button from an existing rich text field with code, there's no native way to create a new button from scratch with LotusScript. Here's a technique I came up with.

This is a class that creates the new button as DXL, imports the DXL as a temporary document, and copies the button to an arbitrary rich text field. While that might sound like a lot of work, the code you need to write is something like this:

Dim rtbutton As New RichTextButton
Call rtbutton.SetLabel("Formula Button")
Call rtbutton.SetButtonLanguage(RTB_FORMULA)
Call rtbutton.SetCode( |@Prompt([ok]; "My Button"; "You clicked my button");| )
Set rtitem = doc.GetFirstItem("Body")
Call rtbutton.AppendButton(rtitem)

Also, you might be able to expand this code to create other things, since DXL can be used to create much more than just buttons.

TRAIN YOUR USERS ON QUICKR!

The Learning Continuum Company (TLCC) now has Quickr training. Two courses come with the Quickr license, Using Quickr 8 Places and Creating and Managing a Quickr 8 Place. Both courses feature:

Customizing the course content — easily customize the courses to meet your organization's unique needs using just a Notes client

Flexible Delivery — students can use either a Notes client or web browser to take the course.

Self-Paced Learning — students go at their own pace.

Using the Notes 8 Sidebar — a list of the lessons can display in the Notes 8 sidebar, always there for quick access.

Quizzes and Final exam — students can test themselves to measure progress and the final exam results are graded and stored.

Low cost per user — TLCC's site license pricing can train all your users for one low cost price!

TLCC also has Notes and Sametime user courses as well as Notes and Domino application development and system administration courses.

Special Offer for Clippings Readers!

All TLCC courses and packages from TLCC qualify for a 15% discount! (5% for any course/package already on sale.) Your discount will be automatically taken off your order.

INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSES

IBM Lotus® Training is now offering some of our most popular courses in an exciting new learning format: Instructor-Led Online (ILO). Students get the benefits of a classroom environment with the convenience and cost savings of online training.

This new format is a great way for you to receive high-quality education and hands-on practice without having to incur travel-related costs that can break your training budgets.

Take a look at what is offered in ILO!

• IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 Application Development 1 (WPV61)
• IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 Application Development 2 (WPV62)
• Administering IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 Services for IBM Lotus Domino (QR700)
• Administering IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 Services for IBM WebSphere Portal (QR 800)
• Managing Effective Collaboration Using IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Quickr (QRC20)

Remember the Key Benefits:

• Save travel costs and travel time.
• Connect from almost anywhere with easy system prep and standard connectivity.
• Interact with world-class instructors.
• Participate in hands-on labs.
• Leverage the same high-quality content used in classroom training.
• Bookmark and visit the Lotus Education ILO site.

WEBSPHERE PORTAL 6.1 COURSES

To realize the benefits of integrating applications or collaboration into a comprehensive portal solution, you need to ensure effective and rapid deployment and implementation. The best way to achieve this success is to ensure that your deployment team is equipped with the right skills.

Education offerings for Lotus Portal Software:

WP610 — IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0 Application Development
WP710 — IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0: Administration 1
WP720 — IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0: Administration 2
WP730 — IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0 Administration — 1 & 2
WP611 — IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 Application Development 1
WP621 — IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 Application Development 2
WP631 — IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 Application Development 1 & 2
WP711 — IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 Administration 1
WP721 — IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 Administration 2
WP731 — IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 Administration — 1 & 2

Please click here for more information.

DECEMBER 31ST DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING TO "TAKE IT AGAIN"!

The December 31 deadline is fast approaching for the "Take It Again" Exam Voucher promotion.

Remember to redeem your Take it Again Exam vouchers by year-end.

Now until year-end is your time to try and try again if necessary.

Here's how it works:

1. Have your voucher # handy and log in to the Prometric Web Site.


2. Using the voucher number, schedule and pay for your initial exam


3. Take the exam


4. Should you not pass the exam, register to take the exam again using the same voucher. There is no charge for retaking the exam.

The following exams are eligible for the Take it Again Promotion:

834 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Foundation Skills
835 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Intermediate Skills
836 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Developing Web Applications
847 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 System Administration Operating Fundamentals
848 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Building the Infrastructure
849 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Managing Servers and Users

Power Systems

330 — Power Systems Technical Support for AIX and Linux
331 — Power Systems Sales for AIX and Linux
973 — Power Systems Technical Sales for the IBM i Operating System
974 — Power Systems Technical Support for i

Go to the IBM Take It Again promotion page on the Prometric Web Site and redeem your vouchers!

NEW PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS FOR LOTUS SOFTWARE

The final months of 2008 are exciting times for the Professional Certification Program for Lotus Software and, by extension, for the Lotus certified community. In December we will announce the arrival of three completely new certifications, all in the System Administration space. They will be related to the following products: IBM Lotus Connections 2.0 and IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1. There will be two certifications for Quickr 8.1, one Domino based and the second Portal based.

They will map to the following exams:

957 — Administering IBM Lotus Connections 2.0
950 — Administering IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 Services for IBM Lotus Domino
982 — Administering IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 Services for IBM WebSphere Portal

In addition to the above, we will be rolling out the new certifications for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino release 8.5. Both of the update exams will be made available, as well as the first core exams in both Application Development and System Administration. At this time it is also our intent to publish the second core exam in the System Administration space, but its release may be postponed to early next near. Going into 2009, we will have the following new tests available:

951 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Application development Update
956 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 System administration Update
952 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Application development Foundation Skills
980 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 System Administration Operating Fundamentals
981 — IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Building the Infrastructure — tentative

More information on these certifications can be found on the private site for Lotus Certified Professionals. And, as always, once they have been released articles will be posted in the News and Announcements section of the IBM Lotus Certification public site. From there, links will be provided to the exam overview, objectives and preparation pages.

SAVE 10% EVERYTIME YOU TRAIN

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HELP SHAPE FUTURE LOTUS EXAMS AT LOTUSPHERE 2009!

Have you ever wanted to influence Lotus exam development? Have you ever wanted the chance to stress important content and skills for certification exams? Now is your chance. Step up and be heard. Lotus Education is conducting a Job Task Focus Group on Sunday morning, January 18, 2008 ( 9:00 a.m. - noon). If you can spare 3 hours out of your day we invite you to attend our Job Task Focus session.

We are looking for people with related application development expertise with

1. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0 and/or IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.



2. IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.1

We are looking for people with related system administration expertise with

1. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0 and/or IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5



2. IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1



3. IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0

The focus of the group is to identify:

• The key work outcomes or work products associated with each job role — What an individual in the role is expected to produce.



• Quality factors associated with generating work outcomes or work products. For example:
• What is a measure of an effective install?
• Should the install be completed within a given time parameter?



• The knowledge, and skills (competencies) required to produce the work outcomes or work products with the required qualities. This may include:
• What the person should be able to do
• What the person should not do



• Indicators for basic, intermediate, and advanced skill levels

Seats are limited, so please respond to Bill McCook to confirm a spot.

ANNOUNCING TWO NEW LOTUS WIKIS

Two new wikis are now available. Lotus Mobile Connect wiki and Lotus Workforce Management wiki.

In the Lotus Mobile Connect wiki you'll find:

• Learning roadmap for administrators that introduces new administrators to planning, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Lotus Mobile Connect.
• Learning roadmap for developers that introduces new developers to the Lotus Mobile Connect Mobility Client APIs.
• Are you ready to deploy Lotus Mobile Connect? You can find information in the Deploying section. Or, add your own deployment scheme to share with others.

In the Lotus Workforce Management wiki you'll find:

• Learning roadmap for developers that offers resources to help you develop self-service applications for your human resources business processes.
• Articles on Lotus Workforce Management Builders to help you develop workforce automation applications.

IBM® Lotus® Mobile Connect wiki
IBM® Lotus® Workforce Management wiki

New ISSL ExpertBriefings now available — Atlas for Lotus Connections

ISSL ExpertBriefing: Atlas for Lotus Connections

Trying to get a better idea of how to leverage the power of social software and social networking technology in your organization? This new technology can give companies a significant competitive edge by allowing employees to be able to more quickly provide and find information and expertise as well as build and leverage important social networks across an organization. In the ISSL ExpertBriefing: Atlas for Lotus Connections podcast, Bill Kilduff, Chris Desforges, and Scot Bentley from IBM Software Services for Lotus discuss the latest trends and uses for social software and social networking analysis technology. They also provide an overview of Atlas for Lotus Connections, an IBM solution that helps users analyze their social networks, identify experts, and better leverage their relationships to those experts.

The ISSL ExpertBriefings podcast series on ibm.com gives you the chance to hear the technical practitioners at IBM Software Services for Lotus discuss Lotus and Portal technology topics and share what they've learned from working on a variety of projects for companies spanning different industry segments. For more information on the ISSL ExpertBriefings series, see the IBM Software Services for Lotus Web site.

NEW BOOK: APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR WEBSPHERE — BUILDING WEBSPHERE APPLICATIONS

The new book, Application Architecture for WebSphere: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications, provides a hands-on, best practices-based guide to defining, planning, and implementing WebSphere application architecture. Author Joey Bernal (IBM Software Services for Lotus) describes how to define layered architectural standards that can improve application quality without compromising flexibility. The book covers the role of architecture and the responsibilities of the architect in WebSphere applications and SOA environments. It introduces specific architectural techniques for addressing persistence, application performance, security, functionality, user interaction, and much more. Samples are presented to demonstrate how architectures can evolve to support new layers and changing business requirements.

ARTICLE: BUILDING RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS (RIAS) USING WEBSPHERE PORTLET FACTORY

In the Sphere Journal article entitled "Get started building rich Internet applications (RIAs) with WebSphere Portlet Factory," IBMers Abhishek Singh and Usman Memon describe how to improve the appearance and usability of Web UIs with rich Internet applications (RIAs). RIAs provide browser users with the familiar functions and features of desktop applications — drag and drop, in-line editing, dynamic validation, and more. This article introduces IT managers, enterprise architects, and developers to the RIA capabilities of IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory. You'll learn about the available RIA builders and how you can use them to ease UI development, improve the functionality of browser-based applications, and maximize user satisfaction.

ARTICLE: INTEGRATING LOTUS CONNECTIONS, LOTUS SAMETIME, AND LOTUS QUICKR IN AN ENTERPRISE

In the developerWorks article "Integrating IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Sametime, and IBM Lotus Quickr in an Enterprise," Jason Erickson (IBM Software Services for Lotus) provides a business overview and the steps required to implement the IBM Community Collaboration offering. With this integrated solution composed of Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Quickr, companies can make tools available that help unify diverse and distributed workforce.

ARTICLE: EXPLORING DOMINO WEB ACCESS LITE

In the article "Exploring Domino Web Access Lite: The New Low-Bandwidth Option in Lotus Domino 8.01," published in Domino Power magazine, author Barry Rosen (IBM Software Services for Lotus) provides an overview of Domino Web Access (DWA) Lite. DWA Lite is a low-bandwidth option that is optimal for traveling users and others who may have limited or constrained bandwidth. The article covers some of the new features added to Lotus Domino 8.01 and architectural changes that optimize performance in the Lite mode including Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax, a tab-based interface, multi-framed architecture, and asynchronous transactions.

LOTUSPHERE 2009

Celebrating 16 years as a leading industry conference. Register early and save $200 when you register before January 15th!

Once again, Lotusphere 2009 will be held at the WALT DISNEY WORLD(r) Swan and Dolphin Resort, and Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resorts in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, from January 18 - 22, 2009.

Register today for Lotusphere 2009; "seamless connections, endless possibilities, working together." Developers, administrators, IT and business professionals looking for collaborative software and solutions will find what they need now and for the future. From presentations on the latest innovations to hands-on training to interactive networking discussions, it's all about getting the latest word on Lotus and WebSphere Portal software products and strategy that you can't get anywhere else!

In addition to the popular JumpStart, Show 'n Tell and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, Lotusphere 2009 will feature four tracks: Futures and Innovations; Application Development; Planning and Managing Your Collaboration Infrastructure; and Best Practices.

Visit the official website.

ADMIN2009 AND LOTUS DEVELOPER2009 — BOSTON

Reserve your seat and be a part of the premier events that deliver no marketing, no fluff. Just in-depth technical training that you can put to use on the job right away! One registration gets you into THE VIEW's Admin2009 and Lotus Developer2009. Get the latest best practices, timesaving techniques, and expert advice on Lotus Notes and Domino, whether you're running 6.x, 7.x, or 8.x.

For more information or to save $300 by registering today, please click here.

WEBSPHERE PORTAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE — SAVE THE DATE!

October 12-15, 2009
San Diego, California

Mark your calendars for the 2009 WebSphere Portal Technical Conference, the largest annual event dedicated to WebSphere Portal business solutions and technical strategies. Details will be available in Spring 2009. Bookmark the WebSphere Portal Conference page for updates.

LOTUS TECHNICAL SEMINAR SERIES

These new one-day seminars are specially designed to quickly teach the skills needed to successfully deploy and manage Lotus products. With content developed by our services groups and taught by our top consultants, these seminars will quickly supercharge the skills of Lotus developers and administrators.

Each seminar will focus on specific skills that may include one or more of the following focus areas:

• Portal administration: Best practices for a successful WebSphere Portal implementation
• Portal development: Portal framework and application architecture for performance
• Domino development for the new millennium: Understanding the Java Eclipse framework, composite applications, and mashups
• Performance management and upgrade strategies for Notes Domino 8: ND8 Upgrade strategies and performance management
• Social networking: Social software through strategic enablement steps of community development
• Web content management: WCM V6.1 Installation, site creation, document integration, and personalization

Seminars planned for December:

Milan, Italy * December 11 * Domino and Portal — Open for enrollment!

More seminars are being scheduled worldwide.

Bookmark the Lotus Technical Seminars page for the latest schedule.

REGISTER FOR INSTRUCTOR/TRAINING PARTNER DAY 2009

Following a format similar to the one launched this year, Instructor Day will be paired with Training Partner Day in 2009. This half-day event will be held on Sunday January 18 in Orlando, Florida.

Register for this half-day dedicated to our Lotus Certified Instructor and Training Partner Communities by sending an email to Sara Nicklin. Be sure to register soon as seating is limited.

Instructors can find out more information, including the location, time and agenda by logging on to the Instructor Private Pages (please see Links below).

INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS

If you have upgraded your certifications, need to add courses to your portfolio or have a general question related to teaching Lotus courseware, contact the Instructor Program Administrator for your region/geography:

Americas:
Sara Nicklin

ASEAN:
Ernese Norelus

Australia/New Zealand:
Kerry Trevethan

Europe:
Ralf Beckhaus

Greater China Group:
Jin MJ Ma

India:
Pradip Sharma

Japan:
Satoru Iwasaki

Korea:
Tae-Hyung Kim

INSTRUCTOR LINKS:

Most of these are located on the Certified Lotus Instructor Private Site.
Only Instructors with an IBM ID can access this site.
IBM Certified Instructor Program for Lotus Software.

Sneak Preview: Upcoming Courses and Instructor Certifications

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