Your membership to LotusUserGroup.org provides your link to a year-round, world-wide community with access to other Lotus professionals, discounts, events, and more. To learn more about the organization, review the About Us page. Membership is free and provides a variety of benefits, including the following:

• Support for starting or joining a regional user group or a virtual user group
• Hosting for regional or virtual user group sites via a Quickplace hosted by Connectria, one of our member partners
• Topic forums, moderated weekly by volunteer experts from the community
• Discounts to select products and services
• Support for live meetings of regional user groups, including assistance finding presenters and presentations, and opportunities for meeting sponsorship
• Weekly update newsletter as your key to what’s new on the LotusUserGroup.org site
• Monthly system administration and application development tips newsletters
• Partnership with Lotus Certification to bring you the Clippings certification newsletter
• Speaker bureau, to assist regional user groups with locating willing expert presenters and to allow independent experts to show their willingness to present to regional user groups
• Event listing, to aid in locating regional and virtual events (contact us at UserGroupInfo at LotusUserGroup.org to add your event to the list)
• User Group listing, to aid in finding and marketing your regional or virtual groups (contact us at UserGroupInfo at LotusUserGroup.org to add your group to the list or to edit your group's listing)
• User Group leaders area, to let regional and virtual group leaders collaborate on ways to support their groups
• Quarterly virtual user group meetings, which are open to the entire LotusUserGroup.org membership for live or recorded viewing, including a technical presentation by an industry expert and networking opportunities
• Links to useful resources throughout the Lotus community