ADMIN2008 and Lotus Developer 2008 are two of the most critical events of the year for the Lotus IT professional community. This year, THE VIEW has co-located the 2 events in Boston and is kicking off the conferences with a jumpstart day on April 29th, leading into the full conferences from April 30 - May 2nd. And now, LotusUserGroup.org is bringing you these events online along with some activities, contests, and fun with our presentation of Live From Boston. Whether you're going to Boston for these events or only wishing you were, LotusUserGroup.org Live From Boston has special features in which you can participate. Check out the details below and check back often to see newly added info, contests, and fun!

LotusUserGroup.org's own superguru, Jessica Stratton, has been running around the conferences in Boston, interviewing members of LotusUserGroup.org, including leading gurus, world-class experts, Lotus managers, and your fellow peers. These podcast interviews, give you insight into Lotus history, case studies, experience at the conferences, projects people are working on, and interesting interactions with these members of the Lotus Community. There are podcast interviews in 3 categories:

You can listen to 2 pre-event interviews starting right now in the 2 Minutes With...The Gurus section. In addition, you can listen to podcasts from last year in the other two categories. Be sure to check in often April 30 - May 2, because we'll be adding podcasts in all categories throughout both conferences.

Plus, if you are going to the conference, we'd like to interview you. The interview will take only about 5 minutes of your time, and they questions are easy. Click here to sign up for an interview by Jess Stratton while you're at the conference.

Whether or not you're able to make it to the conference, you'll want to join Jess Stratton on the LotusUserGroup.org blog. Just jump onto the LotusUserGroup.org blog and blog about one or both of the conferences, or respond to one of the posts from someone else. Not sure what to blog about? Here are some suggestions:

There is plenty to blog about, so get going!

April 28 - may 2, 2008 10, 2008
Check out our special Moderated Topic Forum for the week of the confernce. The forum features famous Lotus guru, Chris Miller moderating a forum on a topic he is presenting at the conferences in Boston.

Beyond ND8: Exploring the Functionality and Integration of the Extended Products
Join world-class expert, Chris Miller, in this special topic Forum, live from ADMIN2008, and get answers to all your questions about the extended products like Sametime, Quickr, Activities, DB2, and the rest. Want to know more about how Sametime 7.5 is woven into the fabric of the Notes 8 client? Working with Sametime and want to know how Sametime awareness is exposed in Notes 8 Basic compared to the Connect client found in Notes 8 Standard? Seen information on how Activities can be deployed as a plug-in for the Notes 8 Standard client and want to know more? Or maybe you have some great tips that you can share on DB2 as a back-end data store for Domino 8? Join in, ask your questions, and share your knowledge with Chris and your peers in this topic forum.

Join in, share your thoughts, and ask your questions

Then, the following weeks bring you:

Sign up to be participate in the LotusUserGroup.org focus group, held onsite at the conferences on Friday, May 2nd at noon. Only the first 20 members to sign up can participate. To sign up, email us here.