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 and a moderated topic forum/chat.




Keys To Developing Your E-Discovery Plan
Date: March 09, 2010
Presenters: Denny Russell, Senior Product Support Specialist; Marta Farensbach, Senior Product Manager, E-discovery Division; and Harvey Coblin, Product Manager, Discovery Attender, Sherpa Software.
Developing an e-discovery plan to help your organization become better prepared for the challenges of the e-discovery process is a daunting task. Having a process to locate and present electronic business communications is a MUST for every industry.

Join us for our next online meeting and this presentation from Denny Russell, Senior Product Support Specialist, Marta Farensbach, Senior Product Manager, E-discovery Division, and Harvey Coblin, Product Manager, Discovery Attender, Sherpa Software. These lading e-discover experts will provide an introduction to the key areas involved in the e-discovery process and load you up with helpful information and best practices so you can develop an e-discovery capability for your organization. Check out the presentation and

    * Uncover the key e-discovery issues you need to understand today and in the future

    * See what’s working now for organizations like yours in solving the biggest e-discovery challenges

    * Understand the capabilities you need to avoid unnecessary legal risks and e-discovery costs

    * Find out how e-discovery can help you manage and avoid employee misbehavior and legal actions; comply with its regulatory obligations; preserve intellectual property, and avoid embarrassing data loss or leaks


If you have been considering the best course of action for your company on this important subject, join us for this informative event and get control of e-discovery for your organization. Understand why e-discovery is important, gain insights into the issues and regulations that are most pertinent, and then start creating strategies, capabilities, and technologies to meet needs that will also help manage corporate data properly.

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Making Unified Communications Easy with the new IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5

Originally presented: January 7, 2010
Presenter: John Delpizzo, Senior Offering Manager, Sametime / UC2.

In our first Virtual User Group Meeting of 2010 we were graced with a few surprise guest presenters. Akiba Saeedi, Program Director IBM UC2 Software made some opening comments and touched on some key features to user adoption of Unified Communications technologies. And Rob Ingram, Senior Product Manager IBM Unified Communications joined John Delpizzo, Senior Offering Manager, Sametime / UC2 toward the end of an extremely informative presentation on the new Sametime 8.5 to answer an avalanche of technical questions from viewers.

In his presentation, John covered the basics of IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration and how they help you support your organization’s need to drive a single culture for your enterprise, improve real-time collaboration across silos, and all the while reduce travel, telephone and meeting costs. He covers what's new with the latest release of Sametime - the most significant release of the IBM software platform for Unified Communications.

Join us for our first online meeting and presentation of 2010 and let John Delpizzo, Senior offering Manager for Lotus Sametime take you through the capabilities and benefits of Sametime 8.5.
  • Get a sneak peek at a totally new online meeting experience

  • Discover a zero-download, browser-based client and features that extend unified communications capabilities to your business applications

  • Come see how Lotus accomplished higher-quality while lowering bandwidth for audio and video

  • Plus, get a first look at a new browser-based client for iPhone, a new centralized management console, and a lot more

Join us for our first online meeting and presentation of 2010 and let John Delpizzo, Senior offering Manager for Lotus Sametime take you through the capabilities and benefits of Sametime 8.5.




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Roaming User Management And Enhancements

Date: Originally presented Dec. 17, 2009 (Watch the recording today - see below)
Presenter: William Malchisky Jr., Managing Partner and Chief Technical Architect at Effective Software Solutions.

Today’s workforce is less centralized and more on the move, dictating a need for users to be able to access their customized settings and personal information from any computer that has Lotus Notes installed. Roaming user capability took a hiatus in 8.0 but returned in 8.5 with new capabilities - and 8.5.1 saw further enhancements that every Lotus administrator or manager should know about. Join renowned Lotus administration expert Bill Malchisky in a look at how this capability works, how to make the most of it for your organization, what’s new that you need to know about in the most recent versions, and what your users can expect. Discover what the buzz is around workspace roaming, gain a better understanding of new roaming user files, and see how to best manage the roaming user capability for enablement, relocation, changing status, and more. Whatever version you’re running, join Bill for this informative presentation to get vital insight in to roaming users and how it affects you as an administrator.

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Lotus Notes & Domino is "App" It Again. Find Out What 8.5.1 Delivers for Your Business!

Originally presented: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
Follow-up moderated on-line discussion forum: moderated the week of October 5, 2009 only
Presenters:
  • Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice-President of Messaging and Collaboration at IBM
  • Ed Brill, Director, Product Management, End-User Messaging and Collaboration
  • Pete Janzen, Sr. Product Manager, Lotus Application Development, Domino Designer, XPages, Lotus Enterprise Integrator & Lotus Workflow
  • Michael Masterson, Product Manager; Lotus Application Development
  • Shawne Robinson, Senior Product Manager; Lotus Notes and Mobile & Wireless solutions at IBM

Delivering business value and innovation are table stakes for Lotus, and the 8.5.1 release is poised to turbocharge the Domino developer community! IBM is delivering much more than fixes in this release so come hear the Lotus Notes & Domino product management team dive into the specifics and announce some major changes that are sure to open your eyes. From innovative new features in Lotus Domino Designer, to new initiatives that will expand the Domino developer community, 8.5.1 is the release application developers have been wanting! You'll also hear about great new features for Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes Traveler and Lotus Domino that will have you clamoring for an 8.5.1 upgrade.

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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Performance Enhancements and Tuning Best Practices

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009; 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -5)
Presenter: Pavel Shkolnikov, Development Manager, BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino, Research In Motion

In this technical deep dive session Pavel Shkolnikov, Development Manager, BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino, Research In Motion discusses key performance improvements within the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and how those improvements will positively impact your BlackBerry solution environment. During the second half of the session, Pavel illustrates how the improvements made can be leveraged to establish best practices for scaling and tuning your BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
About the Presenter:

Pavel Shkolnikov, Development Manager, BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino, Research In Motion

Pavel Shkolnikov graduated from Hunter College, City University of New York, in 1999. Pavel worked with Lotus Notes and Domino since 1997, first as a coop with Binary Tree Inc., where he created mail and PIM migration tools to help customer migrate data from legacy platforms to Lotus Notes and Domino. He joined IBM/Lotus as a Software Developer in 2000 and worked on R6 release, creating Active Directory synchronization tools (ADSync et al), Domino License Tracking feature, and other things.

In 2002 Pavel joined Research In Motion, first as a Software Developer on BES Domino Team, and later became a manager of that team. Pavel lead a team through many successful BES releases, starting with BES 4.0. He and members of his team are working hard every day to ensure that BES Domino product integrates exceptionally well with all versions of Notes and Domino, that the product is feature rich, secure, scalable and reliable and that the BlackBerry Solution remains the top mobile solution for Lotus Notes and Domino platform.
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Extend The Value of IBM Lotus Applications with Unified Communications

Originally Presented : June 16, 2009
Presenter: Allan Mendelsohn, Senior Product Manager, Avaya and Gopal Gupta, Global Business Development, Unified Communications Software, IBM
Follow-up Online Discussion Forum: The week of June 15, 2009

A successful Unified Communications implementation automates and unifies all forms of communications into a common user experience, increases efficiency, and can result in an optimization of business processes and enhanced human communications. Join us for this online presentation by Unified Communications experts Allan Mendelsohn, Senior Manager, Unified Communications Product Marketing, Avaya, and Gopal Gupta, Global Business Development, Unified Communications Software, IBM and see how Unified Communications solutions are helping businesses and institutions utilize improved communications and collaboration to increase performance and become more responsive to customers and clients. Get a first hand look at how you can extend telephony presence and click-to-call into Lotus Sametime, Notes, Quickr, and Connections. Discover how to tender unified messaging into Domino and Notes, and how Avaya can help you unify audio conferencing with Sametime instant messaging and web conferencing. Also, see how the combined solution can embed communications into work flow, enhance the ability to collaborate, empower greater levels of productivity and reduce latency in business processes.

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Integrate SharePoint with Lotus Notes – Achieve Your Collaboration Objectives While Managing Expenses

Originally presented: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Presenters: Yaacov Cohen, President and CEO, Mainsoft and Jonas Martinsson, Product Manager, Mainsoft
To help IBM customers succeed in today’s challenging economy, Mainsoft offers Lotus Notes and Domino customers, who have adopted Microsoft SharePoint, the opportunity to integrate the two platforms and promote team collaboration. Strategic coexistence based on Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes costs 1/10th the cost of a typical migration strategy.
During the virtual meeting on April 21st, Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen presents common use cases for integrating SharePoint and Lotus Notes, including remote document authoring and archiving Lotus Notes emails on SharePoint.
Jonas Martinsson, a Mainsoft product manager, demos Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes software, which enables users to access, modify, and publish Lotus Notes emails and attachments on SharePoint from a Lotus Notes sidebar. The presentation also previews support for Lotus Notes 8.5, including the integration of SharePoint events in the Lotus Notes calendar and business mashups that integrate data and business logic from Lotus Notes, Domino, Java and SharePoint.
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Manage and Control Your Data, Even After It Grows
Originally Presented: May 12, 2009
Presenters: Franziska Tanner, Technical Solutions Director at MartinScott Consulting
Now more than ever, IT professionals need to get the most out of their existing software and systems and Domino has just the built-in solution you need. Manage data growth, improve disaster recovery capabilities, and meet compliance requirements more efficiently while increasing performance and manageability - all with tools you already own. In this online session, Franziska Tanner, Technical Solutions Director at MartinScott Consulting, shows you how to get the best performance and manageability out of your existing Lotus enterprise using native archiving and journaling capabilities as well as tools to take it a step further with additional 3rd party options. Join in to learn what questions to ask within your organization before getting started on archiving and journaling, as well as how to plan for tomorrow's data growth. Learn how to evaluate 3d party tools that don't break the bank and how to implement archiving and journaling.
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Originally Presented August 25, 2008
Presented by Gautam Malkarnekar, Product Manager, Persistent System and Vijay Koduri, Product Marketing Manager, Google

Why is it that you can find the “number of steps in the Statue of Liberty” in under a second, and yet you can waste so much time finding that old presentation stored in a Lotus Notes database somewhere? With Google’s universal search for business, you can find all information within your company – including all Lotus Notes / Domino content – through a single search box.

Key Benefits of Universal Search
  • All content, one search box – Search file shares, databases, intranets, content management systems, and real-time business data
  • Lotus Notes/Domino connectors – Search emails and databases in Lotus Notes / Domino through the same search box
  • Security – Document-level security ensures only appropriate people can view any given document

Watch this free online presentation where, you’ll:
  • Hear an overview of universal search
  • View a demo of the Lotus Notes connector
  • Learn how users have improved productivity
  • Hear technical questions answered in the Q&A section

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