May 17, 2004
Back from Admin2004
Posted by Jess in
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Back from Boston, and words can't say how floored I am about how it was. The sessions, the people, it was just great.
Ed Brill and I attended Mike Rhodin's keynote together about Lotus Workplace, and it looked great, but I had one question that I forgot to ask Ed. I was happy because I had heard so much about it, but it's hard to visualize through the extensive feature adjective list without actually *seeing* it. I finally got to do that. But here's the question:
one of the focal points was about using push-technology to bring client apps to users. But was that LOTUS client apps, or any client apps? It's a big difference, and one I'm not sure of.
I attended so many great sessions, and had a long time to wait, as I wasn't presenting until Friday.
However, I did my session, Best Practices for Maintaining a User's Environment, and it went great, considering it was my first time presenting. Well, the microphone fell, which was embarrassing, but I just said "uh-oh, mike down!" and everyone laughed, and then it was back to normal.
But, the demo's went great. I had set my laptop up for Domino with Virtual PC, and then just to be safe, I linked it to the Notes client via the Microsoft Loopback Adapter.
The good news is that all my demo take-home materials ended up on the CD after all. Due to some FTP issues, I was told originally that my stuff didn't make it on time, and so I had to put them up for download on my website. However, I double checked, and there they were.
However, I haven't taken them off my site yet, so you can see what I had for take home here.
Once I was done presenting, I had already gone to so many sessions during the week, and the stress of presenting myself did me in... I was so tired, by late Friday we left on our way home. I had wanted to stay Friday night and hang out, but by that time, my brain was a big mushy mess (sure sign of a great conference!).
My session got great reviews, and I even got an email from an attendee that enjoyed it, so hopefully they have me back next year.
Huge thanks to Susan Bulloch and Kathleen McGivney, who sat right in the front row for support. It was more appreciated than they'll ever know, really!!
Time to go through the rest of the presentations I wanted to go to but didn't get a chance to...
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there will be a model to build your own custom apps in the Workplace client technology. It's not here yet, but we intend to give you the full range of stuff that can be done in Notes today.
Had we not been head to head in presentation time, that or I was dead asleep, I would have been there. THinking back I think I was getting ready for another of mine or just finishing at yours. Bummer I couldnt see the first big one!!! But I heard it was great. Good job.
It was great to meet you, and you really did a great job in your presentation. I'm using the tools already. :)
Did you have time to go to the showcase at all? How was the turn out?
And, twas nice having dinner with you and Matt ... Lobster Fra Diablo, anyone?
