So Lotusphere is over, and you're back from the sunny (albeit cold on a few evenings) state of Florida.  Or...  Lotusphere is over, and you've finished reading all the blogs and news stories about the event that you didn't get to attend (not that you're bitter or anything...)

So what now?

Before it gets too far removed from the actual event, it'd be a great idea to put together a brief 5 to 10 minute "Here's What I Learned From Lotusphere" presentation for your coworkers and management.  Perhaps start with the Lotusphere in 60 seconds video.  Pull out some press links from the Lotusphere 2008 Press Coverage page.  Head over to PlanetLotus.org and see what over 200 bloggers had to say about the event.  You have plenty of material to pull from.

It's easy for those of us living and breathing Lotus software to think that everyone has the same awareness of where IBM and Lotus are going with Notes/Domino (and Quickr and Sametime and...)  But for your management and coworkers, Lotusphere is just another week in the year where you weren't there at work and IBM talked about some of their software.  If you're expecting them to catch the buzz and excitement from merely reading the latest InfoWeek article, you're expecting too much.  It's up to you to convey the information, and more importantly, the context surrounding it.

And if you *do* put together a presentation with slides and such, think about posting it to your blog (or someone else's) blog for others to see and use.  Heck, send it to Gregg and I.  We'll post it here!

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Thomas "Duffbert" Duff February 11th, 2008 03:50:07