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Blogging panel, BOF

Yesterday afternoon, both the "Reachout and blog" panel and the Lotus blogging community birds-of-a-featherwere held.  Interestingly, a few people live blogged the panel, butnobody covered the BoF.  I was told it was because there was no wifiin the room...perhaps some of you have heard of replication........The BoF solidified one thing -- why I love my job.  This is my 8thLotusphere on staff, and I've never felt more relaxed and comfortable --with where IBM Lotus is at in the market, with the Notes/Domino products,with the community we've created.   Now, there were several valid points during the BoF that the communityseems a bit insular.  I'd say yes and no.  Gone are the dayswhere we'd conga-line-blog -- ten people writing on exactly the same topic(conferences excepted, of course).  On the other hand, I do see thesame names as constants commenting here and elsewhere.  This bloggot almost 13,000 pageviews on Monday, but only 100 comments.  I'dlike to find out more about what I can do to encourage more voices.  LauretteRynne made a couple of verygood points about time delay (she's down under in Oz) and comment volume-- that by the time that she sees a blog topic to comment on, everythingthat needs to be said has been said.  Still, I don't want an echochamber -- I'd like to be challenged more, professionally, and be exposedto a broader array of topics. It was great to see how comfortable the Lotus bloggers are with each other. I consider many of you my friends, even though we mainly see eachother infrequently at conferences.  The online presence, combinedwith instant messaging and e-mail, mean that I interact with many of youmore often than other groups of friends who live within a few miles ofhome.  There were several wisecracks and in-jokes -- I hope that wasn'ttoo important of a phone call, Greyhawk-- and in my own call back home last night, trying to explain about notwanting to lick the mic (Grey: "My name's mike") had me laughingfor several minutes. This morning features a customer meeting, "The Boss Loves Microsoft"with co-presenter Sara L Nagelvoort (the L is important) at 10 AM (in DolphinN Hemi D&E), and "How to 'sell' Notes/Domino inside your organization"with co-presenter Libby Ingrassia at 1:30 in Dolphin S. Hemi III.  Thenthe family arrives in time for SeaWorld.  It's going to be a knock-outday.

January 30, 2006 by

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