The Domino Chick
Lotusphere ’07 Sessions
Monday, November 13th, 2006
A couple of days ago I received some e-mails from the Lotusphere content team, who have been hard at work creating what is bound to be one of the best Lotuspheres ever. I'm honored to be included as a speaker, and will be presenting the following sessions:Domino Administrator Jumpstart, with Susan Bulloch
Best Practices for Clustering Performance, with Paul Mooney
Hands-on Lab: Domino Domain Monitoring, with Susan
Hands-on Lab: Domino and Websphere Portal - getting them to talk to each other, with Paul
I'm looking forward to creating some good, entertaining, and deeply technical content for these sessions. Paul and I have a lot of work ahead of us to prepare images for the Domino and Portal integration session, but I know it'll be fantastic. And I've spent the past year in the field helping customers with real-world implementations of DDM, so we'll include a lot of that (including how to customize certain probe types, and how to get the most out of DDM in an environment with only a few 7 servers in it).
I'd better get working - Lotusphere is only 10 weeks away!
P.S. I was chastised by a blog-reading customer today about not blogging enough, so I figured I'd surprise him with a nice fresh blog entry for tomorrow. Happy now? ;-)
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 08:20:24 PM
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Something new for Lotusphere
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
You may have noticed Rocky's posts asking you to guess what "kewl" new thing we've come up with for Lotusphere this year. Check out the clues:First clue: It is new for Lotusphere.
Second clue: It is a collaborative effort.
Since I'm involved in the planning and know what it is, I can't play the guessing game, but you should!
In other Lotusphere-related news, check out the information for the new Lotusphere Bootcamp track. Bootcamp will have the geekiest, most technical breakout sessions possible, as well as plenty of hands-on sessions to get you rrrrready to rrrrrrummmmmble. (erm. sorry. I couldn't resist.) I'm very excited about this track and heavily involved in choosing the content for it, so I'd like to hear what you think about Bootcamp. Leave a comment or shoot me an e-mail at kathleen AT kmnow DOT com (it redirects to my work e-mail.)
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 04:32:00 PM
Location: Sacramento, CA
Submit!
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
I was talking with a customer this week and he chastised me for not updating my blog often enough, so here goes.As my colleague and fellow track manager Rocky mentioned the other day, the Lotusphere 2006 call for abstracts deadline was extended - to today. I've heard some folks have had trouble with the site, but new submissions are coming in today, so if you have an idea for a last-minute submission, go for it! Especially if you have an idea for a hands-on lab session - I need some more of those, please.
Apparently all it takes for me to be motivated to update is a little scolding.
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 12:57:48 PM
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Lotusphere 2006- No, it’s not too early
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
I bet you've been sort of wondering where I've been. Well, I've been busy!I've traveled a lot and visited a number of customers. Solved a bunch of problems, delivered a lot of knowledge transfer sessions, and listened to what the Notes admins that are dealing with day-to-day challenges want.
And, recently, I've been involved in developing a new, deeply-technical track for Lotusphere 2006.
I know a lot of my customers have dealt with bosses who say "no way" for Lotusphere, but "ok" for individual training or other conferences. That's because a lot of people have had the impression that Lotusphere isn't technical. Well, I hate to be blunt, but you're wrong.
Lotusphere has been very technical for years. There have been deep technical sessions at Lotusphere for a long time. The problem is that the people who look at the tracks don't necessarily see that. So we're making sure that not only do we bring those deep, under-the-hood technical sessions to the forefront, we make sure the depth and breadth of those sessions satisfy your technical needs.
So keep your eyes peeled for the call for abstracts, and I'll keep you posted here as well. And for the attendees: let us know what you want to see! We'll listen.
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 11:33:41 PM
Location: Columbus, GA
All done!
Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Susan and I just wrapped up our last presentation and finished up our staffing duties at the Meet the Developers lab. We're not technically done - we need to be at the Ask the Developers panel after lunch - but we're done with our official duties. All of our sessions went well. Our first Jumpstart had some technical difficulties because one of our servers kept giving us the blue screen of death (thanks XP!) We finally resolved it but didn't really need to since we ended up just using the two other servers instead. It did let us insert a little impromptu joke, though - my test servers are in the Sandwich domain, and the servers we used were Bacon, Vegemite (a nod to our friends from down under) and Grilled Cheese. Grilled Cheese was the one that was b0rked, so we told everyone that Grilled Cheese was... wait for it... toast.The second jumpstart on Sunday went much more smoothly. Monday - Wednesday we had varying lab staff duties and managed to squeeze in some sessions that colleagues needed us to attend. Ed's "Boss Loves Microsoft" session was great as always, as was Wes Morgan's session on networking for collaboration. Our last session to present was this morning and was on AdminP. We got to announce that the 21-day name change reversion problem that so plagued many customers now requires administrator approval in 6.5.4 and later. We knew it was fixed in 7, which was in our presentation already, but we got confirmation from the developers that it's also fixed in 6.5.4. Most of the session attendees seemed very happy with the content of the session. And I put my blog URL in the resources slide, so for those of you that attended or are coming here from other Lotusphere speakers or attendees' blogs, hello!
Speaking of blogs, a lot of interesting points were brought up in the Lotus Blogging Community Birds of a Feather session on Wednesday, and I've got a blog post brewing in my head about it. I also had to promise all the other bloggers there that I'd blog more often. And I will.
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 12:20:11 PM
Location: Orlando, FL
Innovators Panel
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
I'm sitting in the Innovators panel at Lotusphere. Panelists include Ray Ozzie, Mike Rhodin, Irene Greif, Conrad Cross and Mike Dituro. It's being moderated by Esther Dyson, and it is really cool to hear Ray talk about what he and his teammates were thinking when they created Notes, and how their sort of "shoot from the hip" concepts coincided with social and computer research that was going on at the same time.There are a ton of people attending this session - I think it'll prove to be one of the most popular panels of the conference.
Now I'll get back to listening to them talk about the last 15 years and what's to come in the next 15.
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 08:45:00 AM
Location: Orlando, FL
Lotusphere preparation
Saturday, January 15th, 2005
Right. Time to make this an active blog again. Sorry 'bout that.I'll be delivering a couple of sessions at Lotusphere '05 with my esteemed colleague Susan Bulloch. We're doing a Jumpstart on Domino Administration (technically two sessions, since we're doing a repeat of the Jumpstart right after the first one), and a session in the infrastructure track entitled "Leveraging AdminP in Domino 6.x". I don't know how many people have registered for the Jumpstarts, but I do know that the AdminP session is in the biggest room at the conference, so make sure you show up and fill up those seats!
I'll also be participating in the Lotus blogging community BOF and working with Susan for her BOF on Deploying Notes and Domino 6.5. I'm going to squeeze in Ed's "The Boss Loves Microsoft - Where Does That Leave Lotus?" session (always a good one) and the history of Notes panel, and most other times I'll be in the Meet the Developers Lab. So, if you want to say hi, ask a question, or bring me some snacks, stop by!
The whole schedule can be viewed here and full Lotusphere information is here.
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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 03:42:23 PM
Location: Los Angeles, CA
