Domino Interface

We are happy to announce that we are having a Spring 2018 GRANITE meeting.  We have renamed GRANITE to become CollabSphere-Chicago.  Our Spring 2018 meeting is packed with sessions.  We are fortunate enough to have a number of great speakers from IBM, IBM Customer, and IBM Partners. If you are interested in attending this meeting either in person or remotely, you will need to register for the meeting. There is no cost to attend. To register go to:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collabsphere-chicago-granite-spring-2018-meeting-tickets-44900159586 CollabSphere-Chicago (GRANITE) - Spring 2018 Meeting Agenda Location IBM Technical Exploration Center (Hyatt Center, West Loop) 71 S. Wacker Dr. 6th floor Chicago, IL 60606 If you are attending in person, you must have your ID and have registered to enter the building and attend the meeting.  Remote attendees will receive a link to the video conference after it is made available. 08:30 - 09:0...

The next GRANITE meeting is on June 13, 2011 with presentations on using social networking tools with Lotus Notes and Domino on Amazon EC2. Come join us for another great GRANITE meeting. We will also be updating everyone on all the things that are happening at the up and coming MWLUG 2011. Click here to see the agenda and register for this event.

We are fortunate enough to have Ed Brill speak at our April 11th GRANITE meeting coming up next Monday. If you are in the area and would like to have a chance to meet Ed Brill and talk more about the direction of Domino please join us at the April 11th meeting. In addition to Ed Brill, Mike McGarel from Czarnowski Exhibits will be presenting on UI design which has a direct impact on the success of social business software and Jose Blanco from Mercury Consulting who will talk about real examples of how Social Business is being used in corporation to help their organization grow. For more information about GRANITE and the April 11th Agenda, go to: GRANITE Web Site . You can now find GRANITE on facebook in addition to our Linkedin site. So if you are a Chicagoland area user, developer, administration, or IBM professional join us and build the GRANITE community.

Just a reminder, the GRANITE Lotus User Group February 2011 Meeting will be this coming Monday, February 14, 2011. Below is the agenda. We will be raffling off an Official Lotusphere 2011 T-Shirt. So if you did not have the opportunity to get a Lotusphere 2011 T-Shirt, here is your chance. For more information go to our web site, http://granite-ug.org. February 14, 2011 Meeting Agenda Don't forget to pay your 2011 dues - either online on our Web site or in person at the meeting! Come to this meeting and get a chance to win a Lotusphere 2011 T-Shirt 8:30 - 9:00 AM - Registration, Breakfast, Refreshments & Networking 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Presentation: "What's New With Lotus/IBM" Update Presenter: Marcie Kane, IBM 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Presentation: Lotusphere 2011: Wrap up and discussion Presenters: GRANITE members If you missed Lotusphere, you'll want to hear what your colleagues learned while attending this annual event. 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM - Break 10:30 AM - 11:...

After 3 years as President and 2 years as Vice President of GRANITE, I am happy to announce that we have elected a new president and vice president for GRANITE. Bernie Leung from Mesa Technologies will be the new President and Mike McGarel from Czarnowski will be the new Vice President. Congratulations to both of them. They will definitely provide new ideas and direction for GRANITE. I will still be an active participant at GRANITE, but this will give me more time to focus on the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference in which the next one will be in Milwaukee, WI in late August 2011.

Reminder that the December 2010 GRANITE Lotus User Group meeting will be held next Monday on December 13, 2010. Meridian IT/Plantronics and Kroll Track will be presenting. In addition, Bernie Leung will talk about Lotus Security. So come join us for this meeting which includes our December Holiday lunch

Just a reminder that the GRANITE Lotus User Group October 2010 Meeting will be on Monday. One of the things that we will be covering is Lotus Quickr 8.5 and all the new features and API associated with this new version. Also we will be presenting sessions on E-mail discovery customer experience and using Dojo with XPages. GRANITE Web Site

There is a new job opening for anyone who has done Websphere and Websphere Portal Administration. The job is posted on our GRANITE Lotus User Group web site. GRANITE Lotus User Group

We will be having out June 2010 GRANITE Meeting next Monday, June 14, 2010. So if you what to learn more about LotusLive for Notes, Dojo, or integration of Domino with Active Directory that come to our meeting.

Following the April GRANITE Meeting on April 12th, we will be continuing our XPages training session at the IBM Center. Mike McGarel and Roy Rumaner will continue going through Declan Lynch's Xpages training lessons. If you are not on the GRANITE mailing list and would like to attend please notify me as soon as possible since we need to send in the list of attendees to building security. If not, you will not be able to get in.

As the President of GRANITE, I would like to thank PSC Group for hosting the XPages workshop that we had yesterday. Again and again, IBM Business Partners play a key role in growing the Lotus ecosystem. We would also like to thank Roy Rumaner and Michael McGarel for presenting. The next XPages workshop session Part 2 will be on April 12th follow the April 12th GRANITE meeting. The first workshop was free for anyone. If you are not a GRANITE member the next workshop session is $15. However, if you become a member for $35.00 you get all workshops, food, and 5 technical meeting per year. Remember, the XPages workshops are FREE FREE to all Lotus professionals currently looking for a new position. If you did not attend the first workshop and would like to attend the next workshop, made sure to go Declan Lynch's site and learn the first 10 lessons. The second workshop will cover lessons 11 through 17. We are looking at possibility doing a XPages Workshop at the Midwest Lotus User...

Reminder, today is the start of the free GRANITE Lotus User Group XPages workshop. The workshop is overbooked, so if you have not registered please do not show up. If you did register and will not attend, please let us know.

We are please to announce that the West PA Lotus User Group has joined and will be participating in the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2010 that will be held on August 19-20, 2010 at Cleveland, Ohio. We are now up to eight participating Lotus User Groups that include: - Central Ohio Notes/Domino Users Group - GRANITE Lotus User Group - Minnesota Lotus User Group - Northeast Ohio Lotus User Group - Northeast Wisconsin Lotus User Group - Southern Wisconsin Lotus User Group - West Michigan Lotus User Group - West PA Lotus User Group As Gregg Eldred mentioned last week will are moving forward in finalizing the location and activities of the event. That is a lot of things planned so stay tune.

As Roy Rumaner and Alex Kassabov blogged, GRANITE is having a technical seminar that will be graciously hosted by PSC Group at their offices in Schaumburg, IL on March 15. This XPages training is part of our GRANITE technical series that we have started. This first session of the series will be available for both members and non-members at no cost. For non-members we normally charge $15.00 for each event. If you were recently laid off, the entire XPages series will be free of charge. I strongly encourage everyone to join GRANITE since it provides many benefits to the Lotus community. GRANITE is put together by volunteers whom like myself devote our time to help the Lotus community. With the recently layoffs at Abbott of their Notes developers and layoffs at other organizations, this is a good time to get yourself some training on the newest Lotus technologies. We will be also working with the IBM VIC in downtown Chicago to provide addition technical seminars in addition to our bi...

Today was our February 2010 meeting for GRANITE. We had the largest number of attendees since 2008. Hopefully we can continue building our membership through 2010. We were able to sign up two new members today. Thanks to John Head and Mike McGarel for their Lotusphere 2010 wrap up of Project Vulcan, Project Concord, and XPages. Mike also did a presentations on using OpenNTF templates to develop your own intranet. Our thanks to Mac Glore for getting us the meeting place at the IBM Center at the last moment. I think we need to switch away from deep dish pizza for lunch at the GRANITE meetings. I can feel the cheese building up on my veins. Looks like an evening of exercising after this blog posting. We have a new GRANITE event coming up, but I will let Roy Rumaner or Alex Kassabov talk about his up and coming event. We are planning a new GRANITE web site so look forward over the next couple of months to see what we have done.

Yesterday, I attended the BOF session on Lotus user groups. I am glad that the interest for Lotus user groups is growing. As the president of the GRANITE user group, I know how hard it is to run a user group. From what I heard, IBM is attempting to be more active and provide help for Lotus user groups. We are fortunate here in Chicago that we have a great IBM team that helps us in our meetings that we have every other month. For the MWLUG conference last year they played an important role in making that happen. Hats off to the IBM team in Chicago and the Midwest sales reps. Reach out to the IBM sales and technical sales rep. Business Partners play a key role in the success of a Lotus user group. However, it is important that the creation of a user group involve multiple BPs so that it is viewed not a benefit to only one BP. Sometimes this worries Lotus customers. Many in the BOF were interested in restarting or starting a Lotus user group. There are many of us who are passionat...

The December 2009 GRANITE meeting agenda is now posted at the GRANITE web site, www.granite-ug.org . In addition to the two great presentations that we have planned, we will be celebrating the holidays with our annual special holiday lunch, December 14, 2009. If you are a member, the lunch is free. If you are not a member, there is a nominal charge of $15.00 or become a member at $35.00. We will be covering Lotus Connections 2.5 and also document management in the Domino environment. Hope to see everyone there.

Since the second Monday of October is always Columbus Day, the October GRANITE meeting is on the third Monday of the month, October 19, 2009. So don't show up next Monday. We a have an exciting couple of presentations including virtualization of your Lotus environment.

The registration for the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2009 is now open. The registration includes sign up for the pre-conference two-day Domino 8.5 Upgrade workshop that will be held on August 25-26, 2009. This workshop is limited to the first 30 attendees who sign up for this workshop as part of this conference. Here is the link to register for the MWLUG Conference 2009 . registration link

I will be presenting at the next GRANITE Lotus User Group meeting, June 8, 2009, on the topic of resurfacing UI interfaces of Domino applications using with Adobe Flex. My friend David Charney from Illumen Group will also present on Understanding the Basics of UI Design. In addition, there hopefully will be a presentation on best practices of virtualizing your Domino and Lotus environments.