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Our two CollabSphere 2018 Platinum Sponsors, panagenda and Red Pill Now will have free workshops on Monday July 23, 2018 from 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM.  Take this opportunity to learn, engage and contribute.  There is still time to sign up for these two wonderful workshops. panagenda Plotting a path forward for your IBM Collaboration landscape can be challenging! Join us to learn how the brand new version of ApplicationInsights, DataMiner and other panagenda solutions can provide a cohesive way to get start your collaboration landscape transformation! Find out how your very own data gets turned into easy-to-understand dashboards that show current application usage, business value and transformation roadblocks so you can decide on what should be archived, migrated, rewritten or modernized. Learn about our new OfficeExpert solution and what you need to do to get ready for Notes 10! https://www.panagenda.com/collabsphere-2018-workshop/ Red Pill Now Red Pill Now ...

We are pleased to announce the agenda for MWLUG/CollabSphere 2018 is now online. It is going to be one of the best conferences we will ever had. All great sessions from our entire community including IBM Customers, IBM Business Partners, and IBMers not just from ICS but from many other parts of IBM. This is collaboration at its finest. http://collabsphere.org MWLUG/CollabSphere 2018 consist of: 54 Business and Technical Sessions 7 Roundtables 6 Chat Sessions 3 Workshops Opening General Session Opening General Session - Domino Closing General Session So get registered,  http://collabsphere.org/ug/collabsphere2018.nsf/register.html

Time and time again developers create cool applications that users love.  Whether it is a web or mobile application their primary focus is on the UI and user interaction.  From the design and user-ability perspective that it is important.  However, majority of these applications are designed and built  without the consideration of data security or whether it compiles to government compliance and regulations.  Including security and following government dictated regulations seems to be an after thought.  Data security and compliance should not be an after thought, but part of your core design.  So as part of MWLUG/CollabSphere 2018, we have an entire track focused to Security and Compliance.   We hope to see everyone there at CollabSphere 2018 at the Sheraton Hotel in Ann Arbor, MI from July 23 to 25, 2018. To register go to  http://collabsphere.org/ug/collabsphere2018.nsf/register.html. Here is a list of Security and Com...

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...

MWLUG 2017 was our most successful MWLUG conference we have ever had. With over 232 registered and a small number of cancellations, MWLUG 2017 was the most attended and largest conference. We had over 60 sessions, workshops and round tables with speakers from all over the United States and Europe. Over a third of the sessions were non-IBM specific and included sessions covering new topics like MongoDB and GDPR. In tuned with our theme this year, Moving Collaboration Forward, our goal was to expand our conference this year forward towards a new direction and not just cover the usual. The world of collaboration is changing. No longer does a solution stand by itself nor does a solution just involve components from a single vendor. Companies need to chose the best of breed and integrate solutions together. Sometimes it involves solutions from many vendors. This is a direction that IBM is moving towards with Cisco and Box. At the same time we see customers moving away from the IBM stac...

We are please to officially announce that MWLUG 2016 will be held on August 17-19, 2016 at the Four Seasons in Austin Texas. We have secured a special rate for this event. With all the new innovations that IBM and IBM Business Partners are creating with our favorite technologies, we are "Defining the Art of Collaboration" which is our theme for MWLUG 2016. We are expecting an even greater turnout this year at MWLUG 2016.  We are planning many activities and new formats to make this a special event.  For attendees that are interesting in coming earlier, we are also working on a special event on Tuesday, August 16, 2016.  We will need to determine if there is enough interest before we book this event.  More information will be coming soon. Sponsorship for MWLUG 2016, will be starting very soon with presentation abstract submission in April.  We look forward to seeing everyone in Austin. And yes, we are cooking up a few surprises.

When The Human Community Saved the World - MWLUG 2014 - Part I Last year at MWLUG 2013 through the great efforts of Sam Bridegroom from Bridegroom Technologies, we able to have Iraq veteran and community spokesman Josh Bleill from the Indianapolis Colts to be our Opening General Session Guest Speaker. This year was a challenge.  How can we duplicate the incredible presentation that Josh did in MWLUG 2013 and deliver to our ICS community similar expectations.  We wanted to really capture the essence of the MWLUG 2014 theme, "Connecting the Human Community" and what a community, a collection of us can do together and for each other. We all go through hard times and challenges in our lives.  And our ICS community members are going through these challenges professionally and sometimes personally.  It is our community of colleagues and friends that helps us through these challenges. Our Greatest Generation endured the hardship of the...

Too often in our technology focused world we become no more than bits of data.  We become less and less social and feel lost within our technology. Communities for Generation X, Y is all about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media.  However, a community in the past was all about people and individuals.  Technology is just a vehicle to connect individuals, no different than hundreds if not thousands of year ago when stories and our history was told by the bonfire.  Our goal each year at MWLUG is to bring everyone together in person to share our knowledge and experience so that we can grow our community as people have done in the past. Only through the test of time, will we know the impact of our ICS community in the fabric of technology.  However, there was one amazing community of men and women despite all odds save our world as we know it. Over 70 years ago, the human race was tested to its greatest extend and our freedom, our democracy that ...

Do you think you have created a great home brew or wine!!! Do you think your local micro-brewery beer is out of this world!!! Then bring them with you to MWLUG 2013 and lets find out. We are happy to announce the MWLUG 2013 Charity Brewfest Competition. It will be held on Wednesday August 21, 2013 before the MWLUG Wednesday Exhibitor Showcase Reception. This competition is open for all attendees. We would like to thank our sponsor CDW for making this event possible. Gregg Eldred and his panel of experienced judges will taste the different entries and select the winners of this competition. Gregg has selected some interesting prizes for this competition. In order to participate in this competition, the submission fee is $10 with all proceeds benefiting the MWLUG Oklahoma Tornado Relief Fund . You can submit as many entries as you would like.  For each entry, please bring at least two 12 ounce bottles.  All competitors will need to sign a waiver. All nationally distr...

I am happy to announce that the MWLUG 2013 IBM OGS Speaker is Scott Souder, Program Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions, IBM.  It is great to have Scott speak at MWLUG 2013 given his busy schedule.  We look forward to hearing Scott speak on the future direction of IBM Messaging and Collaboration solutions. Scott Souder is Program Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions, IBM.  Scott is responsible for the product and market strategy for IBM's messaging and collaboration products, including IBM Notes and Domino, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail.  Scott's focus is on extending and growing the success of these solutions through customer engagement, partner ecosystem development, and harnessing the breadth and depth of the IBM organization.  In his spare time, Scott enjoys being with family, flying airplanes, playing bluegrass music, and the amazing outdoors.

If you are attending MWLUG 2011 and you think you are great at Lotus trivial, please contact me to be potential candidate for our trivial contest. We are looking for three knowledgeable contestants for our fun and amusing "MWLUG Lotus Jeoparde" event on Friday towards at the end of lunch. We are looking for one IBMer, one administrator, and one developer. Lisa Duke will be our host for this fun event.

We are please to announce the MWLUG 2011 Opening Keynote Presentation. David Cohen from LinkedIn will be presenting the open keynote presentation. David who is a very dynamic speaker will cover LinkedIn and the future of Social Media and Collaboration. Joining David later is IBM's very own, David Via who will cover the IBM direction and vision of Social Business. He will then be followed by TJ Witte from Group Business Software. We would like to thank, Bernie Leung from Mesa Technology for all his hard work in managing the Social Business track and getting LinkedIn to present. So make sure that you register for MWLUG 2011, http://mwlug.com it is coming up in three weeks.

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.

Finally after hours of debugging issues with Internet Explorer, the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2011 web site is now online. Registration and speaker submission will start next week. MWLUG 2011

The MWLUG 2011 Steering Committee is please to announce that the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2011 will be held from August 24-26, 2011 at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel . It has been a struggle this year to get a hotel in the Milwaukee area since most hotels that we were trying to get was already taken by other conferences. We have planned a number of events and activities along with over 35 technical sessions. Registration for MWLUG 2011 will start sometime next week. We will keep everyone informed.

It is back for the third year and better than ever. Starting tomorrow, we will be making announcements about MWLUG 2011.

If you are interested in tracking each of the 45 sessions and speakers at MWLUG, the MWLUG 2010 Mobile Guide for Blackberry is now available to download from the MWLUG 2010 web site. With the MWLUG 2010 Mobile Guide you will be able to track and search sessions, speakers, review the agenda, and provide feedback on how you like MWLUG 2010 on your Blackberry Mobile device. We would like to thank our Gold Sponsor, Kryos Systems, for donating the time and resources to create this mobile application which is created using their Kryos Velocity technology. To download the MWLUG 2010 Mobile Guide goto: http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2010.nsf/uxpages/mobileguide.uxp

I am back from vacation. We had a wonderful time in Minnesota. We visited my son who is interning in Minneapolis this summer. Afterwards, we went up to Duluth and Grand Marias near the Canadian border. It is very beautiful up there and peaceful. The last time I was up here was for a client meeting. We did hiking at Gooseberry Falls State Park, Cascade Falls State Park, and Jake Cooke State Park. It was refreshing compared to the terrible traffic of Minneapolis. Construction delays were amazing. The traffic was equal or worst than Chicago and we are very bad here. Maybe next time, I will bring my bike and bike the 120 miles between Duluth and Grand Marias. Being on vacation, gives me time to reflect on what is important. It is not the Lotus technology and what is the coolest technology, but family. It amazes me every single day how wonderful my wife and kids are. It is with their support that make my professional life possible. Anyway, now that I am back from the wilderness,...

Thanks to Mike McGarel, we now have MWLUG News on Twitter. The url is http://twitter.com/MWLUGNews. You can check here for the latest things that are happening not only for the conference in August but also for future events through the year for the different user groups that are part of MWLUG