MWLUG 2010 Wednesday and Thursday Networking Events

MWLUG 2010 Wednesday Evening Registration Event
(Cleveland, OH) August 5, 2010. We are proud to announce the Registration Networking Event on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM for all attendees that would like to attend this event. Food and drinks will be provided. Snacks and hors d'oeuvres will be served thanks to Kyros Systems. Drinks are free for the first one hour courtesy of Hilton Garden Inn - Downtown Cleveland. Cash Bar after 8:00 PM. The event will be at the sponsor showcase in the Carnegie Ballroom. So come join us for some drinks and food.

MWLUG 2010 Thursday Networking Event
(Cleveland, OH) August 4, 2010. We are proud to announce our MWLUG 2010 Networking Event will be held at the Pickwick and Frolic Restaurant and Club. The Pickwick and Frolic Networking Event gives everyone at MWLUG 2010 the opportunity to network with your peers and other Lotus professionals. We will be providing food and drinks. After the networking event at Pickwick and Frolic, comes join us at Hilarities 4th Street Theatre Comedy Show for an hour of comedy and fun. This event is free for attendees and all made possible by the generous sponsors of MWLUG Conference 2010. Please take the time to visit our generous sponsors at the MWLUG 2010 Sponsor Showcase during your time at MWLUG 2010.

MWLUG 2010 Mobile Guide for Blackberry Now Available to Download

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

MWLUG 2010: Soft Phones, Upgrading to Sametime 8.51, and Plantronics

More and more companies are now using soft phones especially as employees are becoming more and more mobile. Since voice and data has been merging into one and the same, it is important to have reliable solutions since most of us do not have a second solution except for our cell phones which many times you have to ask "Can you hear me now?" My sister who currently is managing a global team on 4 continents from home relies heavily on her soft phones through Sametime to communicate with her team. She has been using a Plantronics headset and I tried it and it is very nice. Since our old PBX is slowly dying, this finally gives us a reason to upgrade our Sametime installation. We are giving everyone attending MWLUG 2010 a chance to win a Plantronics headset.

Our MWLUG 2010 Event Sponsor and continuous supporter of MWLUG, Plantronics, will be giving away two of their headsets during the Thursday breakfast before the MWLUG 2010 Opening Session. In addition, Plantronics is co-sponsoring Thursday breakfast. So make sure you come to the Thursday breakfast for a chance to win one of the two headsets. You must be present to win. In addition, there will be another chances to win Plantronics headsets on Friday at the two Sametime sessions presented by Phil Salm and Kevin McConnell from CDW. More information about that giveaway can be found at the CDW booth.

If you are a Sametime administrator, and you are new to Websphere administration you must to come to Kevin McConnell's session on "Introduction to Sametime 8.5 WebSphere Administration for the Domino Administrator." The session is designed for Domino Administrators who now need to learn how to manage a Websphere Application Server since Sametime 8.5x is based on Websphere instead of Domino.

MWLUG 2010: Attendees Gets 50% IBM Certification Exams

(Cleveland, OH) August 9, 2010. In addition to the knowledge and education that you will be getting, the Wednesday networking event, the Thursday party at Pickwick and Frolic Restaurant and Club, and the Thursday comedy show at Hiliarities 4th Street Theatre we are please to announce that all IBM business partners and customers attending MWLUG 2010 next week will receive a voucher for 50% off the IBM certification exams. A voucher will be included with your attendee package. I would like to thank Sara Nicklin and Joyce Davis of IBM for helping us get this. Please let others know about this benefit of attending MWLUG 2010. We are 10 days away from the start of MWLUG 2010 and we have already exceeded last year's numbers. The MWLUG 2010 committee and I would like to thank everyone for their support of MWLUG 2010 and we look forward to MWLUG 2011. Like last year, we will be announcing the location of MWLUG 2011 at the closing session.

MWLUG 2010: Conference Agenda Now Online

(Cleveland, OH) August 4, 2010. We are please to announce the MWLUG 2010 Agenda is now online at http://www.mwlug.com. MWLUG 2010 is bigger than ever with 45 presentations, Show-N-Tell, and Labs covering topics including XPages, Cloud Computing, Sametime UC and Telephony, Quickr, Websphere Portal, Server Management, Security, and UI Design. The MWLUG Committee has worked very hard this year to bring attendees one of the best educational and social events for Lotus professionals.

This event is made possible by the generous sponsors of MWLUG Conference 2010. Please take the time to visit our generous sponsors at the MWLUG 2010 Sponsor Showcase during your time at MWLUG 2010.

MWLUG 2010: Announcing MWLUG Thursday Networking Event

(Cleveland, OH) August 4, 2010. We are proud to announce our MWLUG 2010 Networking Event will be held at the Pickwick and Frolic Restaurant and Club. The Pickwick and Frolic Networking Event gives everyone at MWLUG 2010 the opportunity to network with your peers and other Lotus professionals. We will be providing food and drinks. After the networking event at Pickwick and Frolic, comes join us at Hilarities 4th Street Theatre Comedy Show for an hour of comedy and fun. This event is free for attendees and all made possible by the generous sponsors of MWLUG Conference 2010. Please take the time to visit our generous sponsors at the MWLUG 2010 Sponsor Showcase during your time at MWLUG 2010.

MWLUG 2010: IBM Innovation Center Comes to You

(Cleveland, OH) August 3, 2010. We are extremely please to announce IBM Innovation Center Come to You will be part of the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2010. IBM Innovation Center Come to You provides an unique opportunity for both IBM customers and IBM Business Partners attending MWLUG 2010 to experience and learn some of the latest technologies from IBM. The IIC team will have Show-n-Tell sessions, live hands-on labs, and session on Cloud Computing security and architecture not found anywhere except MWLUG 2010. We would like to thank the IBM Innovation Center teams from Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta for their support and participation to make this possible at MWLUG 2010.