Join us for the inaugural Pacific Lotus Users Group (PACLUG) event at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on June 21-22. This event will bring together IT and LOB professionals from all over the Western United States to share ideas and tools using IBM Collaboration and Social Business solutions. This free event will provide you with the most current information about increasing your efficiency through collaboration and integrating your platforms with social business tools.  This is an event that you will not want to miss!

We have many great plans for our inaugural event. These include:
·        Expert panel discussion on “The Future of a Social Business”, which will cover topics like Web 2.0/E2.0, mobility, gamification, enterprise collaboration and much more!
·        Keynote address including demos from Alistair Rennie, GM of IBM Collaboration Solutions
·        Lab solutions area to see demos and meet with IBM subject matter experts
·        Solution Showcase including the IBM Pavilion
·        Discounted certification exams and testing area
·        Meals and receptions

Sessions and Speakers include:

• A “Day in the Life” Exceptional Work Experience – Chris Crummey, IBM (@ccrummey)
• Application Development Strategy – Presented by IBM
• Building the Next Generation Web Experience with IBM Forms with Workflow – without coding – Bob McCandless, Alphalogix (@BobMcCandless)
• Creating or Moving Your Social Portal to the Cloud – Tom Simmons, Alacrinet (@tjsimm)
• Developing Mobile Apps with XPages 8.5.2 – Lance Spellman, WorkFlow Studios (@lance_spellman)
• Discussing a Mobile Strategy for Lotus Notes/Domino – Richard Sharpe, TeamStudio (@teamstudio)
• Exceptional Web Experience / Portal in the Cloud – How to make the right business driven decisions – Steven Gerhardt, Ixion
• From Phone Calls to Mobile Web – How Bekins Brought Mobile to Trucking – Mike Ostrowski  (@mikeostrowski)
• Getting started as a social business – Don Browning, Sirius Computer Solutions (@CollabGuyDon)
• Introduction to IBM Lotus Web Content Management 7 – Naji Zeineh, Citent (@Citent)
• Leading the Way to Exceptional Customer Web Experiences – Jon Raslawski, IBM (@jrazz)
• Licensing Strategies for New Innovations – Presented by IBM
• LotusLive – Moving to the Cloud. LotusLive Hybrid infrastructure explained – Mark Harper, IBM (@k5tao)
• Messaging and Collaboration Strategy – Ed Brill, IBM (@edbrill)
• Organizing an XPages development team – Brian Benz, (@bbenz)
• Powering a Market Leading Business with Social Collaboration – Presented by IBM
• Project Vulcan in Action – Mind Meld Sold Separately – Bruce Elgort, Egluji Software (@belgort)
• Sametime from the Administrators side – Andy Higgins, IMCollaboration (@amhiggins)
• Security, DoD, and connecting it to Notes/Domino – D’Artagnan Fischer, SDDUG
• The Lotus Mobile Strategy- Presented by IBM
• Two-minute drills for Administrators – Ted Hardenburgh, Group Business Software [GBS] (@thardenb)
• Unified Communications and Collaboration Strategy and Roadmap – Presented by IBM

Total Cost:
This is a free event for all attendees. You do not need to be a part of a local users group to attend, nor do you need to register for any other conference. Since this is a FREE conference, we have limited availability to host the event. Make sure you register today and make plans to attend. Your total cost will be your travel to Las Vegas and hotel arrangements. We have a block of hotel rooms at Planet Hollywood for $99/night.

This is your opportunity to learn and network with colleagues from all over the Western United States. Register today at www.paclug.org!

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• Monday 02/23 – Understanding Lotus Connections – Profiles andDogears
• Tuesday 02/24 – Unified Communications andCollaboration
• Wednesday 02/25 – IBM Mashup Center – Build a mashup application withoutcoding
• Thursday 02/26 – Portal 6.1 and Web2.0
• Friday 02/27 – Forms 3.5 and Turbo “why do Icare?”

For details please click on the links… if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly…

iNotes Community resources
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Blogs

• Using IBM Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0 Reference Card 
• IBM Lotus iNotes 8.0.2 Reference Card for Ultralite Mode 
• IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 Reference Card for Ultralite Mode 
• Introducing IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 Web Access Lite Mode 
• New Features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Full Mode 
• Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 
• Tips for being productive with Lotus Notes and iNotes