... of several ways that the Lotusphere content team approaches identifying new speakers for the Lotusphere circuit -- and certainly one of the most fun. Here's how it works -- each contestant has five ... ;d like to present.  You should also include 50-75 words about yourself and why you'd like to be Lotusphere Idol! Judges will select and notify contestants before December 31, giving ...

... recovery testing, I noticed that those who had submitted abstracts for Lotusphere 2010 had heard back.  While some were happy ... post.  My point is that if you feel you have material that is Lotusphere quality, put in a submission for Idol when it' ... 39;m okay doing it at our local user group, I've done that twice, but at Lotusphere...the big league.  This is the place where people ...

... sessions aren’t available yet, the main agenda is. For anyone who’s been to Lotusphere before, the agenda won’t be a huge surprise. Monday ... rumours will be surfacing again… and here’s a thought, the Lotusphere budget probably could accommodate Harry Hill. The rest ... week is the usual break-out sessions and labs, along with Lotusphere Idol, speed-geeking, customer panels ...

... yesterday. This basically consists of people who have submitted an abstract to speak at Lotusphere hearing that someone else had been told they got their slot and then waiting over your inbox until you hear either way ... weeks of prep work ahead of us as we create the app and the slide deck. If you're not already registered for Lotusphere, then now is the time. See you in Florida in January.

... giveaways remained untouched - few people were visiting the booths. Ouch! Last year at Lotusphere 2009, we were told that conference attendance was up from the previous year. Since I did ... the product showcase where I spent 3 days - seemed light. As I think ahead to Lotusphere 2010, I wonder what it will be like this year. If you are a vendor of products or services for Lotus Software, I ...

In order to make it easy to see #ls10 updates from all the Lotusphere 2010 speakers, you can now follow the speaker list via email or Twitter and see when any speaker uses the tag #ls10 in a tweet to keep up with the flow of information without being totally overloaded. Just use the above subscription or follow along in your favorite Twitter client (like Mixero, TweetDeck or others).  If ...

... 3 Development contestants. But before you submit, there are some requirements. First, you must NOT have spoken at Lotusphere in the last 3 years, if ever. This is for those people who have never had the opportunity to speak at ... based on your session, so they will be paying attention. Anything else? The winner of Lotusphere Idol will also be asked to submit a session for next year&# ...

... be exceptionally pleased with the content this year. Now I know many of you may have been wondering if I was going to be involved in Lotusphere this year, since I had "gone dark" for so long in ... hosting duties for SpeedGeeking, JamFest, and GURUpalooza. I may also be involved in Lotusphere Idol, but we'll just have to wait and see on that one . Also, you should still feel free ...

... track manager rating system, the 80% of sessions that were rejected for Lotusphere 2010 included some real doozies. The "bottom 10& ... come from competitors. You be the judge. 10. "How to get a Session at Lotusphere 2010" 9. "The One You Didn&# ... "Your Dining Tent or Mine?: Old School Romance at Lotusphere" And the #1 rejected session title for Lotusphere ...

... 's ever attended Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) World, SAPPHIRE, IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Lotusphere or Impact, or Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) Networkers knows that those companies' customers come in droves to ... had with WebSphere, Lotus Notes/Domino, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, LotusLive . . . well, I think these year's Lotusphere has got a lot of promise. Technorati Tags: Lotusphere 2010

... announce 'UK Night' at Lotusphere 2010! The UK hasn't had it's own party ... great British accent*, and get a special sticker for your Lotusphere badge. Make sure to wear your badge and sticker ... 're at Lotusphere in January, then we'd love to see you at UK Night. Our thanks again to the sponsors above who are making this possible. IF YOU would like to add your companies ...

I received my "Dear John" letters from the Lotusphere powers that be today. Alas, with only 36 slots open and over 400 abstracts submitted I did ... The Application  Development sessions will be deep dive and longer than 50 minutes. Perhaps those of you not attending Lotusphere would be able to get your bosses to cover the cost as a training expense. And to be perfectly blunt, I ask ...

I've been part of a chat of late where the subject of Lotusphere presentation templates has been "discussed"... Actually, it's been 98% ranting (and for good reason), but that's another topic.  Basically, the templates sent to the Lotusphere speakers for the session slides don't seem to be set up very well to apply to existing slide files.   ...

As most of you have by no doubt noticed, the official responses to all abstracts submitted for Lotusphere 2010 (except, I'm assuming, for the BOFs, if those will be selected based on attendee voting like last year) have been sent, and among them was confirmation that I will be co-presenting with Stephan Wissel the following session: Harnessing the power of Server-side JavaScript and ...

... that next year you get a better result. If you think I can help you refine your presentation skills or your presentation submission skills, drop me an email or talk to me at Lotusphere. If, however, your response to not being chosen to deliver was to write a complaint, demand an explanation, or make statements deriding other sessions or speakers, then I believe that is itself a sort of proof that ...