Well it’s getting to that time of year where Lotusphere becomes the primary thought. So I was checking out the Lotusphere site just now and noticed this little tidbit of information…
“New for 2008! We’ve listened to your feedback about how you’d like to have access to sessions, to either listen to the replay of sessions you attended, or listen to sessions you didn’t make it to while at Lotusphere. This year we’ll be delivering both MP3 files as well as the PDFs of most sessions from the Futures and Innovations (INV), Application Development (AD) and Managing Your Collaboration Infrastructure (ID) tracks.”
Now to my mind that is great news, it means that if you miss a session (and given the content this year it’s very likely due to conflicts) you’ll at least be able to get a better record of it than trying to interpret plain old PDF files on their own.
I have mixed emotions. The best sessions are the Best Practices sessions and I don’t see them included in this announcement.
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I suspect that it’s harder to organise this for the BP track as there are so many non-IBM-ers involved but I agree that is my favourite track as well. Hopefully this is a precursor to the whole conference being MP3’d for next year.
I think this is great for people who have to stay home this year!
(including me
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Sometimes spoken words between the text in a presentation saves you a lot of time trying to figure out what that speaker is meaning (mostly the say that things on the sheet will be made clear later in the presentation, hahaha)
Forget to say that I hope these mp3’s will be available at the ITunes store???
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Patrick,
It does say on the site that the MP3s are for registered attendees only but I’m there’ll be a healthy Pirates Bay market for them
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Matt
The website also says:
“…Details about how and where registered attendees gain access to these valuable assets will be communicated to you on-site at the conference via your Lotusphere Online mail account…”
It’s now Jan. 25th & I still haven’t received a single email in my Lotusphere online account. Here’s an idea, just send attendees a normal friggin email.