The Lotusphere Blog

On Friday, February 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm eastern time, Lotusphere Online 2009 will close. Registered conference attendees, including IBM participants, will still be able to meet, network, share and interact with other conference participants, as well as access presentation PDFs and soon, presentation MP3s, in LotusLive.

Sign up for your LotusLive Engage account today (if you haven't already signed up) so you can continue to participate in the community. Lotusphere 2009 attendees are being offered beta LotusLive Engage accounts to use with your teams, customer and partners in a secure and managed on-line space.

Take five minutes today and go to Lotus Live and register for a free open beta account. Each account is considered a company or organization, so you may add others from your company to that same account. Only a single individual from a company needs to register if multiple people attended Lotusphere. The first person registering becomes the owner and can quickly add others through the Administration links.

Lotusphere session PDFs are available now, and MP3s are being added; both will be easily accessible from your LotusLive account. We encourage you to complete your registration today at Lotus Live.

In addition to lots of other content you'll find in LotusLive, there is one new interactive PDF that we'd like to point out to you. We encourage you to share it broadly, it's called Working Smarter Together.

At Lotusphere you saw the innovative offerings that IBM continues to develop as the leader in collaboration solutions. With ongoing tightening of IT budgets, the demonstration and communication of tangible business benefits becomes increasingly important when evaluating new collaborative solutions for your business. The interactive PDF describes how our clients have realized business value by working smarter together, with Lotus collaboration solutions. Learn about how our clients have Connected with their customers to build stronger and deeper relationships, Collaborated internally and with their partners to become more agile organizations, Innovated to generate new ideas and offerings, and Optimized their work environments to gain efficiencies and cost savings. Look for the file called "Lotus_Collaboration.pdf". Search the tags for "Collaboration" or look in the Lotus Collaboration Collection.

On behalf of the IBM Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal senior management team, and their organizations, thank you again and best wishes in 2009. We'll see you in LotusLive.

The Lotusphere 2009 Team