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Taken at Admin2008, although Bill has a better picture

Posted by Paul Mooney At 23:57:07 Location | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)

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Im moving from here to here over the next two weeks.  Before ILUG gets too mad nearer the date, I have booked 2 weeks leave to get things done.  For at least a week or so of that, I don't expect to have my laptop on at all.  See you on the other side...
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Parked in Shannon airport at the moment, waiting for my last hop home, thinking it may be a good time to put some thoughts down on virtual paper on the event just passed.  The admin2008 was a very paced and deep presentation, with focused sessions that most definitely kept the delegates happy.  I'm not sure on the tally of total attendees but I did hear it was around the 900 mark, which is up on previous years.  The hotel and venue/facilities are excellent, with plenty for people to do when they are in Boston.  Some highlights:

• Presenting with Francie Tanner.  One of the only presenters that can keep me on track and put up with / control my occasional tangent rants during  a session.  Excellent as always girl.
• Presenting a session on Domino on Disk.  This session is related to Domino / Notes and how it deals with disk utilisation, and getting the most from it.  A lot of delegates at the event were using SANs, but very few of them know if the LUN allocation / arrays are dedicated to their Domino data.  From verbal feedback, people got some good knowledge from this session.  The best part was asking Victor Toal to hang about and give his opinions on this (as I felt that since this session is based on experience, another person not afraid of the microphone may be a good thing).  It came to the point that he was talking so much that he just said screwit and stayed on stage with me.  
• Presenting a bof on social networking tools with Chris Miller and Andy Peditisch.  Interesting to see that very few people are deep into social tools in the marketplace, and the common questions they ask "what is this for me and how will it affect my business".  45 minutes was NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH for this bog - with Miller there, we could of spent a full day.
• Working on the beat the geeks session with all the speakers.  This is an open Q&A session held each evening.  On the second night, I got to sit with Suzanne Minessan and discuss Connections 2.0.  It was great to listen to her and feel the collective passion for the connections product.  Interesting times ahead for this as specific parts of that tool start to hit maturity.  Still, to me from a business perspective, the killer app in Connections is activities, and with 2.0 you can take them offline and replicate when connected... very  cool.
• Working with the admin conference team, who go out of their way to help you out and make sure that the speakers are ok.  A lot of work goes into speaking at conferences, but from ILUG I am only too aware on how much work goes into organising them (note to self, we are to ensure we get copies of photos of a certain organiser dressed as an oompa loompah *cough* Susie *cough*).
• Learning more about foundations server.  This is a cheap line but I was so impressed I ordered one for myself!
• Meeting great people and great friends.  Funny saying goodbye to them whilst we are all meeting again at ilug in 5 weeks

Posted by Paul Mooney At 06:35:10 Location | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

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Although I have not mentioned it... em at all (or very little) I will be in Boston for the rest of the week presenting at Admin2008.  I will be presenting revised (or repeated) versions of last year's presentations, and will have one or two new ones.  So, feel free to come over and say hello.  The usual suspects will be there as ever.  I hope to blog (this week) reviews of sessions and some photos.  Considering I am away from many other things for the week, it may be semi-normal on this site!

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Wanna see an insane schedule.... and it's not finished yet.  Click here!

Posted by Paul Mooney At 23:26:28 Location | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

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With ILUG around the corner (there are very few seats left at this stage) and Admin 2008 in Boston next week, and the day job and some personal matters to attend to, pmooney.net has been *cough* content light of late.  I have done some interesting work recently, which will be blogged about, just when I get the chance.  So, Im not breaking the "do not apologise for not blogging" rule here, just responding globally to the "are you still alive" emails.

Posted by Paul Mooney At 19:35:43 Location | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

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Eileen Fitzgerald and I are at "Pre ILUG status".  In plain words that means we are talking twice a day and bitching/fighting constantly.  Its normal at this stage... we spend 3 months a year (at least) at this.
Anyways... we just are so busy with our real jobs that we are constantly trying to find time to physically meet and say hello/discuss/argue/arm wrestle/fight etc.  For the past few weeks.. "when suits you.."  "No... Im away that night"   "We need to get this done" etc etc etc.

Guess who I bump into on my flight from Dublin to Amsterdam today.  Bloody typical! ;)
For the record... when it come to "organising" the event, its Ms Fitzgerald...   Lotusphere should hire the gal!!  (before getting shot by IBM... Lotusphere is amazingly well run... she would just be good at helping out and most of the best practice track are scared of her!).

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