Tri State Lotus User Group July Meeting recap

This past Tuesday night was the second gathering of the newly formed Tri State Lotus User Group.  In keeping with the Tri State name of our group after holding our inaugural meeting in NYC, we moved to Newark, NJ for the July gathering.   The evening kicked off with Declan Lynch “Xplaining XPages” Declan did an outstanding job sharing his considerable knowledge of XPages, in what turned out to be a very interactive session with lots of questions from the audience throughout the hour.   For more information on XPages Visit Declan’s Blog, or check out his 54 part series on learning XPages.  Declan is also a contributor on the recently launched XPages Blog Our second presentation of the evening was given by Akiba Saeedi of IBM, who introduced Sametime 8.5 including a live demo of the new meeting experience in Sametime 8.5 and as a bonus also briefly discussed and demoed Sametime Unified Telephony For more information on Sametime 8.5 check out the Sametime Blog, and remember there is still time to Register for Collaboration University which includes sessions on Sametime 8.5 The highlight of the evening of course was Kathleen’s fresh baked cookies Follow the Tri State Lotus User Group and it’s Organizers on Twitter to be informed when we plan our next meeting.  Feel free to get in touch to suggest topics or locations for a meeting.