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 
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Tri State Lotus User Group July Meeting recap
One Week left until the next TriStateLug Meeting (and the stakes have been raised)
Have you registered yet for the next meeting of the Tri-State Lotus User Group? We have a great agenda with session on XPages and Sametime 8.5. If that is not enough to get you to register co-organizer Jim Casale has extracted a promise from both myself and Kathleen based on attendance. The challenge goes like this if we have more then 25 attendees Kathleen bakes cookies for the meeting, 50 attendees I will wear a tie, 75 attendees I will wear a suit and tie (I don’t know where Jim came up with me wearing a tie, but it is not something that happens too often) To keep it fair, Organizers, Speakers, and other IBMers do not count towards the total. As of today it looks like Kathleen will be baking, but I am not dusting off my tie yet, but if you decide to join us that may change.. Tri-State Lotus User Group Website Tri-State Lotus User Group on Twitter
Joins us at the Tri State Lotus User Group meeting on July 21 (XPages and Sametime 8.5)
The Tri State Lotus User Group announced the next meeting for July 21, 2009. Registration and networking at 5:30 PM and two outstanding presentation from 6:00 PM to 8 PM. Declan Lynch will be presenting on XPages, Declan literally wrote the book on XPages so who better to present. Akiba Saeedi of IBM will provide an update on Sametime 8.5. If you want a glimpse of the new features in Sametime 8.5 which will ship later this year this is the session for you. Check out the Tri State Lotus User Group site for all the details and to register, and follow TriStateLug on Twitter for all the latest news.
Tri State Lotus User Group meeting recap
Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Tri State Lotus User Group Ed Brill was the first speaker presenting the Notes and Domino Update 
Ed’s presentation was very consistent with the message delivered at Lotusphere, and more recently at Lotusphere Comes to You events, but was well received by the audience which had lots of questions for Ed (for our friends at the New England Lotus User Group since Ed rehearsed his presentation for us last night I am sure it will be even better when he presents for you tonight) Kathleen McGivney presented our logo contest winner Joseph Hoetzl with a copy of Survival Guide for Lotus Notes and Domino Administrators, congratulations Joseph, and our two raffle winners who also received copies of the book. 
Our final presenter for the evening was Carl Tyler presenting Sametime Development Options 
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Last Call have you registered for tomorrows Tri State LUG meeting?
The Tri State Lotus User Group will be hosting it’s inaugural meeting on Tuesday April 21. Check out the Tri State LUG Site for all the details, and don’t forget to register. Hope to see you there.