Domino Unplugged

Brill does Motown

Ed Brill hit the Motor City Wednesday, paying a visit to the Detroit Notes Professionals.

The meeting, even aside from Ed's visit, was great.

The one and (thank God) the only Brian O'Curran, back with Lotus sales after "a tour of duty" with the Rational brand, brought his unique presentation style to the whole matter of the Notes 8.0.1 client ("can I get an Amen!?!"). He was hilarious - yet managed to convey a ton of information about the changes in the new client release.

Quote of the hour - at one point, making a statement about how you could now do practically everything you might need to do within the notes client itself (presentations, Sametime, email, activities, etc.), Brian declared himself "deliciously Microsoft Free."  Brought down the house ...

Obviously having grabbed the short straw in following Brian was Intier's Margaret Callaghan, who borrowed a few pages from the Alan Lepofsky playbook and did a number of Alan's favorite tips and tricks. (My personal favorite was the "map address" trick for the address book which Alan had mentioned quite some time ago on his site and which I 'borrowed' more than once ...)

Well done, Margaret - Brian was a tough act to follow.

Then right after lunch, Ed came and did a great presentation that dovetailed nicely with Brian's - Ed talked philosophy and roadmap - where the products have been and where they're going, and closed with a number of competitive examples that will probably come in handy to a number of those in attendance. It was interesting to hear him talk about the $81 Million USD that IBM hopes to save by not renewing Microsoft Office licenses for everyone in the corporation ...

You may have noticed that Ed gave only a passing note of having been at the user group meeting in his blog. He deferred to "Twitterings" that Ray Bilyk and I were doing as Ed (and Brian and Margaret, for that matter) were presenting. If you're not familiar with Twitter, it's sort of a 'mini blog' tool ... and Ray and I were sort of doing a play by play. You can check Ray's Twitters out HERE, and mine out HERE. In both cases, looks for the "Tweets" from Wednesday, March 26th, 2008.

Thanks for coming to town, Ed - look forward to your next visit!

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