Andrew Pollack: Why the Opening General Sessions fall flat January 23, 2008
Posted by Jörg Michael in LotusphereAndrew Pollack has an interesting piece on why he thinks the Opening General Session at Lotusphere 2008 was not all it could and should have been.
LOOKING at the content, a production company in their right mind is NEVER going to guess that Maureen showing source code editors is exciting. Dragging around video windows, however, looks cool -- even if its just more portal based crap that few of us care about.Unfortunately, I am not in Florida right now, but he does not seem to be the only one complaining about the relative weights of different topics. The things he sees causing the problems make a lot of sense. And I think he's onto something with his proposal on how to improve things:
How should IBM correct this? Bring more people into the process to help. Partners, developers, and other industry people can help identify places where really big opportunities are missed.More ... Comments (0)