Last week I presented "Notes Management Best Practices" at the Teamstudio seminar in New York. Decided to take the red-eye on Tuesday night, flying Jet Blue. Well, Jet Blue was great; but flying the red eye was not such a good idea! After a 4 hour flight from San Diego I arrived at the Dylan hotel, only to crash and sleep until after lunch. Then went for a short walk - toured Grand Central station (I love trains, so this was great fun) and walked down Park Avenue until the cold got a bit much. Wednesday evening I had dinner with the Teamstudio team at the Chemist Club restaurant- it was great to finally meet the folk behind the emails & phone calls. I must say that the bread in New York tastes much better than most of the bread you find on the west coast.

Dinner with the Teamstudio Team at the Dylan Hotel, New York.

Thursday morning saw us assemble at 8:00am in the Dylan conference room. First off with the Keynote address was Ed Brill from IBM with a look at where Notes is going for the next few years. As somebody who didn't make it to Lostusphere this year, the presentation was very interesting. After a short talk by Nigel Cheshire on "Building a Strategic Plan for Best Practices" it was my turn to present "Best Management Practices for Lotus Notes". Using the analogy of a ship, this presentation focused on how to steer the ship rather than how to make the engine run efficiently. Based on the audience feedback at the end of the day, it seemed that most people found the presentation useful. Jesse  Segovia from Elanza Group had the tough after lunch session, and was later followed by Rob Axelrod from Technotics. Rob is an excellent speaker, and made a very enjoyable presentation on the development process and build automation. We finished the day at about 4:00pm, just in time to catch heavy traffic back to the airport. The flight back to San Diego to over 6 hours, and culminated with an aborted landing due to fog. I finally crawled into be at 1:00am after a very long day.