Lotusphere 2007: session ratings are in

April 12 2007

My colleagues and I on the Lotusphere content team received a nice vote of confidence today -- the summary conference ratings from Lotusphere 2007 were incredibly positive.  One particular highlight says that we picked the right sessions for the conference:

"In addition, in 89% of the sessions (up from 75% in the last two years), the majority of attendee respondents said that the information presented in the sessions affected their decision to further consider or implement the IBM/Lotus product or solution discussed in the session."
Cool beans.

So what were the top-rated sessions?  Based on the ratings for quality and relevance of information (not the speaker rating), the top sessions were:
BP311 -- The Great Code Giveaway -- Web 2.0 edition Rob Novak and Viktor Krantz, SNAPPS
HND207 -- WebSphere Portal and Lotus Domino: Getting them talking... Kathleen McGivney, IBM and Paul Mooney, Bluewave
BP404 -- Virtual approaches to development using VMWare Carl Tyler, Instant Technologies
JMP205 -- Sametime 7.5 Wes Morgan, IBM
BP104 -- Worst Practices in Lotus Domino environments Bill Buchan, HADSL and Paul Mooney, Bluewave
ID109 -- Lotus Notes hints, tips, and tricks Alan Lepofsky, IBM
HND105 -- The ultimate makeover of a Lotus Domino site using CSS Scott Good and Henry Newberry, Teamwork Solutions
JMP301 -- JavaScript and AJAX JumpStart Scott Good, Teamwork Solutions
AD108  -- Best Practices for Creating Portlets with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Ruth Seltzer, IBM
HND104 -- AJAX for IBM Lotus Domino Hands-on Scott Good, Teamwork Solutions


All of those sessions scored an amazing 2.94-2.97 out of 3.0 on quality and relevance.  Another 25 sessions scored above 2.85.

While these scores are an incredible accomplishment, there are few surprises in there.  These names represent standout talent in our industry -- and community -- and it's great to see them recognized as such.

Ed Brill CO587, IAH-ORD, Seat 23C Category:  Lotusphere2007  Add/View Comments [14]

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  1. 1  Dale Flannery  | 4/12/2007 8:33:21 PM

    Might be convenient if you could give direct links. I'm going to go look for these specific presentations (if they are up), so I suppose others will want to do so, too.

    Thanks for the heads up - now if only you could let us know which will be the best sessions before we book in ... :-)

  1. 2  Steve Cogan  | 4/13/2007 2:59:25 AM

    @1 - Dale, the LS07 presentations can be accessed via the Sandbox on LDD: { Link }

    Regards,

    Steve.

  1. 3  Nathan T. Freeman http://nathan.lotus911.com | 4/13/2007 7:00:08 AM

    Congrats to Scott Good and Paul Mooney, for making the list multiple times!

    Which of the criteria on the scores is used for this determination? Chris and I got excellent results back, but I don't know how to compare the "relevance" score vs. the "speaker" score. (and I still can't believe I got anything positive back on my own speaking! I guess passion trumps preparation.)

  1. 4  Bruce Elgort http://www.TakingNotesPodcast.com | 4/13/2007 7:34:53 AM

    Nathan,

    It's all the poeple who sat in the front row who kept you going - remember? You and Chris did a GREAT job!

  1. 5  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 4/13/2007 8:24:35 AM

    @ Nathan, this score is -just- the first question on the eval form. The other two questions (relevance and speaker) are separate.

  1. 6  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 4/13/2007 10:06:34 AM

    Maybe it should be renamed ScottGoodSphere. ;-) I'm actually glad to see that so many people rated his sessions so highly. It tells me that I'm not the only person struggling with Domino web development, even though it feels like it. On the blogosphere I often feel like the dumb guy in a crowd of geniuses.

    Ed, actually none of the presentations listed here are in the Sandbox. :)

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 4/13/2007 10:18:32 AM

    Hence the reason I did not build any links as per the request in comment #1 :-/ Typically Lotus is not aggressive about distributing business partner content -- some of them have posted their presentations on their own sites (such as Mr. Novak).

  1. 8  Bruce Elgort http://www.TakingNotesPodcast.com | 4/13/2007 10:38:03 AM

    How about those session podcasts Ed? Will they be coming out soon?

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 4/13/2007 10:41:53 AM

    That plan morphed into the "Lotusphere Comes to You Live" program that I mentioned { Link }

  1. 10  Paul Mooney http://www.pmooney.net | 4/13/2007 12:56:53 PM

    em.. wow

    Of course speaking with Bill or Kathleen easily helps a speaker along. Both of them are fantastic.

  1. 11  Vitor Pereira http://www.vitor-pereira.com | 4/13/2007 5:09:12 PM

    @ Paul, did I just see some names on the list that are not going to ILUG2007? ;-)

  1. 12  Wild Bill http://www.billbuchan.com | 4/14/2007 8:31:27 AM

    Kudos to Paul for suggesting the entire worst practices series, and kudos for Ed and Rocky for putting them on.. It could have ended up very different..

    ---* Bill

  1. 13  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 4/15/2007 11:51:52 AM

    My Sametime session evals were lost :-( I'd love to have seen how that did.

    Oh well, 3rd gives me a target for next year, congrats to all!

  1. 14  Kristin Keene  | 4/16/2007 7:32:19 PM

    Carl - hi. Send me a separate note on your session eval situation, I know we have boxes and boxes of the evals here in Cambridge, I may be able to help. KK