One of my favorite parts of Lotusphere is walking the Product Showcase, and Scott Laningham of developerWorks makes me feel like I made it this year!

Scott talks to product and service vendors like Binary Tree, Symantec, RIM, Polycom, The View, and others.

For more videos from Scott, check out the official IBM developerWorks YouTube Channel!

Amanda Bauman has an excellent idea which she mentioned on the Lotus Technical Information and Education Team Blog, in her post Lotusphere speakers - We want you..., where she asks the Lotusphere session speakers to consider submitting their sessions to their respective IBM Lotus Product Wiki.

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For those of you who have yet to attend a Lotusphere... I can tell you that you come back to the office better. You come back to the day-to-day with new ideas, with new understanding, and with new interests despite the backlog from being out of the office for the past week. You have more energy to take on the problems that plague your customers, despite having slept a total of 12 hours in the past week, throat raw from Kimonos, and closing JellyRolls every. single. night. You are ready to take on the world and show just how awesome Lotus products are and how they can address any business need - either directly or through integration with other technology investments.

Lotusphere can make you Super.Human. afterall!

There is a time, however, when the Lotusphere-buzz wears off. There starts a time when you realize that you're no longer a hallway away from some of the best and brightest in your field. You begin to lose that spark, that drive to evolve your everyday into tomorrow.

I'm here with a simple plea: don't let go!

With the new and exciting developments in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Traveler, Sametime, Quickr, LotusLive, and more, we (the individual community members) should use that post-Lotusphere energy to take the Lotus Online Community to the next level...

To loosely quote Frank Cross...

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The good people of IBS Bulgaria and Bulgarian Lotus Communty Portal have kindly donated some of their awesome Lotus Knows t-shirts as giveaways for dominoGuru.com readers. Since I'm not at Lotusphere 2010, good friend and Lotusphere 2010 attendee David Leedy will be bringing back the proverbial booty.

As David is taking a holiday right after Lotusphere 2010, it will be a week or two before he returns to Pennsylvania. Once I get together with David, I'll be holding several giveaways on the site where you can win some sweet Lotus Knows swag.

This and the upcoming RESTful Java Web Services (from Packt Publishing) review/giveaway are just a few of the upcoming giveaways, contests, and events you can expect from this site!

As always, if you have any suggestions on giveaways, contests, and/or events, feel free to leave a comment!

Hot off the press from Lotusphere 2010, IBM releases the IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. Having spoken quite publically about a need for a consumer-facing App Store -- consumers being the IT Professionals in most regards, but what's to stop a power user from downloading a plugin?! -- I was more than eager to check this out.

First Impressions

Design via OneUI and delivered via XPages, the Solutions Catalog looks right at home on IBM Lotus Greenhouse (IBM Lotus Greenhouse registration/log-in not required to browse the Solutions Catalog...).

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