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	  <title>IBM Lotusphere 2010</title>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Lotus knows in the face of a challenging economy and unprecedented market conditions, the Lotus community has stuck closely together and continued to innovate and build toward the future. The passion exhibited by our partners and customers is inspiring. Your energy, your zeal and your insights consistently amaze us.<br /><br /><strong>Date: </strong>17 – 21 January 2010<br /><strong>Location: </strong>Orlando, Florida, USA]]></description>
	  <pubDate>11 Nov 2009 10:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>IDC's Unified Communications and Collaboration Conference 2009</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Collaboration and communication are critical to effective business management. Providing employees with effective communication has proven to increase productivity. Most organisations have a ban on travel and have started closely examining mobile costs, while many are looking at how they can reduce real-estate costs by increasing the use of flexible working practices.<br /><br /><strong>Date: </strong>19 November 2009<br /><strong>Location: </strong>Hotel Russell, Russell Square, London<br /><br /><a href="http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=fdd8af1e-5f1b-4af7-917a-d77571a74052">Learn more &amp; register</a>]]></description>
	  <pubDate>11 Nov 2009 10:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>The business benefits of Web 2.0 and collaboration technology</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Featuring Oxfordshire County Council and IBM, this podcast will highlight:<ul><li>Current Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies</li><li>The business benefits that Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies can deliver</li><li>The infrastructure needed to deploy and maintain them</li><li>How to ensure such technologies are used securely and effectively</li></ul>]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>An Audience with…Web 2.0, social software and portals explained</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Anthony Gould, editor in chief, Post Magazine speaks to Ian McNaim and Christopher Blatchly about the challenges facing forward thinking insurers.]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>How Web 2.0 technology can help growing firms to be more competitive</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Many large organisations have invested in Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, RSS and other online community tools to improve information sharing and knowledge management among staff, and to support better collaboration with external partners. But this technology also offers significant opportunities for mid-sized and growing businesses to work more effectively with customers and key suppliers.<br/><br/>In this Computing web seminar, we examine how organisations can take advantage of these technologies and the benefits they can achieve. Our panel of experts will discuss the emerging best practice on putting Web 2.0 into practice, and a real-life case study will examine how one business is looking to the technology to support its goals.]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>UK Lotus User Group 2009</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[8 - 9 October 2009 was two packed days of sessions and networking focused just on Lotus software. It was a great opportunity to meet your fellow Lotus professionals, to share experiences and best practices.  This was one of the largest Lotus gatherings in the UK covering a wide range of technical sessions on the latest developments - such as Notes &amp; Domino 8.5, Sametime Advanced and Lotus Quickr 8.5 - presented by some of the leading speakers in the Lotus community. Its a rare opportunity to get so many excellent speakers in one place outside Lotusphere.]]></description>
	  <pubDate>12 Aug 2009 06:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>Sametime Unified Telephony Events</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Today’s economy is forcing many businesses to rethink many of the traditional services they offer, whilst, at the same time, how they can reduce costs and use this opportunity to implement innovative new capabilities to help work smarter.<br /><br />The possibility to reduce telephony costs and increasing productivity through deploying world-class communication and collaboration solutions, are viewed by many organizations as immediate and attractive ways to improve efficiency and maximising the investment in the workforce (which can become increasingly geographically dispersed).<br /><br />On the 3rd of September 2009 in IBM Edinburgh and 8th September 2009 in IBM South Bank, IBM invited customers to a discussion session where we introduced some of the latest enabling technology solutions in this area, such as IBM Sametime Unified Telephony. There was also an opportunity to discover some of the adopters of these technologies, hear about their experiences, and discuss some of your own key issues and the methods that you have found valuable.]]></description>
	  <pubDate>28 Jul 2009 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>Lotusphere Comes to You 2009</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[At Lotusphere Comes to You 2009, delegates from the accross the UK found out how IBM Lotus and IBM WebSphere Portal software can help you use collaboration to achieve better business outcomes.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration/lotusphere-comes-to-you-2009/?referral=uk_ITs_events_rss">See what Happened</a>]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>IDC Unified Communications Conference</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Today's employees are inspired by the collaborative working practices of Web 2.0 - they demand constant and open lines of communication in order to operate competitively in increasingly virtual global teams.<br/><br/> IDC's Unified Communications Conference will examine the increasing importance of the enterprise communications strategy as an essential element of an organisation's wider ICT strategy. Learn how IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration vision fosters innovation and business agility bringing together complete software, services and hardware solutions to enable a whole new way for people, teams and communities to find experts and make faster, better decisions.<br/><a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P15266">Learn more at IDC's website</a>]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	  <title>Lotusphere Comes To You 2008</title>
	  <category>Collaboration Software</category>
	  <link>http://www.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration-software/events/past-events.html?referral=uk_ITs_events_rss#lotusphere_comes_to_you_2008</link>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Did you join us in London or Manchester at Lotusphere Comes To You 2008? The UK version of the annual Lotusphere conference in Florida, was created to bring you the newest thinking, ideas and insights and help you stay ahead of the game. It's everything you need to know, in one focused event.<br/><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/empowerpeople/lcty2008/?referral=uk_ITs_events_rss">Go to the LCTY page to learn more </a>]]></description>
	  <pubDate>06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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