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PULSE
What a great conference!!!
Thank you to every User Community member who joined us at the PULSE 2008 conference!
For many of you the User Community branded baseball hat was a highlight as you stopped by the Tivoli User Community Pedestal in the EXPO and the Client Hospitality Lounge!
Check out these area of interest on PULSE
1) Join the Pulse post conference community on IBM.com today! You can:
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Ask questions to IBM or the larger community
- Manage Pulse contacts,
- Providing feedback on Pulse 2008
- Stay up to date and contribute to planning for Pulse 2009
- Have fun viewing and sharing photos, videos, and stories with the community
To get started with the PULSE community on IBM.com click on this link and scroll to the bottom: http://www.949.ibm.com/blogs/tiffany/entry/instructions_for_getting_set_up_in_pulse
2) Useful and Insightful things on PULSE
3) The New Frontier - join IBM.com's social communities! At Pulse, IBM also kicked off the beginnings of three other new communities with the same capabilities where the community can share questions, news, standards, and best practices and asks questions of IBM, Business Partners, and the larger community.
- Service management community: More of a focus on solutions that work across multiple IBM and Business Partner solutions, the Service Management field, and analyst reports.
- Tivoli community: More of a focus on Tivoli products and Tivoli-identified community stakeholders such as User Groups, Business Partners, IBM Tivoli teams
- Tivoli research volunteers group: A group where the community agrees to receive invitations to participate in research opportunities on prototypes for new Tivoli product designs, improving messaging, communications, and more.
All these IBM communities can be found here
HELPFUL HINT: To get started with any one of these communities on ibm.com click on this link and scroll to the bottom
What did a few of your peers say about PULSE?
- "This is my 1st conference or convention. This will be my benchmark to rate others. My first impression is that you have set the mark very high."
- "High quality presentations"
- "Covered all the things I was interested in, repeated sessions that needed to be"
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View PULSE pictures and videos
Here are a few pictures to show you:
 
 
More pictures can be found here: http://flickr.com/search/groups/?q=tug&w=714963%40N20&m=pool
View some LIVE PULSE videos at the conference:
Danyel: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OgtTSZep2vw, Michael: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qpod1iJaK98; Rob: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CzHcbC0ax2Y;Brenda: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kcitn-YlRII Sarah: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RAXGVVy2Md4 Heng: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iWjt23rspiY Jos: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iWjt23rspiY
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User Community Survey at PULSE- Questions and Answers
At the conference a few people filled out a short User Community Survey and here were the questions and the answers given:
Why are you attending PULSE?
- Networking. Global updated of the products
- See what new items are on the horizon and learn new things from peers
- I am an end user, a tech coordinator and maintenance planner. I was picked to compare our maintenance purchase with those in the industries.
- For product knowledge (golfbreeze) and interaction with other Tivoli users
- Knowledge exchange, partnership, relation management
- Information on new technology of Tivoli
- Learn more about IBM product and services
- Staying informed about the strategy and integration of the products
- Information about Tivoli Netcool
- We are implementing Maximo EAM for our operating facilities
- Company migrating to Tivoli Suite
- Working within the BSM area
- Technical news and roadmaps and how IBM thins
- To learn the newest trends and visions
- Announcements
- Gain broader knowledge of Tivoli
- Considering end-to-end implementation
- Considering a major Tivoli/services purchase
- Speaker, Client, BP
- Certifications, labs and networking and sessions
What have you enjoyed the most while being at PULSE?
- Connecting with people
- Atmosphere and helpfulness of both IBM and Disney staff
- Everything
- The camps and breakout sessions
- General Session
- Breakouts
- Conference sessions
- Networking, customer case studies
- Meeting all the people and demos of the products
- The ambiance and the hands on classes
- Meeting w/experts one on one to help resolve issues and of course the receptions!
- The people, food and the music
- The true-life stories of customer implementations
- Networking with the IBM, Partners. EXPO and peers
- Access to IBM personnel
- Interacting with people. knowledge, sharing, sessions
- The lounge and giving product feedback
What improvements can be made for the Tivoli User Community member for PULSE 2009?
- Need to have possibly some rooms set up with power to plug in. There were times that I had to walk the halls to find power to deal with a problem back at my data center.
- Better focus on General Sessions. More focus on product line general sessions.
- Repeat sessions when they are full or larger rooms and more z/os sessions
- More customer case studies, less product push
- Parking at the place where the conference is held
- Better communication on parking, I was re-directed o 3 difference lots in 3 days
- Need a more visible all day coffee bar
- Pulse Europe as well as Pulse “Global”
- More technical stuff
- Place the hospitality center more centralized in the booth.
- It was hard to get into a lot of sessions
- Implement a real class registration process
- Too many things happening together – condense it
- Add moderated discussion session\”panels” with product support and developers. Provide expo guides/valets to help attendees find booths/products
- Happy with things this year – just keep it up!
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