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<title>Registration for Lotusphere 2010 is now open</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Lotusphere 2010. The power of community. Celebrating 17 years as a leading industry conference. Register early and save. Also check out the exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities.</description>
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<title>IBM announces Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1: Collaboration drives innovation</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The results are in - IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 is winning rave from early adopters. Now your customers can experience the unique benefits delivered in this exciting new release.</description>
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<title>New marketing tools added to the Lotus Knows page on IBM PartnerWorld</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The table of marketing tools now includes posters, presentation template, web banners, ads and much more.  Currently, the tools are English only.  Other languages to come.</description>
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<title>15 Oct 2009 IBM Lotus Think!Thursday: Leveraging IBM communities to grow</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00 a.m. eastern time (ET). Learn about IBM communities at developerWorks, PartnerWorld and Lotus Greenhouse and how they can help you find answers to technical problems, solutions for customer needs and access to innovative technology. Easily navigate the sites and leverage them to grow your business.</description>
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<title>Reminder Lotusphere 2010 calls for abstracts due 09 Oct 2009</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Lotusphere 2010 content team is accepting proposals to speak at Lotusphere 2010, once again at the WALT DISNEY WORLD Swan and Dolphin Resort, and Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resorts in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, from 17-21 Jan 2010.</description>
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<title>Introducing the new Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solution Catalog</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog is a collaborative solution catalog designed to dynamically deliver widgets, plug-ins, portlets, and sample applications across the entire Lotus and WebSphere Portal software portfolio. The catalog will showcase both IBM and Business Partner solutions.</description>
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<title>Lotus knows you want to bookmark this page</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Lotus Knows campaign is going to be around for a while.  This is no flash in the pan initiative.  Bookmark this page and check back often for updates.</description>
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<title>Lotus Knows marketing tools are now available in English</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Check out all the Lotus Knows marketing materials you can use in your own marketing activities. </description>
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<title>Check out the Lotus Knows Vanguard Program</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Coordinate your marketing plans with our media plans. IBM is looking to establish a close partnership with a 'vanguard' community of passionate IBM Business Partners worldwide who want to actively participate in the initiative.</description>
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<title>Replay now available:  Hear all about the Lotus Knows marketing initiative and what you can do to help.</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Hear more about the Lotus knows campaign and the resources you can leverage from across IBM in your local marketing and social media efforts to drive awareness and results in your market!</description>
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<title>Reminder to listen to replays: "Lotus and WebSphere Portal Value Selling Workshop" webcast series</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Listen to this series of webcast replays as they become available. Replays of sessions 1 - 3 available now. This five-week series is designed to train our channel community for success and help you grow your revenue. </description>
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<title>Replays now available: "Lotus Fast Start Prospecting Days" webcast series</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Listen to this series of webcasts geared to highlight the 2H2009 Lotus "Work Smart and Save" campaigns and offers that are critical to our Q3 pipeline recovery and Q3 revenue attainment. User Name: Sales Talk; Password: golotus.</description>
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<title>New Lotus and WebSphere Portal e-mail templates</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Do you need help creating awareness in your marketplace on IBM Lotus and IBM WebSphere Portal solutions, and finding new customers? Take advantage of our professionally developed, ready-to-use, customizable e-mail templates in your local marketing activities. </description>
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<title>New Sales Play: Reduce costs with Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and up-sell advanced collaboration</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>New materials are now available to help you sell the concept of reducing costs with Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and up-selling advanced collaboration. The play includes literature, datasheets, white papers, a sales guide and more selling resources. This sales play is intended to help customers reduce costs, get more efficient, and grow revenue. </description>
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<title>IBM LotusLive sales play</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>This sales play is designed to help you understand how to position Lotus Live to your customers and propects.  The play contains competitive differentiators, customer benefits, pain points and literature.</description>
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<title>Sales Play: Reduce costs through customer self-service Web sites and eForms</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>In today's economic environment, every Large Enterprise customer needs to reduce costs by working smarter and improving their business processes while strengthening their business relationships. It is well known that 80% of those processes are forms-based. Now, you can help your customers implement eForms with the winning combination of IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Forms to streamline business processes and achieve cost savings</description>
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<title>The IBM Redbook for IBM Smart Business Unified Communications/VoIP is now published.</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>In this IBM Redbooks publication we provide a complete overview the IBM Smart Business solution, from a description of the services to an installation guide, and a step-by-step scenario that describes how to configure, deploy, and manage the Voice over IP (VoIP) element of the IBM Smart Cube. </description>
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<title>Question for our readership - Is this RSS feed useful to you?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Please email us with a quick response to let us know you are receiving these RSS feeds and find them useful.  Thank you!</description>
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<title>Check out this CRN article:  "Lotus Foundations Winning Fans Among Resellers"</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Check out this Lotus Foundations article written by By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb.</description>
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<title>A reminder to act fast! IBM Lotus Notes and iNotes 2Q pricing promotion</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Entice new customers to the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 platform with this exciting 2Q promotion.  Customers get  25% off of new licenses of Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes software.  And let existing customers with lapsed Software Subscription and Support know we want them back as they too qualify for a 25% discount on Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes reinstatement.</description>
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<title>The IBM Lotus Notes/iNotes/Designer/Domino/Traveler 8.5.1 beta - Now available for Managed Beta participants!</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Click here to nominate yourself and/or your customers for the managed beta, You will be prompted for your IBM ID and password to complete the process.</description>
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<title>Why IBM WebSphere Portal?</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>If you or anyone you know is asking that question, read on. Extended functionality, new initiatives, industry tools and more, all help differentiate WebSphere Portal software. Visit our new Web pages to learn more.</description>
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<title>Now available!  Updated Lotus Symphony flyer</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>A one-page, two-sided flyer that provides a comprehensive overview of Lotus Symphony for end users, LOB and IT audiences, highlighting the business benefits throughout.</description>
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<title>Now available!  Updated Lotus Symphony Brochure -- "Why IBM Lotus Symphony? Why free?"</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>IBM Lotus Symphony, which is available at no charge, can help businesses take back control of their IT budget while giving most users the tools they need to excel at their jobs. For example, IBM Lotus Symphony tools enable users to create, edit and share word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. </description>
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<title>New video:  Alloy by IBM and SAP for direct access to SAP business processes in the Lotus Notes client</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Learn how you can give business users direct access to SAP business processes, information, and reports in the Lotus Notes client, helping to optimize effectiveness and decision making in addition to helping increase compliance with corporate policies. </description>
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<title>Take a Message:  It's Lotus Notes and Domino vs. Microsoft Exchange (and the winner is........)</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>CRN's review of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 vs. Microsoft Exchange 07 is in. The verdict --- close call but Lotus wins!  </description>
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<title>WebSphere Portal sales mastery course and exam now available</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>We are announcing the availability of the new IBM WebSphere Portal family sales mastery 201 course and exam.</description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/isv/news/rss/victransform.jsp?p1=2581]]></link>
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<title>Report: IBM Ranked #1 in Web Portal Software Market Share</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>IBM today announced that IT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. The ranking was based on total worldwide software revenue for 2008.</description>
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<title>IBM Industry Toolboxes for WebSphere Portal now available through the Web</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Industry Toolboxes for WebSphere Portal showcase industry-specific customer successes, demonstrate industry-specific solutions, include downloadable code assets to help jumpstart implementations, and more.</description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/portal/industry/]]></link>
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<title>Act fast! IBM Lotus Notes and iNotes 2Q pricing promotion</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Entice new customers to the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 platform with this exciting 2Q promotion.  Customers get  25% off of new licenses of Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes software.  And let existing customers with lapsed Software Subscription and Support know we want them back as they too qualify for a 25% discount on Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes reinstatement.</description>
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<title>Workshop: An introduction to Lotus Foundations</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Learn about sales and technical aspects of Lotus Foundations. You must be a software reseller to attend this seminar.</description>
<link><![CDATA[https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/isv/spc/events/description.jsp?event=BD8138E177911FBF8525759F00550C97&ca=drs-1809b]]></link>
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<title>Technical workshop: IBM Lotus Foundations Branch Office</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Learn about Lotus Foundations Branch Office and get hands-on experience with installation, configuration and administration.</description>
<link><![CDATA[https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/isv/spc/events/description.jsp?event=FD8EDB1E4FD834D9852575A00061DF3F&ca=drs-1709b]]></link>
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<title>We want your Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Partner case studies</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>We want your stories.  We want to feature your successes.  Here is a process guide to get started.  It is very simple.</description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/references]]></link>
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<title>LotusLive in SVI</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The LotusLive suite of offerings including LotusLive Meetings and LotusLive Engage are now part of the IBM Software Value Incentive (SVI) program.</description>
<link><![CDATA[https://www-304.ibm.com/jct01005c/partnerworld/mem/sell/sel_sip_svi_main.html]]></link>
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<title>WebSphere Portal software is now a part of Wikipedia!</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Developed in partnership with the editorial staff of Wikipedia, a new encyclopedia article entitled "WebSphere Portal" is now available.</description>
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<title>14 May 2009 Maximize your Web presence, minimize your costs - how medium-sized companies thrive in uncertain times</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Thu, 14 May 2009, 1 p.m. eastern time (ET). During this webcast, you will hear from two IBM WebSphere Portal customers about how their WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management solutions have helped them reduce costs, improve productivity, and grow revenue.</description>
<link><![CDATA[http://w.on24.com/clients/ibm/144293?partnerref=portalteam]]></link>
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<title>Check out the featured Lotus online courses in the IBM Virtual Innovation Center</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>There are over 800 courses available at the Virtual Innovation Center. Lotus has new courses offered for Lotus Protector, Lotus Mashup Center and Lotus Foundations.</description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/isv/news/rss/victransform.jsp]]></link>
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<title>21 May 2009 Lotus ThinkThursday: Why I should invest in collaboration in today's economy?  We'll give you three good reasons!</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Thu, 21 May 2009, 11 a.m. eastern time (ET). During this session, you will be introduced to a Lotus Collaboration 2.0 sales approach that is designed to help your prospects get a sense of how they can cut costs and improve productivity through the use of collaborative solutions.</description>
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<title>Collaborate directly with Lotus and WebSphere Portal customers</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Collaboration Soapbox is a new community of like-minded Lotus software evangelists. We're collecting people, assets, methods, discussion, and opinion on driving adoption for IBM social software.</description>
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<title>Faster responsiveness and lower costs with IBM Mashup Center sales course</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Listen and learn about how IBM Mashup Center can help you and your customers achieve quicker responsiveness and lower costs in these challenging economic times. Provided in this Web lecture is an  overview of the market, business challenges, and the capabilities and benefits for building successful mashups.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>This course provides Business Partners information about Lotus Foundations Start to help them identify prospects and successfully present IBM Lotus Foundations as a solution. The IBM Lotus Foundations software appliance provides the essential software that small businesses with limited or no technical resources need to run their business.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Join us in congratulating the 2009 Lotus Award Winners and Finalists. Read more about their innovative solutions and success on the 2009 Lotus Awards webpage. IBM Lotus Software Group will be announcing additional 2009 Lotus Awards at Lotusphere in Orlando, Florida, 18 Jan - 22 Jan 2009.</description>
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<description>Attentions ISVs! In this 1 hour session, we will explore how leading edge Lotus and WebSphere Portal offerings can be a natural fit for you and your customers, enhance the value you provide, and drive increased software and services revenue and profit for your company.Register today to listen to the replay and receive the presentation.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Picciano has been the Lotus GM for 7 months. On November 12, Bob talked with the Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Partners about finishing Q4 and getting revved up for 2009. The talk was followed by an excellent Q&amp;A where Bob and his executive team answered questions.]]></description>
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<title>Valuable New Sales Opportunity Identification Resources Available For WebSphere Portal Partners!</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>New Executive Assessment modules now available for use with WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express sales prospects.</description>
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