Comments on: Lombardi’s user conference goes online http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/ BPM, Enterprise 2.0 and technology trends in business. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Green Conference - Driven Online « Kamakura 鎌倉 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10988 Green Conference - Driven Online « Kamakura 鎌倉 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:28:25 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10988 [...] “Column 2″, from specific standpoint of being outside of US. 2009 03 09    Lombardi’s user conference goes online I have to clarify that I wrote that response not just for complaining, murmuring. But I was just [...] [...] “Column 2″, from specific standpoint of being outside of US. 2009 03 09    Lombardi’s user conference goes online I have to clarify that I wrote that response not just for complaining, murmuring. But I was just [...]

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10986 Sandy Kemsley Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:13:43 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10986 Greg, that's great for people who are a "short train ride away", but I'm not sure that covers the general user base for most vendors. The location of your conference in Baltimore certainly provides a high concentration of potential customers in the local catchbasin; Lombardi's choice of their home town of Austin could have impacted some travel decisions but a vendor with global reach is always going to have a significant portion of their customer base that has to travel to attend the conference. I can certainly sympathize with kamakura's comment (IP address indicates that he is in Japan) that virtual conference provide a much broader reach, although you miss the face-to-face interaction. Greg, that’s great for people who are a “short train ride away”, but I’m not sure that covers the general user base for most vendors. The location of your conference in Baltimore certainly provides a high concentration of potential customers in the local catchbasin; Lombardi’s choice of their home town of Austin could have impacted some travel decisions but a vendor with global reach is always going to have a significant portion of their customer base that has to travel to attend the conference.

I can certainly sympathize with kamakura’s comment (IP address indicates that he is in Japan) that virtual conference provide a much broader reach, although you miss the face-to-face interaction.

]]> By: kamakura http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10985 kamakura Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:34:47 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10985 Yes, needless to say, that's invaluable to have actual face-to-face meeting with guys. Getting acquanted, self-motivated by new knowledge and passion, also making following communications smooth. Logically ideal! But for global market, Lombardi's challgenge of online conf might be also good in Logistics point. How many days and how much does it cost for us abroad? Half a day with myself packed into small economy seat, then will it work? If anything to be improved, I would say, I would really wish it to be scheduled for 2 different time zone, like one for EST morning and another for UK morning. Or right away upload archived content at minimum. These all support us invisible market supporters away ;D This is my personal request to all including Lombardi and Metastorm, but must be closed to public comment. Thanks, Kamakura Yes, needless to say, that’s invaluable to have actual face-to-face meeting with guys. Getting acquanted, self-motivated by new knowledge and passion, also making following communications smooth. Logically ideal!

But for global market, Lombardi’s challgenge of online conf might be also good in Logistics point. How many days and how much does it cost for us abroad? Half a day with myself packed into small economy seat, then will it work?

If anything to be improved, I would say, I would really wish it to be scheduled for 2 different time zone, like one for EST morning and another for UK morning. Or right away upload archived content at minimum. These all support us invisible market supporters away ;D

This is my personal request to all including Lombardi and Metastorm, but must be closed to public comment.
Thanks,
Kamakura

]]> By: Greg Carter http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10984 Greg Carter Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:04:14 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10984 Sandy, Metastorm has over 250+ registered and counting. So far our customers say the conference is a business imperative for learning how to drive more value from their EA, BPA, BPMS programs. ME2009 is being held in Baltimore with easy access by train and metro, our customers are making ME2009 the one event they attend this year. Our customers and partners are telling us that “in person interaction with peers and vendor executives is invaluable for certain mission-critical technologies. “ A day or two out of the office with minimal cost (we have 100s of customers a short train ride away) pays ten-fold with sidebar chats, informal demos, and just seeing what others are doing to exploit their BPMS software to gain operational improvements. Thanks, Greg Sandy,

Metastorm has over 250+ registered and counting. So far our customers say the conference is a business imperative for learning how to drive more value from their EA, BPA, BPMS programs. ME2009 is being held in Baltimore with easy access by train and metro, our customers are making ME2009 the one event they attend this year.

Our customers and partners are telling us that “in person interaction with peers and vendor executives is invaluable for certain mission-critical technologies. “ A day or two out of the office with minimal cost (we have 100s of customers a short train ride away) pays ten-fold with sidebar chats, informal demos, and just seeing what others are doing to exploit their BPMS software to gain operational improvements.

Thanks,
Greg

]]> By: Theo Priestley http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10976 Theo Priestley Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:57:27 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10976 Travel, accommodation headaches, weather, carbon footprint, and costs all add up. If it's done smartly, then virtual conferencing is really the only way forward, even webinars can be limited at times. Gartner has it's "justification kit", IQPC is doing 2-for-1 deals on some events, it's almost like a supermarket sweep right now vying for attention and $$ but they all are suffering from the same, tired model. But then I am a little biased ;) Travel, accommodation headaches, weather, carbon footprint, and costs all add up. If it’s done smartly, then virtual conferencing is really the only way forward, even webinars can be limited at times.

Gartner has it’s “justification kit”, IQPC is doing 2-for-1 deals on some events, it’s almost like a supermarket sweep right now vying for attention and $$ but they all are suffering from the same, tired model.

But then I am a little biased ;)

]]> By: Jim Rudden http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10972 Jim Rudden Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:35:44 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2009/03/lombardis-user-conference-goes-online/#comment-10972 Sandy, To add a little color to this .. We surveyed our customers back in December and 75% told us attending would be a possibility. As we have gotten closer, we just started to get a ton of feedback that many companies are on travel restrictions - which turns out to mean no travel. So, we've changed the format to meet the need. We will definitely lose the personal interaction that makes Driven great. On the positive side, we have already heard from many of our Driven Online registrants that this approach will actually allow more people at their company to participate and get educated on BPM. So, that is one big positive for this format. In terms of the content, we will cover the same range of topics over the course of the Driven Online program. We are starting with the Lombardi updates and will then move on to customer and partner presentations in the following weeks. We are thinking frequent 1 hour sessions beats a marathon 72 hour session in front of your monitor. Jim Rudden VP Marketing Lombardi Sandy,

To add a little color to this .. We surveyed our customers back in December and 75% told us attending would be a possibility. As we have gotten closer, we just started to get a ton of feedback that many companies are on travel restrictions – which turns out to mean no travel.

So, we’ve changed the format to meet the need. We will definitely lose the personal interaction that makes Driven great. On the positive side, we have already heard from many of our Driven Online registrants that this approach will actually allow more people at their company to participate and get educated on BPM. So, that is one big positive for this format.

In terms of the content, we will cover the same range of topics over the course of the Driven Online program. We are starting with the Lombardi updates and will then move on to customer and partner presentations in the following weeks. We are thinking frequent 1 hour sessions beats a marathon 72 hour session in front of your monitor.

Jim Rudden
VP Marketing
Lombardi

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