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Free 1-day seminar on April 24 hosted by Notesnet.dk

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I am proud to announce a free 1-day seminar hosted by Notesnet.dk. The purpose of the seminar is to show companies the powerful features of IBM Notes 9, IBM Domino 9, IBM XWork Server 9, IBM Connections 4.5, XPages and much more – including case stories. The seminar is for existing IBM Domino customers and for potential IBM Domino customers, and takes place on April 24.

Have a look at the agenda and sign up to attend if the seminar is of interest to you. The seminar and online content is in Danish.

Presentation: Create an app in 1 hour (almost) with XPages Extension Library

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I gave this presentation along with a live coding demo at the monthly NotesNet.dk meeting on April 19, 2012. The presentation covers elements of the XPages Extension Library that you can use to rapidly convert an existing Lotus Notes client application to a web application.

The sample database is available for download and uses a custom forum database as “backend”. You can easily modify the code to use another backend database.

XPages Extension Library – Create an app in 1 hour (almost)

I am now chairman of the board at NotesNet.dk

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I am a member of the NotesNet.dk independent group of IBM/Lotus consultants and also a member of the board. We are 25 independent consultants specializing in services and solutions for Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, XPages and more.

The members of NotesNet.dk participated in the annual general meeting in March, 2012. Our now former chairman John Dalsgaard wanted to resign as chairman after many years of great service. New members of the board were therefore elected.

At the board meeting held a week later we decided on the responsibilities for the board members. I accepted the position as chairman of the board.

I look forward to continue my work in the board for NotesNet.dk.

My 1st year as self-employed consultant at PHL Consult

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One year ago I started as self-employed consultant at my own company PHL Consult after having worked for IBM for 16 years – and what a great year! Starting on my own has proved to be one my of my best decisions ever.

It has been a year of classic Lotus Notes application development work, XPages development work, teaching courses and much more. I started with one customer and have since then been doing work for 10 other paying customers and been involved in proposals for a handful more. Furthermore, I reviewed David Leedys XPages cheat sheet, and reviewed the IBM course “Modernizing Lotus Domino 8.5.2 Applications”.

This year I also became member of the boards at NotesNet, DanNotes and OpenNTF.

The following are public sites that I have implemented for customers during my 1st year:

Lessons learned (and assumptions confirmed):

  • Networking is important: several of my customers have chosen me for their work because we were connected in some way.
  • Advertising helps: I advertise my business services on the Google advertising network and know for a fact that some customers came to me via that channel.
  • Being social: I am a strong believer in blogging and social networks and the impact that it can have on you and others.

I look forward to the next year and what it will bring me of interesting work and projects.

One final advice: pursue your dream!

My first two months as self-employed consultant

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This is a followup to my first two weeks as self-employed consultant at PHL Consult.

2 months have now passed since I started as full-time consultant at PHL Consult – and I am really enjoying it! It has been exciting to focus on my own business and see the immediate results of actions that I take. I have been in discussions with several potential customers and potential business partners about projects where I can offer my services. Some of these discussions has turned into real work for me and I am happy to say that I now have more than just the one customer I started with 2 months ago. The new customers and new projects are primarily focused around Domino administration (setting up new servers, upgrading existing servers) and around modern web development using XPages.

Almost all of my meetings with new and potential customers have been set up through my social network. This really shows that networking is very important for establishing business contacts. One customer, however, contacted me because they found PHL Consult through a Google AdWords ad when using Google to search for a Lotus Domino consultant. I have set up some Google AdWords ads because Google sent me a free trial of ads for $100. So maybe I should consider using AdWords when my free trial has been spent.

Starting a full-time business also require that I take care of administrative tasks. I have had meetings with my accountant to discuss the structure of my business and have decided to go with a one-man business setup (instead of setting up for instance a limited liability company). I have also talked with insurance companies in order to establish necessary company insurances to cover professional liability and business property such as my IT hardware.

I participated in the 44th DanNotes Lotus user group conference in early November. It was great to meet many of the Danish Lotus customers, Lotus business partners and Lotus consultants. I am also still an active member of the Danish Notesnet group of Lotus specialists.