A perfect IBM Connections Mail demonstration

November 29 2012

I am sitting in the concluding session of the DanNotes conference in Kørsor, Denmark. About a hundred delegates have been here for a couple of days with an agenda featuring Mikkel Heisterberg, Mat Newman, Paul Mooney, Abigail Roberts, Frank van der Linden, and several other domestic and international speakers.

This morning, I presented an updated messaging and collaboration roadmap. I realize I need to post these slides, now that we are out of stealth mode on IBM Notes/Domino Social Edition. One topic I cover is IBM Connections Mail, and the demonstration today was perfect.

Connections Mail delivers a social mail experience by providing lightweight mail capabilities in context. Caveat: Normally I don't demo on my production mailbox, but the test server where Connections Mail is configured for me is wired to my live mail. Thus when I highlighted my new mail, one of the messages proved out the contextual nature. It was a note from my colleague Hans Peter Dalen, who was apologizing that he was unable to attend the event here today. In less than five seconds, without losing the context of my presentation and the work I was doing, I was able to learn of an adjustment to my plans for the day. I never missed a beat, and Hans' mail was not intrusive into the flow of my activity.

This is exactly what Connections Mail is about. Thanks, HP, for making a great demo use case!

Ed Brill | Kørsor, Danmark Category:  Connections Mail  Add/View Comments [5]

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  1. 1  Lars Olufsen  | 11/29/2012 9:03:42 AM

    Kørsor? You mean Korsør! :-)

  1. 2  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 11/29/2012 11:42:31 AM

    The convenience of being able to access your mail without leaving Connections sounds great, but I don't consider that "contextual". Does the Social Mail inbox dynamically filter the messages being shown based on what you're looking at in Connections? If so, that's cool!

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 11/29/2012 12:07:49 PM

    @2 not yet, but that is absolutely where we plan to go with it in future releases. "Contextual" means different things to different people. To my adult ADHD, it means I didn't interrupt what I was doing to do something else. I didn't have to leave the task I was engaged in (demonstrating Connections), to triage incoming new mail, whereas in the past I might have had to alt-tab over to Notes, pick up my phone and check Traveler, etc.

  1. 4  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 11/29/2012 3:50:28 PM

    Got ya. Yes, saving time by not having to Alt+Tab can sometimes be a good thing.

    BTW, remember when we used to pitch that around Portal as well! Save time, integrate everything. Intra-portlet communication, InfoBus, etc. Now it's embedded experiences, streams, social mail. Everything old is new again!

  1. 5  Johann  | 11/30/2012 9:11:03 AM

    Thanks for a great session !

    It really answered many questions and I will use what I got from it and present it at my company, I hope you had a good trip to Denmark