Coming soon from Lotus Education: IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes

February 2 2009

This new offering from Lotus Education seems to address many of the requests I've been receiving around helping end-users be more productive with Lotus Notes -- 1000 short video clips, in eleven languages, running straight from within the Notes client...

Containing more than 1000 short video clips, the IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes will quickly teach your employees the essential skills they need to be successful with Lotus Notes. New employees will learn key tasks, like archiving and calendaring, and seasoned employees will learn new features and productivity tips. "What's New" tutorials teach valuable skills and benefits of new features. This is the ultimate training solution for end users, administrative assistants, mobile users and tech support teams.
Learn more from David Leaser in this video:

IBM Lotus Multimedia Library.

Link: IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes > (coming soon -- March ETA)

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8  Add/View Comments [30]

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  1. 1  Graham Dodge  | 2/2/2009 2:53:23 PM

    1,000 clips ? How big is the footprint on your hard disk?

  1. 2  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 2/2/2009 2:55:04 PM

    WOW! That is fantastic.

  1. 3  Colin Williams  | 2/2/2009 3:07:46 PM

    Wow, this is huge! Cost?

  1. 4  Darren Duke http://blog.darrenduke.net | 2/2/2009 3:16:52 PM

    Now we're rocking and rolling. Thank you Ed!

  1. 5  Steven  | 2/2/2009 3:43:13 PM

    This explains why our LSM kept getting stonewalled when we tried to get access to some of the 8.x videos posted on YouTube.

  1. 6  LongLiveLotus  | 2/2/2009 4:10:12 PM

    I talked to these guys in the product showcase at LS09, looks very promising and long wished for..

    2 potential issues for our environment -

    1. Its not delivered in notes (?!?) which means I've questions about delivering it easily to remote sites and customising it by removing stuff thats not relevant to our users

    2. Cost (any concrete details anyone?)

  1. 7  Giulio http://www.buzznotes.com.au | 2/2/2009 4:11:52 PM

    Ed,

    This is great news. There is a lack of awareness here in Australia about Lotus Notes usability and capability. Cost for training is quite prohibitive, and having ready-made content will go a long way to bringing the market up to speed.

  1. 8  Richard Schwartz http://www.poweroftheschwartz.com | 2/2/2009 4:33:15 PM

    Wow! This is really great. Any chance some of the clips can be posted for us to see?

  1. 9  Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 2/2/2009 5:33:28 PM

    How does one make that "angelic sound" in a blog comment where a bright light shines upon the subject? :)

    Absolutely wonderful news. The NSF container for the individual work station is bonus points. Hopefully there will be one NSF per language.

  1. 10  Samuel deHuszar Allen http://www.essentialforms.com | 2/2/2009 7:00:09 PM

    This is great! All we need now is a sidebar widget for sorting through them. ;-P

    I will look forward to sifting through these.

  1. 11  Craig Boudreaux  | 2/2/2009 7:27:31 PM

    It's not "wonderful" news until we see the cost.

  1. 12  Giulio http://www.buzznotes.com.au | 2/3/2009 12:03:06 AM

    @11 I don't see any direct reference to it being a chargeable thing. Ed, will this be a paid subscription service ? Say it ain't so!

    I hope not, that is soooo 80's.. I would think (and hope) that "open training material" to learn big products would pay it's own dividends way beyond that of what a subscription fee would provide.... There is alot of potential to weave this content into other social web services

  1. 13  Ian Scott  | 2/3/2009 2:58:46 AM

    @12 - 'just a few dollars per user'

  1. 14  Patrick Kwinten http://quintessens.wordpress.com | 2/3/2009 5:28:03 AM

    what if I am only interested in some of the video's? paying the price of a 1000 vids feels a bit early 90's to me...

  1. 15  Patrick Kwinten http://quintessens.wordpress.com | 2/3/2009 5:28:31 AM

    or make it pay on demand so we can only link to the movies instead?

  1. 16  Scott Stewart  | 2/3/2009 7:29:05 AM

    @13 - Why not make it FREE? It would help to defeat the argument about how everyone already knows how to use Outlook or (insert commercial webmail interface here).

  1. 17  Matt Buchanan  | 2/3/2009 7:29:22 AM

    @13 also - 'One enterprise license is all you need for your entire company.'

    I'm confused already :) Any chance of a training video that covers licensing for IBM products? ;)

    Joking aside, this does look very cool, although I've got a bunch of questions:

    - Is it targeted at any particular version?

    - Will it include things like the Quickr and Connections connectors?

    - Will it cover the Basic edition of Notes 8.x too?

    Thanks

  1. 18  Dan Spielman  | 2/3/2009 2:27:37 PM

    Will this be the same content used by Learning Plug-in for Lotus Notes 8.5? If not, I'm confused why there are 2 job aids for Notes 8.x.

  1. 19  Irv Schor  | 2/3/2009 3:33:20 PM

    How about bundling it with Passport advantage support subscriptions.. it will incent IBM customers to renew support.

  1. 20  Colin Williams  | 2/4/2009 2:29:10 AM

    @19 - NOW we're talking!!!

  1. 21  John de Giorgio  | 2/4/2009 3:25:49 AM

    Excellent idea and @19 is also excellent.

  1. 22  jimmy bracco http://www.lotus911.com | 2/4/2009 8:06:38 AM

    Any official answers to these questions?

  1. 23  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/4/2009 9:05:23 AM

    @22 I'm looking into what the pricing will be. Until I know that answer, I can't answer some of the other questions. I've asked ISSL to help me out here, but not everyone lives in the blogosphere.

  1. 24  Richard Moy http://www.dominointerface.com | 2/4/2009 12:13:00 PM

    It is interesting that IBM is looking in doing things that we have been all doing for the past 11 years with our LearningDocs for Lotus Notes training products.

    However, the problems of distributing and storing 1000 video clips is going to be an issue on company networks. This is the same issues that we ran into 18 years ago when we started in the training market. That is why we use our Enrave simulator which is tiny compared with video.

    @7 Giulio, if you need Notes training delivered cost effectively email me. We sell our training in Australia.

  1. 25  Richard Moy http://www.dominointerface.com | 2/4/2009 12:15:42 PM

    @17

    We have training for both the Notes Standard and Basic 8/8.5 client plus the Quickr connectors if you are interested.

  1. 26  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/4/2009 2:35:46 PM

    OK I've seen the list pricing for this in the US and it's very affordable, especially if you only need a single language. I can't publish it here, yet, since the offering isn't available, but we're talking a single digit dollar-per-user (or less).

  1. 27  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/4/2009 2:39:37 PM

    and thus, if you are interested, you can contact someone in your region as mentioned on the right side of the linked ibm.com page.

  1. 28  Joe Hanke  | 2/9/2009 8:52:04 AM

    Hey Ed,

    Is there an IBM website or something that I can use to follow the progress of this. It looks as though we will be getting this is the cost isn't too high.

    Thanks

  1. 29  Joe Hanke  | 2/9/2009 8:53:05 AM

    Disregard. It must be Monday. I didn't see the link under the clip.

  1. 30  sean cull http://seancull.co.uk | 4/14/2009 6:05:56 AM

    Just enquired about this and prices start at over 3000 GBP for 500 users minimum, not remotely of interest to a true smb I would suggest