Feel good about Notes!

November 2 2007

A few weeks ago, one of the Lotus sales representatives sent me a link (with permisson) to a cool set of PDFs created by a customer as part of their Notes 8 internal marketing.   Since I have preached for years that internal marketing is a critical element of successful Notes deployments, I was very excited to see what had been produced.

MediCorp's "Feel Good about Notes!" page includes three cheat sheets -- one for Notes basics, one for mail and calendaring, and one for Lotus Quickr. They also have been doing a monthly newsletter of "Feel good about Notes!" tips for their users.  Really cool stuff.

As indicated on the page, they are happy to share these materials with the community.  Hopefully their server is ready for the referrer...

Link: MediCorp's "Feel Good about Notes!" > (Thanks, Melinda)

Ed Brill | Tokyo, Japan Category:  Notes and Domino 8  Add/View Comments [10]

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  1. 1  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 11/1/2007 2:32:34 PM

    I too feel good about Notes. Doing a free-time search, that's a cracking idea. I know some people I could share that with, every invite I ever get is for a time I'm already busy ;o)

  1. 2  Rob Axelrod  | 11/1/2007 2:50:32 PM

    I think your referral swamped them! Their server is now crawling. My download of one of the pdf's is going at 9kbps.

  1. 3  David Russell  | 11/1/2007 3:06:43 PM

    I zipped all the PDFs into a much smaller file and should be better. I did need some justification to purchase a new web server, and now I have it - thanks ;-)

  1. 4  Kurt B  | 11/1/2007 3:28:11 PM

    Thanks for these..a very good idea internally.

    I love the Quickr document intro.

    "Lotus Quickr is an odd name, but do not let the term fool you! It is a very powerful collaborative system..."

    Unfortunately I believe there is going to be alot of that.

  1. 5  Lucia  | 11/1/2007 3:59:49 PM

    I love their corporate home database... That is adding a lot of value to their Notes deployment !!!

    Maybe they can also share the design on openntf.org .. :-)

  1. 6  Dvir Reznik http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com | 11/1/2007 5:34:02 PM

    This is good stuff Ed.

    I think you did knock their server however... took me 30min to download the 3MP zip file.

    There are several customers considering Notes 8 upgrade that will be interested in those references...

  1. 7  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 11/1/2007 7:56:34 PM

    @6 (and others) This is great, and I am thrilled to see a customer create and share content, that is what the Lotus Community is all about, but I want to make sure you also know about the content listed here { Link } such as videos and training cards.

  1. 8  Lars Olufsen http://www.olufsphere.com | 11/2/2007 4:28:03 AM

    @3 - David, thanks for sharing.

    Your "cheat sheets" are already serving as an inspiration in my organisation.

  1. 9  Axel  | 11/2/2007 4:32:58 AM

    All this material from Alan Lepofsky and the other stuff linked in the threads here is very interesting.

    One little thing could be a bit improved. Its application developer enablement to create demo apps. The tutorial about creating composite apps posted in notes.net certainly is a good start. More of that in the nearer future would be highly welcome.

    For example there were some screenshots posted about integrating the eclipse reporting subproject BIRT into Notes8 ({ Link } Unfortunatedly so far no sample code was posted. I tried to integrate the 2 for a demo some folks here are going giving monday, but I will fail unless some wonders are going to happen over the weekend. They are going to show a different composite app, its generally accepted that the time schedule for the demo is very aggressive, so no problem.

    For developers who are more than willing to participate in efforts to show the advantages of the good new stuff sample apps with source code are probably even more usefull than architectural overviews which are now quite good covered by Redbooks.

  1. 10  Jeff Picco  | 11/7/2007 3:39:00 PM

    I love it!