Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
This weekend, I was reading the comments in a discussion thread on Engadget about RIM's BlackBerry offering. Many commenters were quick to showcase their stupidity and inability to spell while blasting every aspect of the BlackBerry in order to show how much they hated RIM and how badly they wanted an iPhone or Android.
Since I'm working on productivity solutions for all three, I was trying to read between the lines of the comments to see if there were any valid arguments that I could learn from. Among the large volume of useless drivel attempting to pass for comments, one commenter had this to say:
His concise statement summed up much of what many in the discussion thread were trying to communicate.
Do you agree? Is it all about the Apps?
If so, what are the implications for Lotus Notes in light of recent discussions around an App Catalog or an App store for Lotus Notes?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
That's strange. I don't even have one million databases on my laptop!
If I replicate a second time, it all works nicely, as it should.
No idea why this happens; I've lived with this for years on versions 8.x and 8.51x, (and even 8.52 CD5 from which I made this screen shot).
It's certainly not a show stopper. It could even be my laptop for all I know. For now, it remains an unsolved mystery.
Now that I have your attention, I have two other Notes UX issues that I cannot explain...
Continue Reading "A new record: 20,626,644 Notes Databases Replicated" »
If you use Gmail for personal email, this article form the IBM Notes learning Wiki may be of interest:
Configuring the Lotus Notes Client with Gmail I haven't tried this yet, but it looks promising. If you decide to implement this, drop me a line and let me know how it worked out.
Continuing on the theme started by
Vaughan and picked up by
Lotus Evangelist...
today, as we do most every day, we sold customers on the extraordinary value that comes from using Lotus Notes for collaboration and personal and team productivity (with
eProductivity of course).
It doesn't take much; you just have to help the customer (whether CEO, CIO, IT, Manager or end-user) see how this decision will benefit them personally.
Most people we speak with really want to stop living interrupt-driven lives in the inbox; they want to stop being
addicted to stress, and they dream of going home with an empty inbox (paper & digital) at the end of each day.
We show them how; and, we show them how to reclaim 30-60 minutes each day. It's fun.
OK, Who's next?
I've just wrapped up a long podcast as guest on
This Week in Lotus, the weekly round table discussion all things Lotus with hosts
Stuart McIntyre,and
Darren Duke.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my guest was none other than collaboration and
end-user adoption strategist and author
Michael Sampson.
An interesting podcast - you can read the show notes over at TWil. Most of the discussion was around the concept of a software catalog vs. app store, who are we trying to reach?, and end-user adoption strategies.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Links:
This Week in Lotus 005: If we build it, will the come? Michael's book,
User Adoption Strategies Eric's blog on
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