Fighting for truth, justice, and a kick-butt user experience. http://www.notesdesignblog.com/NotesDesignBlog/NDBlog.nsf/ en-us Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:31:37 -0400 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:31:37 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/tell-me-about-how-you-use-the-day-at-a-glance-sidebar-or-not.htm Calendar Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/tell-me-about-how-you-use-the-day-at-a-glance-sidebar-or-not.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/tell-me-about-how-you-use-the-day-at-a-glance-sidebar-or-not.htm Do you use the "Day-at-a-Glance sidebar in the Notes client?
Do you use it in Lotus iNotes (DWA)?

Do you find the "month thumbnail"  (As shown in the picture below) to be very useful?  What to you use it for? Just glance at the month? Do you click on a day to move the  "day -at-a-Glance above it to a given day? We are wondering if the month thumbnail is used a lot and whether we should continue to include it.
So- please let me know 2 things:
1 What  YOU PERSONALLY  do with that little month thumbnail  and if we should keep it.
2. What you think your business users  do, and would they miss it. (feel free to do an office poll etc.)
Thanks!



]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/tell-me-about-how-you-use-the-day-at-a-glance-sidebar-or-not.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/tell-me-about-how-you-use-the-day-at-a-glance-sidebar-or-not.htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:21:01 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/be-patient.-were-vvery-busy.-soon-well-have-lots-to-ask-you.....htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/be-patient.-were-vvery-busy.-soon-well-have-lots-to-ask-you.....htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/be-patient.-were-vvery-busy.-soon-well-have-lots-to-ask-you.....htm I know we've been a bit quiet on the blog lately. I am busy preparing 2 talks for the Finland Lotus technical forum, and the Netherlands Lotus User group (NLLUG) - 2 talks each!

]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/be-patient.-were-vvery-busy.-soon-well-have-lots-to-ask-you.....htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/be-patient.-were-vvery-busy.-soon-well-have-lots-to-ask-you.....htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:21:13 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-is-lotus-notes-what-is-lotus-inotes.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-is-lotus-notes-what-is-lotus-inotes.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-is-lotus-notes-what-is-lotus-inotes.htm I've received a request to aggregate a set of statements describing the products within the Lotus portfolio. Essentially, if someone were to ask "what is ?"...what is your answer -- in one to 3 sentences?

So. What is YOUR answer? What is Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes to YOU???
Here are sample responses-- most of which I've pulled from our web site.  So don't look there-- I already have. I want your gut reaction.

Here are some drafts from me:
 Lotus Notes is a desktop client for email, calendar, group scheduling and applications  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/category/email/
Lotus Notes is a collaboration platform that provides a rich client, web client, and developer tools for mail, calendar, contacts, Tasks and many custom applications.
Lotus Notes is the social networking platform that you already own.


IBM Lotus iNotes is a rich web client for Domino email, calendaring, tasks, and contacts.
I eagerly await your contributions!
]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/what-is-lotus-notes-what-is-lotus-inotes.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-is-lotus-notes-what-is-lotus-inotes.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:58:08 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/do-you-use-the-lotus-inotes-nome-page-if-so-how.htm dwa Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/do-you-use-the-lotus-inotes-nome-page-if-so-how.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/do-you-use-the-lotus-inotes-nome-page-if-so-how.htm When you use Lotus iNotes (aka Domino web access), do you use the Home page? If so, how have you customized it?
For example you can add a panel that display any web page,  and/or you can add a list of quick links from there. Does anybody use that? Why or why not?

If we were to  redesign the Lotus iNotes home page, what would you want?
Conversely, should we ditch any home page and simply let you choose which app (mail, calendar, contacts, notebook, tasks) to open by default?

Here's our current Lotus iNotes home page, which simply invites you to set things up:
]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/do-you-use-the-lotus-inotes-nome-page-if-so-how.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/do-you-use-the-lotus-inotes-nome-page-if-so-how.htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:34 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/results-from-the-contact-management-survey-we-asked-you-to-complete-a-few-weeks-ago.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/results-from-the-contact-management-survey-we-asked-you-to-complete-a-few-weeks-ago.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/results-from-the-contact-management-survey-we-asked-you-to-complete-a-few-weeks-ago.htm
We received a lot of great information from your responses and would like to share some of what we heard:

• 92.4% of respondents maintain contacts in a collaboration application or mobile device.  Lotus Notes and mobile devices rank 1 and 2 as the places thought to contain their main contact lists.
• 67.7% have a combined list where both personal and professional contacts are kept.
• Users are generally satisfied with creating/editing/removing contacts.  A couple examples of concerns with contact functionality include importing/exporting and better integration with other products.
• There is interest in a unified area for Lotus product contacts, but with a flexibility in how the contacts are displayed, which contact lists are included (whether Lotus product or external) and how this unified area should be kept current.
• Almost half (45.2%) of the respondents have a daily need to access contacts from another application while performing a task (some multiple times per day).

]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/results-from-the-contact-management-survey-we-asked-you-to-complete-a-few-weeks-ago.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/results-from-the-contact-management-survey-we-asked-you-to-complete-a-few-weeks-ago.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:49:28 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-do-you-want-from-openntf-tell-us-using-the-ideajam.htm OpenNTF Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-do-you-want-from-openntf-tell-us-using-the-ideajam.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-do-you-want-from-openntf-tell-us-using-the-ideajam.htm You have until July 16, at GMT+1 to tell us what you want from OpenNTF.  Go to the specific OpenNTF IdeaJam here: http://openntf.org/ideajam/ideajam.nsf/ProductByAreaMostRecent?openview&restricttocategory=July2010
Make sure that the default IdeaSpace of "July2010" is selected (shown in the screenshot below), and type in your idea.
]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/what-do-you-want-from-openntf-tell-us-using-the-ideajam.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/what-do-you-want-from-openntf-tell-us-using-the-ideajam.htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:23:36 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/how-to-turn-off-all-yoru-toolbars.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/how-to-turn-off-all-yoru-toolbars.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/how-to-turn-off-all-yoru-toolbars.htm Actually, He can, and here is how to do it:
Simply go to View - Toolbar - and choose Hide All Toolbars

We added this in Notes 8.5.1.



]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/how-to-turn-off-all-yoru-toolbars.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/how-to-turn-off-all-yoru-toolbars.htm?opendocument&comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:51:19 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/welcome-to-feedback-friday-collaborate-outside-your-organization.htm Velda Bartek http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/welcome-to-feedback-friday-collaborate-outside-your-organization.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/welcome-to-feedback-friday-collaborate-outside-your-organization.htm
If you work with clients, partners, colleagues, or service providers outside your company or institution, we are interested in understanding your goals and the tools you are using to collaborate.

Please take a few minutes to complete a brief survey (https://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/s/ag2cd).  In 5 – 10 minutes, you can provide us with invaluable insights into your goals, the tools you use to collaborate for work, and the importance of various collaboration tools.

If you know others who would be interested in participating in the research in organizations such as sales, marketing, customer relations, or procurement, please forward this invitation to them.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Velda Bartek
Lotus User Experience Research ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/welcome-to-feedback-friday-collaborate-outside-your-organization.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/welcome-to-feedback-friday-collaborate-outside-your-organization.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:09:35 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm Save the .xml to your hard drive and then drag it over into the My Widgets sidebar panel.  Then the Wimbledon Sideline panel should open in your sidebar.


]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/today-were-celebrating-the-grand-opening-of-our-new-site-in-littleton-ma-and-hving-a-pressanalyst-event-abotu-ibms-mobile-computing-initiatives-and-strategic-direction.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/today-were-celebrating-the-grand-opening-of-our-new-site-in-littleton-ma-and-hving-a-pressanalyst-event-abotu-ibms-mobile-computing-initiatives-and-strategic-direction.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/today-were-celebrating-the-grand-opening-of-our-new-site-in-littleton-ma-and-hving-a-pressanalyst-event-abotu-ibms-mobile-computing-initiatives-and-strategic-direction.htm
The ribbon cutting will take place here at the main entrance  pictured below.


After that, the rest of the day will be spent on presentations and demos about IBM's mobile computing. All of the software brands will be present and demoing their mobile solutions. I'll be demoing Notes, Sametime and Connections on my Blackberry (Ok, and probably Ubertiwtter or OpenBeak by accident because I plan to tweet about the event). We prepared our demo areas yesterday afternoon, and as folks from other brands started preparing theirs, I got excited and I hope I have time to see what they are doing-- the business process and business analytics mobile demos sounded particularly interesting- and potentially a good place to explore some integration with the Lotus collaboration capabilities.  

Follow the #IBMLab tag on Twitter if you want to  learn more.

]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/today-were-celebrating-the-grand-opening-of-our-new-site-in-littleton-ma-and-hving-a-pressanalyst-event-abotu-ibms-mobile-computing-initiatives-and-strategic-direction.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/today-were-celebrating-the-grand-opening-of-our-new-site-in-littleton-ma-and-hving-a-pressanalyst-event-abotu-ibms-mobile-computing-initiatives-and-strategic-direction.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:58:11 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/our-own-betsy-comstock-has-been-busy-during-her-retirement.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/our-own-betsy-comstock-has-been-busy-during-her-retirement.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/our-own-betsy-comstock-has-been-busy-during-her-retirement.htm Dr. Betsy Comstock's decision to retire from IBM.
 Betsy has been busy with her sister  working on a "Facing Hunger in America project",  which you can check out at their blog:
http://facinghungerinamerica.blogspot.com/
 
ALSO, if you know of any innovative programs related to alleviating hunger in states they haven't yet visited, please let her know.  They are currently planning a mid-Atlantic trip for the fall.




]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/our-own-betsy-comstock-has-been-busy-during-her-retirement.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/our-own-betsy-comstock-has-been-busy-during-her-retirement.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:02:08 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/please-complete-a-2-task-usability-test-on-lotuslive-to-help-us-imprpove-it-ok-correct-url-is-in-comment-4.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/please-complete-a-2-task-usability-test-on-lotuslive-to-help-us-imprpove-it-ok-correct-url-is-in-comment-4.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/please-complete-a-2-task-usability-test-on-lotuslive-to-help-us-imprpove-it-ok-correct-url-is-in-comment-4.htm
Please take a few minutes to complete two tasks and provide us with input for future improvements to the website. To participate, please visit the following URL, and follow the instructions on the screen.
You'll probably have to copy and paste the url. (sorry!)

https://server.userzoom.com/uz/auto.asp?sp=d464F70A3C6FDF11A61C0019BBCA1734

Feel free to forward this invitation to any other people who may be interested in participating. We will close the study by June 18^th.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,
Meng Yang & Brian Utesch
Lotus User Experience Research ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/please-complete-a-2-task-usability-test-on-lotuslive-to-help-us-imprpove-it-ok-correct-url-is-in-comment-4.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/please-complete-a-2-task-usability-test-on-lotuslive-to-help-us-imprpove-it-ok-correct-url-is-in-comment-4.htm?opendocument&comments Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:09:04 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/symphony-users-a-few-questions-for-you.htm symphony Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/symphony-users-a-few-questions-for-you.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/symphony-users-a-few-questions-for-you.htm  I have a few questions about your use of Symphony, the answers to which will help inform some of our design decisions.
First, Do you use Symphony embedded in Notes, or Standalone?
Second, if you use the Symphony embedded in Notes, did you know that you can bookmark Symphony documents? (see details below)
Third, how important might it be to add the ability to bookmark a Symphony document in the standalone version?
Fourth, how important might it be to add the "type to find" feature in the standalone version of Symphony?
Thanks for your input!

To bookmark a Symphony document, simply right-click on the tab and choose "Create Bookmark..." just like you can for any Notes document, as shown in the following picture:


For example , the screenshot below shows how I bookmarked a presentation from Lotusphere:


Best of all, once I bookmark a Symphony document, I can use the "type to find" feature  to quickly type to find it (It does NOT have to be bookmarked at the top level, the "type to find" feature works across all levels of bookmarks and the workspace.) The following screenshot shows how I just typed one word in the filename of the Symphony document to find it.
]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/symphony-users-a-few-questions-for-you.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/symphony-users-a-few-questions-for-you.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:22:57 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/and-the-survey-says....moe-info-added-after-original-posting.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/and-the-survey-says....moe-info-added-after-original-posting.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/and-the-survey-says....moe-info-added-after-original-posting.htm Added some more info in italics.
I have  111 data points from my quick survey (some people had multiple machines so I counted the tabs for each machine separately),

3 people use the "outlook style tabs" where each document /mail message opens in its own window
12 use the grouped tabs
All the rest of you use the "traditional" single tabs across the top

Taking into account all window management types, the average number of tabs open at any time is 8.2 (for people who did not follow instructions and give me their exact count and rather gave me a range, I always took the higher number)

The average number of tabs open for those who use the "traditional" model is: 8.4
Max was 27
Min was 2
The mode -- that is, the number of tabs occurring most often-- was 5.  

I must say, I am surprised at the number, I would have thought it would be higher. But this is why I asked. Now we have a little more information.

And about 19 of the responses were from women (I could not tell for sure because some were posted by ambiguous names like A.notheruser. (with the rough average of 7 tabs, max 15. Min 3-- so looks like no differences of consequence there, not that I expected any.)

Obviously this was a quickie survey and there were lots of other things I could have asked, -- like your job role. I suspect almost no respondents were AA's. I will investigate to see if their usage of tabs is different. I am secretly hoping that they know and love grouped tabs because we created grouped tabs for AA's, but the last set I visited at a customer site had not discovered them :(

So what?
Why did I ask you? We're using this data to help inform us of the window management design we are working on for project Vulcan.

Also, while I am reporting on "just the facts", I did read all the comments-- which I know include some wishlist items (mainly bring back CTRL+Tab) and other things.  This has been a really fun day for me (in a nerd girl kind of way...).

Again, many thanks for all the responses (and the retweets etc.). ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/and-the-survey-says....moe-info-added-after-original-posting.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/and-the-survey-says....moe-info-added-after-original-posting.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:34:47 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/quick-survey-how-many-tabs-do-you-have-open-in-yoru-notes-client-right-now.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/quick-survey-how-many-tabs-do-you-have-open-in-yoru-notes-client-right-now.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/quick-survey-how-many-tabs-do-you-have-open-in-yoru-notes-client-right-now.htm First, let us know which "window model" you use for Notes:
1. The "traditional" one where every document opens in its own tab.
2. The "outlook-like" one where documents (e.g. Mail message) each open in their own window
3. Grouped tabs (views and documents from an application are grouped together)

Second,
If you  use the traditional tab model, how many tabs do you have open right now?
(If it is over 40, you can just say "over 40" or "probably around 100" tho I hope for your sake it's not that high....


Anything in Designer or the admin client does NOT count.
Please post your answer as a response.
This "survey" closes when we get 100 responses or... Friday, whichever comes first. Thanks! ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/quick-survey-how-many-tabs-do-you-have-open-in-yoru-notes-client-right-now.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/quick-survey-how-many-tabs-do-you-have-open-in-yoru-notes-client-right-now.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:23:02 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/last-chance-to-register-for-the-consultant-in-your-pocket-session-on-deploying-widgets-in-notes-and-sametime.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/last-chance-to-register-for-the-consultant-in-your-pocket-session-on-deploying-widgets-in-notes-and-sametime.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/last-chance-to-register-for-the-consultant-in-your-pocket-session-on-deploying-widgets-in-notes-and-sametime.htm Chris Miller will be doing a webcast on deploying Widgets in Notes and Sametime, on June 2.
So if you are interested in learning more about Widgets, I highly recommend the session-- I've seen Chris give similar sessions at various conferences, and he knows his stuff. And he's also actually entertaining (sometimes) :)

Go here to register:

http://consultantinyourpocket.com/ciyp/ciyp.nsf/dx/deploying-plugins-for-lotus-notes-and-sametime.htm ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/last-chance-to-register-for-the-consultant-in-your-pocket-session-on-deploying-widgets-in-notes-and-sametime.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/last-chance-to-register-for-the-consultant-in-your-pocket-session-on-deploying-widgets-in-notes-and-sametime.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:33:46 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010033346PMMBRQXP.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010033346PMMBRQXP.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010033346PMMBRQXP.htm Here is one last call to ask you to complete our survey about how you manage your contacts!  We're extending the deadline  until June 3 and we would still welcome your feedback.

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and provide us with input to the future design direction of Contacts.

We'll try to provide a non-confidential summary of our results.
Thanks in advance.

URL for survey in case the link above does not work:
https://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/s/ag2c2 ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/06012010033346PMMBRQXP.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010033346PMMBRQXP.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:13:20 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010091319AMMBRHHW.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010091319AMMBRHHW.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010091319AMMBRHHW.htm If you'd like to learn a little more about Xpages, attend this Webcast:  A Deep-dive on Building Lotus Domino applications with XPages
Explore how a real world application is developed using Lotus Domino Designer. Learn how to leverage the Dojo JavaScript library, use built-in Ajax services and impart business logic using server-side JavaScript. You will also see how to customize the look and feel of your application using themes and custom controls. Register here now
]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/06012010091319AMMBRHHW.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/06012010091319AMMBRHHW.htm?opendocument&comments Fri, 28 May 2010 15:56:37 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/free-plug-in-for-ms-office-and-outlook-to-connections-are-you-using-it-need-your-input.htm Connections Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/free-plug-in-for-ms-office-and-outlook-to-connections-are-you-using-it-need-your-input.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/free-plug-in-for-ms-office-and-outlook-to-connections-are-you-using-it-need-your-input.htm Are you-all aware that there is a free plug-in for MS Office and Outlook that you can use to add Office documents to Activities and other great useful stuff?
I encourage you to go get it, download it, use it, and post comments on it-- Ideally, post the comments as comments on the Greenhouse catalog.  (and if you are a good loyal Lotus person and you do not USE Office our Outlook, please pass this info on to a friend... or even an enemy...)

I'm asking you because we're starting to plan the next version, and I'd like to know a few things.
For example, you can take a Powerpoint presentation and say "Save Document to activity" and it adds the presentation to the activity as an attachment, like I show  in the following screenshot:



Of the things that the plug-in lets your do- what are the most useful ones?
Are there any useless one that should be removed? Which ones?

Get it here:
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentIdô213B848C3CBAC5852576D0000A7A76 ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/free-plug-in-for-ms-office-and-outlook-to-connections-are-you-using-it-need-your-input.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/free-plug-in-for-ms-office-and-outlook-to-connections-are-you-using-it-need-your-input.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 20 May 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/we-invite-you-to-complete-a-survey-about-your-use-of-contacts-personal-address-book-and-other-contacts.htm Mary Beth Raven http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/we-invite-you-to-complete-a-survey-about-your-use-of-contacts-personal-address-book-and-other-contacts.htm?opendocument&comments http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/we-invite-you-to-complete-a-survey-about-your-use-of-contacts-personal-address-book-and-other-contacts.htm survey and provide us with input to the future design direction of Contacts.

Please do so by May 28. We'll try to provide a non-confidential summary of our results.
Thanks in advance.

URL for survey in case the link above does not work:
 https://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/s/ag2c2 ]]> http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dxcomments/we-invite-you-to-complete-a-survey-about-your-use-of-contacts-personal-address-book-and-other-contacts.htm http://www.notesdesignblog.com/notesdesignblog/ndblog.nsf/dx/we-invite-you-to-complete-a-survey-about-your-use-of-contacts-personal-address-book-and-other-contacts.htm?opendocument&comments