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Many of these items below (and several more) are listed on the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 technical content page, Technical resources to help you get started with Lotus Notes 8.

Here is a pretty cool interactive training demo, "Using IBM Lotus Notes 8 Mail, Calendar, and Contacts, Guided Tour"  (<<<--- this link seems to link IE more than FireFox, not sure why).   Rather than just stepping you through a video, you have to perform tasks such as clicking on icons and buttons, just as you would with the real software.   The user interface took me a minute to get used to.   When you click anywhere on the screen, a set of controls pops up.   The top button is a time control slider, the left allows you to take notes on screen, and the right provides a list of the avilable topics.


There is a two page training card, Using Lotus Notes 8 which you can print out:


Here is a nice 6 minute demo, Introducing IBM Lotus Notes 8.   It is a file you download and run.   I am not sure why it is not just a streaming video, perhaps so users can watch it offline anytime they would like.


Here is a set of 4 short tutorials, part of the Using IBM Lotus Notes 8: Productivity Series .  They cover:

The Basics                              Taming Your Inbox


Managing Your Calendar and Maintaining and Using Your Contacts List

Here is a 15 minute training video, Exploring New Features in IBM Lotus Notes 8, that can help get people up to speed with the new release.



Over on the Inside Lotus blog, Chris has added Part 3 to his "8 Things To Like" series...
8 Things to Like About Notes 8, Part 1: Mail
8 Things to Like About Notes 8, Part 2: Calendar
8 Things to Like About Notes 8, Part 3: Contacts

Lotus Notes Marketing Manager  Thomas Coustenoble has started to collect some Notes 8 images over on Flick'r.



For Application Developers

There is a new Lotus Notes 8 Programmability page, which covers Overview of the new technology used in Lotus Notes 8, What's new in Notes programmability, and What remains the same in Notes programmability.  

There is also a new Knowledge Collection: Composite Applications in Notes/Domino 8.


For System Administrators

Lotus support has a new IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 resources page.

There is a new Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.x

There are also several new support documents dedicated to ND8 such as:
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the 8.x Notes Mail "Inbox Maintenance" Feature
- Knowledge Collection: Out of Office functionality in Notes/Domino 8.0