September 8th, 2006
Helping People ’Get’ Notes
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There has been a lot of talk lately about the resurgence of interest in Lotus Notes, and what evangelists can do to help others understand what Lotus Notes can do. Last night Julian Robichaux, Bruce Elgort, Eric Mack, and myself recorded Taking Notes Episode 31 - Helping People ’Get’ Notes.
A variety of topics were discussed, including:
- Eric's recent blog entries Why don't people get Notes and How to save a Lotus Notes customer
- Julian's related blog entry called Lotus Notes - Yeah, It Can Do That Too and my take on it
- Ways to boil down the complexity of Notes into something that people can understand, like the "killer app" concept
- How big a part does the user interface and "sexiness" of an application play in user acceptance of a technology like Notes?
- How all this relates to selling Activity Explorer when Hannover comes out
- When is it time to talk about the end-result instead of the technology?
The last point is one that is especially important to me. I'd really like to see more people focused on what our products do, rather than what brand name they are associated with, or what programming language they were written in.
Episode 31 was sponsored by Collaboration University, and is 27.6mb and is 48 minutes long. I encourage you to please listen to it, maybe over lunch on your computer, or your ride to work via your music player.
