Expanding the IBM Lotus Domino Community
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Back in my last job I had the pleasure of interviewing a number of people for both admin and development positions and one of the questions I'd always ask is what websites they knew about in relation to Lotus Notes. The answer, in nearly all cases, was notes.net ( or LDD or Developerworks or whatever it will be called next week ) and, in most cases, this was the only answer that they had. If I prompted them by asking if they read any of the Notes related blogs they would, nearly always, say no.
And this isn't restricted to job interviews. When my wife is out doing consultancy gigs at different clients around the country, nine times out of ten the client she is with will have never read any of the blogs and wouldn't know about all the developments that are happening within the Lotus Notes community. Of course she always clues them in ( hopefully by pointing to my blog first
) but there are a
lot more notes admins and developers out there then she would ever be able
to visit.
So it would seem that news of the Notes community still isn't getting out to everybody and the people who don't know about it are the ones who really should, the admins and developers who work daily in both big and small corporations around the world. If I had to answer the question as to why I think this is then I'd probably say it's because these people just think of what they do as a nine to five job and no more.
With the inclusion of a blogging template in the upcoming 7.0.2 release of Domino I feel that this is going to start changing. Admins and developers who didn't know much about blogging will see the template, maybe create a new database with it to see what it does and after that will check the web to see what else is out there. But this shouldn't be the only way that we should be hoping to expand the Lotus Notes community. We should all update our blogrolls, link to the DominoBlogs site to point people in the direction of more blogs and even IBM could help by putting prominent links to some blogs on the notes.net site
Now if only IBM would add an RSS reader template preloaded with a few choice domino related blogs to the next 'Innovations Pack'. Didn't Steve Castledine have a DX Reader application that he was working on at one stage, that would probably be the easiest choice...
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Back in my last job I had the pleasure of interviewing a number of people for both admin and development positions and one of the questions I'd always ask is what websites they knew about in relation to Lotus Notes. The answer, in nearly all cases, was notes.net ( or LDD or Developerworks or whatever it will be called next week ) and, in most cases, this was the only answer that they had. If I prompted them by asking if they read any of the Notes related blogs they would, nearly always, say no.
And this isn't restricted to job interviews. When my wife is out doing consultancy gigs at different clients around the country, nine times out of ten the client she is with will have never read any of the blogs and wouldn't know about all the developments that are happening within the Lotus Notes community. Of course she always clues them in ( hopefully by pointing to my blog first
) but there are a
lot more notes admins and developers out there then she would ever be able
to visit.
So it would seem that news of the Notes community still isn't getting out to everybody and the people who don't know about it are the ones who really should, the admins and developers who work daily in both big and small corporations around the world. If I had to answer the question as to why I think this is then I'd probably say it's because these people just think of what they do as a nine to five job and no more.
With the inclusion of a blogging template in the upcoming 7.0.2 release of Domino I feel that this is going to start changing. Admins and developers who didn't know much about blogging will see the template, maybe create a new database with it to see what it does and after that will check the web to see what else is out there. But this shouldn't be the only way that we should be hoping to expand the Lotus Notes community. We should all update our blogrolls, link to the DominoBlogs site to point people in the direction of more blogs and even IBM could help by putting prominent links to some blogs on the notes.net site
Now if only IBM would add an RSS reader template preloaded with a few choice domino related blogs to the next 'Innovations Pack'. Didn't Steve Castledine have a DX Reader application that he was working on at one stage, that would probably be the easiest choice...
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Posted by Ulrich Krause At 12:35:10 PM On 07/14/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Sebastian At 02:00:55 PM On 07/13/2006 | - Website - |
Sean---
Posted by Sean Burgess At 11:09:29 AM On 07/13/2006 | - Website - |
I no longer have the Aptrix Jumpstart package but maybe if you contact your local IBM business partner and ask them to contact their IBM contact then you should be able to get it.
The Jumpstart was a handy package to get up and running quickly but once you have learnt all the tricks of LWWCM I found it ws best to start with a fresh blank copy.
You should also look into the training courses fo LWWCM that are available from lotus Education thru your local Business Partner.
Posted by Declan Lynch At 02:22:08 PM On 07/13/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Gregg Eldred At 08:33:34 AM On 07/14/2006 | - Website - |
/lekkim
Posted by Mikkel Heisterberg At 02:01:29 PM On 07/14/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Ben Rose At 05:45:38 PM On 07/13/2006 | - Website - |
In some ways, I wonder if this is a form of social darwinism? Not to click into elitist mode, but maybe the people who do their jobs best find the best sources of information?
Posted by Ed Brill At 08:55:42 AM On 07/14/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Sebastian At 02:01:45 PM On 07/13/2006 | - Website - |