When I arrived in Houston the other day,
I passed a couple of people in the airport gate area using Lotus Notes
6.x. With a brief glance over their shoulder, I noticed that their
company had customized their mail template.... the mail message header
had a custom logo, and there were a couple of additional buttons in the
action bar. Pretty common to see, but still quite pleasing to me
to have a random encounter with Notes in action.
This got me thinking. Duh, I'm
the sales leader for that product...wouldn't it be interesting if I could
somehow reach out to that end-user and thank them for being my customer?
If there was a way to communicate to them that they're one of 118
million users of the leading corporate messaging/collaboration system?
If I could help them better their use (or planned use) of Notes in
some simple way? And if by some simple action, communicating to a
Notes end user would help improve or further improve their perception of
Notes?
I brainstormed this out loud in one
of my sessions at the Houston Workplace Live! event yesterday. As
it happened, Nicholette Sherman from Lotus marketing was in the room, so
I put her on the spot a bit to start thinking about something like this.
Let me show you what I have in mind....maybe y'all can help, too.
If we do this right, maybe you'll feel the same as I do....finding
a way to share your enthusiasm for Notes with our user community-at-large.
Something like this, printed on a business
card, that could be cool: (I picked a generic URL for the moment....)
The cool thing is, we could design this so that any Notes admin/developer/architect/partner/enthusiast could print yourself up a bunch of these, with custom tips and contact information.
Maybe it's just a corny idea, but I think it would be both interesting and fun. I bet it would help with perception of Notes in the broader IT space to have end-users learn something more about the product they use every day, especially if it reminded them that Notes is #1 in the market, growing, and has a positive future ahead.
Or maybe it's just that lack of sleep getting to me.
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