IamLUG is Next Week!
Sun, Apr 28th 2013 6:16p Henry The fourth annual IamLUG conference is happening on the 6th and 7th of May in St Louis Missouri, at the HoteLumière.
As always, there is a fantastic array of speakers from around the world and a number of great sessions which you can attend to learn best practices and network with other Notes professionals.
The keynote speaker will be Louis Richardson, an IBM Social Business evangelist and storyteller. In March this year, Richardson produced a very popular keynote address at the BLUG confere [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to Create Professionally Branded Emails
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 4:19p Rob We all know the importance of the everyday email… With 188 billions emails being sent daily (the majority of these coming from businesses) – there is no way that companies can afford to slacken off when it comes to making each email as professional as can be.
But what makes an email ‘professional’? And how on Earth can we create ‘branded emails’?
To help you out, I have gone ahead and sketched a quick mock-up of what the Team at Crossware Mail Signature consid [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dutch Email Laws Could Land You a €16.750 Fine or 6 Months Imprisonment!
Mon, Apr 1st 2013 10:13p Henry Email is now the preferred and most common method of communication for a lot of businesses. It is because of this that email laws are tightening in terms of the details that business emails must contain.
Throughout the UK and Europe there are a number of laws that require companies to display their company details within their email signature. Not adhering to these laws can carry significant punishment.
There is a Dutch law that requires every company to display their CoC number on all out [read] Keywords: email
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BLUG Conference 21st – 22nd March
Thu, Mar 14th 2013 6:11a Henry Team Crossware had a great time at AusLUG 2013 this week (review to come) but the next event is next week!
The next Lotus User Group event is BLUG on the 21st and 22nd of March at the Faculty Club in Leuven, Belgium. There are a number of fantastic sessions and speakers over the two day conference, the keynote speakers have been confirmed as Louis Richardson and Scott Souder – Ed Brill will also be speaking on the second day.
To see the full lineup of speakers and the agenda for the co [read] Keywords: lotus
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State of The Lotus Nation Infographic
Tue, Feb 26th 2013 8:10p Henry Wondering what other Lotus based business are doing and using in terms of technology? This info-graphic will help answer some questions.
Late last year Crossware sponsored a survey done by our friends at Notes Code, it has resulted in an info-graphic giving you an insight into the world of Lotus Notes and what businesses are doing in terms of Lotus Notes.
The survey was done during October and November, 2012 to a sample size of 149, mostly from the North American region. It has resulted in [read] Keywords: lotus
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10 Tips To Increase Your Email Marketing List
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 8:09p Henry Email marketing is the most popular form of modern day marketing. Sending newsletters and special offers to your contact list is very powerful, but not everyone will open the email. Only a small percentage will then actually read the content and click through to any links that you provided.
So the trick is to increase the number of contacts on your email marketing list. This will therefore increase the number of people that click your links, meaning more traffic to your website and more potentia [read] Keywords: email
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Push Email on Your Mobile Device
Sun, Jan 6th 2013 6:15p Henry With receiving and reading emails on your Smart Phone or tablet becoming increasingly common, push email is something that is an option for you.
Push email has been around for a long time, some people love it, others don’t. I’ve got a couple of positives and negatives of using it, so you can make up your own mind.
Push email is where your email account on your mobile device is effectively always on and active. So when someone sends you an email, you will receive it straight [read] Keywords: email
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IBM Connect 2013 is Nearly Here!
Sun, Jan 6th 2013 2:12p Henry Happy new year to all of our readers, I hope you had a good break and I wish you all the best for this coming year.
The year 2013 has arrived and the biggest Lotus event of the year is not far away!
IBM Connect 2013, formerly known as Lotusphere will be the biggest IBM Collaboration event of the year. It runs from the 27th to the 31st of January at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in Florida.
The conference has a very exciting list of speakers which you can see here, the list inclu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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DanNotes Conference November 2012
Sun, Nov 18th 2012 9:10p Henry Hanging out for another Lotus Notes event? This could be the answer.
On November 28th & 29th 2012, DanNotes is hosting its 48th conference. This is where Lotus Notes professionals can network to share experiences and learn best practices. It will take place at Comwell Klarskovgaard in Korsor, Denmark and it will host a number of great speakers.
Within the list of speakers are; Paul Mooney, Matt Newman and the keynote speaker is Ed Brill, Social Business & Collaboration Solutions Directo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Why You Should Archive Email
Sun, Oct 28th 2012 7:10p Peter The main reasons why you should archive email are fairly well known, and freely available via a web search. But to recap, these are what I consider to be the main reasons for archiving corporate email:
1. Compliance.
Many Government agencies and regulatory organisations have mandatory requirements for data retention, accessibility, and security. To comply with these, organisations must retain their data – including email – and ensure that any requested material can be retrieved and [read] Keywords: administration
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X-Field Eliminator for Lotus Notes
Wed, Oct 10th 2012 3:10p Frank Domino allows X-Fields on email processed by its servers. These fields are designed for interoperability of mail systems, allowing the passing of more data than just “To” “From” “Subject” and “Body”. In theory, these give a great deal of flexibility to different email systems. In practice, the large variety of these and the fact that spammers use them, too, means that a Domino server quickly hits its limit of 3,000 fields on a server. Even the [read] Keywords: admin
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The Limitations of Lotus Notes Mail Searching
Thu, Sep 27th 2012 9:10p Peter Lotus Notes is great at many things, but the native search capability is not one of them.
A majority of Notes Mail users will have personal silos of information, most of it corporate, stacked up in their mail file and possibly also contained in several archive databases.
When they want to search that information, they have to know roughly where the target resides, i.e. their production mail or whatever archive, because there is no central index. That means opening each database manually and sear [read] Keywords: ibm
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Happy 30th Birthday to the Emoticon :-)
Sun, Sep 23rd 2012 11:13p Paul In was on September 19, 1982 that Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman first typed out the emoticon happy face on an online computer science board.
This is precisely what he wrote:
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
:-(
That was the beginning and the idea spread to other universities and eventually the rest of the w [read] Keywords: email
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Email and Animated GIFs… A New Trend?
Sun, Sep 16th 2012 10:09p Rob Lately I’ve been wondering why web design and development is moving faster than ever and yet email still appears to be left behind when it comes to advances in technology? Countless forum comments have warned me away from using animated GIFs in emails of any kind, however I feel as though these warnings have become more part of an old school mentality than anything worth worrying about.
Animated GIFs… An old technology!
Animated GIFs are not a new technology. In fact, Compuserve enab [read] Keywords: development
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Email 2.0 – Emerging trends in email design
Thu, Aug 16th 2012 10:13p Paul 188 billion emails are sent each day, with most of these being from businesses. Email is so significant, it accounts for more than 75% of internet activity, and exceeds all forms of social media, Google searches and web browsing combined!
The team at Crossware deal with email design on a daily basis. Not only do we sell the popular Crossware Mail Signature product as part of our day to day work, we’re often helping marketing departments in large organizations to configure and design their [read] Keywords: lotus
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Mail Customisation Options
Mon, Aug 13th 2012 6:08p Peter Given the ever increasing options & functionality in software used by people in their private time (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc), the work email environment can seem a little dull and regimented.
While a commercial on-premises email environment can’t easily keep up to date with rapidly evolving social trends, for data security and stability – it is still often preferable to a cloud-hosted email environment. There are a host of different arguments for either on-premis [read] Keywords: lotus
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Agenda Sidebar App for Lotus Notes
Thu, Jul 19th 2012 2:54p Frank Most of our everyday to-do list comes via our email accounts and therefore we need to track them using a fast, light-weight approach.
The problem with the Lotus Notes To-Do system and the Calendar system is that they require definite dates and are way too heavy for ordinary items, meaning too much effort is required to maintain them. The Agenda Sidebar App is designed for the majority of the ordinary, ad-hoc things we have to do every single day, small things like send a PDF, reply with more inf [read] Keywords: lotus
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Email Disclaimers – What Are They? Do We Need Them?
Thu, Jun 28th 2012 9:11p Rob Email disclaimers have become commonplace in business communications around the world, but do you really need them? Google this question and you will see answers ranging from “Email disclaimers are annoying and pointless” to “The use of disclaimers is always recommended”… This white paper should help guide you to an answer relevant for your business.
To download our email disclaimer white paper, click here.
DISCLAIMER – I am not a lawyer and the following info [read] Keywords: agent
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Why Should Users Archive When Disk Space Is Cheap?
Tue, Jun 26th 2012 4:51p Peter If webmail products like Gmail can give millions of users up to 10GB of space each, why should other companies enforce mail quotas and archive data? Like most things, it’s a compromise. In this case a trade-off between cost, usability, and legal requirements.
Cost
Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft have a lot of money to spend on attracting users to their platforms via free software & services, whereas for other commercial enterprises, it’s usually not the core busin [read] Keywords: archiving
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Mobile Is Leading the Email Revolution
Mon, Jun 4th 2012 7:50p Rob Technology over the past decade has been all about “going mobile”, with the latest mobile phones and tablets pushing to give us the world at our fingertips wherever we may be. As email means the world to so many people, it’s no surprise that mobile is leading the email revolution.
I recently came across this infographic put together by Return Path and thought that a few of the statistics mentioned would be of interest to our readers:
50% of all mobile phones in the US are smartphones
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Increasing Email Usage
Tue, May 29th 2012 5:16p Peter Although I’ve heard a lot lately about the possibility of email declining due to the increasing use of social media, it seems as though email usage might actually be on the increase. The Radicati Group’s “Email Statistic Report, 2012-2016” estimates that email usage will increase from 3.3 billion email accounts in 2012 to 4.3 billion accounts by the end of 2016, a growth rate of 6% per year.
This makes sense when you consider the number of new devices being added, and the [read] Keywords: email
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Canned Replies for Lotus Notes
Tue, May 22nd 2012 9:29p Frank So every once in a while, some free software comes along that makes life a lot easier. For me, it is “Canned Replies”, which saves me a lot of time with regular, routine email replies.
Read more about it and get the free download
Every day, I find myself typing out the same kinds of emails – license docs, renewal reminders, installation instructions, download requests, etc. It can get rather tedious (and time consuming) to be writing out the same basic format of email.
So for the [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to Install Lotus Traveler on an iPhone
Wed, May 2nd 2012 7:59p Paul Lotus Traveler is a great tool that allows you to access your Lotus Notes mail and calendar information on your mobile device. Many people don’t realise the power of Lotus Traveler, and even fewer know how to install it on an iPhone. So here’s a step-by-step tutorial explaining how to install this tool on your iPhone:
1) In the Safari browser on your iPhone, type in the following link with your company’s actual server name in place of “yourservername”.
- yourse [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why You Need a Good Mail Search Tool
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 7:28p Peter Corporate data is typically spread across a lot of locations – document repositories & file systems, collaboration/project data, RDBMS, Email etc. This makes a good search tool important.
However, unless your users are particularly well-trained at dealing with email, most of the mail they receive will remain in their mail file or archives – accessible only to them (& maybe their assistants), and generally out of reach of other users.
That’s OK, because mail is a persona [read] Keywords: collaboration
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