Jeff Eisen

On behalf of the entire Notes/Domino team -- Welcome to IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2.

Lotus Notes 8.0 is an innovative new release aimed to make you more productive, both individually and collectively.  It brings you a dramatically improved user interface, new functionality such as a search center, feed reader, and open standards based productivity editors (word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation editor), as well as powerful new application models.   Of course, there's much more, but why don't you check it out for yourself?

You can get started with the first public beta of Lotus Notes 8 here.

You can read and provide feedback at the Notes/Domino 8 Public Beta Forum.

I'll also be using this bully pulpit to discuss, provide an avenue for some feedback, and provide tips of the day for the beta.

Some simple ground rules though:

• Accolades -- appreciated
  
• Criticism --  welcome
  
• Pot shots -- discouraged and potentially removed
  

Might as well get started with the first meta-tip of the day.

One of the new features in Lotus Notes 8 is an RSS/Atom feed reader that allows you, among other things, to easily keep up with blogs.  The feed reader in the beta provides one click access to several of the Notes/Domino blogs.

So, open the feed reader in the "side bar," click on the "Tune in" button that I have circled in the picture below



and easily add some blogs



After that, you can keep up on these tips of the day by just going to the "Notes 8: The Road to Hannover" entry in your feed reader.  Also, notice when you go to the Notes/Domino 8 Public Beta Forum that there are RSS links to add the forum content to your feed reader too.

Enjoy!

Posted by Jeff Eisen at 09:35:00 PM | Add/View Comments (14)