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Recent IBM press releases and announcements

• [Feb 2012] IBM's plans for the future of Lotus Symphony combining the best of Lotus Symphony with the new Apache OpenOffice Project.

  Some in the press have erroneously interpreted these changes as IBM "dumping" Lotus Symphony or open office productivity suites. This couldn't be further from the truth. The IBM long-term vision and strategy has been and continues to be to offer full market commitment to an open productivity suite, continuing today with Lotus Symphony and evolving in the near future into Apache OpenOffice IBM edition.

• [Jan 16] IBM Brings the Power of Analytics to Social Business

  IBM is announcing the beta release of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Social Edition, a social-enabled messaging and collaboration platform built on open standards that provides users with the ability to act on any work flow process directly within the email inbox. Whether accessing email from a browser or desktop, or sharing videos and files, users no longer have to travel to a third-party site. In addition, with the embedded experience of social mail, users are more efficient when engaging in activity and more responsive to day to day tasks.

• [Oct 4] IBM announces Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, delivering usability and productivity enhancements to help power social business

  IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes a vast array of end-user feature enhancements to increase personal productivity of Lotus Notes, Lotus® iNotes™, and Lotus Notes Traveler for users and developers using Domino Designer.

Learning resources

• Social Business Insights Blog: A candid debate - email is dead! Long live email!

  The reports of email's death have been greatly exaggerated. To be sure, alternative communication methods have grown rapidly recently, driven by a combination of demographic trends and technology advances. But lots of data suggests enterprise email inboxes aren't going away anytime soon.

• InformationWeek and The BrainYard Webcast: The Future of Email is Social

  Join IBM for a view into how email is already changing today, and how more traditional collaboration tools will continue to be critical elements of what makes a social business.

• InformationWeek Webcast: Succeeding with Social Business: Seven Steps to Greatness

  Join this webcast to hear Ed Brill, IBM's director of messaging and collaboration detail how companies of all sizes can secure a competitive advantage using social business and collaboration.

• Education offerings for Lotus Notes and Domino

  Training for technical and end users on the latest features and functionality to help increase productivity and lower your total cost of ownership..

• Learning Widget for Lotus Notes

  A widget for the Lotus Notes sidebar that can be used to view and filter learning materials right inside your Lotus Notes client.

• IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus software

  Quickly teach end-users essential skills, productivity tips and much more to be successful using Lotus Software.

• IBM Press: Survival Guide for Lotus Notes and Domino Administrators

  IBM's practical, hands-On guide to supporting and administering Lotus Notes and Domino environments.

Learning resources for developers

Modernize your Lotus Notes and Domino applications, and write new applications quickly with XPages technology. With XPages, you can extend Lotus Domino applications to Web and mobile devices, integrate multiple enterprise information sources into a single view for better decision making, and connect applications to social communities for broader knowledge sharing.

• [IBM Press] XPages Portable Command Guide

  Fast access to working code, tested solutions, expert tips, and example-driven best practices. Get a 35% discount through IBM Press by using coupon code IBM3055 at checkout.

• [IBM Press] Mastering XPages

  A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language. Save 35% with coupon code IBM6318.

• [The Taking Notes Podcast]: Interview with Ed Brill and Pete Janzen about IBM XWork Server and Domino 8.5.3

  Learn about the new IBM XWork Server for deploying web and mobile social applications.

• Six capabilities of a development platform that deliver a greater return on investment (240KB)

  In this thought leadership white paper, discover the six leading-edge capabilities and versatile tools needed to help ensure an accelerated return on investment and time to value for an application development environment.

• Download Lotus Domino Designer software at no charge

  Join the leaders! The expansive Lotus Notes and Domino developer network of vast insight and expertise - over 280,000 developers strong, and with over 10 million Lotus Notes applications.

• No charge class! Introduction to Domino Designer 8.5

  Partners in Education; TLCC & IBM offer you an expanded Notes Domino course portifolio.

• Webcast: Building Lotus Domino Web 2.0 applications with XPages

  Get an overview of XPages and how to build applications for Lotus Domino without coding in Java

• Explore how a real world application is developed using Lotus Domino Designer. Learn how to leverage the Dojo JavaScript library, use built-in Ajax services and impart business logic using server-side JavaScript. You will also see how to customize the look and feel of your application using themes and custom controls.

• developerWorks: Lotus Notes and Domino

  The Web;based professional network and technical resource for IT professionals, providing an easy-to-search technical library, trial code, and forums.

• Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki

  Learn about Domino application development, contribute to its knowledge base, and collaborate with others.

• Domino Designer XPages Extension Library

  The XPages Extension Library provides additional controls ready to use. This documentation provides instructions for installing, administering, and accessing the XPages Extension Library plus a complete reference.

• Redbooks Wiki: Lotus Domino Development Best Practices

  Learn what is needed to build or enhance an application, regardless of client, and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application.

• Redbooks Wiki: Creating Plugins for Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Symphony

  Learn the process of creating customized components for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Symphony, using Lotus Domino Designer, and the Lotus Expeditor Toolkit.

• Redbook Wiki: Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino 8.5.1

  Learn about improvements in Lotus Domino 8.5 as a Web development platform, and how the new XPages technology can shorten the learning curve for Notes and Domino developers dramatically.

Communities

• openNTF

  Covering IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, the messaging and collaboration competitive landscape, and a bit about technology and travel. Widely read by customers, partners, competitors, and pundits.

• Ed Brill's Blog

  Enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source.

• Lotus Notes and Domino on Facebook

  The official IBM Lotus Notes and Domino page.

• Notes Design Blog

  Learn from the Lotus Notes user interface design team

• Lotus Notes and Domino Wiki

  Find and contribute to information about installing, administering, and using Lotus Notes and Domino, and other members of the Notes product family.

• Lotus Notes and Domino forum

  Share your experiences and collaborate with other Lotus Notes and Domino users

• Lotus User Groups

  The global community for Lotus professionals

• Planet Lotus

  Lotus blogs, updated hourly.

Migrate to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5

• Podcast: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 - Making your inbox social

  Powering social business with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 software
  Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 software brings social collaboration and business applications together in a single, easy-to-use environment. Businesses that use it have a solid start on the path to becoming a social business.

• Packt Publishing: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide by IBMers Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, and Scott O'Keefe.

  Upgrade to the latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3. Get to grips with features including security, mail, calendar, and contacts, and get solutions to issues that you may encounter during the upgrade process.

• Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Reviewer's Guide

  Get the details on all of the new and compelling features delivered in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 software

• Upgrade Central: Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.x

  Key resources for planning and deploying Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.x.

• Lotus Notes and Domino no charge software, trials, and betas

  Try and experience Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 in a variety of different formats.

Move from Microsoft Outlook

• IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino software: Delivering innovation through open collaboration (250KB)

  Learn about the key features and benefits delivered in Lotus Notes and Domino software that separate it from competitive offerings.

• Video: Learn how to move from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Lotus Notes 8
• Reference card: Moving from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Lotus Notes 8 (372KB)

Brochures, data sheets and other literature

• Flyer (167KB)

  Lotus Notes and Domino: Business applications and social collaboration delivered at a low cost of ownership.

• Brochure (677KB)

  Enhance your Lotus Notes and Domino environment with IBM Collaboration Solutions

• Flyer (190KB)

  Tap into the cloud with Lotus Notes and Domino software

• Brochure (5.15MB)

  Simple, cost-effective messaging and collaboration for medium-sized businesses

• Lotus books from IBM Press

Videos

White papers

• IDC opinion: The Future of Mail is Social

  This IDC study takes a look at the current state of enterprise email and the perceived and real problems that surrounds its use. Rather than envisioning "a world without email", instead, a future is revealed where email converges with social tools and grows into an innovative hybrid productivity tool to help support the new collaborative enterprise.

• Social Business Behavior: Changing business etiquette and culture

  Extensive communications over social networks often means that entire business conversations—and even deals—may be carried out online. Learn how social business is changing the nature of culture, etiquette and personal interaction in the workplace.

• Powering social business with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 software (221KB)

  Learn how the capabilities of Lotus Notes and Domino software help put you on the path to becoming a social business

• An overview of IBM Lotus Symphony (221KB)

  Learn the details on the open capabilities of the productivity tools provided in Lotus Symphony software