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Notes 8.5 Upgrade: "The Incredible Power of One"

Marie L Scott  |    |  Tags:  notes 8.5 upgrade  |  Comments (6)

I've blogged on several occasions about our ongoing Notes 8.5 client upgrade.  As many of the recent discussions have focused on marketing/advertising I thought I would share one small component of how we prepared, notified and hopefully helped our users become more engaged about the Notes 8.5 upgrade.  The target group in this case was all our email users - and these individuals may or may not have been using the Notes client. So part of the message needed to not only address new features - but also include an overall reason for using Notes. Our inhouse marketing group came up with the concept of "the incredible power of one."  I hope that seeing this may spark some ideas for your own upgrades and help you maintain momentum. So far users here continue to be pleased with the Notes 8.5 environment.

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1 Jeffery A Perkins      Permalink Marie,

This is a great idea. I'm glad to see that your upgrade situation is going well. Maybe someday I can convince my users that there is life after the 8.5 upgrade. Most people only see past difficult upgrades and try to avoid it at all costs. This kind of thing gives me more hope for less pain next time. If you folks can do it with 10's of thousands of users we should be able to do it with our 100 users easy. Right...

2 Marie L Scott      Permalink @1 Jeff We have been pleasantly surprised at how receptive the users have been to 8.5. Maybe the campaign helped, maybe they were ready for a change having been on 7.0.3 for a while? I don't know for sure, but when it works you go with it! Good luck - if there's anything we can do to help, let us know!

3 Ed Brill      Permalink Marie, this is awesome. Nice job. Very cool.

4 Frank Paolino      Permalink Great Job! I added a posting to my blog to share this with other Lotus Notes admins. This really makes Notes look cool, which it is!
http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/FPAO-7RLH48

5 Scott Hooks      Permalink Very nice Marie

6 Andy Steven      Permalink People (in general) haven't hooked into how important having everyting in one place is. In terms of usability it's a massive tool..


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