Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Death By PowerPoint ... a.k.a. My End User Training Guide (That You Can “Borrow”)

Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Death By PowerPoint … a.k.a. My End User Training Guide (That You Can “Borrow”)

Filed Under (Lotus Notes Upgrade) by Marc Champoux on August-25-2010

Death By PowerPoint Anyone?

If you answered “yes” then you’re in luck because you *might just want* to download the 137 pages presentation below!

Why would you want to do that? Well, because those are the slides from the “Show’n'Tell” presentation that I have been giving to the employees who have been upgraded to Lotus Notes R8.5.1 recently.

I actually don’t “punish” the employees with this slide deck: I do a live demo and I cover everything that’s in the slides below. However, each and everytime, there is always someone in the class that asks “do I have to write all this down?” and I’m always happy to answer “No, I’ll send you a link to the database where I stored the slides”.

So, yes, you can “borrow my slides”! I really don’t mind: the more training everybody gets on R8.5.1, the better!

But, seriously, at this point you are probably wondering what this presentation covers …

What Does This Presentation Cover?

Simply put, during my 1.5 hour presentation, I cover the following topics:

Overview & Introduction

Part 01: The Bookmark Bar.

Part 02: The “Unified Preferences.

Part 03: The “Tabs” at the top.

Part 04: Toolbars.

Part 05: The “Universal Search” feature.

Part 06: The Sametime client.

Part 07: The Feeds panel.

Part 08: The Day-At-A-Glance panel.

Part 09: The Mail File changes.

Part 10: The Calendar changes.

Questions and Answers

Usually, I am able to cover all those topics in 1 hour and half but, sometimes, I get a lot of questions during the presentation and I’ve had a few sessions go up to 2 hours.

So, Where’s the Presentation?

If you think this might be useful to you, here’s the presentation … simply click on the icon below to download it.

If you would like to get a copy of those slides in PowerPoint format, simply drop me a line in the comments and I’ll mail it to you along with all the images so that you can modify it to suit your needs.

Conclusion …

Truth be told, I wanted to use a Rapid eLearning system, like Articulate, to build an on-line training course for our employees.

Unfortunately for me (and our employees) my request to purchase Articulate was denied because unbeknownst to me, we have purchased a similar product from another vendor but their server won’t be online until January of 2011.

Anyhow, thanks for reading!

Marc

PS: Don’t forget to check out and “borrow” my presentation (see here) on how to use Lotus Traveler if you need it.

(36) Comments

Comments

Mark on August 25th, 2010 at 8:54 am #

Nice work Marc, a ppt copy would be greatly appreciated

cheers

Dan Soares on August 25th, 2010 at 9:57 am #

Thanks Marc for the hard work on this. I too would appreciate a slide deck when you get the chance.

Dan

graham on August 25th, 2010 at 10:03 am #

Thanks Marc, great stuff

Stephen Mullen on August 25th, 2010 at 10:23 am #

Hi Marc – The presentations are great and thanks for sharing them. Please send along the PPT versions of the Lotus Note 8.5.1 Training and Lotus Traveler User Guide. Thanks again.

Wayne MacKirdy on August 25th, 2010 at 10:37 am #

Good work! I have been a Notes consultant for 15 years and I learned some things I didn’t know. Lot’s of “bells and whistles.” i would like very much to have a copy of the PPTs…I do all our New Hire Training.

Thanks.

Sean on August 25th, 2010 at 11:50 am #

Marc, I would appreciate a ppt copy of your training session.

I would also like to say your posts mean a tremendous amout to a new(ish) Domino administrator in trying to upgrade everything to 8.5 for the first time.

Craig Wiseman on August 25th, 2010 at 12:05 pm #

Splendid work, sir!

Thanks for posting….

Errol on August 25th, 2010 at 8:33 pm #

Great stuff. Would also like a copy.

Sonia Malik on August 25th, 2010 at 9:49 pm #

Great presentation !! You can use the open source CamStudio to create a recorded presentation to store as a training asset. It’s FREE and a good software for something like this.
Sonia

John Lindsay on August 26th, 2010 at 4:56 am #

Looks great Marc but after page 24 I seem to have a problem with it – the pdf goes blank.

Bart Severein on August 26th, 2010 at 7:19 am #

Very nice presentation and lots of new things for the most users. Well done! Would like to receive the PPT as well. TIA

Cathy Grant on August 26th, 2010 at 8:53 am #

Great presentation. Please send the slides. Thanks so much.

Rene van den Heiligenberg on August 26th, 2010 at 9:01 am #

Great presentation and yes i would like a copy.

Steve D on August 26th, 2010 at 9:10 am #

You have done a great work! I will like to receive your PPT presentation of the Lotus Note 8.5.1 Training and Lotus Traveler User Guide.
By the way, Do you know this open source software to make presentation: WINK
Available free here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

The developer is working hard to create the next release of it, since the actual release 2.0 is there since two years.

Pierre FV on August 27th, 2010 at 2:39 am #

Thanks for sharing your work.

Andreas F on August 27th, 2010 at 3:06 am #

Great presentation. Please send the slides of the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Training and Lotus Traveler User Guide. Thank you.

Another free tool for presentations is Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing/free/
Jing only records up to 5 minutes. If you need more time and features try Camtasia Studio http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Marcus Tate on August 27th, 2010 at 5:59 am #

Hi Marc, I think this is great! We really need more of this kind of initiative!! And yes please, if possible, I too would like a copy of the ppt. original.

Dinny Peter on August 29th, 2010 at 9:20 am #

Marc, great job!
Please send me the power point presentation of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 ShowNTell. Thanks

Mark C on August 30th, 2010 at 10:07 am #

Great presentation. Please send the slides. Thanks!

Lekhram on August 31st, 2010 at 1:47 am #

Hi,

Thanks for PPT. on Lotus notes, some can help me to get 8.5 admin book, i tried to search every where but not found any where. Please help me.

Ching-Tai Lee on September 7th, 2010 at 10:26 am #

Thanks for your great content & appreciate to e-mail me the ppt version of this training guide.

Peter T on September 22nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm #

Marc, great work on the training guide! Would like to have a copy of the ppt version.

NITIN on September 26th, 2010 at 2:30 pm #

Marc ,

Great job with pdf Show & Tell .Please send me ppt as it will help me to create a session for my employees at my organisation.Please treat this as an urgent request .

Many thanks

Nitin

Sanjay Dubey on September 27th, 2010 at 11:55 am #

Hi Marc,
Marc, Your efforts deserve appreciation, can you send me PPT for R8.5.2 or .1 training slides.

Harvey F on September 29th, 2010 at 10:28 am #

Can you send me the ppt version? Thanks in advance

Lesley on December 16th, 2010 at 1:04 pm #

I really liked this and would really appreicate a copy of the PowerPoints so that I can adapt it to show staff the main differences. Many thanks, Lesley

Pat Gruenke on December 16th, 2010 at 1:44 pm #

Thanks so much for doing this. Would you please send me the Power Point you mentioned? Thanks

Kelley Smith on December 20th, 2010 at 12:39 pm #

Thank you very much. Your site is a true resource. Merry Christmas.

Kelley Smith on December 20th, 2010 at 12:43 pm #

May I request a copy of PPT file? Thank you.

Harish on January 4th, 2011 at 2:03 am #

Thankyou please send appt copy

Vineet on February 11th, 2011 at 3:59 am #

Dear Marc,

Please provide a copy of powerpoint presentation to me .

Thanks in advance.

Abu Momen on February 23rd, 2011 at 5:17 am #

Hi,
It is nice to me. May I request to provide the PowerPoint format so that I can present to my colleagues.
Thanks a lot
Momen

Jay Jones on February 28th, 2011 at 12:54 pm #

Hello Marc,
Really easy to read slides – please would you kindly send me the PowerPoint format – many thanks
Jay

Sergey on May 29th, 2011 at 4:20 pm #

Thank you very much, Marc. Would you kindly provide me the PowerPoint version&?

steven on July 12th, 2011 at 7:37 am #

Hi, nice post.
Could you send the ppt file to me ?
thanks alot

Tip on November 15th, 2011 at 11:12 pm #

Hi, Good Job and nice post.
Would you send me the ppt file?
Thanks again.

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