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.

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