Comment posted by Carl Tyler04/22/2008 11:43:17 AM
Homepage: http://www.iminstant.com
I prefer the one word challenge...examples
Misunderstood
undervalued
Comment posted by Wild Bill04/22/2008 01:51:52 PM
Homepage: http://www.billbuchan.com
A highly-robust standards-based multi-client, multi-platform Collaboration application infrastructure with mail, replication, Public Key infrastructure and encryption capabilities.
---* Bill
Comment posted by Bruce04/22/2008 01:57:23 PM
21 words Bill....not bad...... next...
Comment posted by Nathan T. Freeman04/22/2008 02:10:02 PM
Homepage: http://nathan.lotus911.com
Bill, you forgot to point out the object data store, and the multiple programming languages availability.
Comment posted by Alan Lepofsky04/22/2008 02:35:54 PM
Homepage: http://www.alanlepofsky.net
All that stuff you hear about web2.0, it does that, but easier.
Comment posted by Julian Robichaux04/22/2008 05:53:34 PM
Homepage: http://www.nsftools.com
What Sharepoint wants to be when it grows up.
Comment posted by Lissette Arenas04/22/2008 06:03:25 PM
I can sum it up in one word:
bitchin'
Comment posted by Chris Reckling04/22/2008 06:28:35 PM
Homepage: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/insidelotusblog.nsf/
The official 25 words (these are available to the public, according to the web page where I snagged it):
IBM Lotus® Notes® 8, the premier integrated client option for IBM Lotus Domino® server, combines messaging, calendar and scheduling capabilities with a powerful desktop platform for collaborative applications.
For me, it gets across the main points, but is still a bit indirect.
Let the fun begin.
Chris
Comment posted by Richard Schwartz04/22/2008 09:01:25 PM
Homepage: http://www.poweroftheschwartz.com
Four words: It goes to eleven 
Comment posted by Nathan T. Freeman04/23/2008 04:22:08 AM
Homepage: http://nathan.lotus911.com
Lotus Notes is the market-defining collaboration and messaging development platform that allows you to work securely at any time from any where on any platform with any data.
Comment posted by Axel04/23/2008 04:28:53 AM
A truly usefull proprietary client server system with lots of integration plugs with newer languages, frameworks and protocols. Defiled countless times by marketeers hyping in the wrong direction or programmers/admins/pms with a very - lets say - apart perspective on things. Community whose creativity to find new ways to use the thing and disposition to share their work tends to amaze me more with the years.
Comment posted by Kevin Pettitt04/23/2008 10:40:57 AM
Homepage: http://www.lotusguru.com
It's clear to me that some entries above are targetting different audiences, which is a good thing and should made a defining part of this exercise. I think all blurbs should be narrowly targeted at several specific audiences, ranging in seniority and technical savviness.
Comment posted by Chris Blatnick04/23/2008 02:34:57 PM
Homepage: http://interfacematters.com
I'm with Kevin. Basically, if I ran all of these by my mother-in-law, she'd still have absolutely no idea what we're talking about. If you're targeting the tech crowd, then some of these will work, but if we're looking to explain it to and/or inspire end users, it's got to be better than this. So what should it say? Well...I haven't figured that out yet.
Comment posted by Keith Brooks04/23/2008 05:45:07 PM
Homepage: http://lotustech.blogspot.com
Lotus Notes, yes it is what your parents used and continue to use and has outlasted all other competitors of its genration.
Comment posted by Kevin Pettitt04/24/2008 07:07:18 AM
Homepage: http://www.lotusguru.com
@Chris - While it might be personally helpful to give our mothers-in-law, et. al. a clue what we do for a living, I think we need to keep in mind *which* audiences are worth targeting. That said, it's probably worth going after anyone who might conceivable need to accomplish something which Notes can help to accomplish.
Segmenting that population is the next step, and I think the various "personas" that Lotus has created provide excellent examples of how to do this. The difference here is that these personae need to be oriented around the goal of making these audiences say "I need Notes because..." as opposed to "What would make Notes more usable for me?"
Comment posted by Warren Miller05/26/2008 06:36:50 AM
Homepage: http://www.beckmill.com
Well, I still don't have a succinct description of what Notes is. . .for a "user." Then again, if we think of what other industry calls its customers "users"--that would be the street drug industry--then we have insights into the nature of IT that we probably didn't have before.
Can ANYONE give me a for-dumb-users description of Notes?
Thanks.
Comment posted by Jim Boling09/12/2008 11:01:36 AM
Homepage: http://baseballwidower.spaces.live.com
Belated, somewhat tongue-in-cheek answer to Warren's 5/26:
Write once; read anywhere. Supports "For Your Eyes Only."
OK, weird. But it touches on the broadness of the platform, collaboration and security strengths.
Comment posted by Judy Reed06/05/2009 07:43:58 AM
A sledgehammer for killing gnats.
Overly complicated.
Unintuitive.
I could go on forever...I use it because they pay me to...
Comment posted by Santhosh.R06/13/2009 12:08:27 AM
Homepage: http://www.ibm.com
Lotus notes is abn useful mail client ,which is not overtaking outlook ,i work in IBM and i am in support team ,the main advantage of using lotus notes are ,(I) Its Robust ,(2) More Secuired and (3) More options for Mail management .
