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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

You're reading from  IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680202
Pages 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Karen Hooper Karen Hooper
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. First Impressions (The Client Interface) 2. To Chat or Not to Chat: Lotus Sametime 3. Feeds 4. Working with Widgets 5. Mastering Lotus Notes Mail 6. Lotus Notes Mail Tools 7. Managing Contacts 8. Calendar and To Dos 9. Working with Lotus Notes Applications 10. Working Remotely (Replication/Synchronization) 11. Symphony Index

Widgets do what!


To explain widgets further, let's look at some examples such as the LinkedIn widget from http://www.linkedin.com/lotus and Google Maps.

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LinkedIn is a business, social networking site that we usually access and manage via e-mail and a web browser.

By using the LinkedIn widget, we can receive our LinkedIn e-mails and LinkedIn updates all in one place, which is the widget in the Lotus Notes sidebar. We will no longer need to have our inbox cluttered with LinkedIn e-mails and we don't need to log into the website either. Within this LinkedIn widget, we can search for people we want to contact and work with; we can also update and share our status. The following is an example widget panel in the Lotus Notes sidebar showing a LinkedIn profile:

Another widget that is very useful is the Google Maps widget. When used in conjunction with Live Text, it enables us to right-click on an address in an e-mail or a document and then locate the address on Google Maps, all within Lotus Notes...

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