Different technology, same values

Apr 27, 2012 // by Stuart McIntyre // Blog Posts // 4 Comments

A Lotus Notes ad from the R5 days, circa 1999:

‘I am ready‘, ‘I am connected‘, ‘I am not alone‘, ‘The power to work the way you want‘, ‘Share work and ideas‘ and so on…

This was describing Collaboration, Messaging and Workflow software from 13 years ago, but could so easily be describing the impact of Social Media and Social Business tools (such as IBM Connections) today.

My goodness, Lotus Notes and Domino really was painting a vision of the future…

Tags: collaboration, lotus, notes, values, video, youtube

Mat Newman

I Am … Building Communities!

Sound familiar
Tony Holder

It’s a little sad to watch that. IBM managed to suppress all of that for more than 10 years before finally getting it…

I am… Superman. Now what did you do with that but of cardboard Mat?
Redmond

Proof Positive that marketing can beat quality. And 13 years later, the people working at MS STILL don’t think in the concepts mentioned in that 1999 ad.

Still have my “I AM” from Lotusphere 1999.
http://blog.collaborationmatters.com Stuart McIntyre

Thanks for your comments folks.

I’m thinking that we just don’t see many videos like that for IBM products these days, whether Domino/Notes or others. Plenty of talking head demos etc, but very few truly exciting promos. Would be great to see more done in this area…

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