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Jake, do you take Yancy to be your permanent blog feed?



Yancy, do you promise to love Jake's blog and honor his off-topic postings?

If so, let's agree to be friends and shake hands?

We need all the Lotus love that we can get IMHO....

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Tags: : NotesAppStore

Today there are 257 Lotus Notes Apps on the NotesAppStore!

Email	Administration	Productivity	Development	Services & Training
36 Apps	49 Apps	104 Apps	33 Apps	35 Apps

There are also 40 ISV product resellers

There are currently 131 Product and Reseller Reviews

There were 18 quote requests


In the past 30 days, these are the Page stats according to StatCounter:

		Page Loads	Unique Visitors	First Time Visitors	Returning Visitors
Total		19,256	7,557	6,219	1,338

Posted by Frank Paolino At 10:01 AM Location Boston | Permalink | Comments (0) |      

Tags: : NotesAppStore

Vigilus and Act for Notes is the first official Gold Site Supporter for the NotesAppStore! Thanks for all of your help to Thom Stallings!

A site supporter is someone who helps promote the site by doing all of the following:

• Linking to this site from their main website or product page with our badge  
• Writing a blog entry about the site.
• Follow NotesAppStore on Twitter and "tweet" about the site and your products  
• Join the LinkedIn Group NotesAppStore
• Join the Facebook Group NotesAppStore
• Email to your customers a notice about the site  
• Help to Enroll other Site Supporters

Why are Gold Site Supporters so important? Because the NotesAppStore will only work if it is makes Notes Apps easy to find from lots of places. That means from vendor sites, reseller sites, other blogs, customer emails and word of mouth. In that way, it is a true community effort.


I hope to have many Gold Site Supporters, supporting the ISVs and resellers that support the IBM Lotus and Domino brand!



Here is their product listed on the NotesAppStore:
http://www.notesappstore.com/appstore.nsf/ProdApps

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Reseller of ISV Apps (also known as 3rd party products) are very important to the ISV community.

There are 2 degrees of separation between resellers and IBM (IBM -> ISVs -> Resellers).  True, some resellers sell Lotus Notes, so there is a direct relationship with IBM. But mostly, they are not on IBM's radar. But they need a home, just like ISVs need a home on the web.

Most ISVs have a small group of 10-20 resellers that sell their products in their home country. These companies know the local buyers and decision makers and speak the local language, which is very important to the buyer. Then, they introduce an ISV product, like SpamSentinel  to the customer.


What happens when a company does not have a relationship with a reseller of Lotus Notes and Domino products? Well, then Google hell happens!  Which means they struggle to find a qualified local resource. If they want Domino server admin, they will find, via google, a very capable firm on the other side of the world!  That is a useless result for a firm searching for a local resource that knows the local language.

If it takes more than 30 minutes, they may abandon the search altogether!  Which is why we have a Reseller section in the NotesAppStore. To best demonstrate how this works, I will use my own SpamSentinel as an example of how the products and resellers should be listed on the NotesAppStore:

It works like this: There is a list of Resellers by Country (and we insist that the reseller only lists one country, their main base of operations or headquarters) which shows the products that they carry. Resellers and Products they carry by Country A second list shows all resellers of a certain product.  So a buyer, when looking at SpamSentinel, can see SpamSentinel and Resellers This will show resellers of this one product by country (with Ratings and Reviews, too).

Reseller Reviews and Ratings
How do you decide which resellers are best for you? Look at their ratings!  Just like the products on the NotesAppStore have ratings, so do resellers.  These are ratings of their services, not the products they represent. You can pick resellers that have ratings and reviews that you find match your needs.
These reviews should also follow the review guidelines of the site

Once a review is posted on the NotesAppStore, a reseller can post a link to it on their own website.  For example, here is one for a SpamSentinel reseller, Donova in Sweden (from a hockey company, of course !)



Note: This is not the best review, as it should focus more on the reseller and less on the product, but part of my work is education of how best to use the NotesAppStore, and it is an ongoing process.

How does the reseller get the code for their website? When a review is posted to the NotesAppStore, an email notification is sent to the Reseller (or Product vendor) containing the review, along with the HTML code for their website (if they choose to show the review).


Easy Quotes work for Resellers, too.
Quotes can be requested from an ISV or from their reseller. It is a decision made by the prospective buyer. When a prospective customer decides on a reseller of a product, they can contact the reseller directly, or request an Easy Quote for a product that the reseller carries. That reseller can then respond with pricing before a prospective buyer decides to engage them, if they choose.



How do Resellers Get Listed?
Resellers list themselves and the products they represent. They should only list products that they are authorized to represent. Just like they wouldn't put products they don't resell on their own websites, they shouldn't put them on the NotesAppStore, either. They self-manage their listings, so this page is effectively an extension of their own website.

The process is simple: Click on the Partner Login button and use your LinkedIn ID to login. NotesAppStore does not have access to your LinkedIn password nor does it store your LinkedIn password, it only has proof of your identity. Combined with a confirmation email to your work email address, we are confident in your identity so you can then manage your listings.

Click here to list yourself as a reseller: Partner Login

What about a company (reseller) that both makes a product and resells other ISV products? The NotesAppStore lets you have one listing per product that you manufacture and one listing for all the products that you resell:




So, the NotesAppStore is also a home for Lotus Notes and Domino Resellers.


Next: What is the NotesAppStore - Part 3: The Easy Quote Process and how it protects privacy.

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Tags: : NotesAppStore

Eric Mack reminded me of the "Lotus Notes Guide" (and sent me this scan).

MayFlower was listed in a number of these guides, and many people used them as a reference for "all things Lotus". The guide was handy, complete and helped you contact vendors of products and services.

Since the internet has replaced this "paper" guide, the vendors of products and services have not had a home, a place for them all to be seen by potential buyers.

But the need for a home is still very much a real need.

This was my first motivation driving me to build the NotesAppStore:
A single place for all vendors of Lotus Notes and Domino products and services.

The reason we need a single place is because of Google hell. What is google hell?  It is looking for Lotus Notes and Domino products and services via google.

If you want to see what I mean, click here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Lotus+Notes+and+Domino+products+and+services

To put an end to google hell means putting all vendors in one place. So, the NotesAppStore is a site that:

1. Is Free to list your products and services
2. Is Easy to navigate and find products and product resellers
3. Contains User reviews of Lotus Notes and Domino products and services
4. Is a Comprehensive listing of Vendors

#4 brings me to one still unsolved problem: Not all vendors are listed on the Notes App Store.

If you know of vendors but see that they are not listed, they can self-list using the Partner Login link.

So, Part 1, What is the NotesAppStore, it is your "guide" to Lotus Notes products and services.





Next Posting:  What is the NotesAppStore - Part 2: The Reseller Community

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Tags: : Charity

A really great neighbor Beth Petr in Acton communicates with the troops in Afghanistan and finds out what they need to make morals a tiny bit better.

Late last year, around Christmas time, the request was for coffee. Not any coffee. Dunkin Donuts coffee.

So, I went to the local store and bought 200 pounds of coffee in 1 pound bags.  I figured each pound would make 30 or more cups and make a lot of soldiers have a small "taste" of home.

I had not heard much about it, as communications is limited, until just this morning, when I got this email for CPT Jeoff:

This is a long overdue note of thanks to you, Frank and his daughter for the Dunkin Donuts coffee sent in February.  Much as I could have consumed it all myself, I knew the intent was to ensure the widest dissemination possible.  I shared with each of eight subordinate company commanders in our battalion, meaning your gifts touched the lives of nearly 1,100 Soldiers.  That's the kind of reach your operation has. I have now returned to the US and Acton.  I am forever grateful for the kindness and generosity that you and your friends give in support of our Citizen Soldiers.  Your work is important to all of us.  Please keep it going. Best regards, CPT Jeoff

My daughter Isabelle at Dunkin Donuts:


Here I am holding one of the 4 boxes of coffee:

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Tags: : Community

Thanks to Peter Smith at IONET software, we have improved and launched new site search for the NotesAppStore.

Peter graciously agreed to donate his FT Search software to the site to make the search experience much better, in terms of speed and utility.

To search the site, all you need to do is click Search

Potential customers also get a great place to see a live application in use right on the NotesAppStore itself!


It is a great search tool, and thanks also to Peter for spending the time to configure it for the site!

Posted by Frank Paolino At 9:32 AM Location Boston | Permalink | Comments (1) |      

Tags: : NotesAppStore

I have added a reseller section by country and products represented to enable end users to find local resources who can sell, install and train users on the products in the NotesAppStore.

Resellers can use the Partner Login, enter their information, and list the products that they resell.  

This is part of the Lotus Notes and Domino ecosystem that is often overlooked, but critical to the customers who rely on the skill and expertise of these local consultancies.

With the Easy Quote feature, an end user can request a quote from the product manufacturer or from one of the resellers closer to their physical location.

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Tags: : Spam

SpamSentinel caught this message. It has only one payload, a URL. Otherwise, it is designed (I think) to bypass bayesian filtering, as none of the words mean anything.

Or it could just be bad coding on the part of the spammers.  I have seen bad coding many times.... I guess spammers don't pay a lot to their IT staff, either!

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Tags: : NotesAppStore

The NotesAppStore products have been getting great reviews. This is a testament to the maturity of these products and show why organizations continue to choose Lotus Notes not only for email but for the wide variety of Apps available.

Here are the reviews posted in the last week on the Notes App Store.  If you use a product on this website, post your own review and share your experiences with others!

FT Search Manager IONET Software	06/06	Fit our business need perfectly!	Rebecca Holmberg WorldVision US	We use the Full Text Search Manager on our corporate Intranet site. We were looking for something simple to implement that would give us bet ...
Change Manager for Notes IONET Software	06/06	IONet Change Manager	Walter Pidwarko Hastings Deering (Australia) Limited	The software is really doing it's job for us. We used to have lots of unidentified/unexplained changes, now we have none." Walter Pidwarko, ...
Archiver for Notes IONET Software	06/06	IONet Archiver for Notes	Walter Pidwarko Hastings Deering (Australia) Limited	"The IONET Archiver for Notes/Domino product, has allowed us to create a hierarchy for email data. i.e. Online, (mail server), near-online, ...
Work Flow Manager Ionet Software	06/06	IONet Workflow Manager	Walter Pidwarko Hastings Deering (Australia) Limited	We initially purchased Workflow Manager to allow our non-Developers to administer/configure/modify the workflow for our workflow/approval da ...
Change Manager for Notes IONET Software	06/07	IONet Change Manage	Raoul Morik Julius Blum GmbH	We use this tool to monitor changes in our domino network as we have some "semi time" admins and I sometimes have no control what they are d ...
FT Search Manager IONET Software	06/07	Search Multiple Databases	Sue Smith mhra	Because the volume of data in our application is huge we had to split into multiple databases - one is around 20 Gig, another around 25 Gig, ...
FT Search Manager IONET Software	06/07	Consolidates searches	Barbara Hall IDC Canada	We were looking for a search engine that could search multiple LN databases including the attachments within records. FT Search Manager fit ...
FT Search Manager IONET Software	06/07	Excellent Notes Domino Product	Tedy Abramovici	The company keeps improving the FT search all the time and keeps me informed of the new versions. They also have excellent customer support ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/07	Happy customer that should have made the switch sooner	Aaron Sprunger Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co.	We transitioned our fax system to ExtraFax during the past year. We have been very pleased with the ease of setup and how stable it has bee ...
Tungle.me Tungle.me	06/07	I absolutely love Tungle	Jin Wong	I was a Tungle user before I became a Notes user. I absolutely love this product and the fact that I can plug it into my Lotus Notes is just ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/07	Great Faxing Product	Chris Rodman Papa John's International	We love the simplicity of the product and have been very happy since the beginning. Thanks Extracomm!
Easy User Policy Manager DoctorAPI	06/08	Our help desk has by far less critical cases	Juan Richeri MMCP Inc	Our users used to make mistakes like deleting their own DBs, or modifying their security settings... and now with this tool they cannot do t ...
ACT! for Notes Vigilus LLC	06/08	United Illuminating	James Michaud The United Illuminating Company	I'm not a big fan of Lotus Notes but think that ACT! for Notes is great! ACT! for Notes provides great functionality to Notes, it is availa ...
FT Search Manager IONET Software	06/08	Best Option Available	Jamie Jenkins American Appraisal Associates	We used this product in lieu of the standard domain search feature. In comparison, FT Search Manager has many additional features and is ve ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/08	Notes Based Faxing Solution	Francis S. Ita-as Axolotl Corporation	We have installed and deployed Extrafax for years and it has been integral with our operation. The application has proved itself to be very ...
ACT! for Notes Vigilus LLC	06/08	My thoughts on ACT for Notes.	Erica McIntosh TW Metals	Overall, the ACT for Notes program is a very user friendly and intuitive program. It definitely assists us in keeping our customer informat ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/08	Recently switched to ExtraFax	Mark Kilbourn	My company recently switched to ExtraFax and couldn't be happier. Seamless integration into our Notes environment as well as extremely easy ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/08	ExtraFax user for years!!	Michael Hendricks Kentucky Baptist Convention	Our company has used ExtraFax for Domino for many, many years. I believe we have used it for over 9 years now and we still love it. ExtraF ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/08	SpamSentinel user for many many years.	Michael Hendricks Kentucky Baptist Convention	Our organization has used SpamSentinel for years now and it has proven to be our best weapon at fighting spam. We also added the anti-virus ...
NotesAppStore NotesAppStore	06/08	A great concept for both sellers & buyers	Peter Smith IONET	This site is a great concept & long overdue. If you're a customer looking for solutions for Notes, previously you would have started with Op ...
ACT! for Notes Vigilus LLC	06/08	Administrative Support, Business Development	Christy Phelps LVI	I have been working with ACT! for Notes for 2 years now, and love it. It is user friendly and easy to train people on. The Vigilus Team is ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/09	Easy to install, to update and to maintain	Bernd Webster Techemea	The ExtraFax solution is a great FAX/SMS application. It was installed in under 10 minutes(V. 7.0.2) and the configuration was done in a day ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/09	Extrafax's ok for us!	claudio bianco ridix spa	We have installed Extrafax many years ago. Extrafax's integrated with our Notes applications, and we are very happy with it. No problem all ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/09	Best Notes App I've ever seen	Knud Schroeder JK	Nothin to say more... It just fulfills all our wishes. I never had a situation about Spam where SpamSentinel hadn't the solution. It's just ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/09	Jonathon Israel, The Florida Bar	Jonathon Israel The Florida Bar	Our organisation has been using ExtraFax for over 8 years with great success. Our users love the simplicity of being able to send and receiv ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/09	All product - 64 bit is GREAT!	Sergey RTSoft	I'm install 64 bit version SS on Windows Server 2008 Standart 64 bit. In the course of installation has seen the message that for such versi ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/09	Outstanding Product	Steve Brower Frank Parsons, Inc.	It's not often one finds a product so useful which requires so little maintenance. I've used SpamSentinel since 2003 and I've had nothing bu ...
SecurTrac Extracomm	06/09	SecurTrac Review	Vitaliy Dubinskiy Citigroup Inc.	We have deployed SecurTrac throughout our Lotus Domino infrastructure to monitor configuration changes. The deployment of this software prod ...
Mail Signature CrossWare	06/09	Flexible, functional, and affordable.	Brent Goedert	Truly, the easiest way to force an email signature requirement onto your users. Why?... because it's flexible enough to fit the needs of ea ...
VirtualOffice Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited	06/09	Finally a great program dealing with industry specific needs Bravo BVO	Jayne Ninham Hilton Plumbing	We have recently purchased VirtualOfficeWare Service Industries System and can see where it will not only make our lives easier in job sched ...
ACT! for Notes Vigilus LLC	06/10	Act! for Notes and Vigilus	John Goldener Goldener Executive Search Associates	Vigilus is has been a great help to me in my business. I run an executive search firm and chose ACT! for Notes/Lotus Notes as the main datab ...
Extrafax Extracomm	06/10	Extrafax for multiple organizations works wonderfully	Lise Mason Novix Network Specialists, Inc.	Extrafax has been deployed at my client's organization for 6 years. I even setup custom fax cover pages based on organization and department ...
SecurTrac Extracomm	06/10	Finaly a way to report on changes in Notes databases	Fabrice langlois HCL Teradyne	We have been using securetrack to report on "What's Changed" in our applications. It has been very well received by users who have been aski ...
NotesAppStore NotesAppStore	06/10	This Site Is About 10 Years Overdue!!	Doug Moore Essential Business Software, Inc.	I give this site a 5-Star Rating because I believe it really hits the mark for both the Domino Vendor/Reseller Community & the Domino User C ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/11	Top Notch Product with even better support!!	Dan Raposo Rite-Solutions, Inc.	Spam Sentinel is an easy to use product and it has made my life a lot easier. It is powerful, feature rich and just works. Better yet, t ...
NotesAppStore NotesAppStore	06/11	Finally	Joe Singer Vigilus LLC	I can not believe a site like this was not created sooner. Lotus Notes application vendors need all the help we can get spreading the word a ...
SpamSentinel MayFlower Software	06/11	great product and great customer service	Tanya Gromova Exis Inc	Our company has been using Spam Sentinel for several years. No complains, it works very well. It caches most of the spam. Our users also lik ...
scanEZ Ytria	06/12	Can't live without scanEZ	Jens Polster SP Integration GmbH	Since I've first used scanEZ I can't imagine working without it anymore. Not only is it a huge time saver, but it also enables me to do thin ...
MindPlan Haus Weilgut	06/12	Very helpful in many ways	Jens Polster SP Integration GmbH	We are using MindPlan at my company now for several years. At first we have been using it only as a replacement for MindManager because it a ...

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