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The fifth Lotus Quickr template demo introduces QIdeas, an innovation and idea management template that probably has more uses than I've imagined for it. Visualize if you will the free-flowing nature of a wiki where revisions and enhancements to a concept and content are able to be made as simply as clicking "New Version". Then to this collaborative model add the blog-like ability to let others comment on each version of the evolving document (idea in our case), and -- this is key -- making sure the comments are maintained in the context of the version with which they are associated. Not a free-flowing discussion about all versions, but very specific comments about the current version. An author might choose to incorporate those comments or not, but there is a record of when and by whom they were submitted.

Now that we've combined the concepts of a blog and wiki to collaborate, we have a platform on which to evolve business ideas and innovations to the point where they are worthy of submitting to some authority or group for "approval" or "review". This is where the business construct of a workflow comes in, but it has to be flexible, manageable by the business user, and be able to be initiated at any time and not based on pre-set rules. The custom workflow engine we've built for these templates does just that, as you'll see in this and four other template demos.

So sit back for 17 minutes and enjoy the QIdeas demo.

Don't forget - ask questions and make comments here, and check back soon for more demos!