Announcement: Brand new template added to SNAPPS Quickr Templates
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I'm happy to announce a new addition to the FREE templates for Lotus Quickr over on QuickrTemplates.com!
Jerald Mahurin at SNAPPS has just completed the first version of QMessage - a secure project messaging template designed to keep project communications together, secure, and OUT OF YOUR INBOX.
The concept is simple. In addition to a standard Quickr place for your project, QMessage adds an email-like memo form and two views for an "Inbox" and "Sent". There's a lot more to it in the background, but I'll keep it simple.
The memo "To" field is restricted to place members. When a message is "sent", the template's business logic saves copies of the memo for each recipient with security set to their authentication credentials. The recipients automatically receive notification that they HAVE a message waiting, and a link, but none of the content (subject, rich text, or attachments) ever leaves the Quickr place. Users are pulled into the place to correspond about the project.
Think of it like the message center on your online banking site - the messages all stay there, secure. Or Facebook, where you can send a message and little bit of it gets sent to your main email address.
What are the use cases? Here are some we've considered...
a. Projects where keeping all the communications together is important for archival purposes (more temporal projects).
b. Projects where the audit trail of communications is important.
c. Projects/teams where sensitive information is shared, but the Quickr discussion or library are just not the right metaphor, and messaging fits better.
d. Organizations who have a project-oriented workforce and are facing issues with mail quotas because of attachments.
Key benefits of QMessage are that it leaves the attachments in the place and not in your inbox (reducing storage demands on your mail server), and it keeps communications about the project more "contextual" and not mixed in with your everyday email, Facebook and Twitter notices.
So go get the goods, and look for another great announcement tomorrow...
I'm happy to announce a new addition to the FREE templates for Lotus Quickr over on QuickrTemplates.com!
Jerald Mahurin at SNAPPS has just completed the first version of QMessage - a secure project messaging template designed to keep project communications together, secure, and OUT OF YOUR INBOX.
The concept is simple. In addition to a standard Quickr place for your project, QMessage adds an email-like memo form and two views for an "Inbox" and "Sent". There's a lot more to it in the background, but I'll keep it simple.
The memo "To" field is restricted to place members. When a message is "sent", the template's business logic saves copies of the memo for each recipient with security set to their authentication credentials. The recipients automatically receive notification that they HAVE a message waiting, and a link, but none of the content (subject, rich text, or attachments) ever leaves the Quickr place. Users are pulled into the place to correspond about the project.
Think of it like the message center on your online banking site - the messages all stay there, secure. Or Facebook, where you can send a message and little bit of it gets sent to your main email address.
What are the use cases? Here are some we've considered...
a. Projects where keeping all the communications together is important for archival purposes (more temporal projects).
b. Projects where the audit trail of communications is important.
c. Projects/teams where sensitive information is shared, but the Quickr discussion or library are just not the right metaphor, and messaging fits better.
d. Organizations who have a project-oriented workforce and are facing issues with mail quotas because of attachments.
Key benefits of QMessage are that it leaves the attachments in the place and not in your inbox (reducing storage demands on your mail server), and it keeps communications about the project more "contextual" and not mixed in with your everyday email, Facebook and Twitter notices.
So go get the goods, and look for another great announcement tomorrow...
