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In our series of articles, we've hit on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and how you can use it as a great platform for your intranet. Well, it's time to add another tool to your arsenal with the release of Lotus Quickr.

Quickr is the evolution of Lotus Quickplace. Quickplace has been around for more than eight years, and has always been a self-service team room and document management system. Quickr one-ups that formula by adding connectors and integration to a variety of software products, as well as adding a Web 2.0 makeover to the presentation. AJAX and brightly colored gradients are prevalent, but they really make this product seem like something fresh, and not a legacy product from 1999.

Quickr is something you may want to consider adding to your Domino intranet as it facilitates teamwork and collaboration with very little back-end effort.

Team Rooms

At the heart of Lotus Quickr is the team room concept. A team room is a place where a group of users can collaborate. You could give project teams or departments their own team room, and allow them to work together using all of the security you are used to in Lotus products. Each room can have administrators, editors and readers, so you can lock down each one to your liking.

Each team room has a variety of features you can add for the team to use. Some of them include:

Shared Calendars

Shared Tasks

Discussion areas

Chat

These are all great features, and combining them in team rooms will really allow your users to collaborate more effectively. However, the biggest killer application in Quickr is definitely its document management capabilities.

Manage your Content

Quickr contains a nice engine that you can use to manage your documents. There's version controls, check-in/check-out capabilities, full-text searching and you can even use workflow to manage your documents. You can also dictate security on a per document basis. So if you want a document visible to a team, but only want two people on the team to have edit capabilities, you can do so.

This alone is a nice feature, but where it becomes truly useful is when you connect the content libraries to other software.

Get Connected

Quickr comes with connectors that can link you to four different products. Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime Connect, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Windows Explorer.

Once you install the connectors (Windows only at this point) they give you access to Quickr functionality from within your other products. You can save directly to, or open files from your content libraries without ever opening your browser.

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