Social networking tools provide a way for people to communicate and interact online. Lotus Quickr is a key element of IBM’s “Social Business” initiative that provides a new competitive advantage with an integrated set of social networking tools.

During this course you will learn how to use Lotus Quickr to share all types of content with your colleagues down the hall or around the globe using online libraries, blogs, wikis, discussions, and shared calendars and task lists.

You will learn how to create and secure new Places while serving as a Place Owner and Manager, add content using a variety of Item types as an Author, and serve as an Editor to validate and revise content.

You will also install and use the Quickr Connectors to share and work on files directly from other desktop applications.

Lotus Training Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Log in to the Domino Server running the Quickr software.
• Open the three types of Places found on the Quickr Home Page.
• Describe the Home Page features in a Standard Place for Teams Place.
• Use the Table of Contents and breadcrumbs to navigate between Folders.
• See what’s new in a Place in the last day or week.
• Operate on Items open or selected in the current window.
• Apply multiple layers of Quickr security including the permissions given by the Roles users can be assigned to.
• Create various Item types.
• Describe the purpose of a working draft as it relates to the check in/check out reservation mechanism and versioning.
• Control how and where an Item is published.
• Participate in a threaded discussion using Post and Response Items, and control how Items are displayed Folders.
• Create new Folders and move Items to them.
• Use shared Calendar and Tasks to coordinate activities with other Place Members.
• Create and secure a New Place and invite users to become Members, create a new Folder from one of the Folder types, and create and secure a new Room in your Place.
• Describe the various ways you can customize a Place to better meet the needs of its Members to share content.
• Describe how email notification is integrated with Quickr to generate Place invitations, new content newsletters, calendar invitations, and task assignments.
• Install and configure the Lotus Quickr Connectors and share files from other desktop applications.
• Learn how to send links to files stored in Quickr rather than sending large attachments in emails.
• Create a custom form and apply a workflow process to approve content before it is published.