The Domino Chick

Notes Goddess Guest Blogging for Kathleen - who is busy

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Hi all - Notes Goddess Susan here -  I'm in an airplane heading for Boston for Admin2008.  Kathleen McGivney is NOT busy - she's off on her Honeymoon in Italy with the Awesome Atom.  She sent an email from her MacBook with has no Lotus Notes and no IBM software at all on it, so she really did disconnect from work, but obviously she missed the Admin crowd.  Here's Kathleen's message from Italy.....

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From Kathleen, on holiday in Italy:

Buon giorno! I've got a post all cooked up for when I get home from my honeymoon. While I'm out, though, you can keep up with me on Twitter and check out the photos that my husband and I are posting under the 'kandahoneymoon' tag on Flickr. And you can check out my brand-new personal blog here for more in-depth updates.


I'm sad that I'll be missing everyone at Admin2008 in Boston, but a honeymoon in Italy beats being cooped up in a conference room any day. :-)



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Posted by: Susan at: 03:03:13 PM
Location: Boston, MA

Lotus Notes and me, BFF

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Apparently there's a meme going around the Lotus blogs about how we all got started with Notes, so I thought I'd share how I started with Lotus products.

In 1995 I worked as an accountant at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, which eventually became Conexant. We used Lotus 1-2-3 with a lot of complicated formulas for certain accounting processes, and I quickly became proficient with it. The company was using MS Mail at the time and decided to migrate to Lotus Notes. I was friends with a bunch of the IT guys because I was the geek in my department and helped a lot of the others with their computer problems, so they told me they were looking for groups to do a pilot of Notes. I immediately set out to convince my department manager to let us be the pilot group, and he agreed, as long as I could train everyone to use the new mail program.

I went to some train-the-trainer sessions and taught my department how to use Notes. I helped with their everyday issues (mostly usage differences between the two mail programs) and soon moved on to developing applications for my department's use. I attended a series of onsite classes on Notes application development and realized I wanted to change careers. So, I moved to New York, of course.

After a short stint at another consulting company, during which time I continued to work on Notes development and gained my certification, I went to work for Binary Tree and learned a bunch of stuff during my tenure there. I then moved on to another company who was on 4.x but had sections of the company who were migrating off cc:mail and Notes 3.3.4 on OS/2. I'd only worked with 4.x before that, so working with 3.3.4 while I upgraded them to the latest version was another learning experience. I have worked with Notes, Domino, and related Lotus products ever since.

So, what's your story?

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 10:59:26 PM
Location: New York, NY