On January 19, 2010, Teamstudio announced the winners of this year's Teamstudio Spotlight Awards Contest.

The contest, in its third year, was created to raise awareness of how creative, relevant and effective Lotus Notes applications can be.

Entrants were asked to submit a brief summary of their applications, which were then rated on 5 criteria: (1) complexity of task performed, (2) degree of automation, (3) size of user community, (4) business value, and (5) creativity and innovation of design. The judging panel, comprised of industry experts Bruce Elgort, Joe Litton, Julian Robichaux and Craig Schumann then selected 3 finalists to demonstrate their applications to determine the winners.

The winning entry, Response Tracker, was developed and submitted by an internal project team at Reliance Energy in India. The team, headed up by Atin Palekar, created an application that tracks for the energy company’s 25 million customers. This application impressed the judges with its rich feature set, extremely robust development methodology employed, and blatantly-impressive benefits. Response Tracker was the unanimous choice as this year's winner.

Second place went to the Notes Reconn application, created by David Jeyachandran, Johnny Jiang and James Harris, with their internal development team at Suncorp of Australia. Available free on OpenNTF.org, Notes Reconn allows easy creation of exports and charts from Notes databases. One judge called it “the most powerful export tool I’ve ever seen.”

Erick Mack and Ian Armstrong of eProductivity in the US were the third place winners for their eProductivity<
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Beverly, MA - January 28, 2010

On January 19, 2010, Teamstudio announced the winners of this year's Teamstudio Spotlight Awards Contest.

The contest, in its third year, was created to raise awareness of how creative, relevant and effective Lotus Notes applications can be.

Entrants were asked to submit a brief summary of their applications, which were then rated on 5 criteria: (1) complexity of task performed, (2) degree of automation, (3) size of user community, (4) business value, and (5) creativity and innovation of design. The judging panel, comprised of industry experts Bruce Elgort, Joe Litton, Julian Robichaux and Craig Schumann then selected 3 finalists to demonstrate their applications to determine the winners.

The winning entry, Response Tracker, was developed and submitted by an internal project team at Reliance Energy in India. The team, headed up by Atin Palekar, created an application that tracks for the energy company’s 25 million customers. This application impressed the judges with its rich feature set, extremely robust development methodology employed, and blatantly-impressive benefits. Response Tracker was the unanimous choice as this year's winner.

Second place went to the Notes Reconn application, created by David Jeyachandran, Johnny Jiang and James Harris, with their internal development team at Suncorp of Australia. Available free on OpenNTF.org, Notes Reconn allows easy creation of exports and charts from Notes databases. One judge called it “the most powerful export tool I’ve ever seen.”

Erick Mack and Ian Armstrong of eProductivity in the US were the third place winners for their eProductivity application, a Notes-based tool aligned with David Allen's book "Getting Things Done" (GTD) that helps the user to incorporate GTD processes into daily routine.

An honorable mention went to Martijn de Jong for his Mailfile Information Collectorapplication, which collects mailfile information from all mail servers, their related log files, and the Domino directory. It then assembles this information into a single document per user.

The second honorable mention was for the eReport Application created by Michael Butcher. This is a mobile Lotus Notes Application used to quickly and accurately track customer service calls.

Teamstudio is excited to recognize all contest winners, honorable mentions, and entrants for their outstanding applications developed using Lotus Notes. Information on the 2011 Teamstudio Spotlight Awards will be available on the Teamstudio website in October of 2010.

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eProductivity™ "GTDŽ Enables" IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 with David Allen's "Getting Things DoneŽ" ("GTD") Methodology

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - ICA.COM, Inc, (ICA) today announced the availability of eProductivity version 2.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1.

People at over 900 of the world's most progressive organizations use eProductivity to reclaim up to 60 minutes each day by reducing the time it takes to capture ideas and commitments, process e-mail and manage information in Lotus Notes. Tasks that took minutes to accomplish now take seconds. Now, eProductivity 2.0 greatly enhances Lotus Notes 8.5.1 with new features such as sidebar widgets, composite applications, increased drag and drop functionality, and a rich web experience.

GTD and Lotus Notes Together
Based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) methodology and seamlessly integrated with Lotus Notes 8.5.1, eProductivity provides control and perspective across an individual's communications, projects, and actions, helping IBM Lotus Notes users reclaim up to 60 minutes of lost productivity each day and making getting things done with Lotus Notes productive, personal, and easy.

"ICA really made the commitment and took the time to understand the Getting Things Done methodology before they started developing the application. This understanding is both critical to a good GTD implementation and a prerequisite to my really spending any time with any one GTD application. It speaks volumes to the integrity and value of eProductivity that it is the only application I use to manage all of my projects and actions. It's indispensable to the way I get things done. Many of my staff have the same strong feelings about it," stated David Allen, Chairman of the David Allen Company and creator of the GTD methodology. "eProductivity is the ultimate G
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eProductivity™ "GTDŽ Enables" IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 with David Allen's "Getting Things DoneŽ" ("GTD") Methodology

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - ICA.COM, Inc, (ICA) today announced the availability of eProductivity version 2.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1.

People at over 900 of the world's most progressive organizations use eProductivity to reclaim up to 60 minutes each day by reducing the time it takes to capture ideas and commitments, process e-mail and manage information in Lotus Notes. Tasks that took minutes to accomplish now take seconds. Now, eProductivity 2.0 greatly enhances Lotus Notes 8.5.1 with new features such as sidebar widgets, composite applications, increased drag and drop functionality, and a rich web experience.

GTD and Lotus Notes Together
Based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) methodology and seamlessly integrated with Lotus Notes 8.5.1, eProductivity provides control and perspective across an individual's communications, projects, and actions, helping IBM Lotus Notes users reclaim up to 60 minutes of lost productivity each day and making getting things done with Lotus Notes productive, personal, and easy.

"ICA really made the commitment and took the time to understand the Getting Things Done methodology before they started developing the application. This understanding is both critical to a good GTD implementation and a prerequisite to my really spending any time with any one GTD application. It speaks volumes to the integrity and value of eProductivity that it is the only application I use to manage all of my projects and actions. It's indispensable to the way I get things done. Many of my staff have the same strong feelings about it," stated David Allen, Chairman of the David Allen Company and creator of the GTD methodology. "eProductivity is the ultimate GTD implementation tool for IBM Lotus Notes."

Long-time eProductivity user, David Walczak, CIO, Bayhealth Medical Center, said this: "ICA has created a very valuable solution which has had a very positive impact on my productivity in the following ways:
1. With rare exception, I now go home with zero email in my in-box. I've always been good with taking care of them but zero was an illusive goal.
2. The 'Today' view is very powerful. I am able to plow through the meetings and next actions that are in this view. It's a great feeling to click the 'mark complete' button and watch completed items disappear.
3. I actually now have a feeling of "mind like water" in that I have captured all my stuff and know what all my commitments are at any given point in time.
4. My sense is that eProductivity helps me easily reclaim 15 to 20 minutes per day in processing email and determining next actions.
5. The Weekly Review Coach works very well and keeps me on top of all the stuff I have to do.

The most significant way in which eProductivity has helped me is in keeping track of my commitments to my customers."

ICA Company president, Eric Mack, says, "We worked closely with David Allen over the past several years to really understand what it would take to fill a market need among Lotus Notes users who embrace the GTD methodology. With over five years of development, testing, and use with clients around the world, eProductivity builds upon the native robustness of the IBM Lotus Notes platform and provides GTD users with an easy to use and manage environment. We also worked closely with the Lotus Notes design team to ensure compatibility and capability that will complement the new features of Lotus Notes 8.5.1"

Scott Peterson, President, Harbor Group | CFO, Interstates Companies, said:
"eProductivity allows me to focus on the items that are a priority while not worrying about forgetting items I need to complete later. With almost 100 people using eProductivity on a daily basis over the past 4 Ŋ years, it has had a strong impact on our company. eProductivity allows me to manage expectations of my clients, ensure I follow-up in a timely manner, and deliver the results I promise. I could not have developed the same level of trust with my clients without it."

About ICA.COM, Inc.
ICA is a professional consulting organization, based in California, USA. Founded in 1982 by Productivity Specialist and Personal Knowledge Management Expert, Eric Mack. The company provides consulting services and software to help its clients improve their productivity, collaboration and knowledge management capability. ICA is the creator of eProductivity, a GTD implementation solution for Lotus Notes that is both used and recommended by David Allen.

For additional information or to download a free 30-day evaluation, please visit www.eProductivity.com.

ICA representatives will be in the Lotus Foundations Lab at Lotusphere 2010 and are available for private demonstrations of eProductivity. Call 661.242.8410x105

Contact:
Ryan Heathers
ICA.COM, Inc.
661.242.8410 x105
www.ICA.com

IBM, Lotus, Notes, Lotusphere, are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. "GTDŽ" and
"Getting Things DoneŽ" are Trademarks or registered trademarks of The David Allen Company. (www.davidco.com). eProductivity
is a trademark of ICA.COM, Inc. (www.ica.com)

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eProductivity Expert Eric Mack Presents Best Practices Sessions on Maximizing Personal Productivity at Lotusphere 2010

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - eProductivity Specialist, Eric Mack, will present two sessions at Lotusphere 2010 on January 19 & 20.
Best Practices Session, BP302:

"IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes" will take place at 4:15 PM on Tuesday, January 19, at the Dolphin Hotel (Southern II).

Lotus Notes software is marketed as an "organizational" productivity tool, and that's often the way organizations deploy it - from the top down - not as a tool for "personal" productivity or knowledge management. As a consequence, many users see Notes as a "company" tool and not "their" tool. When tools become "personal," productivity increases and when personal productivity increases so does the productivity of the workgroup and the organization. This session will show both expert and novice Notes users how they can use Lotus Notes coupled with proven best practices to make them immediately more productive.

A birds of a feather session, "Getting Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes" will also take place at 5:45 PM on Wednesday, January 20 at the Swan Hotel (Macaw 1)

Abstract:
This session will explore ways to make using Lotus Notes more productive by making it "personal." This interactive discussion will bring together expert and novice Lotus Notes users to share how they are using Notes for personal action and information management.

"Eric Mack's approach to personal knowledge management and David Allen's GTDŽ methodology are natural companions. Add in Lotus Notes, and you have a great combination that can help individuals be more productive," said Ed Brill, director Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus.
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eProductivity Expert Eric Mack Presents Best Practices Sessions on Maximizing Personal Productivity at Lotusphere 2010

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - eProductivity Specialist, Eric Mack, will present two sessions at Lotusphere 2010 on January 19 & 20.
Best Practices Session, BP302:

"IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes" will take place at 4:15 PM on Tuesday, January 19, at the Dolphin Hotel (Southern II).

Lotus Notes software is marketed as an "organizational" productivity tool, and that's often the way organizations deploy it - from the top down - not as a tool for "personal" productivity or knowledge management. As a consequence, many users see Notes as a "company" tool and not "their" tool. When tools become "personal," productivity increases and when personal productivity increases so does the productivity of the workgroup and the organization. This session will show both expert and novice Notes users how they can use Lotus Notes coupled with proven best practices to make them immediately more productive.

A birds of a feather session, "Getting Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes" will also take place at 5:45 PM on Wednesday, January 20 at the Swan Hotel (Macaw 1)

Abstract:
This session will explore ways to make using Lotus Notes more productive by making it "personal." This interactive discussion will bring together expert and novice Lotus Notes users to share how they are using Notes for personal action and information management.

"Eric Mack's approach to personal knowledge management and David Allen's GTDŽ methodology are natural companions. Add in Lotus Notes, and you have a great combination that can help individuals be more productive," said Ed Brill, director Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus. "David and Eric have been long-time advocates for Lotus Notes and I am looking forward to seeing this session at Lotusphere."

Speaker Information:

About Eric Mack, MKM
Eric Mack is the founder and president of ICA.COM, Inc. (ICA), a professional consulting organization, based in California, USA. Eric recently celebrated his 27th year in business as a technologist, software developer, public speaker, and productivity consultant. In that time, he has provided expert consulting services to more than 350 corporate and government clients, most notably in the area of information, communication, and action management. An articulate speaker, Eric has also shared his technological insights with more than 10,000 people around the world through his eProductivity coaching and seminars. Eric has been a featured speaker at the Office 2.0 and KMWORLD conferences and was the keynote and featured presenter for the Beyond Planning Conference in Manila, Philippines.

Eric is also the creator of eProductivity™, a GTDŽ implementation solution for IBM Lotus Notes that is both used and recommended by David Allen.

For additional information about Eric Mack or ICA, please visit www.ICA.com

For additional information about eProductivity, please visit: www.eProductivity.com

ICA representatives will be in the Lotus Foundations Lab at Lotusphere 2010 and are available for private demonstrations of eProductivity. Call 661.242.8410x105

Contact:
Ryan Heathers
ICA.COM, Inc.
661.242.8410 x105

IBM, Lotus, Notes, Lotusphere, are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. "GTDŽ" and "Getting Things DoneŽ" are Trademarks or registered trademarks of The David Allen Company. eProductivity is a trademark of ICA.COM, Inc.

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eProductivity™ for IBM Lotus Foundations - a Winning Combination for Partners to Increase Small Business Productivity and Boost Sales

Lotus Foundations partners are building customer loyalty and winning new Lotus Foundations sales by helping their customers get more from their Lotus Foundations investment and get things done.

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - ICA.COM, Inc, (ICA) today announced the availability of eProductivity version 2.0 for Lotus Foundations.

Based on David Allen's "Getting Things DoneŽ" (GTDŽ) methodology and seamlessly integrated with IBM Lotus Notes, eProductivity helps value-added resellers increase small business productivity and win new sales by giving their customers control and perspective across their communications, projects, and actions resulting in a savings of up to 60 minutes in lost productivity each day.

"eProductivity 2.0 for Lotus Foundations greatly enhances the Lotus Foundations value proposition with new features for Lotus Notes 8.5.1, such as sidebar widgets, composite applications, increased drag and drop functionality, and a rich web experience" said ICA company president, Eric Mack. "As an IT solution provider, often times the benefit of a Foundations partner's work is that their customers never see their hard work. A successful Foundations partner will often be out of sight and out of mind. eProductivity keeps them on their customer's mind every day."

David Lawrence, President of Smart Technology Enablers, a Lotus Foundations partner, says "Customers get eProductivity, they use it, and you can't take it away from them. As a result, you can't take Lotus Notes away from them."

Small businesses are using eProductivity to reclaim up to 60 minutes each day by reducing the time it takes to capture ideas and commitments, process e-mail and manage inf
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eProductivity™ for IBM Lotus Foundations - a Winning Combination for Partners to Increase Small Business Productivity and Boost Sales

Lotus Foundations partners are building customer loyalty and winning new Lotus Foundations sales by helping their customers get more from their Lotus Foundations investment and get things done.

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL, January 18, 2010 - ICA.COM, Inc, (ICA) today announced the availability of eProductivity version 2.0 for Lotus Foundations.

Based on David Allen's "Getting Things DoneŽ" (GTDŽ) methodology and seamlessly integrated with IBM Lotus Notes, eProductivity helps value-added resellers increase small business productivity and win new sales by giving their customers control and perspective across their communications, projects, and actions resulting in a savings of up to 60 minutes in lost productivity each day.

"eProductivity 2.0 for Lotus Foundations greatly enhances the Lotus Foundations value proposition with new features for Lotus Notes 8.5.1, such as sidebar widgets, composite applications, increased drag and drop functionality, and a rich web experience" said ICA company president, Eric Mack. "As an IT solution provider, often times the benefit of a Foundations partner's work is that their customers never see their hard work. A successful Foundations partner will often be out of sight and out of mind. eProductivity keeps them on their customer's mind every day."

David Lawrence, President of Smart Technology Enablers, a Lotus Foundations partner, says "Customers get eProductivity, they use it, and you can't take it away from them. As a result, you can't take Lotus Notes away from them."

Small businesses are using eProductivity to reclaim up to 60 minutes each day by reducing the time it takes to capture ideas and commitments, process e-mail and manage information in Lotus Notes - a savings of up to two weeks a year, per employee.

Scott Peterson, President, Harbor Group, said: "eProductivity allows me to focus on the items that are a priority while not worrying about forgetting items I need to complete later. With almost 100 people using eProductivity on a daily basis over the past 4 Ŋ years, it has had a strong impact on our company. eProductivity allows me to manage expectations of my clients, ensure I follow-up in a timely manner, and deliver the results I promise. I could not have developed the same level of trust with my clients without it."

Robert Thresher, President, Thresher Enterprise Systems Inc., a Lotus Foundations partner, says: "Everyone can benefit from organization, eProductivity helps these users get there, it's just that simple."

With eProductivity, Lotus Foundations Partners are:

• Increasing the value their customers get from their investment in Foundations.
• Giving customers a reason to switch from Microsoft Outlook to Lotus Notes.
• Driving Foundations sales with a productivity solution that delivers.
• Increasing customer loyalty by helping them to do their jobs better.
• Creating passionate Lotus Notes users who love the services they provide.