I have written in previous posts about how IBM’s new collaboration solution Lotus Quickr is likely to become another great component in the corporate arsenal of fighting email overload. Rob Novak at SNAPPS, an IBM design partner working on providing ready-made templates for Quickr, just posted a preview of what is to come.

QPresent is a workflow driven Quickr template that enables multiple users to review and comment on presentations, such as PowerPoint, all through a web browser.

“… you can collect comments from your team on every single slide in a presentation, without ever having to email the big bloated PPT file around, and you never have to worry about merging random comments sent in email or versions of a file. And because it’s all in a Lotus Quickr place, there’s only one copy to worry about. Oh, and it’s secure. “

What got my attention and seems to set Quickr and QPresent apart from other existing solutions is the ability to annotate individual slides as well as the easy configuration of an approval workflow.

Many IT departments don’t realize how much PowerPoint email “ping-pong” is contributing to the overall email traffic and storage demands. Web based collaboration tools, such as Quickr, can help in removing that load from the mail system. Employees will likely embrace this solution, as it makes their lives easier by eliminating the tedious task of soliciting and consolidating feedback via email.

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