In previous posts,  I have discussed how IBM Lotus is preparing a number of exciting new products that will bring proven consumer web 2.0 collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs and social bookmarking to the enterprise.

This week IBM started an aggressive marketing campaign coinciding with the announcement of the official product launch dates that confirms Big Blue’s commitment to build on the strong collaboration foundation of Notes.

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IBM Lotus has published the 3rd and final Beta of the much anticipated Notes /Domino version 8 yesterday (see also Notes gets Nip/Tuck’ed). Although no official release date has been announced so far, the final product will most likely ship in Q3 of this year.

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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.

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IBM Lotus released Sametime 7.5.1 last week. I’m not sure how I missed this in the prior release, but I just noticed that Sametime now supports integration with the Microsoft Office suite.

This feature was first mentioned last summer with the pre-announcement of Sametime 7.5 amongst a slew of many other important enhancements to the product, including the gateway to public IM networks.

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IBM has published a couple of short flash-based demos of the upcoming Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr products, to their public website. Both products were greeted with much fanfare during the introduction at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, last January.

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Email attachments, specifically the (ab)use of email as a document sharing system is a common concern amongst many companies coping with the constant increase in network traffic and storage demand. Stuart McIntyre on the Quickr blog highlights an interesting approach on how to lighten the email load by providing an intuitive integration point between email client and collaboration solution.

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