Comments on: Columbus SEO and Web Marketing http://seocolumbus.com/seo-columbus/columbus-seo-and-web-marketing/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:46:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Joe Rozsa http://seocolumbus.com/seo-columbus/columbus-seo-and-web-marketing/#comment-3 Joe Rozsa Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:13:30 +0000 http://seocolumbus.com/index.php/2008/03/12/columbus-seo-and-web-marketing/#comment-3 Thanks for posting, Ed. I know that Notes has its fair share of supporters, but it isn't exactly a strong recruiting point for new IT talent when the company is using Lotus Notes. There are a lot of large companies that use Notes, but I think the days of IBM being considered innovative ended about 20 years ago. My point was more in regard to central Ohio companies being innovative and stepping out on the ledge and not as much a swipe at Lotus Notes, although I do believe that one is symbolic of the lack of the other. I don't feel that companies like Nationwide are disadvantaged necessarily by using Lotus Notes (although they probably are somewhat), but rather companies like that are disadvantaged because of the technology leaders they have in place that are making decisions such as using Lotus Notes. On an SEO note, just take a look at Nationwide's new website, which has nothing to do with Lotus Notes. Here is a company that will pay to put their name on anything for sale, yet they don't know how to build a site that will generate millions of dollars in free traffic every single day. That is what I hope changes in the central Ohio technology industry - for these businesses to realize that this isn't 1988 and if they don't catch up and keep up, they will be passed up. Thanks for posting, Ed. I know that Notes has its fair share of supporters, but it isn’t exactly a strong recruiting point for new IT talent when the company is using Lotus Notes. There are a lot of large companies that use Notes, but I think the days of IBM being considered innovative ended about 20 years ago. My point was more in regard to central Ohio companies being innovative and stepping out on the ledge and not as much a swipe at Lotus Notes, although I do believe that one is symbolic of the lack of the other. I don’t feel that companies like Nationwide are disadvantaged necessarily by using Lotus Notes (although they probably are somewhat), but rather companies like that are disadvantaged because of the technology leaders they have in place that are making decisions such as using Lotus Notes. On an SEO note, just take a look at Nationwide’s new website, which has nothing to do with Lotus Notes. Here is a company that will pay to put their name on anything for sale, yet they don’t know how to build a site that will generate millions of dollars in free traffic every single day. That is what I hope changes in the central Ohio technology industry - for these businesses to realize that this isn’t 1988 and if they don’t catch up and keep up, they will be passed up.

]]> By: edbrill http://seocolumbus.com/seo-columbus/columbus-seo-and-web-marketing/#comment-2 edbrill Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:34 +0000 http://seocolumbus.com/index.php/2008/03/12/columbus-seo-and-web-marketing/#comment-2 *gasp* I guess Nationwide doesn't mind being part of a community of tens of thousands of companies -- including thousands of new ones annually -- that use Lotus Notes to run their businesses. IBM continues to significantly invest in Notes and Notes 8, which shipped last year, delivered a major update in terms of usability, openness, and integration. It's always easy to take a shot at technology that has been around for many years, but is there a reason that you think Nationwide or other Notes customers are disadvantaged? IBM runs a $96 billion company on Notes, and the most profitable company in the US is a Notes customer. *gasp* I guess Nationwide doesn’t mind being part of a community of tens of thousands of companies — including thousands of new ones annually — that use Lotus Notes to run their businesses. IBM continues to significantly invest in Notes and Notes 8, which shipped last year, delivered a major update in terms of usability, openness, and integration.

It’s always easy to take a shot at technology that has been around for many years, but is there a reason that you think Nationwide or other Notes customers are disadvantaged? IBM runs a $96 billion company on Notes, and the most profitable company in the US is a Notes customer.

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