Brian Fitzgerald
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09:04:54 am on February 21, 2011 | # |
Just a few days ago, we passed our 1 month anniversary of switching to Zimbra and by most accounts, the migration has gone very well. We know that the transition wasn’t painless for everyone but we continue to work hard to fix problems and find ways to enable you to not just be as productive as you were with our Sun Calendar, but hopefully be more productive with the faster and more modern Zimbra Collaboration Center.We have really appreciated some of the positive feedback that you have sent since we’ve rolled over! Here’s a sampling of what we have heard from you:
“Zimbra is the future, and it’s a bright, bright future.”
“I am liking Zimbra so far! And I am picky about email”
“I don’t know whose idea this Zimbra thing was… but I LOVE it!!”
Not only are you making great use of the new web mail and calendar, but the Zimblog indicates that many of you have been interested in getting your mobile devices working with it as well. Over 700 of you have read the instructions posted there and around 400 are actively syncing your mobile device with Zimbra.
After we made Convergence available at the end of the 2009–2010 school year we received feedback that more training opportunities would have been nice. Since launching Zimbra there have already been nearly 30 formal staff development sessions with over half of those being around the city—1 in each of our middle and high schools. We will continue to offer sessions through LPS Staff Development so if you missed one of the offerings this past month and want to know how to be more productive with Zimbra, keep your eyes open. We are also more than happy to come to your building and work with your staff or workgroup on using Zimbra. Just email kristi@lps.org to set something up.
Finally, we have been gathering quite a few “it would sure be nice if…” requests over the past month. We have found creative answers to some and we’ve been left scratching our collective head and agreeing with you on others. Also within the last 30 days an update to Zimbra has been made available and we have been happy to find that while it looks almost identical to version 6 (our current version) many things that you have asked for have been built into the new release. Because we think you will be very happy with some of the new features, we plan to upgrade to Zimbra 7 on the Sunday morning leading into spring break—March 20th.
