diff --git a/addons/account_accountant/account_accountant_data.xml b/addons/account_accountant/account_accountant_data.xml
index 3d665e680c3..7724dcb6774 100644
--- a/addons/account_accountant/account_accountant_data.xml
+++ b/addons/account_accountant/account_accountant_data.xml
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <openerp>
     <data>
-
         <!-- rename root menu "Accounting" -->
         <record id="account.menu_finance" model="ir.ui.menu">
             <field name="name">Accounting</field>
         </record>
+    </data>
 
-<!--
-        It's easier for new users to not activate this (ex: they misconfigure
-        header and footer.)
-
-        <record model="ir.actions.report.xml" id="account.account_invoices">
-            <field name="attachment_use">1</field>
-        </record>
--->
-
+    <data noupdate="1">
+        <!-- notify all employees of module installation -->
+        <function model="mail.group" name="message_append_note">
+            <!-- ids, subject, body, parent_id=False, type='notification', content_subtype='html' -->
+            <value eval="[ref('mail.group_all_employees')]"/>
+            <value>Module Accounting and Finance has been installed</value>
+            <value>From the top menu Accounting, manage all of your accounting:
+                general accounting, cost/analytic accounting, third party
+                accounting, taxes, budgets, customer and supplier invoices,
+                bank statements, reconciliation process.
+            </value>
+        </function>
     </data>
 </openerp>
diff --git a/addons/account_voucher/__openerp__.py b/addons/account_voucher/__openerp__.py
index c943724f5f2..bfb05521420 100644
--- a/addons/account_voucher/__openerp__.py
+++ b/addons/account_voucher/__openerp__.py
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ Account Voucher module includes all the basic requirements of Voucher Entries fo
     "website" : "http://tinyerp.com",
     "images" : ["images/customer_payment.jpeg","images/journal_voucher.jpeg","images/sales_receipt.jpeg","images/supplier_voucher.jpeg"],
     "depends" : ["account"],
-    "init_xml" : [],
+    "init_xml" : [
+        'account_voucher_data.xml',
+    ],
 
     "demo_xml" : [],
 
diff --git a/addons/account_voucher/account_voucher_data.xml b/addons/account_voucher/account_voucher_data.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2183f2a1b33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/account_voucher/account_voucher_data.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<openerp>
+    <data noupdate="1">
+        <!-- notify all employees of module installation -->
+        <function model="mail.group" name="message_append_note">
+            <!-- ids, subject, body, parent_id=False, type='notification', content_subtype='html' -->
+            <value eval="[ref('mail.group_all_employees')]"/>
+            <value>Module eInvoicing &amp; Payments has been installed</value>
+            <value>From the top menu Invoicing, manage your customer and supplier
+                invoices.  You can also manage refunds, receipts and register
+                payments.
+
+                In order to manage all accounting features (journal items,
+                chart of accounts, etc), you should install the module
+                Accounting and Finance.
+            </value>
+        </function>
+    </data>
+</openerp>
diff --git a/addons/crm/crm_data.xml b/addons/crm/crm_data.xml
index 4ca40a691f5..0abbbb84dde 100644
--- a/addons/crm/crm_data.xml
+++ b/addons/crm/crm_data.xml
@@ -17,5 +17,27 @@
             <field name="name">Sales Department</field>
             <field name="code">Sales</field>
         </record>
+
+        <!-- notify all employees of module installation -->
+        <function model="mail.group" name="message_append_note">
+            <!-- ids, subject, body, parent_id=False, type='notification', content_subtype='html' -->
+            <value eval="[ref('mail.group_all_employees')]"/>
+            <value>Module CRM has been installed</value>
+            <value>From the top menu Sales, manage your sales pipeline: leads,
+                opportunities, meetings, phone calls, and customers.  OpenERP
+                ensures that all cases are successfully tracked by all parties.
+                It can automatically send reminders, escalate requests, trigger
+                specific methods and lots of other actions based on your own
+                enterprise rules.
+
+                In the Sales settings, you can configure an email gateway to
+                automatically create leads from messages sent on a particular
+                email address.
+
+                To manage quotations and sale orders, install the module Sales
+                Managements.  With this module, you will be able to create
+                quotations directly from opportunities.
+            </value>
+        </function>
     </data>
 </openerp>
diff --git a/addons/sale/sale_data.xml b/addons/sale/sale_data.xml
index 9768f606793..c93651219af 100644
--- a/addons/sale/sale_data.xml
+++ b/addons/sale/sale_data.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <openerp>
     <data noupdate="1">
-        <!--
-    Requests Links
-    -->
+        <!-- Requests Links -->
         <record id="req_link_sale_order" model="res.request.link">
             <field name="name">Sales Order</field>
             <field name="object">sale.order</field>
         </record>
 
-        <!--
-    Resource: sale.shop
-    -->
+        <!-- Resource: sale.shop -->
         <record id="shop" model="sale.shop">
             <field name="company_id" ref="base.main_company"/>
             <field name="warehouse_id" ref="stock.warehouse0"/>
@@ -26,29 +22,19 @@
 
         <function eval="('default',False,'shop_id', [('sale.order', False)], shop, True, False, False, False, True)" id="sale_default_set" model="ir.values" name="set"/>
 
-    </data>
-    <data>
-            
-        <record id="message_welcome_sale" model="mail.message">
-            <field name="subject">Module sale installed!</field>
-            <field name="type">comment</field>
-            <field name="subtype">text</field>
-            <field name="model">res.users</field>
-            <field name="res_id" ref="base.user_root"/>
-            <field name="body_text">Welcome to OpenERP
-
-                You can click on the top menu Sales to manage your
-                customers, your quotations and sales orders.
-
-                If you need to manage your sales pipeline (leads,
-                opportunities, phonecalls), you can install the CRM module
-                from the Settings top menu.
-            </field>
-        </record>
-        <record id="message_welcome_sale_root" model="mail.notification">
-            <field name="user_id" ref="base.user_root"/>
-            <field name="message_id" ref="message_welcome_sale"/>
-        </record>
+        <!-- notify all employees of module installation -->
+        <function model="mail.group" name="message_append_note">
+            <!-- ids, subject, body, parent_id=False, type='notification', content_subtype='html' -->
+            <value eval="[ref('mail.group_all_employees')]"/>
+            <value>Module Sales Management has been installed</value>
+            <value>From the top menu Sales, manage your customers, quotations and
+                sales orders.  With sale orders, you can manage product
+                deliveries and customer invoices.
 
+                If you need to manage your sales pipeline (leads, opportunities,
+                phonecalls), you can install the module CRM from the top menu
+                Settings.
+            </value>
+        </function>
     </data>
 </openerp>