Jonathan Distad

TJ Keitt penned a great piece on ZDnet yesterday around becoming a social business.  Its pretty simple.  You better be working on it or starting now.  This isn’t just building a social network or social business but truly changing how a company does business.  It has to be operationalized.  Below is a great snippet from […]

Summer, as defined by school schedules, has generally come to an end and that means we kick start our IBM Connection Bootcamp series.  This fall we will be continuing on our trusty format of delivering business-focused bootcamps to help business and IT leaders build use cases, define ROI scenarios and have a little fun while […]

Today, IBM quietly announced today that the IBM Greenhouse.  Its a pretty slick UI and once more functionality is released you will see some really great additions to the platform.  Here is a quick screen of what you can find:   Considering the Beta is still under NDA for everyone involved, you will have to […]

There has always been mixed-emotion around Google+.  The user experience, in my opinion, is superior to anything in the social space.  It’s insanely easy to navigate, filter, view posts.  Recently there have been a lot of articles about how brands are using Google+.  There are releases like from our partner, HootSuite, who allows companies to […]

Today Mark Polly and I presented on some tools, trick and best practices on fast tracking your social business efforts.  Below is a copy of the slide deck. The full On-Demand recording is available here.

It was reported that a group called Team Prosecco hacked that little RSA token that has been a stalwart in enterprise security.  This article in the New York Times reveals: “Cryptography breaks very slowly. It’s the molasses of computer science,” said the security researcher Dan Kaminsky. “There are many technologies we abstractly know are problematic and […]

Last Tuesday, Cisco upgraded and rebranded their ESN from Quad to WebEx Social.  Good idea to leverage their wildly successful UC platform WebEx name to add social.  According to IDC, Cisco had roughly a .3% share in the social software space but those who are on that platform are very emphatic and champions to further […]

Myself and Mark Polly will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday at Noon CST on How to fast-track your social business capabilities.  Obviously past the ‘build it and they will come’ phase has passed, companies need to build a culture and provide tools that help employees work better, happier and more productive.  But with that […]

Premier healthcare alliance, a Perficient client and a project I spent over a year working on has just launched a massive virtual care portal for their members.  PremierConnect is a member facing portal that allows healthcare professionals to collaborate, connect, share, and react to data and actionable activities within one space.  It brings together clinical […]

Today Badgeville announced their integration to IBM Connections at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.  There is greater detail in a Badgeville blog post here but here are some highlights with a screen shot: The Reputation associated with those levels is portable across all the communities you engage with inside Connections. So if you become […]

A few weeks ago I presented with Rajat Paharia, founder of Bunchball, at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience.  I should clarify, Rajat presented, I lost my voice that day.  But my passion and commitment to maximizing social ROI and adoption is just as loud with no voice as with one.  Below is a copy of […]

Perficient will be offering 1 day IBM Social Business Bootcamps in 5 cities this summer.  Consider it a bit of a social summer school for enterprises.  This is a great chance to learn more about IBM Connections, get hands on experience and explore and dive deeper in to use cases specifically for your company in […]