Michael Porter

So during the keynote this morning they spoke about how Wastson works and how it might have real life applications.  To kick off, the speaker noted how Watson works Understands natural language and human speach Generate probabilities on the correct answers Learns as it goes All this is built on a massively parallel architecture optimized […]

Michael Rodin, Senior VP in the Software Group kicked it off with a discussion with McKinsey and their recently released social business study. McKinsey thinks we are in the early stages of understanding how to make knowledge works more efficient Over the past 5 years, they’ve seen adoption increase Includes wikis, blogs, etc. Micro-blogging has […]

So I’ve been very interested in deeper integration between Portal and Connections. That means that the beta out on Community Pages is of particular importance.  Jon Brown of the Connections team and Stefan Liesch of Portal and Content team fame gave the presentation. IBM has seen the concept of a social portal evolve.  Social Portal […]

So I’m really just tooting my horn a little bit but eweek has a quick article about Business Partners prepping for Lotusphere.  Glenn Kline and I are mentioned. small quote As social business gains momentum, organizations must transform the way they approach integrating social media into their business processes, analytics and communication tools while maintaining […]

Leon Katsnelson gave a presentation on Big Data and Social Business. His general theme is that we are seeing a LOT of data. This huge volume can fundamentally change how we addressthe business. In todays transactions we want more information on it What was the transaction? Who bought the widget? Where did they get the […]

Here at Lotusphere, IBM has a conference within a conference called IBM Connect. It’s more business oriented with less “geek” going on.  The first speaker was Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager of IBM North America Note: Great quotes are in bold The most incredible thing about social business is that we are truly in a […]

So I, Mark Polly, and Jonathan are at Lotusphere.  The opening session always provides an interesting set of news.  Here’s the key highlights To start OK GO played three songs to kick it off.  They have some interesting internet music videos worth checking out. Opening As anyone who follows should expect, the theme is social, […]

@lotuspartnerguy (Craig Pessman) sent this out so I thought I’d put it out there.  For anyone interested, you can access some Lotusphere sessions. If you or others at your company were not able to attend Lotusphere and Connect 2012, use the link below to access the Livestream video. https://www-304.ibm.com/social/aggregator/lotusphere Below is the schedule for the […]

@erine put me on to this article about social media trends in 2012.    I find it interesting that so many focus on the consumer to company relationship or Social Media rather than the variety of other relationships like employee to employee, partner to company, supplier to company, researcher to researcher, etc.  That said, consumer relationships […]

Erin Moloney ran a report on the top ten most viewed blog post last year.   It’s interesting to see what people found interesting.  Frankly, the results are all over the board although if I were to do a tag cloud it might include: IBM Portal, Adobe CQ5, Shareoint, mobile, portal, WCM in Portal, and portal […]

So Glen and I are speaking at Lotusphere next week.  It’s  Practical Approaches to Successful, Social Web Experience Solutions” on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 8:30 a.m. in S. HEM II  That’s part of a bunch of things Perficient is doing at the conference. Although the press release puts things in more detail, here’s a few […]

Thanks to @the_real_p_k for a twitter reference to a great short article on gamification at SharePoint Analyst HQ.  I’ve seen gamification come up a lot lately.  Newsgator adds it to SharePoint.  Kudos Badges adds it to IBM Connections.   I think badges and gamification can add a lot to a social network.    A social network tool […]