Posts Tagged ‘social business’

So I recently blogged on a white paper by Martijn Linssen.  I got the chance last night to read it more in depth and thought I would post my thoughts on where I agree and don’t agree with his views on a Social Business Revolution………or lack thereof. Martijn makes some good points We need a […]

Martijn Lessnen has a 24 page whitepaper out on the Social Business Revolution.  He draws out a fair number of good points about the difference between social media, social networks, and social business. He also dives into the people who are affected……or not affected by social business tools.  I like the points he makes about […]

By way of Tony Hollingsworth who posted on Linked in, Jeremiah Owyang has an article out about where social media is today.  Given that social media is 2.5 years and the tools I see out there, I would probably say it’s more like 2000 but he’s got a point.  The day is still young in […]

In my previous post, Integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections – Part 1, I talked about getting started integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections, specifically single sign on, branding, and product integration. In this part, I will address approaches for integrating a shopping cart and account services.

Denise Hatzidakis at Premier, Don Lewis at BCBSMN, Jonathan Distad, and myself spoke briefly on strategies for enable social business.  The presentation is available for your viewing pleasure: If you are intersted in follow on conversation or want to post your own two bits, we created a community at Greenhouse.

I think we sometimes overlook a key difference in what we are doing with collaboration today vs how we tried to make it work in the past.   In IT, we like objects.  We like to store data. We like to store documents.  We like to create Master Data Management systems.   All too often, we […]

For a long time, collaboration and cooperation have meant the same thing to me. Actually, I use word ‘cooperation’ more often when talking about teamwork. Today I read an article called ‘Teamwork in Agile’ written by Bal Mahale. I realized after reading it that collaboration and cooperation are totally different. Here is Bal’s explaination: People […]

I was recently asked by IBM if we have integrated WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections. I don’t believe to date we have done this but it really got me thinking as to how exactly we would do it. Currently I have been leading an effort where we are integrating Commerce with a traditional J2EE / […]

Social business has revolutionized the health care industry. Both patients and hospitals are moving into the social space via traditional and healthcare specific collaboration communities. Healthcare organizations are met with a bevy of challenges when attempting to balance the benefits of adopting a social strategy with security and investment concerns. On Thursday, February 24th at […]

So who doesn’t love a good demo………or two…….or three.  IBM highlighted a lot of new and upcoming features that supports the Social Business Theme.  Here are some highlights: Notes Lotus Notes is incorporating the whole idea of doing more work from within the client.  You can view video, approve tasks from a workflow engine or […]

For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?”  Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages.  IBM released a white […]

Lotus just announced the release of Connections 3.0.  For those who have Connections 2.5 and/or were waiting for 3.0 to come out – today is a good day.  IBM has come a long way and listened to their customers and partners around gaps and wishes for enterprise collaboration.  You get sub-communities, security enhancements, social analytics […]