Posts Tagged ‘social network’

Sandy Carter from IBM just published a YouTube video called: 5th Era – Social Business.  Sandy is IBM’s Vice President of Social Business Evangelism and has been publishing lots of interesting videos and blog posts.  At just over 3 minutes the video is a good break from your day. In this video, Sandy describes the […]

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

We hosted a webinar with IBM last week about Social Business: a New Way of Working.    Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota did a great job discussing what worked at his company and what tools they used to be successful.  The webinar is now available for replay. A couple of points you’ll […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

The collaboration market is on fire, which creates risks and opportunities for companies.  When and where should you place your bets on these technologies?  Social software in the consumer market has taken off like gangbusters.  740 million people use Facebook and we’ll get to one billion soon. These collaboration technologies are making inroads into businesses.  […]

Via LinkedIn from Adam Ginsburg, IBM Product Manager is a YouTube video showing how to create a simple status update app on your portal. The status update would query and write to Lotus Connections, Twitter, and Facebook.  You gotta love the open API that lets you do this. I also love the way they use […]

TED has posted a great video on how MIT researcher Deb Roy filmed the first years of his son and how he was able to trace the birth of a word.   It’s a very interesting exercise to take all that video/audio and correlate it to how and when kids learn words.   My focus on this […]

I found this while browsing a recent post by Stuart McIntyre on his Collaboration Matters blog.  Deloitte just published a study on measurable business performance improvements with social software.  Like Stuart and this study, I agree that there are some serious business outcomes from social business.  I think that it will change the way we […]

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 […]

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 […]