Posts Tagged ‘social software’

On September 4, IBM formally announced the next version of their social software platform Connections.  Connections 4 adds a host of new features in all the areas of the product, including: Home Page has a new user interface with simplified navigation  Communities includes new events widgets and recent update views Recommendations are more relevant by […]

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 […]

Late last month, IDC declared IBM as the worldwide market share leader in social software for the third consecutive year.  IBM boasted an impressive 2011 according to analysis conducted by IDC. Growing fasting than their competitors and growing nearly two times faster than the overall market—which grew about 40 percent—IBM is staking a claim in […]

We’ve written many articles on this blog about the importance of Activity Streams, mostly in conjunction with social software.  Forrester recently released the first research report dedicated to just Activity Streams.  To be included in the research, Forrester said the product had to specialize in activity streams as opposed to being a platform. Initially this […]

Larry Bowden kicked off IBM’s biggest launch of a new version of Web Experience in 10 years.  Mobile, Social, Analytics and Content are all hitting at the same time, and the IBM Web Experience Suites are positioned to take advantage of this convergence. Here are some stats that Larry presented: Social Networking reaches 82% of […]

IBM recently published a new presentation on their mobile strategy for social businesses.  This presentation is a comprehensive look at the available IBM mobile technologies across their broad spectrum of systems, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Domino, IBM Connections, Sametime, Sterling Commerce, Cognos and Coremetrics. IBM has a three prong strategy when it comes to […]

I recently heard on the news that some employers were asking job seekers to provide their Facebook ID and password so the company could see what they were posting.  To me that’s outrageous.  I don’t have anything to hide from my own posts, but who knows what some of my friends might put on my […]

If you haven’t heard yet, IBM and Bunchball have gotten together to develop a gamification system for IBM Connections called Level Up. Gamification has been a hot topic and using it to encourage participation in you new social network deployments makes tremendous sense. To show how Level Up works with Connections, BunchBall put together the […]

IBM Connections continues to be a hot topic with clients.  This past weekend IBM released the latest version of Connections – 3.0.1.1.  In this latest release, IBM has added support for Redhat EL 6.1, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 9, and Sametime 8.5.2.  There also lots of fixes included. In addition, IBM just uploaded a newer […]

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]

Jane McGonigal was our keynote speaker this morning at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration conference.  Dr. McGonigal recently wrote a book called “Reality is Broken” in which she discusses gaming and its impact on industry. I’ll admit upfront, I’m not much of an online gamer.  Occasionally I play games such as Angry Birds and others, […]

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]