Over on CMSWire, Oscar Berg (@oscarberg) posted an article describing 5 signs that your company doesn’t ‘get’ Social Business. Social Business was the theme of Lotusphere 2012 and it seemed like everyone ‘got’ it there, but I’m sure there are a lot of companies still struggling with what it means to be a Social Business. […]
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Lotusphere Jump Start – The Social Busines Toolkit
Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit Lotusphere was last week and I had an opportunity to attend one of the jumpstart sessions on 1/15/2012 titled “Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit” with Mike Taylor and Paul Bastide, software engineers from IBM.Social Business Toolkit is available on […]
Changing the Collaboration Landscape
I just read an article at David Strom at ReadWrite Enterprise. It’s titled, “How Lotus Notes Changed the Collaboration Landscape“. The title is a bit of a misnomer. It should really be, “A Short Review of Social Technologies and how They Will Change the Collaboration Landscape”. Yeah, neither is all that catchy but the second […]
Social Business Era: The 5th Great IT Era
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 […]
Gartner Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace
Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]
IBM Announces new Social Software
IBM just announced new mobile social applications. IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]
Forrester's latest Wave for Enterprise Social software
Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems. The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors. You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]
Forrester’s latest Wave for Enterprise Social software
Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems. The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors. You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]
Mobile Collaboration market accordng to Forrester
Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market. The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]
Omnifind 9.1 – a brand new search
Admittedly, search hasn’t been IBM’s game for a bit. Slowly over the years we have seen their search product, Omnifind, come together and now with 9.1 it all changes – for the better. I have reviewed pretty much every major player in the search market from Autonomy to Google to Endeca to Lucene and […]
20 Reasons Not to Collaborate – You are afraid of people voicing ideas (congruent and contrary to corporate *insert dept*)
Ideas – what to do about these pesky things. What if they point out a failure or shortcoming of the company? Not as big of a concern is ideas that would compliment and build on a culture or system that is working great. Control by legal, marketing or communications are usually some of the bigger […]
WCM + ECM Portal Strategy
I came across this article: ECM + WCM = Your Portal Strategy by Kimberly Samuelson. I might be jaded or maybe its because I work so closely with capital-p Portals, but I can’t agree that a portal strategy consists of simply blending Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM). To me a Portal […]