While most people out there think that Social Software is all about new, fancy social tools, available on a more engaging and participative Web, I thought you folks would enjoy the following quote from one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Adam Christensen , who happens to know a thing or two (And plenty more! That’s a quote taken from one of his recent blog posts titled: " The Impact of Corporate Culture on Social Media (IBM’s Case Study) ", where he introduces one of his latest slide decks that he has used to present at the Social Networking Conference in Miami that

Continuing further with some of the highlights from IBM ’s Lotusphere 2009 event that I attended in Orlando, FL, in January 2009, I thought I would cover what, to me, was one of the most inspiring and thought-provoking moments throughout the entire event. Specially since it ties in, quite nicely, with a couple of blog posts I have shared over here recently around the topic of Social Software and figuring out its Return on Investment or ROI. Those moments were actually a number of conversations that throughout the event I had the pleasure of having with my good friend David Tebutt , who was also at Lotusphere (And who blogged his experiences over at his own blog ), where we eventually brainstormed for quite a bit on the whole thing around the subject of proving the business value of social software.

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This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Anyway, you could just read ONE - IBM’s  (love the “don’t forget your day job”) OR you can read all these:  Electronic Frontier Foundation How to Blog Safely about Work  [link] Managing staff who participate in social networks. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise,

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If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how I have been blogging for a good number of times about one of those topics that people keep asking me about to share my two cents of the conversation: Social Software Governance and what IBM is doing about it . My short answer has always been IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines . However, the long answer has always been a story of how a good number of us had been using social software behind a firewall for a while and how, in 2005, we all got together around a wiki and started working over the course of a couple weeks on the initial IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines document.

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). m part I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

If you are using SharePoint but are considering Lotus Connections for blogs, communities, social networking, etc., Despite this plug-in, I still believe IBM has made a fundamental and perhaps unrecoverable competitive mistake by not being radically more aggressive regarding SharePoint integration. The window for IBM to have entrenched itself in "SharePoint shops" for social computing is just about closed in my opinion given that Microsoft will begin talking about Well-worth your time checking out the demo (just follow the link below). this type of integration could help people

This month's Online Community Expert interview is with Rawn Shah, Practice lead with the Social Software Adoption team in IBM. Working across the IBM enterprise, we have a fairly extensive network of social ecosystems involving hundreds of thousands of members across many geographical regions. Within the 400,000 or so employees in IBM, there are several thousand communities of various combinations of users. He has worked in various roles as a software developer, production manager, a journalist and community program manager in his career. His current focus is on understanding and

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). m part I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .