With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". IBM Lotus Connections This situation can influence decision-making - people may prefer to evolve with Microsoft over Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected

This is obvious and is something which IBM absolutely must execute on prior to Microsoft's O14 release. In fact, during Lotusphere 2008, I laid out such a scenario as part of the ongoing battle between IBM and Microsoft: IBM can use Connections to compete with Microsoft by changing the focus to social computing rather than collaboration and content. One of the items I was hoping to hear at Lotusphere 2009 was outlined in a recent post by Guy Creese, Research Director of our Collaboration And Content Strategies group here at Burton. In his post, " Lotusphere 2009: What

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

One of the final projects I worked on during December 2009 was a report called "Lotus Roadmap: Enhancing Business Collaboration with Lotus Software". Lotus Notes has been around for a long time. It takes a different approach to information management and collaboration tasks, it looks different from the standard Microsoft offering which many people view as being “authoritatively correct”, and it offers capability I almost got it completed, but ran out of runway.

or social computing area, it’s not Microsoft’s fault. Actually, I argued a similar line in my January 2006 article entitled Whose Fault Is It When Collaboration Software Sucks (mainly about Lotus Notes). can be implemented at a tooling level with Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, or one of the new fancy products. Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0.

If you are using SharePoint but are considering Lotus Connections for blogs, communities, social networking, etc., 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 the next version in greater detail later this year. With notable improvements anticipated regarding profiles, blogs, wikis, etc - organizations that are already committed to SharePoint Well-worth your time checking out the demo (just follow the link below). this type of integration could help people understand

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Microsoft "gets it right" and delivers a forward-looking release with significant improvements that transforms SharePoint into a market-leading social computing platform, or it delivers a release that has only incremental improvements to existing Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0

This year's Lotusphere could very well be a make-or-break moment for the Lotus brand and solution portfolio. don't want this post to be a timeline and reflection on what's gone wrong over the past several years with Lotus but I do want to point out the two major themes that have negatively defined IBM's "thought leadership" and competitive positioning vs. Microsoft:    I know that's pretty dramatic - but if you look at this through the lens of history and into the crystal ball of the future, I think it's a pretty accurate statement.

Microsoft’s Sharepoint is the first commercial product to make the list and is also one of the most mature and popular. Lotus SameTime and Lotus Connections - IBM’s answers to community with many integrated capabilities. What’s you’re favorite community platform and why? Update: A reader pointed out that Lotus Connections is part of IBM’s community solution so the list is revised above. A veteran On BNET: 6 ways to boost a netbook's power BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet all ZDNet in Blogs in News in Downloads in Reviews in Whitepapers in Dictionary Go! Members Log In Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe