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 .

And the latest example is coming from one of my favourite social software tools: IBM’s Lotus Connections . Actually, from one of the components I have started to rely very heavily on over the last couple of years: Dogear (Now graciously renamed Bookmarks after Lotus Connections v2.5 Check out " Bookmark Viewer for IBM Lotus Connections Dogear " by Hanspeter Jochmann, where you will be able to see how all of the bookmarks folks may have I am sure you would agree with me that Social Computing, and, in particular, social software tools, still have got plenty of different challenges within the enterprise in order to provoke that massive cultural shift most of us have been looking forward to for a long while.

But, for now, I would like to start showing you the tip of the iceberg of what communities can really do, not only for your company, but also for your knowledge workers. series of video clips that my fellow IBM colleague, Jean Francois Chenier , has been putting together under the title " The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections ". In case you’re wondering, I, too, belong to that Yesterday, at work, was one of those days where there were not enough hours in the day that would allow you to go through everything you had planned in the morning to achieve during the course of the day.

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My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. IBM: Lotus Connections is holding its own but gaps remain (e.g., 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 plans:

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. There's no need to resurrect all the obvious and painful mistakes made by IBM as it attempted to "kill off" Lotus I know that's pretty dramatic - but if you look at this through the lens of history and into the crystal ball of the

vendors - such insight might be the difference between surviving (Lotus Notes has shown that older solutions can adapt and evolve over time) - or not (as in the case of DEC and VAX Notes).   This article looks at the success factors – the technological infrastructure and cultural conditions, the adoption patterns, and the tipping points – for VAX Notes. As I read this post by Dick Hirsch on the ESME blog, it reminded me how important it is to put technology into an historical context at times. The quote "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat

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