At least, that’s what has just happened to myself, upon my return from my recent business trip to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 It’s an old concept, I know, coming from groupware, ( Lotus Notes anyone?) but do we feel that social networking tools would also need to be available offline for us to be productive? MORE >>

As most of you folks already know, my first exposure to social software was inside IBM, back in 2001, with a Profile Social Aggregator called Fringe ; then I started experimenting with the instant messaging social capabilities of  IBM Community Tools (a.k.a. It’s been my single, most important social networking tool of them all! MORE >>

Bayer Material Science is implementing Lotus Connections. The intent is to provide tools to support people to collaborate better. Employees at Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) are using social software to create a “community” that draws together groups of individuals based on mutual collaborative focus, business need or interest. MORE >>

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. Actually, I argued a similar line in my January 2006 article entitled Whose Fault Is It When Collaboration Software Sucks (mainly about Lotus Notes). Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

last year IBM introduced social business. various Internet tools and services are linking people with PD to resources to help them. Social - "the application of social tools and culture to business processes and activities.". Social business is not limited to the deployment of new tools. It's not a new idea. MORE >>