It will make you think twice about how you may have viewed email as a collaboration tool all along. In short, he comes to propose that those folks who have been saying that e-mail is nowadays pretty much dead, as a collaboration tool (After all, " Email is where knowledge goes to die " — does that quote ring a bell ?), MORE >>

Great variety of tools. What tools they emphasize. These tools connect with other parts of the business. we have to have current tools available. Conference Notes LotusMike Rhodin, Senior VP at IBM, presided over a customer- and thinker-packed keynote session on Tuesday morning. Here's my notes. Adoption. Hard ROI. MORE >>

Some tools: -. Conference Notes LotusCarlos Casas and Kathy Mandelstein are talking about building a social community in your organization. My notes on the session: - want to focus on cultural change, more than introducing a social pilot. why do social projects fail? Just because you build it they won't come, embedded habits, etc. 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. The company, which is part of the Bayer Group headquartered in Germany, chose IBM Lotus Connections to help improve collaboration and information sharing among its 14,300 employees worldwide. MORE >>