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IBM’s Social Business Gambit

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Although I did not attend the IBM Lotusphere 2012 and Connect 2012 events in Orlando last week, I managed to wake up early enough (I’m in California) to watch the Opening General Session (OGS) and Keynote live-streams. These main “messaging” sessions are IBM’s opportunity to tell its customer and partner base how it sees the current communication/collaboration/productivity IT market and what IBM plans to do about it. Largely the message includes a resolute – and not unexpected – re-branding strategy that shifts the discussion away from old themes to contemporary technology for business trends. Once again IBM is trying to keep at the front of the Business IT pack with the hope of driving the market and minds of business… Continue reading: IBM’s Social Business Gambit

January 25th, 2012 | Tags: | Category: IBM Lotus, lotusphere, Social Software | Leave a comment

Which company is more social?

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Nice graphics and details on the use of social media at top firms. I find the IBM numbers low, probably because IBM has so many private social networks which would not be reflected in these charts. So does that mean that Microsoft personnel use public social networks more because the company hasn’t establish strong private social networks? Or is IBMs lower use of public networks a sign of weaker ties to external connections?

Click here to full chart.

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May 19th, 2010 | Category: social media, Social Software | Leave a comment

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

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Seems that Facebook is the latest privacy poster-child highlighting the strains that come between a service provider seeking a way to cash-in on our desire to socialize and the responsibility the provider assumes to protect its users.

Recent blog posts and articles have recently come out on the (de)evolution of privacy on Facebook since 2005. Kurt Opsahl of the EFF provides an handy timeline of changes to Facebook’s Terms of Service through the years. This posting prompted Matt McKeon at IBM Research’s Center for Social Software to create a more specific timeline and interactive chart (click on image below for link to interactive… Continue reading: The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

May 14th, 2010 | Category: Facebook, Privacy, Social Software | Leave a comment

State of the Internet

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Nice reality check.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

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March 1st, 2010 | Category: email, inernet stats, Social Software | Leave a comment

Softening the Social Bite

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Remember when email flaming was all the ..er..rage? It took a while for people to learn to turn off the caps lock. Surely there is a learning curve with social sites. In the meantime the stakes are pretty high, like losing your job.

The minidrama is an increasingly familiar one as companies and workers navigate the landscape defined by sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Firings and reprimands over postings to social networking sites have become commonplace over the last year.

Surely, as individuals, we’ll eventually learn to balance who we “let in” to our social networks, how we reveal our thoughts, and consider who might see what we say or do. I wonder how tolerance… Continue reading: Softening the Social Bite

June 11th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Social Software | Leave a comment
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