Why IBM Represents The Future Of Social Business Mark Fidelman , Seek Omega | Jul. The IBM executive doesn’t just leverage social business solutions, he and his team create them. ” And the imperative has been in the IBM social laboratory ever since. That is pretty much the reason IBM acquired SPSS in late 2009. MORE >>

This is the second in a series on an IBM social media press event I attended last week following part one posted yesterday. Jeff Schick, VP social software, mentioned that IBM Research has done a study on the implications of using social and infusing collaboration into commerce experience. Joan DiMarco next spoke on IBM Research. MORE >>

recently had the opportunity to speak with Ethan McCarty, Senior Manager, Digital and Social Strategy at IBM about Social Business and what the technology giant was doing in this area. Rick Liebling: First, what was the impetus for Social Business @ IBM ? Ethan McCarty: IBM has a long history of digital collaboration. MORE >>

My good friend, Harold Jarche , talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at ? Enterprise Tagging Service social software saves IBM $4.6 Worth while your time, for sure!, Yes, $4.6 MORE >>

IBM's annual Lotusphere conference is held each January, bringing together customers of IBM's enterprise collaboration suite. This year IBM Australia is calling its enterprise collaboration conference Collective Intelligence , running this in 9 cities around the country. Maybe see you there! technologies. Social networks Web 2.0 MORE >>