• HAROLD JARCHE  |  TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
    Fostering connections by letting go
    IBM just published its 2012 Global CEO Study: Leading through Connections. The IBM study shows that CEOs and the companies they manage must constantly evolve to stay competitive. There is a lot at stake here. Mark Fidelman in Forbes. For example, ” They [CEO's] simply expect unpredictability. For them, there is no “new normal.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
    Process Aligned Knowledge Management and Other Trends
    As I have written before this is why I like the term social business used by IBM rather than enterprise 2.0. Here is an article in KM World, The knowledge movement: trends and opportunities, that begins with tag line, “The true success of KM is when it disappears, meaning that KM processes are embedded in workflow.”   
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
    harmon.ie Goes Mobile, Bringing SharePoint to the iPad
    in Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes. I have written about harmon.ie several times. See for example - Harmon.ie Provides Social Email to Help Drive Enterprise Collaboration Adoption. Their tools focus on increasing user adoption of collaboration tools include bringing central components of SharePoint into both Outlook and Lotus Notes.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
    Gautam Ghosh: India's Social Media Thought Leader
    Currently, Gautum has joined the head of Microsoft India to become involved in BraveNewTalent , a London-based community platform service firm that is growing rapidly on a global scale attracting a stellar list of clients including L’Oreal, IBM, McAfee and Starbucks. Every since then we have stayed in touch. I could not agree more.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012
    How Google’s app strategy is growing up
    It’s not IBM or Cisco, but in its own way, Google is becoming a serious IT company. Of the dozens of meeting requests I received in conjunction with this year’s Interop conference, the one I least expected came from Google. Whatever it is, it’s not enterprise IT. Or is it? Where does it live and what should it cost?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012
    Jaron Lanier: Something Doesn’t Smell Right
    I’m also fascinated by the organizations attempting to leverage that data, from the Internet Big Five to the startups and behind the scenes players (Palantir, IBM, governments, financial institutions, etc) who are profiting from and exploiting this fact. don’t. Not entirely, anyway. But more on that in a moment.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
    What’s Happened/Happening (May 2012)
    Other notable presenters include Cornell University Professor Frank Becker , researcher Susan Stucky of IBM, Professor Alexi Marmot of London Business College, Philip Ross of Unwired Ventures (and the Worktech conferences), and Noborro Konno of KIRO (Knowledge Innovation and Research Office) in Japan. Recent Activity. Raising the Bar".
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
    Why Andrew Keen is fundamentally wrong about crowds
    Well-defined innovation tasks are far better put out to the crowd than done internally, as many of the world’s largest organizations such as IBM, Boeing, and Procter & Gamble have learned. Internet dystopian Andrew Keen , author most recently of Digital Vertigo, has just spoken at TheNextWeb Summit and Conference. .
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2012
    BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps
    Prior to Layer 7, Matt led technical sales for IBM application integration middleware and worked extensively as an enterprise architect in the financial service industry. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012
    My Favorite Tweets for March 2012
    IBM CIO Discusses Big Blue's BYOD Strategy bit.ly/H7EhL6. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. hope this is also useful for you. 
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for March 2012
    IBM Connections Conversations – 3: Analytics + Social. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for March. There will be more in April. Cisco Extends Its Cloud Collaboration Strategy.    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
    Reading List for a Greek Island
    met him at the Berkman Center and served on a panel at IBM with him. Here is a break from my SXSW notes before going on to music starting this Friday. There will be more. will be spending the month of April on the Greek Island of Samos , a mile off the Turkish coast.   It was the house his wife grew up in. Looking forward to this one.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
    Links for 2012-03-18 [del.icio.us]
    Bunchball gamification for IBM Connections. Field Notes: A Glimpse Inside Great Explorers' Notebooks | Brain Pickings. Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education | Brain Pickings. link]. Liz Keogh's blog » Cynefin for Devs. The nature of complexity? Predators needed! Theknowledgecore's Blog. link]. LinkedIn
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012
    The chaotic world of work
    So it doesn’t matter whether you are a “commonist” free software developer, or a capitalist shareholder of IBM. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. JenniferSertl – “ Your competitive advantage is not where you work or what you do. or tinyurl.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
    Social networking goes to work
    The premise of these workplace-oriented social tools — things like Yammer, Socialcast and features and functions in  IBM Sametime  and Microsoft(msft) SharePoin t, is that they help workgroups and departments work together better, know where everyone is, and cut down on telephone and e-mail tag. What do companies really want?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for February 2012
    IBM Connections Conversations 1: Review of 3.0. IBM Connections Conversations - 2: Overview of Next Release. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for February. There will be more in March. harmon.ie
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012
    Race Against the Machine
    They give examples of Google's autonomous car * or IBM's Watson Jeopardy-playing computer as being things that people ten years ago figured couldn't happen anytime soon. I picked up and breezed through the e-book version of Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's Race Against the Machine during my commute on the T here in Boston. 
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
    Links for 2012-03-01 [del.icio.us]
    Can IBM Connections provide the missing social layer for Sharepoint intranets? :: Blog :: Headshift. Snippets - Ecosystems, not products. Visualizing the customer experience using customer experience journey maps | Designing Change. Overhauling the Next Version of SharePoint My Sites. Get me a SharePoint expert! Capping IT Off | Capgemini.
  • JON HUSBAND  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
    "Go With The Flow". CIO Magazine (NZ & Aus.) Interview
    Some that come to mind are Sun Microsystems, Google, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, GE, SAP, IBM Global Services. I was interviewed by IT journalist Beverley Head in the summer of 2007 about the early emergence of social networks and the networked knowledge workplace. This was shortly after the term Enterprise 2.0 Go With The Flow.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012
    PRO: Personal tools lead to practical business
    Companies mentioned in this report include 39signals, Dropbox, IBM and YouSendIt. file sharing file storage Google harvest IBM iOS Jive lotus connections MailChimp Microsoft Microsoft Outlook productivity apps Research in Motion sharefile social business socialtext SugarSync Yammer YouSendItSign up for a free trial.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012
    Aligning Web Content Management with Digital Business Goals Inside and Outside the Enterprise
    Geoff notes that some of the major vendors are getting into this game, certainly IBM with its social business focus and Microsoft with its continuing investments in SharePoint 2010 and openness to third part add-ons. Web content management has way gone beyond the Web 1.0 role of publishing Web pages. and enterprise 2.0.    
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012
    Remote Sex: the perfect Valentine’s Day present
    He has delivered keynotes on every continent except Antarctica, and his clients include world-leading companies such as Ernst & Young, IBM, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble. Our online magazine FutureofSex.net explores this fascinating aspect of the intersection of technology and society. link]. link]. Interviews.
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
    The future of artificial intelligence
    The one area that usually still gets credit as "being AI" are the computers that can play games against human masters: most famously, IBM's  Deep Blue and  Watson. Vinod Khosla wrote an interesting series of articles on artificial intelligence and its impacts in healthcare ( Do we need doctors or algorithms? for TechCrunch in January.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
    IBM Connections Conversations - 3: Analytics + Social
    This is the third of a three part series on IBM Connections , their collaboration platform. recently had an extended conversation with Suzanne Livingston, Senior Product Manager for Connections. have covered Connections before (see for example, Looking Closely at Lotus Connections ) but it had been a while since I took a detailed look.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
    IBM Connections Conversations - 2: Overview of Next Release
    One of the enablers of this tighter integration is the use of Connections with the OpenSocial Foundation,  a standards board that IBM  and other firms such as Microsoft, Google, Atlassian, and Jive collaboratively develop or utilize. To this end IBM has made its Connections activity stream open to third party apps.  
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
    IBM Connections Conversations 1: Review of 3.0
    This is the first of a three part series on IBM Connections , their collaboration platform for social business. It also provides the means to better manage a document library for communities through integration with IBM Enterprise Content Manager and IBM FileNet.  We began by discussing Connections 3.0, Connections 3.0
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
    Larry Page’s “Tidal Wave Moment”?
    The Internet is the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981.” Who remembers the moment, back in 1995, when Bill Gates wrote his famous Internet Tidal Wave Memo ? In the memo Gates wrote: “I assign the Internet the highest level of importance. So why am I bringing this up now?
  • WWW.INFOQ.COM  |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012
    InfoQ: Social + Lean = Agile
    Case Study: IBMs Agile Transformation. Close. Existing Users: Email. Password. Forgot password? New Users: Register now. InfoQ. InfoQ. En | ?? | ??? 562,907 Jan unique visitors. Skip to Content. Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in enterprise software development. Login. Register. Close. Existing Users: Email. Password.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
    Teams in organisations need both Online pages and Online groups
    Facebook page is similar to a group but designed for a different purpose…a group has “members”, whereas a “page” is “liked” Only it wouldn’t be Facebook, it would be IBM Connections or Jive or Socialcast or Yammer (yikes Yammer already called their docs/wiki, “pages”). Example.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
    My Favorite Tweets for January 15 - 31 2012
    Why Every Company Needs To Be More Like IBM And Less Like Apple [link] by @markfidelman +! RT @ellenfeaheny : JIRA+ Enterprise Activity in IBM Connections, by AppFusions: [link] via @youtube. IBM, other tech results point to robust IT demand #ls12 [link]. Why Every Company Needs To Be More Like IBM And Less Like Apple read.bi/xNkVMI
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    IBM doubles down on mobile
    IBM, which has quietly supported many telecom players, is now stepping up its mobile profile, buying up Israeli mobile app provider Worklight and releasing a new device management tool for enterprise customers. The moves help IBM capitalize on the push toward mobile by companies as they manage an exploding number of devices and apps.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for January 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: IBM as a Social Business. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for January. There will be more in February. JackBe Presto Takes Self-Service Business Intelligence Mobile.  
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2012
    My Bookshelf: The Agile Workforce and Workplace
    The Agile Workforce and Workplace: Flex Primer for the New Future of Work. By Karol Rose and Lori Sokol, Ph.D. Working Mother Media, New York, NY (2011). Reviewed by Jim Ware. There have been thousands of books, articles, speeches, and blog posts in recent years on how to implement flexible work. Some of those sources have even been useful.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
    Why Apple Needs to be More Like IBM
    Mark Fidelman wrote a very spot on article recently, Why Every Company Needs To Be More Like IBM And Less Like Apple.   It portrays IBM as Big Brother controlling the mindless masses and Apple coming to the rescue. Mark writes that this ad “does not represent today’s IBM – or Apple for that matter.”    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Summary Listing
    was very pleased to be back again after last year with support from IBM. think that IBM has made great progress in furthering social business in ths past year. Lotusphere 2012 Notes: IBM as a Social Business. Here is a listing of my notes on Lotusphere 2012 that have been posted so far. Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Opening Session.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
    Walled Gardens
    ” Audience question about IBM Connect during Lotusphere 2012 “ Did you evaluate enterprise LMS [learning management systems] before you built this? Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. Carl Rogers” – via @timbuckteeth. Aloud. Oopsie! Friday's Finds
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Music Industry Social Evolution
    am very pleased to be back again after last year with support from IBM.   Mike McReady is the IBM business partner working with BMI from Prolifics.  They are using IBM Connections, Websphere Portal, SameTime, and Mobile Portal Accelerators. They are using IBM Rational tools and Tivoli for service management.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Social Business for SMBs
    It covers “Social Business for SMBs,” (Speakers: IBM Clients - The Law Offices of LaVan & Neidenberg, Czarnowski, and others). IBM has been a provided to SMB for a long time. Roxanne said they use a lot of IBM products. They have spent the past two years getting entire business into a unified IBM software platform.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
    Links for 2012-01-18 [del.icio.us]
    Electrolux deploys IBM social software - Computer Business Review. In The Next Version - My POV On The Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session. The Connection Between Good Nutrition and Good Cognition - Alice G. Walton - Health - The Atlantic. Yammer And Other Virtual Workspaces Have Real Problems. Psychology Today. link].
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Opening Session Wednesday
    am very pleased to be back again after last year thanks to support from IBM. The Wednesday general session included: “Social Business Technology,” Keynote Speaker: Manoj Saxena, IBM General Manager, Watson Solution; and other speakers including Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Foundation. Tim Berners-Lee began the morning.
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    In The Next Version - My POV On The Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session
    First up was Alistair Rennie, General Manager IBM Collaboration Solutions. Over the next 90 minutes a parade of executive speeches, product demonstrations and customer stories combined to paint a very compelling picture of IBMs vision of Social Business. Im sticking with that statement and this week IBM did a lot to support my case.
  • ITSERVICES.CBRONLINE.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    Electrolux deploys IBM social software - Computer Business Review
    Electrolux deploys IBM social software. Electronic appliances firm Electrolux has deployed IBM social software to connect its workforce in 60 countries and encourage much more deeper innovation and knowledge sharing. IBMs social software runs on mobile devices, including tablets, to foster collaboration from anywhere, anytime.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Customer Conversation – Russell’s Convenience
    am very pleased to be back again after last year thanks to IBM’s support. They are an IBM shop with Notes, IBM services and servers.   Ray also said he was very impressed with the interest that IBM showed in his relatively small organization. This is another in a series of my notes on Lotusphere 2012.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Opening Session Tuesday
    am very pleased to be back again after last year thanks to IBM’s support. The Tuesday general session included: Keynote Speaker: IBM Senior Vice President, Software Solutions Group, Mike Rhodin; and other speakers including Wendy Arnott, TD Bank; and Bill Taylor, Author & Founding Editor, Fast Company. Strategy as advocacy.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Mobile, Bring Your Own Device
    These notes cover the Monday individual press session, Mobile, Bring Your Own Device, with Rob Ingram, Senior Manager, Mobile Communication Strategy, IBM. Rob said there are three parts to IBM’s mobile strategy: collaboration for end users, mobile apps for consumer Web sites, and security and device management including such issues as VoIP. 
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Monday Morning Press Q&A
    These notes cover the Monday morning press Q&A with Mike Rhodin, IBM Senior Vice President, Software Solutions Group; Alistair Rennie, IBM General Manager, Social Business; and Jeff Schick. This is part of the journey toward higher value through software and services that IBM started ten years ago. Jeff Schick came up next.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
    Lotusphere 2012 Notes: Opening Session
    The opening general session included: Keynote Speaker: Alistair Rennie, IBM General Manager, Social Business ; and other speakers, including Kurt De Ruwe, CIO, Bayer; and Premier Healthcare. Jejf Shick then came up to introduce a demo of IBM Connections Next.   Many kudos to IBM for this approach. Good choice. Agreed.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    Looking Deeper into Getting Social Business Right
     I like the way that IBM has already done some of this integration themselves , rather than relying on third party players, by adding Connections features into other work process oriented applications. Yesterday I offered some high level requirements for making enterprise social business work. Is About the Technology ).    
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    Links for 2012-01-11 [del.icio.us]
    IBM Focuses HR on Change - Brad Power - Harvard Business Review. link]. Maintain a Startup Attitude for a Passionate Office | Fast Company. link]. The new rules of employee engagement | simply communicate. link]. Managers: Set People Free To Promote Growth And Get Results | Fast Company. link] [link] [link]. link].
  • WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    101 Examples of Social Business ROI
    developerWorks community saves $100 million annually from people who use this resource instead of contacting IBM support. IBM, 2008). Collaboratory. Social Business Index. Social Business Summit. Social Business Council. Dachis Group Social Business, Brand Engagement, Powerful Insights Contact Us. What We Do. Manage your social brand.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    Enterprise Social Software Will be Pervasive by 2016 - Perhaps
    IBM made a big push on this term at last year’s Lotusphere that I was pleased to attend (see  Complete Listing of My Lotusphere 2011 Notes ). The Forrester report, Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration , predicts that enterprise social software twill become a $6.4 Billion market in 2016. billion market in 2016.”.   
  • ANECDOTE   |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    An open letter to Ginny Rometty, CEO of IBM
    Dear Ginny, Congratulations on your appointment as IBM's CEO. When Jessi asked you what was different at IBM between when you joined and now there was an opportunity to tell two stories: first to recount a specific incident in the early years that, say, illustrated the idea of inclusion and then tell a contrasting anecdote from the present.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #7: Shooting From The Hip
    IBM will emerge as a key player in the consumer Internet. This year I tried something new with my predictions, writing deeper posts on each one. got to six, but I underestimated how long it would take to write 1,000 or so words for each post. It’s something I’ve never really done before, but that’s why I’m doing it.
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
    In The Next Version - Enterprise Collaboration Vendors I’m Currently Tracking
    Asana Basecamp Bettermeans Cubevibe Do (SalesForce) Fellowstream Google Schemer IBM Activities MangoProjects MindGrow MindJet cohuman Neudesic Pulse Tasks Podio Producteev Rypple (SalesForce) SAP Streamworks Socialcast Strides (VMware) Socialtext (SocialTasks) TeamWork Live Trello Wunderkit WorkSimple Yodiz ZoHo Whos missing? About. Tweet.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
    The Future of… (January 2012)
    The IBM 5 in 5: Our Forecast of Five Innovations That Will Change the Tech landscape Within Five Years (SmarterPlanet Blog). IBM training computer chip to learn like a human ( The San Francisco Chronicle ). Here's a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012
    Links for 2012-01-06 [del.icio.us]
    Why Every Company Needs to be More Like IBM and Less Like Apple | Seek Omega. The Role Money Plays in Engaging Employees | Fast Company. link]. Give Your Employees Unlimited Vacation Days | Inc.com. link]. No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much - Forbes. link].
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A
    IBM has a deep interest in the marketing tech world, expect Big Blue to make some big moves as well. ( image ) One of the things that pops out of the “Big Five” chart I just posted, at least if you stare at it a bit, are the places where each company needs to get strong, quickly. Amazon needs help in devices, social, and OS.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Do you get recognised for moonlighting in your organisation?
    The players in the market that I know of are Rypple , Worksimple , Saba and now an IBM partner application …get ready for more (eg. The new 3rd party IBM Connections app called " kudos " just doesn’t sit well with me (mind you I say this hastily without reading too deep or playing with it). Coaching. Feedback.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Forrester on Web Content Management for Online Customer Experience
    IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and OpenText); CXM stack players (e.g., IBM, Adobe, and Autonomy); Independents (e.g., I received a review copy of the Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For Online Customer Experience, Q3 2011 by Stephen Powers and am just getting around to looking at it. Percussion and Clickability); and Open source (e.g.,
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2012
    In The Next Version - Why Startups Win Over The Large Software Vendors
    Predictions For 2012 From A Look Back At 2011 In So IBM = It’s Better M 3 Things I Find Wrong Wit A Look Back At 2011 In So. In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post. About. Why Startups Win Over The Large Software Vendors. December 30 2011 12:45:00 PM. Add/Read Comments [0]. Tweet.
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2011
    In The Next Version - A Look Back At 2011 In Social Software
    IBM has had a solid offering in Connections for years, but now Oracle, Cisco, SAP and others are actually becoming legitimate options. In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post. About. Look Back At 2011 In Social Software. December 25 2011 10:00:00 AM. Add/Read Comments [0]. Well see.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
    2011 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Winners
    Other include: Accenture, APQC, ConocoPhillips, Fluor, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infosys Ltd., The winners of the 2011 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Awards have been announced by Telos. This award always brings back memories. The Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award has been around for some time.  
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011
    Rawn Shah’s Social Networking for Business: A Review
    Rawn is best practices lead in the Social Software Enablement team in IBM Software Group. In this book Rawn brings together patterns and best practices based on his experience managing worldwide online communities at IBM. Rawn begins with examples of collective intelligence including IBM’s Innovation Jams. or Amazon).
  • WWW.INFORMATIONWEEK.COM  |  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011
    11 Ways To Explain Social Business Benefits - The BrainYard - InformationWeek
    Keynote: Sandy Carter, IBM. Sandy Carter Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, IBM Mobile Panorama: The Three Headed Monster. Login | Register | Membership Benefits. COMMENTARY. WHITEPAPERS. SLIDESHOWS. VIDEOS. EVENTS. ABOUT. BRAINYARD COMMENTARY. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Rachel Happe. Facebook. LinkedIn. Stumble. Bookmark.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011
    Mock Thesis Proposal: Personal Support Networks During Periods Of Employee Transition, Part 2
    IBM and Cisco) and consultancies (e.g., This post is Part 2 of my Mock Thesis Proposal. Part 1 is located here. The Abstract is repeated. Abstract. Social Network Sites (SNS) create multiple affordances employees leverage during their employment lifecycle. Methodology. Relevant Experience and Expertise. Research/Production Plan. Bibliography.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Go Ahead, Bring Those Holiday Gadgets to Work
    On Wednesday,  IBM   announced several new social networking and collaboration mobile apps –all specifically designed to support enterprise needs around consumer mobile devices. ” IBM is offering a variety of new tablet capabilities (availability across platforms varies): Social networking for iPad. Attend online meetings.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011
    12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead
    Large companies, from Procter & Gamble and IBM down, are recognizing that even they need to go beyond their employees to innovate fast enough. Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead. My Map of the Decade shows the 14 ExaTrends that are shaping this 10-year period. 2012: 12 Themes. CROWD WORK.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
    Email in the enterprise: entering its twilight at 40?
    BPM has seen a spike in interest in recent years, with mega-vendors like  Oracle  and  IBM   putting more effort into their BPM offerings, and smaller vendors like  BonitaSoft  (my company),  Intalio  and  BizAgi  also offering BPM suites. As is often the case, the consumer side embraced these platforms well in advance of the enterprise.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for November 2011
    IBM’s Mike Rhodin Covers the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce: Part One. IBM’s Mike Rhodin Covers the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce: Part Two. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Below are the ones for November. There will be more in December.  
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
    MAKE 2011 Awards
    IBM (USA). Teleos and the KNOW Network have announced the  Latest MAKE Summaries (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) with the awards for North America, Europe, Asia and Global. The summaries are PDF's available through their website. The global winners this year are. Accenture (Ireland). Apple (USA). APQC (USA). ConocoPhillips (USA). Korea).
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
    The wild west of work media: A deluge of streamed, unstructured data
    It’s relatively easy to imagine downloading all the files stored in a Yammer account, and uploading them into an IBM Connections instance. In the recent past, we’ve seen an explosion of innovation in the enterprise software marketplace. And because these applications are social at their core, they can be very viral. The new “work media”.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011
    Forrester on Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2011
    It has the subtitle, EMC, IBM, OpenText, and Oracle Lead, with Microsoft Close Behind. Forrester has release their report, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2011 , by Alan Weintraub with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi. The are doing this thorough enhanced ECM features in SharePoint. This all makes sense to me.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Literature Review: Improving Work Practices in Times of Change
    Today, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and other vendors offer E2.0 Below is the literature review submitted today for my Understanding Media Studies course. The goal is not so much to deliver a thorough synthesis of the field since this is the first course in the first semester of the Masters program. Next up: a mock thesis due early December. .
  • TONY KARRER  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
    eLearning Conferences 2012
    link] January 15-19, 2012 Lotusphere , 19 th annual, sponsored by IBM, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. It covers events from four continents.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
    My Favorite Tweets for November 1 - 15 2011
    via @SameerPatel : Warren Buffett spends over 10B to be IBM's Biggest Shareholder [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    Iongrid brings Office apps securely to iPad
    Crosby is CTO of Bromium (and founder and former CTO of XenSource, now part of Citrix); Stokes is chairman of AppZero and former CEO of DataMirror (acquired by IBM  in 2007.). That’s no small feat.  That worked okay except for two things. First, PowerPoint slides et al. did not display well on iPads without a third-party reader.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for October 2011
      IBM Rational Drives Software Development Collaboration and Innovation. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for October. There will be more in November. Leslie Owens on Enterprise Search.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
    Social Media Club of Boston 5th Anniversary Celebration: The Evolution of Social Business
    It featured a panel with Alistar Rennie, General Manager, Social Business and Collaboration Solutions, IBM; Andy Carusone from Lowe’s Home Improvement; and Ric Fulop, North Bridge Venture Partners. Alistar talked about how IBM got involved with social media. In 2004 they were working to become more integrated on a global basis. 
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
    Annotated Bibliography: Background For Literature Review Project
    Cisco, IBM, Microsoft), have created products that they sell to business organizations based on SNS concepts established in this article. Due to the storm and subsequent outages that hit CT last week, my annotated bibliography is not as complete as I originally intended but it's almost there. References. Albrechtslund, A. 2008). boyd, d.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011
    My KM World Session Notes: Jeremiah Owyang on Architecting a Connected Enterprise
    He gave IBM as an example of clear goals for using social media inside and outside the company. The IBM focus is not to constrain but to empower. I am primarily posting my notes from the  2011 KM World  on the  Darwin blog. will share a few key sessions here and then a list of all of them with links. I Only 1.4%
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011
    My Favorite Tweets for October 15 - 30 2011
    the #ibm100 issue of the #IBM Journal of R&D is out! IBM Seeks Bigger Stake In Big-Data Analytics [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.  spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you. 
  • CLARK QUINN  |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
    Don’t be Complacent and Content
    It’s an XML-based approach developed at IBM that lets you not only separate out content from how it’s expressed, but lets you add some semantics on top of it. Yesterday I attend SDL’s DITAFest. And we do need to start looking at the possibilities on tap. Let me put this a bit in context. Like eLearning. to web 3.0;
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
    IBM Rational Offers Collaboration and Innovation within Software Development
    IBM Rational is an open software development platform that supports sharing and interactions among software and systems design and development teams. Recently, I spoke with Gina Poole, Vice President, Marketing, IBM Rational. Gina has been with IBM for over 25 years. It enables innovation, reduces risks, and drives down costs.
  • WWW.REDBOOKS.IBM.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
    IBM Redbooks | Supporting Innovators and Early Adopters: A Technology Adoption Program Cookbook
    All of IBM. Home Solutions Services Products Support & downloads My IBM. IBM Redbooks Infrastructure Solutions. An IBM Red paper publication. IBM System Storage N series Software Guide , SG24-7129-04. Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family , SG24-7098-00. He joined IBM in 2000.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
    The future of Chief Marketing Officers and leadership
    Last week I attended a breakfast organized by IBM for a small group of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and influencers, hosted by its Australian CMO Mark Willson. IBM had recently launched its global CMO study , showing what CMOs are thinking about marketing today and in the future. CMO Leadership in creating social organizations.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
    IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce: Part Two
    This is the second part of my interview with IBM’s Mike Rhodin, SVP, Software Solutions, about their moves in the software space. We continued our discussion by covering IBM's smarter commerce initiative. big move that IBM is taking involves a transformational look at the use of computers with Watson.    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011
    IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce: Part One
    Over the last decade IBM has driven a significant transformation of its business model as they shifted to higher value areas, improved efficiencies, and invested in a number of firms to fill out their portfolio of software offerings. IBM’s most recent earning reports indicate a strong growth in demand for their Social Business offerings.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2011
    My Favorite Tweets for October 1 - 15 2011
    RT @dhinchcliffe : IBM Updates Its Cloud Products For Business [link] start of shift of Big IT to cloud IMO. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.  spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you. 
  • ANECDOTE   |  SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011
    HP's CEO loses his job for want of a strategic story
    IBM pursued the same strategy of selling their PC business to the Chinese company Lenovo. IBM, however, sold the PC division before announcing it to the world. It's quite possible you'll lose your job as CEO if you are unable to persuasively communicate your company's strategy. This should have rung some alarm bells. link]. link].
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
    The future of work is to freelance within an organisation - choose your task, assemble to work, then dissolve
    have transitioned from being an executive working full time at IBM to my present position as a self-employed professional associated with a variety of institutions. Roughly speaking, two thirds of my work is spent consulting on innovation and technical strategy, primarily with IBM and Citigroup, but now and then with other companies as well.
  • WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM  |  SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011
    Serendipity Happens… to Deliver Million$ « Dachis Group Collaboratory
    Lowe’s on-boarded 100% of its employee base to its collaborative platform, IBM Connections last year. Collaboratory. Social Business Design. Emerging Opportunities. New Challenges. Our Approach. Practice Areas. Results. About Dachis Group. Services. Alliances. Clients. Events. Investors. Locations. Employment Opportunities. And guess what?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
    Should You Move Your Email To The Cloud?
    You do not have to limit yourself to the big names such as Google, IBM, and Microsoft. I am attending Forrester's Content & Collaboration Forum 2011. Forrester notes that in five years, almost half of US workers — about 63 million people — will work virtually. am already one of them. This session focused on email. It is easy.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
    Prepare to fill one of 1.5M data-savvy manager jobs
    Stephen Gold, vice president of worldwide marketing at SPSS, an IBM company, talked with me about how people and educators should be thinking about the opportunities that this shortage presents and how people can become data-savvy managers (and individual contributors). So we’re seeing this demand and this need. Sign up for a free trial.
  • WWW.CMSWIRE.COM  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
    Social Business - Why Collaboration Matters
    Account Manager at Apple Senior Business Analyst at IBM Paid Search Analyst at Hobsons Social Communications Manager at More Cabbage Associate / Account Manager, SEO at Performics Are you hiring? view comments The Evolution of Collaboration and Online Communities: Measuring what Matters view comments Apple, Microsoft, Sony Sites Down. impac
  • WWW.INFORMATIONWEEK.COM  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
    Language Of Social Sounds Too Soft To Business - Global-cio.
    Permalink Language Of Social Sounds Too Soft To Business Why is Enterprise 2.0 still considered more of a "movement" than a business imperative? Its evangelists speak more like Dr. Phil than Jack Welch. In a keynote address at this weeks Enterprise 2.0 Worthy goals, but how would those things improve business performance? And Twitter? Conference.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
    The Gig Economy – Intrapreneurship – A New Style of Work
    met Irving at an IBM event around 2005 before he retired and was impressed with his thinking. My friend Luis Suarez pointed me to an excellent article by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, A New Style of Work. In this blog post he refers to the post retirement phase of his life that has launched this new way to work for him.    
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    Looking for a new job? How about data scientist?
    spoke with Anjul Bhambhri , IBM’s Vice President of Big Data Products and the 2009 recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s “Tribute to Women in Technology” Award. Anjul Bhambhri big data data scientist IBM jobs Pete WardenThe role of data scientist is emerging in organizations wanting to take advantage of this data flow.
  • BOXES AND ARROWS  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    Alignment Diagrams
    7] IBM, “Capitalizing on Complexity,&# (2010). Did you ever get bounced around between departments when interacting with a company or service? This happened to me recently with my credit card: the card issuer and the bank backing it seemed to disagree who was responsible for my problem. Each blamed the other. got caught in the middle.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
    Links for 2011-09-01 [del.icio.us]
    IBM | The 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study
  • WWW-935.IBM.COM  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
    IBM | The 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study
    Skip to main content United States [ change ] Home Business solutions IT services Products Support & downloads My IBM The 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study Unleashing creativity, flexibility and speed Emerging from the global economic slowdown, the attention of many organizations is turning to growth. enterprise2.0
 

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