The team over at Mainsoft are working on adding enterprise social features to the IBM Rational Team Concert by integrating Lotus Connections. You can see more on this work, including a demo video, on their blog.
Australian Bureau of Statistics uses IBM Social Software
Fri, Aug 20th 2010 5:14p Suzanne Livingston This week, IBM announced the Australian Bureau of Statistics' use of IBM Lotus Connections software to help its 3,000+ employees collaborate. In addition top national daily paper The Australian among others featured the news: The offices of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have been decked out with wikis, blogs and instant messaging after the agency deployed a social-media platform for its 3200 staff. --ZDNet (link) The organisation has announced that is adopting IBM social soft [read] Keywords: connections
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Read Write Web Unconference - Enterprise session
Sun, Jun 13th 2010 11:18p Suzanne Livingston I was honored to speak at the Read Write Web summit in NYC last Friday regarding Real Time in the Enterprise. The talk was a quick one, but it was important to me, as it was just before everyone decided what topics to spend the day discussing at the unconference. I wanted to broaden the conversation of the real - time web to include enterprises, businesses, organizations and governments. I shared a few customer stories and why I felt it was important to consider the enterprise. Afterward, the r [read] Keywords: synch.rono.us
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New white paper available: Measuring the value of social software
Sat, Jun 12th 2010 11:16a Suzanne Livingston A new white paper from IBM Software Services for Lotus on social software is now available. The "Measuring the Value of Social Software" white paper focuses on helping organizations answer the question: How can we determine if our social software initiatives are successful and are providing the anticipated return on technology investment? This white paper looks at how to measure the effectiveness and value of a social software initiative, what tools are available to capture key metri [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Check out the new translation technology in the product wikis!
Wed, May 19th 2010 10:46a Suzanne Livingston The power of crowd-sourced translation in Lotus product wikis Overview A new machine translation service, called n.Fluent, is now enabled in the Lotus product wikis. This tool translates text and if you see any errors or areas for improvement, lets you suggest changes to enhance the quality and readability of the translation. Details Using n.Fluent, wiki users can choose to refine translated sentences or words for greater accuracy. The tool actually "learns from its mistakes" and improves tran [read] Keywords: connections
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Community Mail Design ideas
Sat, Apr 3rd 2010 11:47a Joseph Russo Mailing a Community Today in Connections Communities, there's this button âMail Communityâ that let's someone send a direct email to people in the community and it has a few aspects to it, that you may or may not be aware of ... and why they are there... First, the link about using your favorite email client. This is merely the âmailtoâ type feature, that will pop up the user's current default email client with the list of the community members (or just owner [read] Keywords: connections
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How does the Spanish Red Cross apply Community Management to its Social Network?
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 12:27p Suzanne Livingston The Spanish Red Crossâs slogan is âCada vez más cerca de las personasâ or translated into English âincreasingly close to peopleâ, in my opinion one of the many slogans out there that really match the philosophy behind Social Networks, connecting people with people. This is the main reason why the Spanish Red Cross has implemented a Social Network as Lotus Connections, to connect its members, partners and volunteers all together in order to reach and collaborate with [read] Keywords: connections
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BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Quickr
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 11:43a Suzanne Livingston IBM Social Software The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections offers enterprise social networking capabilities for people-based collaboration by extending Lotus Connections Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Communities, and Bookmarks to BlackBerry smartphone users, and helps them access the information and expertise needed to remain productive while on the go. The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr establishes a framework for document-based collaboration, extending Libraries, Folders, and [read] Keywords: collaboration
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