Comments on: IBM: the world’s biggest enterprise social software rollout

By: Delusions of Adequacy » Blog Archive » Social Computing in the Enterprise

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:51:26 +0000

[...] I am trying to see the long term view of this. It takes a while for any corporate wide tool or service to be integrated and accepted for day to day use. I included “service” as this is a long term play that will have an intersection with SaaS at IBM, analysts - follow this thread in the future when watching IBM. Back to the point. It is easy to download the social tools, but with easy usually comes limited functionality or single purpose. For example, while you can share your del.icio.us links as many do publicly, the trends across a selected group(s) such as an organization are not trendable. Analysis of trends or the combination of information gathering within a company can help in identifying information and interests. I’ll leave to the better minds of analysts to identify where this is best served like Mike Gotta who discusses tagging in the Enterprise and James Governer on IBM’s enterprise social software rollout. [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:44:21 +0000

Could you in a future blog entry talk about open source equivalents to social networking software. I would like to inject the same approach into my own enterprise without having to purchase anything at this time.

By: IT Blogwatch

IT Blogwatch — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:43:00 +0000

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Rabbits. White rabbits. It’s IT Blogwatch: in which MySQL disrupts Oracle’s game. Not to mention bad science on kids’ food packages……

By: Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:53:05 +0000

As Ben Edwards of IBM mentioned at Online Information 2006 - http://radiowalker.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/fear-of-flying/ - IBM has over 50,000 users on one of their enterprise wikis, which runs on our Confluence product.

They are most certainly not an ‘enterprise 2.0 laggard’ as some would like to believe.

Cheers,
Mike

By: Patrick Mueller

Patrick Mueller — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:37:30 +0000

The Quickr logo also looks suspiciously like the old OTI logo … http://planet-oti.muellerware.org/

And I KNEW I should have trademarked the “no last e” back when I had to remove the last e from my userid because our MVS sytem only allowed 7 character userids …

By: andyp

andyp — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:53:21 +0000

You picked up the exact same post from James that I highlighted last week The facts and figures do provide a great example of how well this stuff has scaled for us internally.

Not only that, but it has been adopted. As James Snell says, for us it has been largely grass roots… there hasn’t been some big statement from on high that we must use this stuff. I’m not sure what the plans are on putting the “best practice” content out there, but I suspect that there is no “one size fits all” answer as to how to make this stuff work socially… just as with the blogosphere, people need convincing. We’ve had some great early adopters and evangelists. I’m looking forward to hearing how our customers are able to make use of Connections.