In the first session after lunch, Simon Vaughan from Cardiff University is presenting on its work with Connections in education. Here’s my notes on Simon’s session: – Emerging countries are adopting and using social networking tools more than developed countries. In Africa especially, there is very high penetration […]
Dr CheeChin Liew is presenting on business networks and communities at BASF. CheeChin is the Enterprise Community Manager at BASF SE. My notes on his session: – BASF started with Connections in May 2010. Will be talking about lessons from the past 18 months. – … BASF is […]
Mike Rhodin, Senior VP at IBM, presided over a customer- and thinker-packed keynote session on Tuesday morning. It was a very good session that underscored the need for strategy, culture, and adoption. Here’s my notes. Michael Chui, McKinsey Global Institute 1. Impact of social technologies in business. – […]
Carlos Casas and Kathy Mandelstein are talking about building a social community in your organization. My notes on the session: – want to focus on cultural change, more than introducing a social pilot – why do social projects fail? Just because you build it they won’t come, embedded […]
Ed Brill, Director, Product Line Management at IBM Collaboration Solutions (Notes and Domino, IBM Docs, SmartCloud Notes, and more), is presenting the messaging and collaboration strategy session. There’s a lot of people in this room – Ed has about 60% of the original space of the keynote session […]
At Lotusphere 2012, Douglas Heintzman (Director of Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions) and Andrew Warzecha (VP of Strategy, IBM Solutions Group) are presenting on IBM’s social business strategy. Here’s my notes: – Will be talking about some of the thinking within IBM about the forces that are changing the […]
Alistair Rennie, General Manager – last year IBM introduced social business. Let’s review what we’ve done in the past year, and what’s coming up. Michael J Fox, “don’t play the result” – guest speaker for today. – “don’t play the result – act in the moment.” If you […]
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Next week I’m attending IBM’s Lotusphere 2012 in Orlando. In my capacity as an industry analyst, it’s critical that I keep abreast of what’s happening across the industry, and this conference provides a way of doing that. I’m almost there – I left New Zealand more than 40 […]
Antoine from GSX, makers of server monitoring software for messaging, mobile, and collaboration systems, has just posted the first review of my new book: “More than often, we get asked questions about collaboration strategies, choices of technologies and best practices. This could feel unusual as our business is […]
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