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IBM Notes and Domino Product Update from Connect 2017  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 3/9/17 6:30 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

At IBM Connect 2017, we made it a priority to emphasize our commitment to IBM Domino as an application and mail platform that continues to be relevant and updated with modern technologies. We know from conversations with our clients and partners how many customers rely on Domino to deliver key business process and situational applications.

Now We Really Can Work Smarter, Not Harder  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 11/18/14 10:11 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

At today’s New Way to Work event in New York City, IBM’s Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President, Information and Analytics Group, spoke of a new class of enterprises that are data-rich and analytically driven. These organizations are combining data...

Excellence is never an accident: Building a smarter workforce  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 11/14/14 9:47 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Posting on behalf of Megan McNamee Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. -- Paul J. Meyer In this incredible time of...

It’s Not What You Know; It’s What You Share  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 11/12/14 6:24 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has said it once , and she’ll say it again: “In a social enterprise, your value will not be what you know; it will be what you share .” She also believes that “the social network will be the new production line in...

25 Social Business Leaders Impacting Today's World  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 8/5/14 6:29 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Over the past few years, the use of social technology has become a sweeping cultural, societal and economic phenomenon.

Turning the Tide to Better Stewardship Through Social Activation  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 4/22/14 3:51 PM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

Paddling a mile off the coast of Monterey Bay, we watch a couple of humpback whales feeding on krill as they stop to rest on their journey down the coast to Baja. Looking down in the water we could see schools of fish passing under. Michelle stops paddling,...

Alan Lepofsky - “The Evolution from Simple Sharing to Purposeful Collaboration”  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/24/14 9:28 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Daniel Davis, Sr. Marketing Manager, IBM Social Business Just about every company these days knows that it needs to go social. What many companies don’t know is why . In his address at IBM Connect 2014, Alan Lepofsky ( @alanlepo ),...

Gamification in the Real-World of Social Collaboration in the Enterprise  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/19/14 1:41 PM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

Portfolio Director, Business Development and Strategic Alliances “Fun and Games.” This is not the phrase that comes to mind when we think of our workplaces. You are reading this blog, so you are probably sold on...

Video Alert: We Are All Social  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/5/14 9:54 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Humans are by definition social creatures—in fact social interactions can actually help us live longer, healthier lives . But we live in an era where technology is facilitating our social interactions in unprecedented ways: we are able to create...

Leadership Lessons from the Super Bowl in the Age of Social  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/3/14 2:08 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I’ll admit it: I love the Broncos. I have since I was eight years old living in Boulder, Colorado! Clearly Sunday’s game was not much fun for Denver fans like me or for my poor son who is now scarred for life. I woke up and said to myself,...

SaaS as a competitive advantage? The proof is in the numbers.  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 2/3/14 12:13 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Do companies deploy Software as a Service to reduce cost? Well yes, some do. But what we have found, from a recent Global SaaS study conducted by the IBM Center for Applied Insights, is that nearly half of the businesses are actually achieving a competitive...

Building a winning culture in a flat and interconnected world  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/28/14 10:45 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

It's a flat world. An interconnected world. A world without boundaries. It's a world where individuals, skills, and work are as fluid and hard to pin down as mercury. CEOs know their people are their most...

Humanizing Brands: Lessons from Connect  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/28/14 10:27 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

On Sunday morning, I grumpily boarded a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Orlando. I’m a nervous flyer to begin with and leaving on a Sunday always throws my schedule into disarray. Basically, I was quite a stressed when I got on the plane and...

Where will your joys come from? Rudy Karsan asks big questions on Day 2 of IBM Connect  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/28/14 10:07 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM Connect 2014 took a turn for the metaphysical this morning as the opening general session focused on "Energizing Life's Work Through a Smarter Workforce." Rudy Karsan , co-founder and CEO of Kenexa (an ...

Warren Buffett, Customer-Driven Innovation & Growth  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/27/14 8:17 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

General Manager, Industry Solutions and Smarter Workforce / Collaboration Solutions IBM Software Is there any businessman today whom people watch more closely than Warren Buffett? I was thinking about that on my way to IBM...

A bit of social business perspective  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/26/14 7:38 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Now comfortably installed into my digs at the Dolphin hotel, I thought I'd take this moment between the opening frenzy of the Social Cafe and tomorrow's opening general session to provide a bit of context about what I'll be writing about this week....

Partnering for better outcomes, smarter content and exceptional customer experiences  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/26/14 3:38 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Geoffrey Moore opened #IBMConnect PartnerDay by outlining the mandate to bring social habits and technologies into the enterprise. A few hours later, IBM Business Partner Genus Technologies showed how to...

From client server to cloud and systems of engagement: Geoffrey Moore at IBM Connect  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/26/14 11:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

"When I went to school, collaboration was called cheating." Betraying the scope and scale of the changes in IT (if also his age) since his days as an undergraduate, legendary tech analyst, author and consultant Geoffrey Moore...

#CMAD Luncheon and Social Buzz Chat  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/26/14 10:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Five years ago, when Jeremiah Owyang first proposed Community Manager Appreciation Day (#CMAD) , community managers often worked in near obscurity. In fact, so much so that our logo is a playful nod toward Sir Robin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail -...

10 Great Social Business Features of IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/22/14 9:57 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Whenever I mention to other business professionals that my company has an internal social network, I get questions. Those familiar with social business tools ask me what we’re using and how it’s going. The uninitiated generally ask politely what...

The Contact Center: A Strategic Weapon in a Successful Social Business Deployment  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/15/14 12:17 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The Contact Center: A Strategic Weapon in a Successful Social Business Deployment Sharon Moon, President of AVDS #IBMConnect Speaker ...

Retail’s Crystal Ball  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/14/14 3:15 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Technology has had and continues to play a major role in determining the way people shop. After two days filled with amazing product demos and numerous talks and keynotes presented by current leaders of the retail industry at New York’s Javits...

Social Lessons from Marketers  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/14/14 11:20 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I read recently that the average tenure of a CMO has nearly doubled, going from a low of 23 months in 2006 to 45 months in 2012. The CMO’s role has come into its own, perhaps thanks in part to big data and analytics, which have positioned marketers to...

SmartCloud for Social Business just got smarter  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/8/14 9:44 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

SmartCloud for Social Business just got smarter Rebecca Buisan, Director, IBM Social Business Cloud IBM is starting the new year with a SmartCloud for Social Business release that emphasizes...

Social is the new production line for business  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 1/6/14 9:04 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Have you liked or shared something on Facebook or Instagram this week? Perhaps you’ve tweeted something or updated your Linkedin status. If so, you are not alone. Six in ten people use social networks , and each time someone is active on one of these...

Yes, the Social Intranet is a new reality. But…  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 12/18/13 4:29 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I love to study what the market is talking about. As they say, knowledge is gold in today’s knowledge economy. Well, yesterday I read a paper distributed by Jive: “ The Intranet Is Dead: Long Live the Social Intranet. ” It made me...

An early present - complimentary certification testing at IBM Connect!  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 12/18/13 10:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

It's hard to believe IBM Connect 2014 is less than six weeks away! It's a bit like the holidays- you look forward to them all year and before you know it you're unwrapping presents. One thing many attendees look forward to at...

Social Business - The New Engines of Business Innovation  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 12/17/13 3:27 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the transformative value of Social Business. It’s clear that every business is becoming a social business – whether they realize it or not – as a result of the unmistakable fact that leaders,...

Help - I need an expert! Innovative ways IBM is helping you find the expertise you need  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 12/17/13 10:21 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

You've got a problem, and you need help. But how do you go about tracking down the right person to help you? As an IBMer working in a vast workforce of 400,000-plus employees, it seems there's an expert on just...

Getting More from #GivingTuesday  

By IBM Social Business Insights Blog | 12/6/13 12:39 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

On Thanksgiving Thursday, we ate. On Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we shopped. And on #GivingTuesday , we gave. And in all these cases, the emergence of the social web is amplifying our abilities in each of them! The...