E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

Connected – By Gia Lyons

Earlier on today, in our IBM internal blogging platform, Blog Central, one of the most respected, popular and knowledgeable bloggers on social computing within the enterprise made an announcement that I surely was looking forward to for a long long while! Yes, one kind of announcement that got me really excited, to the point that I thought I would share some of that excitement over here. Gia Lyons is now blogging externally!

Yes, that is right, folks! If you are into social computing and social software within the enterprise and beyond; if you would like to find out a whole lot more about IBM’s Lotus Connections; if you would like to find out some more about how IBM is actually driving the adoption of social networking within the corporate world; and if you would want to find a whole lot more from what’s in Gia’s mind, I would strongly encourage you all to subscribe to her, now external, blog!

Here is the blog post where Gia was mentioning she was going public: Public Gia. Read further on to see what she will be talking about and how you will be able to keep in touch with her through her blog (Yes, I know, about time! heh). And to give you a sense of what she has already posted in her external blog, here you have got some very interesting blog posts to get you going:

1. Connections is like the global lunch room. Beehive? Global cocktail hour!
2. The Connected Age: Are you a bursty Web worker?
3. The nature of males

Thus there you have it, another passionate IBMer blogging outside of the corporate firewall around the subject of social computing and social software, willing to dive into the external conversation on the Internet blogosphere with all of us. So go over to her blog, say "Hi!" and add her blog to your blogroll. I can guarantee you will be able to learn a thing or two, like we have been doing ourselves with her internal blog for a long while now, and have plenty of good fun all along!

Welcome on board, Gia, to the Internet Blogosphere! See what pressure can do to ya? heh

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SMT’s IBM Case Study – From Employees to Members: IBM Connects With Social Media

A couple of months back I was contacted by Robin Carey, Co-Founder, CEO, of the Social Media Today collective (Of which I have also been a member for a good number of months now), to start working on putting together, along with a couple of other folks (Jack Mason and George Faulkner, amongst others), a case study on how IBM has been adopting social media / computing over the last couple of years, both inside and outside of the corporation, in order to help its employees share their knowledge and collaborate, both internally and externally, much more effectively.

And after a few e-mails, Skype conversations, follow ups discussions and a whole bunch of other types of interactions "From Employees to Members: IBM Connects With Social Media" was born. First thing that you would notice is that it is not just complete. It is still a work in progress but having the work now hosted on a wiki environment for everyone to contribute and add further up into completing the case study. Robin ventured earlier on into putting together a lovely weblog post, "SMT’s IBM Case Study, Wiki-Style, Please Pile On", where you can read how you can contribute to the overall effort. Basically, you can go into the blog post itself and share your thoughts in there. They will then be consolidated and added into the final document that will be distributed at a later time.

Or, alternatively, you can also go into the wiki page itself, start reading further and if you think you can contribute into the overall case study by all means, go ahead, edit the wiki, place the content and then save it! The purpose of the overall wiki space for this case study is to keep updating it and improving what’s already available, so that it can then be saved as a .PDF file and ready to distribute it further for everyone to have a look at what’s happening inside, and outside of, IBM as far as its adoption of social computing is concerned.

Over the next couple of days I am going to be rather busy preparing for my upcoming trip to Madrid to attend and present at IBM’s Lotus Enterprise 2.0 workshop event, but I am surely looking forward to keep improving it and updating it over the next few days and as time would allow it add some further details on it as there is plenty of stuff to share about the broader adoption of social networking and I surely look forward to spending some more time on it! How about you? Do you feel you can have a go and contribute some more into it from what the different resources on the topic that you may have been exposed to already?

Come and join us then! Let’s get busy!!

(Oh, and remember, if you have got some issues with updating the wiki page itself, you can also go and share your thoughts over at SMT’s IBM Case Study, Wiki-Style, Please Pile On. Post a comment or two in there and it will then be incorporated into the overall case study documentation at a later time!)