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

The Social Media Experiment Is Over by Adam Christensen

And it looks like I will keep flooding you folks this week (Perhaps just this one more time!) with interesting presentations I have bumped into, or that other people have forwarded to me as they come right along my areas of interest and focus, specially in the area of Social Computing within the Enterprise (a.k.a. Enterprise 2.0). Thus here is the last one, at least, for this week, and perhaps for the next few days as well, to give everyone out there a short break.

The next presentation I am going to talk to you about though is eventually one that I have enjoyed myself quite a bit as it puts together some interesting slides on how IBM is making extensive and good use of social software, both internal and external, at the same time that it details as well how social software is influencing IBM’s involvement with A Smarter Planet (An initiative I am sure most of you have heard about already).

For some background information on the presentation, check out this blog post from my good friend (And fellow IBMer) Adam Christensen under the title: Berlin presentation: The experiment is over (now it’s time to get real value out of social media). It’s a deck he just used this week to go and present in Berlin at the fine and always interesting re:publica and which he introduces in that blog post with thought-provoking quotes such as this one: "[...]Which is why I think we are at a point where experimentation for the sake of experimentation is over [...]"

Adam talks as well, both in that post, as well as in the slide deck, on the topic of Jams (In particular, the InnovationJam) as the originator of much of what has been happening with A Smarter Planet (In case you would want further background information on that topic) and I can certainly confirm that it makes up for some interesting reading.

Either way, I want to keep this blog post short, so with that introduction, and without much further ado, here you have got the direct link to the slides (In Slideshare) and also the embedded version (Check out slide #11, if you are interested in further details on IBM’s adoption of social software, both inside and outside the firewall):

And if after going through that slide deck from Adam you would still want to learn and find out more, check out this 4:51 minute long video interview where Adam gives a bit more background on the main purpose of what he tried to achieve with such thought-provoking proposal: it is now the perfect time for us to terminate with the social media experiment and about time to get down to business! What do you think? Are you ready?

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IBM Lotusphere 2009 Highlights – Social Softwre in the Enterprise by Chris Reckling & Sandra Kogan

After a short hiatus, still trying to digest some of what happened yesterday throughout the day, I thought I would continue sharing with you folks the link to another presentation, which, to date, has become one of my favourites from all times around the subject of social software within the corporate environment. Do you remember Meet Charlie? That superb presentation that Scott Gavin has shared a little while ago and which certainly set up a standard on what Enterprise 2.0 is all about?

Well, my good friends and fellow IBM colleagues, Sandra Kogan and Chris Reckling, have finally shared the slide deck they put together for their presentation at this year’s IBM Lotusphere 2009 and when you eventually go through it you will be able to see the various similarities with that one from Scott, except that this time around, both Chris and Sandra have put together a good listing of the various social software tools for the Enterprise that IBM is offering to customers under three different scenarios: "a project manager, a sales person and a Web 2.0 marketing guy".

Chris posted the presentation into Slideshare, but he has also shared a short blog post on the topic over at his own blog and I thought I would link to it from here as well to share with you folks what it would be like getting exposed to some of the tools I myself get exposed to on a daily basis on my quest to live "A World Without Email". Over time, and as more and more exciting news get released on the super nifty upgrade of Lotus Connections v2.5, amongst many other interesting and relevant news, I shall be sharing some further insights on each and everyone of those social tools / components.

But, for now, here is a taster of what it is like going to work and not having to use corporate email to stay as productive as ever, if not more!

Not bad, eh? Not bad at all, indeed!

(Although this week has been radically different than usual, although that would be the subject for another upcoming blog post!)

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