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How I Work Collaborating from anywhere at any time.

How I Create Tapping into a wide variety of insight and expertise.

How I Buy Interacting with peers and engaging with the company.

Technology is dramatically changing the way we live


Bringing social tools into the enterprise

• 155 million tweets sent via Twitter each day

• More than 7 billion pieces of content shared each week on Facebook

Find and share information instantly

Rise of social networking and mobile devices

People are empowered like never before

• Social networking accounts for 22% of all online time

• Smartphone and tablet shipments now outpace PCs

• 37% of US IT workers are using technology they master first at home, then bring to work

• 64% of GenY download unauthorized applications at least once a week to get their job doneSource: Forrester: Forrsights Workforce Survey 2011

Source: Facebook, 2011Source: Nielsenwire, 6/1/2010, Morgan Stanley


Traditional roles and processes across the business network are evolving, forever changing the way organizations operate

leading the conversations that define brands

self-forming teams around fast moving opportunities

becoming on-demand extensions of the enterprise

As barriers between people disappear, organizations are learning to tap into collective intelligence, advocacy, and distributed talent to drive

business results.

Employees Customers Partners


Social Business solutions are built on a core enabling set of capabilities that transform how businesses engage with people and harness social intelligence

Reach people where they live and work

Connect through identities on consumer, b2b, and corporate social networks

Communicate on the associated channels

Monitor and analyze social data to discover new business insights

Analyze identities, social graphs, communication channels, and social content

Identify opportunities, problems, solutions, valuations, etc.

Act on insights for business advantage

Integrate social capabilities into the enterprise in order to acton new opportunities, make better decisions, optimize processes in real time, and govern and manage risk

Enable people to engage productively in a business context

Develop personal insights and social intelligence

Facilitate emergent processes


IBM Connections Home pageSee what's happening across your social network

BlogsPresent your own ideas, and learn from others

CommunitiesWork with people who share common roles and expertise

FilesPost, share, and discover documents, presentations, images, and more

Micro-bloggingReach out for help your social network

ProfilesFind the people you need

WikisCreate web content together

Social AnalyticsDiscover who and what you don’t know via recommendations

ActivitiesOrganize your work and tap your professional network

BookmarksSave, share, and discover bookmarks

ForumsExchange ideas with, and benefit from the expertise of others

Media GalleryAdd sizzle by sharing rich media like Photos and Videos

Ideation BlogsCreate ideas and leverage the crowd to develop them


Consumable information flow

Simplify user actions

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Moving from sending to sharing Optimized Mobile Access

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Social Platform EvolutionSupport “Vulcan” with new services & deeper cross portfolio integration

● Take action on content directly from your Activity Stream as well as your Inbox without switching contexts

● Consistent user experiences for navigating all tools and interacting with content across the portfolio Share and personalize content using the

share button ● Integrate 3rd party content more easily

via open standards Content aggregator combines business

apps with social collaboration Post and retrieve information to/from the

news feed aggregator Extensible UI for additional 3rd party

integration via OpenSocial Gadgets

Take action in context: Image preview, comment,re-share, etc



● Easily share files & images in your status updates and others can easily preview as thumbnail

● Provide feedback in status updates by using a single click to indicate 'Like'. See and find others in the organization who liked the entry

● Search across all status updates to leverage intellectual capital created in these micro conversations.

● Follow conversations via hashtags

● Expanded Social Analytics highlight top contributors on search terms and show tag cloud of status updates

Social Platform EvolutionMicroblogging Enhancements



Streamlined user experience that revolvesaround social capital



Click to get the Embedded experience - popup shows all of thedetails and actions availablefor this item



Integrated Mail, Calendar, Social Analytics & Activity Stream



The Share Box lets you add Status Updates and Files to microblogs and communities



● Reports / dashboard to monitor adoption and community vitality Comprehensive set of metrics of all

Connections services and page views

Targeted Users• Business Owner / IT Owner

• Instance Owner (Community owner, Blog owner etc.)

Supports extensibility• Flexible drill down and data slicing

• Create your own metrics or modify existing ones

Social Platform EvolutionAdministrator Leverage Metrics To Community Vitality



Communities now feature their own activity streamas the landingpage.

An Edit Mode is available for community owners to set which view(Show filter) is thedefault view.



Hover over an event to see more details

Calendar widget gives owners aneasy way to create community eventsand link to agenda,presentation, or other files.



● Native Features

Activity Stream

Location – Optional Check-In Feature

Photo Uploading to Blogs

Offline Support

Profiles Integrations

● Micro-browser

Rich Text Editor support/solution

Community Calendar

Social Analytics

● And more...

Social EverywhereBreak down barriers by enabling collaboration anywhere/anytime


Apple iPad Devices



● Microsoft Outlook

Outlook Social Connector

Outlook Ribbon● Microsoft Explorer

Personal & Community Files

ECM Files● Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint events flow to Connections Activity Stream

Social EverywhereBecome more agile by socializing existing processes



Right Click any File and Share!

Social EverywhereShare Any File in the Context of your Work


Lars-olof AllerhedCTO ICS Europe

[email protected]@allerhed