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ComputaCenter, Hatfield26th September 2007

Neil Burston + David Gurteen

Social Networking Using Lotus & WebSphere

Unleashing Social Networking with Lotus

Me + You = Us+ Him

IBM Lotus Connections Special Interest Group . . .

I.L.C.S.I.G?

Why

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New thinking, new language

W.I.I. F.M

• Why

• What

• How

Lotus Connections in action

• See the video at http://demos.dfw.ibm.com/brands/lotus/

Mini Knowledge Cafe

• David Gurteen talks for 5 mins about Social Tools– Sow some seeds

• The audience discuss in small groups for 10 mins

• Whole group conversation 10 mins

Powerful, personal, knowledge sharing tools

Benefits . . .

• Puts control in the hands of the users• Enables the everyday informal sharing

of information and knowledge• Supports collaboration• Helps create a sense of community• Helps users find experts or needed

information• Improves openness and transparency

Have evolved in Internet space but now moving to Intranet space

What are the obstacles?

Misunderstood . . .

• The ill-informed twitterings of the masses

• No place in the business world• Irrational fear …

Time Wasting . . .

• Social Networking tools such as FaceBook have being banned in some organizations

Unstructured/Messy . . .

• Blogs• Wikis• Tagging/folksonomies

Subversive . . .

• Loss of control• Blogs

– Anyone can write about anything

Lack of authentication . . .

• Blogs– Un-quality assured data!

• Wikis

Lack of value . . .

• Managers do not necessarily see the business value

• Not all employees see what is in it for them

You really need social tools!

Why the f*** do I need social tools?

Overcoming the obstacles

How to find out more

• The web• F2F events

http://lotusconnectionsblog.com

What next?

More events in planningUse your social networks

Questions?

Thank you

Without whom . . . With thanks to . . .• Ian “Guru” McNairn, IBM• David Gurteen, Gurteen.com• Stuart McIntyre, Morpheus.co.uk• Brendan Tutt, IBM• Rob Thatcher, IBM• Mac Guidera, IBM• Jon Mell, Trovus.co.uk• WebSphere User Group • UK Lotus User Group

Lotus Connections Roadmap2H ‘07 1H ’08

Lotus Connections R1

Focus is to provide a maintenance release with Group 1 language support & critical bug fixes.

Group 1 languages: Chinese (simplified & traditional), Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese

eGA Summer 2007 IBM’s first social software

offering includes 5 key services (Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Communities & Dogear)

eGA June 2007

Lotus Connections R1.0.1

Focus is to provide a maintenance release with critical bugs fixes & additional directory & client / server platforms

Server Platforms - AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, IBM iSeries

Client Platforms / browsers – Macintosh (Safari)

Directories - IBM Lotus Domino 7.0 & Sun ONE

eGA Fall 2007

Lotus Connections R1.0.2

Focus is to provide a major feature release based these are some of the initial theme’s / concepts:

− Enhance value of communities to become focal points for collaborating & sharing information with others

− Enhance the integration of Lotus Connections in existing applications (e.g. Lotus products - Quickr, Notes, Sametime, Portal, and competitive products - Microsoft Office)

− Feature enhancements to existing services (e.g. increased extensibility for Profiles, etc)

− Bolster activities to enable people to leverage social capital to execute ideas faster and increase their productivity

− And more … eGA 1H 2008

Lotus Connections R2

1H ‘07

This product roadmap is directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.