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RTE News on social software and IBM

Posted: December 2nd, 2008 | Author: Adrian Spender | Filed under: Connections, Dublin, IBM, Lotus, Software | 3 Comments »

RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, visited IBM Dublin on Monday 1st December for a piece on social software within the enterprise. It went out on the News On Two programme the same day. Yours truly is included in a couple of arty shots and a quick vox-pop

Featured is the internal IBM research project called Beehive. Beehive is, as Mike described in the clip, a kind of Facebook for the Enterprise, allowing employees to share the lighter side of life within the firewall. It’s great at fostering relationships between people who you may work with but never otherwise get the chance to know and meet.

Additionally, Beehive acts as a fantastic proving ground for ideas and research which may eventually end up being part of Lotus Connections, or indeed other IBM products. Indeed, Connections is heavily built on the productization of ideas and research from our own experiences within IBM. There’s much more on Connections over at the Synchronous blog (including the odd post from me.)

3 Comments on “RTE News on social software and IBM”

  1. 1 luis benitez said at 12:48 on December 2nd, 2008:

    Wow.. ! Congratulations Adrian! This is some great exposure!!!! I’m going to re-blog if you don’t mind.

  2. 2 Andy Piper said at 13:44 on December 2nd, 2008:

    Nice work! Will be sharing this on YouTube and Facebook for sure.

  3. 3 Ted Stanton said at 19:30 on December 2nd, 2008:

    Awesome video.

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