I’ve been thinking a bit about the blogging community and the IBM Lotus announcement of social software for business, in particular Lotus Connections. (edit: I had originally only mentioned Lotus Quickr which, as Alan L. points out, ‘ is much more about sharing content’. Thanks for the correction!)
I will admit to a bit of nievete [...]

A post on Kolabora links to the following new story …
Sramana Mitra submits: IBM’s (NYSE: IBM - News) entry into social networking is a smart move. Anyone who has experience with large enterprises knows how tedious it is to locate people with the right expertise. Thus, I envision a LinkedIn equivalent which serves less [...]

I was very interested in how similar the BBC usage of social software tools maps to the feature-set of Lotus Connections. In the case of the BBC, they were ahead of the curve and so they “rolled there own”.
Euan Semple talked about his experiences implementing wikis and social software at the BBC. The forum is [...]

Looks like WordPress is flexing its open source code base to good use …
BuddyPress - A Wordpress MU Based Social Network Platform - will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform, something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network.
BuddyPress removes the main focus of WordPress [...]