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 [...]

The world of corporate information and social networking are not just on a collision path, their already traded paint once or twice.
I think there are some interesting differences - and thus challenged - to social networking and social software in business settings. One of the obvious requirements is often “professionalism”. This takes on two facets [...]

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 [...]

Internet dating has taken a strange but perhaps more optimized twist. Today’s dating scene is tough - at least once you’ve gotten out of the target rich environment of college. A lot of people start developing relationships through email. But, some people are just good writers. What happens when the writing stops and the talking [...]

I got an email from a colleague over the weekend. In her ’sig’ she listed all they ways to reach her including two different blogs -  one for work and one for personal stuff. Interestingly, it was her personal blog that had the following …
Managing an online identity is much more challenging that managing a physical one. [...]

I again was blog surfing this morning and came across a post about sharing items from your blog reader - at least if that blog reader is Google Reader.
Google Reader has some quirky features but one thing is does well is keep your blog reading in check across multiple machines. I tend to have at [...]

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 [...]

I’ve wondered what all the excitement has been about Twitter. It’s not new by internet standards and yet I had not used it. So, I gave it a whirl. I ended that joyride last night. I posted a tweet saying ” no thanks”. Here are my thoughts and experience.

Twitter has a very [...]

I had the dumb luck and good sense to call a friend of mine “out of the blue”. The call may have been inspired by our mutual appreciation of a particular beverage but more so than not, it was driven by a real appreciation of life.
For anyone who remembers the lyrics to “Wear Sunscreen“, there [...]