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by Chris Miller at 01:54:35 PM on Monday, April 13th, 2009

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I have talked about this here and here. Now IBM brings this site to the forefront for partners and then I get yet another email for yet this site (screenshot below) all in one day:

Image:IBM is insisting we socially divide

Image:IBM is insisting we socially divide

Why is there not one Lotus Connections install that combines all of this together? I have not even included Greenhouse and Paxos into the mix. For IBM to push itself as a social networking platform on Connections, it needs to have one social networking site that brings together all of these into one global community with one global login. I cannot make it any simpler than that. I cannot run more than one Activities in my sidebar, I cannot keep putting Dogear bookmarklets into my browser and there is only one place I blog. Help me!

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1) IBM is insisting we socially divide
Created by Stephen Londergan at 4/13/2009 3:23:56 PM email | website

Hey Chris -- thanks for the post & link. One clarification I thought I'd make is that the Collaboration Soapbox isn't necessarily "the forefront for partners." In fact, it's intended more for customers -- the feedback we get from customers, at Lotusphere etc. is that people want more "context" around the content IBM produces, and that's clearly one of the Soapbox's goals -- to talk about how a given asset -- video, whitepapper etc -- might be used to help make the case for adopting social software more widely in your organization. We tend to produce such collateral by the gigabyte, so part of our aim with the Soapbox is to put it all (or at least some of it) in this context.

We invited IBM Business Partners a to come to this party a little early, because we thought they'd be value in both the customer and partner community in coming together to focus on best practices for driving adoption.

That said, the Soapbox is a self-selecting community,so we're confident that the people who don't want to participate, won't. The Soapbox uses the same user ID & PW as the rest of ibm.com, so we're trying to make it really easy to contribute.

2) IBM is insisting we socially divide
Created by Debora Cole at 4/13/2009 3:34:56 PM email |

Hi Chris, I wanted to follow up regarding your comments and Steve's response. Your points are good ones. We think/hope the improvements we are making will improve the situation.

Steve is working with the product teams to establish the Collaboration Soapbox as one set of communities that IBMers, BPs and customers can participate in. The Soapbox is under the IBM.com community umbrella. As such, you can sign up by simply using your ibm.com ID/PW.

With PaXos, we looked to establish a BP/IBMer community to support partners working together with other partners and IBmers in a secure community. Consider PaXos the pilot, IBM is opening the doors tomorrow on the PW Communities. We're working on a plan to migrate PaXos activity to these new PW Communities. You will use the same ID and PW as with the Collaboration Soapbox. Both the Collaboration Soapbox and the PW Communities are part of the IBM.com community. https://www.ibm.com/homepage/web/getuserpref

I value your input and am open to any suggestions for improvement. We work out the kinks with input from members of our community (family).

3) re: IBM is insisting we socially divide
Created by Chris Miller at 4/21/2009 8:41:21 AM email | website

Thanks to both of you for responding (sorry for my delay while I traveled). I think the point becomes more to instead of starting yet another Connections install (and I really appreciate using one ID to log into it and IBM), but somehow harnessing the existing infrastructures and making a global community that has everything involved. It is getting hard to know what has the best content and what has the community I need. As well as Activity sharing across them. Let us not get into profile management and social bookmark sharing.

I would imagine one global Connections install bringing together all these profiles, communities and bookmarking to make a heck of a knowledge pool around IBM.

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