IBM Business Gets Social: How We Do Business Socially?

If I tell you that I can update my status message, post on my colleagues profiles, and follow a blog while at work - will you report me to my boss and tell her that I am not being productive? Well, that is what we are in my organization - we collaborate, we use technology and we share ideas. To be clear, we are not using Facebook to connect socially with our colleagues or with anyone within the organization around the globe - we have this platform we call the IBM Connections. 

 Live Tweets during the event

It is used internally to connect more than 400,000 employees - to connect those with common interests, to share and collect opinions about a certain idea, to support a project or just to deliver a message. You see, we regulary receive email notifications with link to top executives or even CEO's video blogs (it is like we are subscribed to video blogs like that of Petra Mahalimuyak's!). The top management team are "social" people too - and what is interesting is that even I, a practitioner from the Philippines can even leave a message or comment to the CEO's video blog and share my thoughts and opinions (and yes, she replies to the comments!).

This is just one of the many IBM Social Softwares that were shared to us during the Media Briefing of the Business Goes Social event which was conducted last Tuesday, in Makati Shangri-la.

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